Small town South Carolinian who’s disillusioned with both parties. Puedo hablar español. Christ is King.
South Carolina, USA
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Now that I’m verified, let me introduce myself.
I am a Christian first and foremost, and I’m far from perfect.
I’m from rural South Carolina, where I’ve spent the majority of my life. When not living in the countryside, I attended college (didn’t finish) in Charleston, SC and studied abroad in Kensington, London, England where I studied Brexit; I’ve lived in rural Idaho and in Puerto Rico.
I’ve worked a variety of different jobs ranging from agriculture, to construction and aviation to name a few.
While in college, my focus was on international diplomacy & statecraft, and counter-terrorism.
Whereas I highly value national security, I fear the surveillance state and our liberties fading.
I will openly admit, circa 2016 I was very Authoritarian Right; in response to the political climate. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve de-radicalized drastically and have become a staunch Constitutionalist.
What’s important to me is my relationship with Christ, the safety and wellbeing of my family, and the heritage of my nation. My family has been here since the very beginning, long before the Revolution, and I want the dream they had preserved for all; not to be regulated into extinction by the Fed.
See below for my prior pinned post; which is a cause near and dear to my heart.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Not voting is not fighting evil.
Voting your conscience isn’t throwing your vote away. It is fighting evil. They demand we vote for the “lesser of two evils” and not vote for who we prefer because even a little evil builds up.
One 1% better or worse every day adds up quickly.
The phrase “vote your conscience” being considered blasphemous and harmful to the Republican candidate speaks more about the state of the GOP and how poorly its candidates reflect the populace than it does the person being attacked for saying it.
It’s not a call to vote for any particular person or party; but to vote who you truly support morally. If Darline and her supporters see this as a threat to them, then it proves how poorly she’s running her campaign and preforming with constituents.
I hate what the right wing has become. Too many are sensitive, rage baiting, propagandists. Doing the very things they used to accuse and complain the left wing did.
I’ve seen plenty even say we shouldn’t remain moral because the other said is immoral, and maintaining a moral high ground is akin to suicide.
I see the exact same “gotcha” tactics, deflections, distractions and shifting accountability. The same demands for loyalty, outrage towards opposing views and phrases. Any negative opinions towards a politician is now met with calls of being a traitor.
If you’re reasonable unsatisfied with a politician on the right they say shut up and vote anyways and don’t speak poorly of them.
I used to troll the left for being outrageous and un-American, but now the right is becoming just as bad as they were 10 years ago.
Look at the crowd reaction behind him. Many aren’t too pleased by his statements. Rather embarrassing tbh. Though MAGA will say those are just democrats pretending to be republicans.
There’s always a diplomatic approach, intended to change how others perceive to reduce argument. Then there’s the more direct, non-diplomatic approach, to inform the other side you don’t care.
I often do both depending on how much I feel like going back and forth. Glad to see others taking the harsher route for me occasionally when I don’t have the time or energy for the ensuing heated discourse.
When I say corruption runs close to home… Former FBI agent Bradley Benavides, who’s been arrested regarding the Biden laptop investigation, is from Aiken, SC. For years we had an issue with Sheriff Hunt, who many called corrupt and speculated made deals with drug dealers (dealers themselves even stated such) and now we have an example of a corrupt federal officer. Let’s not forget the now former chief of police in Ridge Spring recently too.
This isn’t me trying to be anti-law enforcement by any means. I want accountability and all corrupt cops ousted, so that they no longer tarnish the reputation of good cops. But also, until we clean up our departments; we can’t expect all cops to be good/moral.
Talk about freak weather. Check out the vid in the op.
In case anyone was wondering; having a carpenter staple go halfway through your thumb isn’t fun. Bled like a stuck hog but all is well. Just sore as hell.
Can’t help but to think back to when I learned about how Italians under the French Expeditionary Corps told American GIs in WWII; that had they known how bad things would be after surrendering, they’d of never done so.
Same the occupiers of the past are many of the same that are now pillaging Western Europe.
The CEF fought in the Italian Campaign after Italy’s September 1943 armistice with. It was roughly 60% North African colonial troops (Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians, Senegalese and others) with the rest mostly being French.
After the CEF helped break the Gustav Line at the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944, French colonial troops were widely accused of wide spread sexual assault, murder, and looting against Italian civilians. Contemporary accounts and historical research describe troops entering villages and towns, raping every woman and even some men, regardless of their age.
Those who fought back and tried to protect others were often beaten or killed. The CEF was also accused of widespread stealing.
Estimates of the scale of sexual assault range from 2,000-3,000 (estimates from Italian Ministry of Defense) to as high as 12,000+ (from victim association groups.) Some individual towns have hundreds of reports alone.
What happened with the UTSA vs Navy game has me thinking about the 2020 Euro openers where Christen Eriksen had a heart attack, died on the field and was revived before leaving the pitch. He was alive and yet the game was delayed 2 hours and the players given the option of postponing to the following day. It was controversial then, but there was more respect shown following what happened then than there was with the USTA/Navy game where it was merely postponed 10 minutes. So much for a military tribute right?
Gonna be honest, never cared for this team but honestly we all watched a man die for nothing more than spectacle. Game should have been called off then and there and postponed until a later date. Navy should have refused to play after a service member died on the field. Instead, the show must go on. Bread and circus for a decaying society.
America becomes stronger when we break the partisan chains that are meant to keep us divided. The only “us vs them” that should exist is We the People vs the corrupt machine.
I won’t fall in line just to “be a Republican.”
I’ll choose principle over party every time.
I hate politics. But it matters.
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It’s truly amazing seeing how different the same scenes are today, 10 years later.
When I took these photos I never imagined that I’d possibly never see these sites again. I was truly upset when Notre Dame caught fire. I fear if it happens again now, it’ll truly be gone.
I remember when the terrorist attack in Nice happened in 2016, I was in France. The response in Paris to any consideration of terrorism or civil unrest was met with force. Police turned out in droves and the military patrolled the streets. Here we are 10 years later and France is seemingly on the verge of collapse.
