Karen F.Duncan
karenfduncan.bsky.social
Karen F.Duncan
@karenfduncan.bsky.social
Lifelong Democrat, mostly liberal and progressive, sometimes contrarian, which is a polite way of saying grumpy. Also an introvert who would rather write than talk.
Agree. It’s so retrograde.
December 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Hmmm, something new to try on a rainy day.
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The terrible thing is this no longer is just a personal decision between a patient and a doctor. This recommendation determines whether insurance companies will pay for this vaccine. It can limit who has access to it. It’s no longer just a personal decision.

The government is limiting your rights.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m not even sure what are masculine or feminine traits. Everyone is sometimes aggressive, protective, gentle, fierce, dominant, and receptive and every other human trait. Only stereotypes are completely masculine or feminine. Not real humans.
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It’s not even his age. He’s a sexual abuser. Nobody wants to vote for someone with his baggage.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Does he really like humiliating defeats? Nobody wants to vote for this serial sexual abuser and harasser of women. His time is up.
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Exactly. I knew an enlisted soldier who during the Gitmo scandal was furious about those soldiers’ unbecoming conduct in torturing inmates at Guantanamo. She told me every soldier is told not to obey illegal orders. She was outraged by those soldiers.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Exactly. Ironically, it was the U.S., in 1945, in Nuremberg who established that precedent. This is not new or controversial. It’s what we’ve followed since then.
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Modest suggested change. Dems need to say “You must refuse illegal orders.”

The military has a legal obligation, not a choice, to refuse illegal orders.

“I was just following orders,” isn’t a valid defense in court.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
don’t have to pay pensions or taxes for Social Security.

Remember everyone, if they are lucky, will grow old. And life goes by quicker than you think.

Don’t let grifters like Ben Shapiro steal your future retirement benefits just so billionaires can get richer.
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
But then along comes some corporate shill Republican who thinks that seniors shouldn’t be able to retire. Never mind many are actually forced out.

Ultimate solution is old people should just quietly eat cat food in poverty until they conveniently die so rich corporations
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Once let go, older people have a much harder time finding new jobs. Age discrimination in hiring makes it extremely hard to find work.

Young people also want older people to retire so they can move up to better jobs themselves. Otherwise they are stuck with no upward mobility.
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is profoundly dishonest. Age discrimination is real. People approaching retirement age are the first to be let go in any layoff. Corporations want to replace them with younger, less experienced, cheaper labor.
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
They’ve been talking about this since Trump’s election. They know it’s coming.

You can’t follow an illegal, unconstitutional order and use the defense that you were just following orders.

Ironically, it was America that established that at Nuremberg.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
He is right. Miller is counting on giving illegal orders. But not only does the military have “a right to refuse” they actually have an obligation to refuse.

Everyone in the military, down to the lowest enlisted person, understands the concept of not following illegal orders. They are taught this.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
closed ranks to protect and shield their wealthy, privileged cronies.

To do nothing is to make a choice too.
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
a whistle, report something unsavory was going on, or even tried to reach out to help even one of these girls escape their abuse.

Even the people who didn’t participate directly did nothing to stop it. They share culpability because the signs were everywhere.

The most privileged in society
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM