🇺🇸 Volunteering is Patriotism. Never Forget Our Vets.

I’m honored to be joining a group of dedicated volunteers at the New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston, serving those who sacrificed so much for all of us. I’ll be volunteering with meal services — small acts, big impact.🍝

📌If you’re looking for a way to give back, you can volunteer or donate at: https://nechv.org

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🇺🇸 A few photos from the No Kings Rally in Boston. Rejecting hate, misogyny, and authoritarianism is patriotism.

If you do one thing after today, register to vote.🗳️

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The patriotic duty to dissent

When the No Kings protests recently took place on streets across the nation, Trump administration officials said these were quote "hate America" rallies. But in fact, these were patriots using their constitutional right to dissent and voice their opposition to government policies — a practice that has been part of America since the founding.

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"For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best."
- Herodotus

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it.”
- Malcolm X

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Okay, seriously?

AsmonGold how stupid can you get?

This #YouTube #video explains how fragmented the #MAGA base is over the #war in #Iran concerning #USA #patriotism and #Israel as such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaJOk3DgYkg

Something wild just happened

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A quotation from Montesquieu

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
 
[Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/

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Montesquieu - Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)] | WIST Quotations

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. [Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.] Speaking of republics. See notes here on Montesquieu's meaning of…

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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
-- Hermann Goering (quoted by G.M. Gilbert at the Nuremberg Diaries)

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