Deacon

This is the way.

I fucking love my city. I truly believe Chicago is among the most beautiful cities in the world. I truly consider it a privilege to ride my bike along the lakefront trail with a gorgeous skyline on one side of me and a beautiful lakefront on the other side of me. We have amazing, truly world-class music, food, architecture, sports, and art.

The night my Cubs broke their 108 year championship drought, I stood on my front steps and hugged and fived random strangers into the late hours, all of us screaming our heads off; and all of those things I love about Chicago were elevated by and multiplied by the sheer sense of Communion I was having with hundreds of like-minded people who all felt the same way about our city and our team. It was the night my love for this city burned hottest.

Yesterday, in the park and on the streets, magnified and multiplied that by a million. I was surrounded as far as I could see in any direction by people who love this city and love this country as much as I do. It truly looked like every kind of person was represented.

It made it feel like we can actually do this, and that is exactly what Trump and co are afraid of.

Warning gang, this is NOT OC. I am a professional artist and OP stole this from a previous post of mine. I will be seeking legal redress.

It was a truly joyful expression of our rights here in the war zone of Chicago.

Reporters should just start stooping to their level and giving it right back.

“My moms dead you ghoulish bitch, now do you want to answer the question?”

I didn’t say awareness is most important, I said it was first order, and I stand by that.

I’m not saying this is enough and we should prop our feet up and wait for it all to blow over. I’m saying awareness itself is critically important for anything else to happen, and whether this is the thing that will do it or not (it won’t be one thing), it’s critical that more of the populace becomes aware.

I’m not even sure what we’re arguing about at this point, but you’re +7 in my upvote history so I clearly agree with you on a lot, but I think it is important for leaders to walk away and it’s important for people to see that happening.

You would be making such a killer point if this were even remotely the only article covering it, haha.

You kid but awareness is a first order problem in the fight itself, and I hate to break it to you, but a significant portion of the population is not meaningfully aware of how dire it is.

Something like this might be the thing that gets through to them. There is also probably a large portion of the population who suspects how bad this is but doesn’t trust the media and is specifically looking to see how the military leaders react to this stuff.

If there are any perceived adults in the room at this point, it is probably the military.

I lived right by this and used to walk over it every day, oblivious that is was well known.

That’s practically part of our heritage. What’s new is doing it in so ham-handed a fashion.

I am reflexively really resistant to calling Christianity a cult because it doesn’t really meet all of the criteria we usually use to define a cult - particularly a singular charismatic leader.

But then…even that criteria arose in a culture dominated - hell totally saturated in Christianity, so I’m questioning those reflexive reactions lately.

I think Evangelical Christianity, which is now functionally interchangeable with Christian Nationalism, is, if not a doomsday cult, then certainly has all of the bad things you tend to think about when you think about doomsday cults but with orders of magnitude more actual political, social, and material power.

So in some ways, calling it a cult is really underselling how dangerous it is.

No no no. God is good and all powerful, but the forces of evil are ruling because everyone else is so sinful. So god is big sad/mad but it is also part of his plan so 👍

In my experience growing up evangelical, it’s as much a plea as it is an assertion.

You have been consistent from the start but that isn’t something I would brag about if I were you. You haven’t made any kind of argument - even at this late and belabored stage - because you likely are not capable of forming one. It’s how I know to block you after this, because parsing your ‘arguments’ is literally not worth the calories.

The press are not military personnel. I wish you the best of luck in stringing two thoughts together in the future but I won’t be checking in.

Okay, so as I suspected you made a point about security clearance for no coherent reason since it has precisely fuck all to do with this story. But you know they aren’t a joke so that is pretty cool. Glad I pursued this.

Okay I re-read it and I still don’t understand why you made a point about security clearance in reference to press credentialing. How many more times should I re read it before it’s okay to ask you to explain it further?

Assume that I am frustratingly stupid.

Why would a reporter need security clearance? Their entire function is to report information. I don’t understand your point.

I agree pedophiles are bad, so does the DHS now support the release of the Epstein files?

They have to keep him cropped high on the shoulders because he can’t help but start pulling on his little winky any time he starts talking about political violence.

Sexual matador.

This is correct. There is a specific term for this kind of pun but I don’t remember what it is.