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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 29m

I think what we have here is a miscommunication because English doesn't have proper words for general "you" & specific "you".
I was trying to say that "one/a person" who acts that way will shortly have no conscience left, & that's what happened to Miller. Please know he was the target, NOT you. 🙏

Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 38m

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 45m

www.closertotheedge.net/p/civil-obed...

Absolute gold.

"...you’re admitting the law doesn’t actually apply to what I just confessed. Which means it’s not a real law. It’s a scare tactic. A toothless propaganda stunt dressed in tactical gear and hiding behind a flag..."

CIVIL OBEDIENCE: PART II

They didn’t arrest me.

www.closertotheedge.net

Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 4h

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Here's an article on it. I personally don't believe that children are ever born evil, but I absolutely believe that ambition and power corrupt individuals. Keep justifying these horrible tactics to yourself and pretty soon you've got no conscience left.

Stephen Miller’s cousin calls him ‘face of evil’ for role in immigration crackdown

Miller’s cousin said that she feels that she needs to ‘grieve for what he has become’

www.the-independent.com

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 5h

Hmmm not sure, have you seen the social media post from his cousin? She describes him as being very gentle with the younger cousins, etc while young, then becoming evil.

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 6h

Bingo! I think the existential dread and barely masked terror stems from knowing they sold their souls to get where they are, and we've all seen this playbook before. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and countless other slightly less notorious despots who chose abject, utter evil to gain power.

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 13h

...And when I explained that the President doesn't have the power to overrule laws passed by Congress, she insisted "he did anyway."

Super easy to propagandize and use the uneducated for your own purposes, if you're unethical enough, plus have a propaganda machine in place. (They do.)

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 13h

..."Trying to keep us from having to pay for healthcare for 'illegals.'" Even after I linked her to the .gov page showing that undocumented folks aren't eligible for public assistance, including healthcare, she continued to insist that Biden allowed that...

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 13h

It's becoming clearer by the day why Rs have been preaching that college: education "isn't worth it" (while meanwhile sending their own kids to the best private schools available.) Uneducated people are unbelievably gullible. Had one on Nextdoor today inform me that Rs are...

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 13h

Stephen Miller's rhetoric is certainly not righteous. Angry, definitely, in the same way that a poorly bred Chihuahua is angry and threatens to bite everything and everybody in reach...while meanwhile trembling uncontrollably in terror at simply existing.

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 1d

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 1d

Or, not enough listened. (Agent Orange got less than 50% of the vote.)

Or they thought that they'd benefit enough in other ways that they'd be okay, personally.

Or they thought "oh, it won't get that bad."

Well, here we are. Grateful for our Dr HCR to keep us grounded in these unsettled times.

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Rocky @rockylizard.bsky.social · 4d

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