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Dr. Masked Defender
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Dr. Masked Defender
@MaskedDefender
World's greatest economist !!!!
Tham gia Nisan 2009
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For Civil War people: If you haven't read Henry Kyd Douglas's "I Rode with Stonewall," do so. He was with Jackson from Jackson's initial posting at Harpers Ferry through the Valley Campaign, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, almost all of that time on Jackson's personal staff. Wounded and captured at Gettysburg, he was exchanged and ended the war leading the last unit to stack its arms at Appomattox. It's anecdotal, with lots of personal accounts both of Jackson and day-to-day life in the Confederate army. Douglas himself was a sort of a David Niven type--charmingly self-deprecating, good humored, often funny, and a gifted story-teller. In my experience, it's unique among Civil War memoirs.
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@CebuYokel @charlesmurray Still ... does not answer question tho.
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@MaskedDefender @charlesmurray He used his influence to get a bill introduced to end slavery, but it didn't pass.
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Lincoln was bookended by two of the objectively worst presidents in American history — matched only by Trump in the race for the basement. From today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast w/ @JohnAvlon
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@MaskedDefender @charlesmurray Probably not, since he didn’t fight for slavery.
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@esherlifestyle @rubguy @ElectaWing @charlesmurray The more time rationalizing nonsense is the more you get it wrong. K.I.S.S.
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@MaskedDefender @ElectaWing @charlesmurray But being a monarchy, they were able to avoid immediately addressing the questions of what civil rights former slaves would have, since most white subjects of the Empire lacked them too. That was an advantage not available to Thomas Jefferson’s liberal republic.
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@TypeA_Ectomorph @ElectaWing @charlesmurray Lol. They had a lot more to fear from Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant I'd say. They also ... liked enslaving blacks.
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@MaskedDefender @ElectaWing @charlesmurray White Southerners had excellent reason to fear a sudden and disorderly abolition of slavery.
They had excellent reason to fear that a Republican President might eventually force it upon them, whatever his personal feelings were on the matter.
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@shipwreckedcrew @instapundit Claims not subject to cross examination? That is the evidence?
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The evidence seems pretty clear that he was committing statutory rape -- more likely actual non-consensual rape -- of girls 13 and 14 years old repeatedly over a period of time.
That's not JFK or MLB-like indiscretions.
He was a child-abusing rapist -- NO ONE is claiming the reporting is wrong.
Zuki@zuki_2024
Dude they are “unpersonning” Cesar Chavez faster than Confederate war heroes after Unite the Right Charlottesville. No one thinks this is really fucking weird and suspicious why???
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@MaskedDefender @ElectaWing @charlesmurray If you cannot take the time to learn why so many fought in the war on both sides, you will end up asking out of context questions like this for the rest of your life
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@TypeA_Ectomorph @ElectaWing @charlesmurray You just explained how despicable the Confederacy was ... the banality of evil.
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@MaskedDefender @ElectaWing @charlesmurray It’s funny how slavery takes up so much more space in your head than his, and he actually owned slaves.
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@micyoung75 So if cops mistakenly detain someone they learn while detained is a murderer ... they have to let him go? Huh?
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ICE stopped a car, took the passenger to their field office, and then told him they had been looking for someone else. They held him anyway. A federal judge reviewed it and said without the ICE mistake he would not have been detained at all.
Miller’s response is that the judge is a leftist abusing habeas corpus to grind down enforcement. That framing does something specific: it defines any judicial correction of enforcement errors as sabotage. Under that logic, ICE cannot make mistakes that courts can fix. The only permissible outcome after an arrest is detention.
That is not law. The Constitution’s habeas corpus protection exists precisely for this — not as an immigration policy tool but as a foundational check on executive detention of individuals. Asylum seekers have Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. Courts have said so repeatedly. Miller wants that to stop. What he is describing is executive detention without judicial review. That is a different country than this one.
Stephen Miller@StephenM
This is a deranged article and preposterous ruling. Not once does it mention the fact that the detainee is an illegal alien (freed into the country by Dems in 2022). A federal district court judge ordered the alien released again because “this is a person who was just living his daily life.” Congress long ago explicitly stripped the judiciary of jurisdiction over deportation cases precisely because it is so ludicrous and destructive to afford valuable federal trial court hours to individual civil deportations (in a nation with millions upon millions of illegal aliens). And yet, in plain defiance of law, it is now routine anytime an illegal alien is arrested a network of activists and NGO lawyers instantly file improper and frivolous habeas petitions in federal district court to demand their immediate release. Leftist judges who, again, never dispute the aliens are here illegally, then order ICE to release the alien. Both the illegals’ attorneys and the judges who enable them are engaged in a gross and egregious abuse of the legal system in an effort to grind down the enforcement of our sovereign laws.
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@charlesmurray Thanks. I just don't buy that though whatever he wrote or didn't. Southerners knew they were fighting to prevent North wielding the power in Washington to end slavery. It was an issue for 30+ years including the 2 big "Compromises."
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He saw himself as opposing a Northern invasion. He had opposed secession. I don’t know of any direct statement he made about slavery.
Dr. Masked Defender@MaskedDefender
@charlesmurray Does he write about any qualms regarding fighting for slavery?
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BBC confirms the US is responsible for the Minab school massacre that killed 175 people, mostly girls. The "advanced" AI targeting system used outdated coordinates to hit a base next door, ignoring satellite images showing kids playing in the courtyard. Absolute war crime.
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I need people to understand that about 60% of homeless people are employed but just don’t make enough to afford housing and that’s the real issue
Hoops@Hoopss
Homeless man seen with projector, laptop, and sound system in his tent in Hollywood
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@nickirich14 But where? They aren't working in upstate NY or Iowa are they?
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@ClassicMovieDig Quebec had American style football then?
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17-year-old William Shatner on the West Hill High football team in Montreal, 1946. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝟵𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱!
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@themoviedadsc Housing frugality is the best way to save. A trailer on 2 lane Route 29 is only marginally different than a townhouse off 5th Avenue practically.
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“You should get a bigger home. Why not upgrade?”
Because our $1,570 mortgage payment lets us:
• Max 2 Roth IRAs
• Invest my wife’s entire salary in our taxable brokerage
• Fully fund our kids’ 529s
• Enjoy hobbies
• Take our kids out regularly
Low expenses = freedom
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@PokeysaurusRex @JamesSurowiecki @CynicalPublius I just learned the Obama deal was only for 10 years.
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@MaskedDefender @JamesSurowiecki @CynicalPublius They agreed to not do it for as long as the agreement was in place for, and then Trump ended the agreement which allowed them to resume trying to get nukes. So thank your glorious leader for that.
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Why do Democrats always want America’s military to fail in its assigned missions if a Republican is POTUS?
I honestly do not understand this mentality.
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Obama agreed to $1.3 billion in sanctions relief for Iran as part of a deal that prevented both an Iranian nuke and a war.
Trump withdrew from the deal, started a war that will likely result in Iran obtaining a nuke, and gave Iran $14 billion in sanctions relief.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran
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@chrislhayes Police wrongly detain people everyday in America. Should we stop enforcing laws?
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People should take a moment to imagine the amount of terror, violence, expense and destruction that is going to be necessary to deport TWENTY MILLION people. And also, think the won't just mess up and grab a whole bunch of American citizens while they're at it?
JD Vance@JDVance
Not having 20 million illegal aliens who need to be housed (often at public expense) will absolutely make housing more affordable for American citizens. But I see the left’s strategy of making fun of people for suffering under Biden policies continues apace.
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