We have an entire nation of youth who already have PTSD, they no longer need to go to war for that.

Perhaps as we take time to reflect on those who died in service of our nation, we could also reflect on ways to honor their deaths by protecting the lives of the people within our nation.

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Banned Books, but lowered age restrictions to purchase guns. Shooting drills, but no universal health care. Prayers and thoughts, but no actual legislative reform.

During the last fiscal year, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 active-duty soldiers, or 25 percent of its target.

In recent surveys the US Army has found that dwindling recruitment is not, as the GOP likes to say, due to "wokeness", but rather that young people don't want to die or get injured.

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While reflecting on Memorial Day I stumbled upon this cartoon. We have a national holiday to honor those who valiantly served and died for this nation. We weep. We mourn.

However, as we add billions of dollars to the war machine each year, we consistently and severely underfund aftercare services including housing, employment, and health care.

And we have spread onto our youth what the national priorities are. And they know.. it's not them.

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Russia’s peace offering to Ukraine:
1. Cut yourself off from the rest of the world.
2. Become totally dependent on Russia.
3. Be mini-Russia.

Weirdos everywhere.

#politics #ukraine #russia

I think we all have this little theatre on top of our shoulders, where the past and the present and our aspirations and our memories are simply and inexorably mixed. What makes each one of us unique, is the potency of the individual mix.
~ Dennis Potter (1987), quoted by Rolling Stone’s Greil Marcus at the 2013 School of Visual Arts commencement ceremony.

#Quotes

@ReneeVoiceBrand A very wise man. 💟

All bigotry is rooted in fear.

Fear of the unknown.
Fear of enlightenment.
Fear of adaptation.

Bigotry begets hatred.
Bigotry begets violence.
Bigotry begets war.
Bigotry begets death.

This Memorial Day and every day –

Embrace the unknown.
Welcome enlightenment.
Permit adaptation.

Renounce hatred.
Eschew violence.
Prevent war.
Eliminate death.

Choose instead to be a beacon of love.
~ Chippy

~✿~ Photography: Beacon of Love by Mashfluxd on DeviantArt ~✿~

It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. ~ Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations

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@singlemaltgirl That just made me giggle.

This made me think of the "training" I had growing up, taught through the generations, that a lady never leaves the house without lipstick on. Yes, I still follow that rule.

Just a reminder:

@phase2 You have just made my day a happy one!! 🤗

My son has roped me into watching JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure with him and the kids put silly little figures on top of the sound bar. I feel like I’m in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

So.. a new idea?

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.
~ Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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The recent wave of book banning has gotten out of hand. Fuck the Mothers of Liberty and the idiots who abide by their wishes.

@voltronic This made me think of you. 😃

Also.. any truth to this? @killingfloorman @Render

It's one thing to have a difference of opinion, but I think that politicians that lie outrageously should be kicked out of office, stripped of their benefits, and barred from running again. Yes, call me idealistic, but I am so sick of reading weird outlandish statements by state and federal level elected officials.

One quick example that comes to mind is this ridiculousness about abortions after birth.

Yes, the electorate can be dumb, but polits should not be able to play into it.
#politics

@Victor These are gorgeous!!