Evan
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Evan
@DiggyGraves
Disgruntled thinker perpetually swimming against the current.

I’m hearing from voters across South Dakota that they are beyond angry that Senator John Thune is on vacation, instead of fully funding DHS/ICE, & passing the SAVE America Act.


Navy Veteran Jack Posobiec discusses the attack on the USS Liberty “There’s a lot of people in the Navy who reject the official investigation. And there are questions that LBJ was attempting another Gulf of Tonkin like he did with Vietnam”


🚨Exciting news!! My Protect Children’s Innocence Act just PASSED the House!!! This is a win for children all over America!! Thank you to the 3 Democrats that voted to protect kids: Rep. Cueller, Davis (NC), & Gonzalez! Unfortunately, 4 Republicans decided NOT to vote to protect kids: Rep. Evans (CO), Fitzpatrick, Kennedy (UT), & Lawler… I’m very happy my bill passed and it’s onto the Senate NEXT! 🇺🇸💪

It's understandable that white men in certain industries (esp. academic humanities and the creative industries) feel resentment that their race/gender closed doors for them. But guess what—this is now a universal experience! Every non-white non-male group has also gone through this at some point! It's terrible! It's terrible for everyone who had to experience it. If your response is "because this happened I am now justified in burning the country to the ground," and every other group also thinks "because of past discrimination I am justified in burning the country to the ground," then we are all in agreement and we'll leave only ashes to our descendants. *Every* *single* *group* can now point to legitimate grievances and race/gender-based exclusion in some recent period. Some will want to argue about whose exclusion was worse and more unjust—many people have very good claims here! But that is a zero sum argument that nobody is going to win in this poisoned era. The only path forward is to put down the grievance competition, to strive for a meritocracy that is blind to race and gender, and to tear down the discriminatory barriers that still exist. It's hard to tell someone their grievances aren't legitimate. Many of them are. But if the only future you can see is "remedy for past grievances against my group", and every other group is thinking exactly the same thing, friends we aren't going to get anywhere. We need to build better institutions, but even before then we need to break out of the grievance mindset and get our energy into building.


Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you? It's worse than you think.





















