"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."

~ Timothy Snyder

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-a-terrible-thing-it-is

What a terrible thing it is

Mass shootings as regime change

Thinking about...

"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."

~ Michael Cohen

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-of-hollow-platitudes

The Politics of Hollow Platitudes

Thoughts and prayers have become America’s ritual of surrender; comforting the powerful, silencing accountability, and ensuring the next memorial is already being planned.

Meidas+

Any time you make a charitable donation but a corporation gets the tax receipt - you're the sucker.

#McHappyDay
#McDonalds #platitudes

Perhaps might provide a mldicum of solace in the whale song and absurdities of our current predicament. The pendulum swings, truth will out…. How long that takes we don’t dwell upon #Platitudes #quotes
Hey, Dr. #ScottHahn, thank you for deleting your #facebook post where you shared the #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse greeting full of empty #platitudes for #Easter and #HolyWeek, but NO THANK YOU for posting it in the first place! You are an accomplished #theologian, Dr. Hahn! You ought to have better reading comprehension than this! I just wish I'd been able to see the salty comments I presume you got.

@cdarwin Charlotte Clymer reads the room

"...we need y'all to get angry. We need y'all to be pissed"

"We need y’all to remind us why we voted for you in the first place."

Otherwise, we're going to assume we are on our own, and proceed as though your tepid words don't matter.

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/comms-advice-for-democratic-lawmakers

#Lackluster #Tepic #Uninspiring #Demoralizing #Embarrassing #Excuses #Weak #Subdued #Dispassionate #Platitudes #Pathetic : #Democrat #Democrats #Democratic #DemocraticParty

Comms Advice for Democratic Lawmakers

You didn't ask, but I'm offering it anyway.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts

And now for your daily platitude: "Do what you love!"

#AttitudeOfPlatitude
#PlatitudeJournal
#Platitudes

This Too Shall Pass

Kim Addonizio was no consolation to the woman whose husband was strung out on opioids. Gone to a better place: useless and suspect intel for the couple at their daughter’s funeral though there are…

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