If we were to update this to 21st century standards, would it just mean he makes a public statement about his sexuality and wears a rainbow headband sometimes? Because what you wrote seems pretty “openly” by any century’s standards.
Von Steuben is believed by some historians to have been openly homosexual by 18th century standards.
I just can’t imagine what that means. Did he powder his wig slightly more? He held a man’a gaze for more than a second? What were the 18th century signals?
In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon....
To be clear: I’m not talking about counting guns. I’m talking about normalized insanity. The Republicans continue to play with fire and whip the crazies into a frenzy. Democrats just gawk at them and make reassuring statements to each other.
I’m saying there could be more Pizzagate-style vigilantes and Jan. 6ers in our future and we need to think about what it means to be ready for it.
I agree that mental healthcare is important and not to be stigmatized.
The only thing I’m trying to encourage is preparedness over complacency. Thinking through the worst case scenario before it happens isn’t fear, it’s the beginning of assurance. It’s how you avoid freezing when the bad thing happens. Maybe that doesn’t mean guns. But it does mean I’m taking these overt threats of violence seriously and I think it’s prudent for others to as well.
Under normal circumstances I think your advice would be appropriate. I just happen to think these aren’t normal circumstances. Sometimes the danger is real and warrants increased vigilance. I’m certainly not suggesting people buy firearms they don’t know how to use, on a whim. I’m suggesting they consider investing time and effort to become proficient with them. It’s not about shooting people. It’s about having a credible deterrent.
Obama? Get real. Obama is, and always has been, Hunter Biden’s puppet. You want proof? Hunter had a laptop. Why would anyone other than a criminal mastermind who secretly rules the world own a laptop?
This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.
And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.
The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.
Yes the developer sees it, and also the data brokers they sell all their user data to see it, aggregate it, and corollate it. Not to mention whatever Microsoft does with it.
Let’s say you really love the rich taste of Royal Dutch Shell gasoline, but you’re concerned that their mineral rights contracts with developing countries might be exploitative. Now, if they release a rainbow colored logo for Pride month, you might feel less shame when drinking their gasoline, because they did a good deed.
However, the truth is none of it matters because you’re gonna keep on guzzling all the Royal Dutch Shell gas you can get your hands on because it just. tastes. so. good.
The point was that it’s a manufactured controversy to line the coffers of conservative political organizations and prime public opinion to support a massive diversion of tax dollars from public schools to private schools. Think of “the one teacher” as Bigfoot.
There is no agenda by teachers to brainwash kids into being trans. Only extremely gullible people would believe there is.
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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben during the American Revolution; German immigrant, father of the US Army, savior of the Continental Army, and a gay man
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