Hallelujah

What Franklin was concerned about was (in his view) the failure of German communities that had already settled in the colony of Pennsylvania to successfully assimilate to English civic institutions.

From the same letter quoted above:

"When I consider, that the English are the Offspring of Germans, that the Climate they live in is much of the same Temperature; when I can see nothing in Nature that should create this Difference, I am apt to suspect it must arise from Institution"

This is a sloppy exaggeration of a letter in which he also writes:

"I say I am not against the Admission of Germans in general, for they have their Virtues, their industry and frugality is exemplary; They are excellent husbandmen and contribute greatly to the improvement of a Country."

Ben Franklin published the first German-language newspaper in America.

Supremely compromised court.

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Tadpole philosophy. Some tadpoles will grow to distend their mouths, become frogs, and lecture other tadpoles.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would never support this.

I wouldn't deny that the race of the victim is a factor, but I think the most important aspect is just how much video footage there is, from multiple angles, and how much the administration's knee-jerk attempt to smear the victim after the fact have no factual basis whatsoever.

Timothy Snyder describes the SS as "state destroyers." Part of his quasi-Arendtian argument is that they were most successful in mass extermination of human life where the established rule of law had collapsed and the primary goal of the SS was to effectuate that collapse.

Also because it is part of their "Salami tactics." When people on the "left" act like only immigrants or racial minorities will ever be targeted, they inadvertently play into the strategy of the far right.

I do not know how anyone could watch that footage and not see what is effectively a summary execution. The shooter wanders over while the man was already restrained on the ground and being beaten, fires into his back, and keeps shooting after the man is splayed.

ICE is full of new recruits with little training but that's not the case with CBP. Current reporting suggests this was a CBP incident.

Apart from his coterie of wealthy donors, I have no idea how any of his "regular" supporters have anything left to give after being money pumped nonstop for a decade.

This is my favorite quote by the NYC Mayor Ed Koch during the 1980s "I wouldn't believe Donald Trump even if he had his tongue notarized"