Trump wins, the wishes of American people are clear. Germany and Austria next.

See “Wow”

If two people are going to get married, they ought above all to be able to talk well to one another. Because everything else disappears.

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/08/13/china-as-a-model/index.html

Long read, but counterintuitive and worth it.

Legal analyst Keith Boykin listed the many excuses and arguments Trump enablers have made over the years. “He can’t be prosecuted in office,” Boykin wrote. “He can’t be impeached because the courts should decide. He’s immune from prosecution after office. He can’t be prosecuted by Biden’s DOJ because that’s ‘lawfare.’ And he can’t be prosecuted by a special counsel. We have created a dictator.”

I heard this Israeli citizen on the radio this morning. She had lost an aunt and uncle to Hamas. She said she was okay with using humanitarian aid as a “card” in the war and that withdrawal of aid might impose “just enough suffering to make the Palestinians reject Hamas”.

What aspect of the experience of the Jews in the last several thousand years could possibly make her think this? A culture that’s been persecuted for thousands of years by the larger societies within which they’ve been embedded, and that has not lost its essential jewishness. In fact, Judaism has been strengthened by persecution.

The absolute inhumanity of what she was saying infuriating

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/05/31/camera

Mind-blowing speculation

Scripting News: Monday, April 8, 2024
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In London last year we went for a walk on the south bank of Thames. A good part of that walk in the most touristy section between two of the bridges is devoted to a wall of remembrance for victims of COVID; names, with stenciled hearts. Many of the stencils had hand painted links to adjacent hearts representing related family members who had died.

The scale of the exhibit, probably over a mile long, counterposed with the tiny size of each painted heart and name, is very moving. It led me to wonder if there were something similar here in the US; I couldn’t recall hearing about such a thing. I determined to make a local wall for Whidbey Island. But of course I forgot about it, until I read Dave’s comment.

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/02/nimble-nationality-will-define-state-capacity/index.html

This showed up in my feed today, and I feel a surprising sympathy with the message. The author discusses sin and forgiveness from an Anglican perspective, and compares their understanding with our society’s current thinking regarding sins of history.