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usonian

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2. Same old same old. But that's the problem.
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 05:17 PM
Tuesday

It will never change until people stop listening to, and loving, calls for racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, nationalism, religious hatred ... the list goes on.

They are the tools carefully laid out in the fascist playbook, which keeps being replayed rather often, because it works.

Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda:

To end the human institution of war, to relegate it to history with such barbarous practices as slavery―at one time also considered a natural, inevitable, “part of human nature”―we must establish respect for the inviolable dignity of human life as the core value of our age.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.


I'm fighting for those higher values, not just spoken but lived and acted upon every minute if every day.

lived and acted upon

That makes all the difference.

respect for the inviolable dignity of human life

And blowing up a school full of little girls. Reprehensible.
Just as reprehensible as these two and little girls.



First must come accountability.,

I paid the credit union and insurance yesterday and may go pay the property tax today, hoping that it's ...

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