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Richard Gorrie
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Historian and educationalist. One foot in the Eighteenth Century and one in the 21st. Ouch. Keep It Complex.
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If you can excuse murdering people hanging on to a blown up boat to save their lives, it's a short step to excusing murdering peaceful protesters because you disagree with them.

Kent State 2.0 is on its way.
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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it should surprise no one that netanyahu would intentionally turn a blind eye to events leading to the 7 oct. massacre of israelis.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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It sucks that governing is basically juggling a million balls in the air at once that are really hard for most people to perceive, and the anti-governing coalition basically just gets to promise simple, magical solutions to every problem that definitely will not work
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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the uniformed officers who accepted the orders and the operators who carried them out are also in jeopardy. We all get hours of LOAC refresher annually plus large blocks of instruction at staff college and war college

there is no gray here...very black and white case every officer would recognize
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM