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12 Jun, 8 tweets, 2 min read
The 2nd Amendment has been reinterpreted as a Freedom to Massacre.
We don't have to rewrite the 2A. We just have to interpret it correctly again. Correctly interpreted it would permit a total ban on the private sale of guns and ammunition, and we should pursue politicians who will appoint judges who will correctly rule to uphold such bans.
I cannot stress enough how this current state of affairs in which massacre has been normalized exists because people who wanted massacre normalized believed it could be and worked ruthlessly to make it happen.

We can change it back if we believe we can and work ruthlessly.
The people who created our massacre culture didn't care a bit about bipartisanship (though they certainly welcomed any "opposition" willing to grease the skids), never asked permission, didn't worry about divisiveness.

Nor should we, as we end our massacre culture.
They didn't wring their hands about people who would oppose a massacre culture. They just made one. Reframed the issue, changed the language, pushed, pushed pushed, and did it.

We can change it back the same way. We can push them out like they pushed us out, and we should.
The 2nd Amendment, properly interpreted, allows a full ban of private sale of firearms and ammunition.

Get a think tank to write that. Get some lawyers to write briefs to that effect. Get it to law professors who will teach future judges to rule that way. Appoint them.
If enthusiasts want to propose that, we can be willing to listen. If they insist on our present status quo, fine: we'll work for a total ban, and if they find it extremist, so what? They never asked our input or permission; we aren't asking theirs.

This really has to become our attitude, and quickly. We have problems even more pressing than our massacre culture to address, and we need to stop faffing about expecting the people who want to create those problems to help us.

We can make changes. We have the playbook.

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17 Jun
Before redemption comes reparation.
Before reparation, repentance.
Before repentance, confession.
Before confession, acknowledgement.
Before acknowledgement, awareness.

People benefitting from a wrong will do anything to prevent this sequence. So they attack each step—as we see.
America is a country best understood using dynamics of abuse and enablement.

What abusers want are the gifts of redemption without the cost of reparation.

What enablers want is the refuge of comfortable lies, which insulate them from the inconvenience of caring.

As we see.
Knowledge of a wrong carries a moral imperative to acknowledge it.

Acknowledgement carries one to confess it.

Confession, to repent of it.

Repentance, to repair it.

And so, among people who presently benefit from wrong, there grows a powerful desire not to know.

As we see.
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14 Jun
Friedersdorf could use his platform to admonish these parents that it’s worth seeking out an accurate understanding of CRT rather than continue protesting in ignorance.

Tellingly, he instead uses it to admonish us to seek out a better understanding of their ignorant ideas.
It’s so weird how there’s never a burden on white conservatives to convince us of their sweaty-brained conspiracies, yet the burden on others to convince white conservatives to relinquish those conspiracies in favor of reality is enduring and everlasting and unquestioned.
Some believe that white conservatives are the main characters of America and that all others exist in context of them. This assumption comes out in a hundred different ways, including the unexamined assumption that all propositions are invalid without white conservative approval.
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13 Jun
I wrote this two months before the election, in case anybody thought it wasn't obvious that Republicans were going to try to steal it.

To be clear: I'm not all that perceptive. They were talking openly about it.
The month before the election:
Again, I wasn't being perceptive then, nor was I being hysterical. It's what they were talking about.

It was alarming. But saying so wasn't alarmist.

We have to acknowledge the danger is real.
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13 Jun
This is the leader of the Republican Party, and he very well may once again become president in an election his party helps him steal.

This is what we're up against.
If the Democrats currently in charge of both legislatures and the executive branch don't immediately start treating the Republican Party as an enemy to national security instead of as trusted colleagues, I'm not sure what stops the installation of Dictator Trump in 2024.
It won't be Mitt Romney's narrowly parsed fits of dignity, or Ben Sasse's vapid disingenuous heavy sighs or Susan Collins' concern or Joe Manchin's disappointment that will prevent this grim fate from coming to pass, I assure you.

It's time to demolish the Republican Party.
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Some people seem to see the work of a public servant to involve making sure people’s lives are unbearably difficult, and I simply don’t think we ought to pay the salaries of such people.
I think any lawmaker who cuts over $500 of monthly support should be ineligible to receive their salary or taxpayer-funded housing or medical care.
Weekly onerous mandatory means testing to ensure that congresspeople have remained eligible for their salaries and benefits.
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1) Princess Bride
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4) Mary Poppins
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6) The Sound of Music
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It's time well spent, friends.
My opinion is that the funny just has more rewatchability.
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