Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) on X

Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is
 kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.

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@DharmaDog Exactly what that is, just an othering tactic to divide, just like all fascists do.

@anubis2814

It is that, and it's something more than that, something even darker.

Under capitalism's ultimate form, humans' value is what they can be used for to make wealth for capitalists. The value of a woman is in that she can be bred; the value of a man is that he can be led to the slaughter.

In the GOP's view, we are, none of us, anything more than livestock to them.

@DharmaDog

@DharmaDog Are these the same Republicans who, in 2004, launched "Swift Boat Veteran for Truth" against John Kerry while they touted George W. Bush's National Guard service?
@soulexpress @DharmaDog These are a distillation of those Republicans... their ability to lie and ignore any criticism of their lies has been concentrated, cleansed of what tiny sense of honesty or duty to their constituents or society as a whole they may once have had.

@DharmaDog For real? My father was a Navy sharpshooter on an aircraft carrier during the Korean War and the land orders weren’t meet-cute. He’s going to sour soldiers.

Keep it going, Vance. We need the money and your votes and we aren’t backing down to your stalking, denigration or threats. As IF he’s qualified to even speak standing on Trump’s orange head.

RenĂȘ Magritte The Art of Living, 1967.

Prescient, this Frenchman. The Europeans have seen these movies before.

@SherBeareth Belgian, not Frenchman, IIRC
@jbeckers @SherBeareth You do recall correctly. Just north of France, pressed against the Netherlands, there's a little kingdom, ideally fit for breeding surrealist artists...
@SherBeareth @DharmaDog He's not standing on Frump's head... Juicy Divan is bent over to better tongue-tickle Trump's taint.

@dkbgeek @DharmaDog

Okay, now Juicy Divan is five star clever. Genuine unladylike guffaw here. đŸ˜‚đŸ€Ł I hope I follow you.

@dkbgeek @DharmaDog

I was not so corrected that immediately. Your profile pic makes me grin also too.

@SherBeareth @DharmaDog My Eddie makes me grin quite often as well. Best dog who's ever graced me with his constant, loving, goofy presence.

@dkbgeek @DharmaDog

I hear you!! I just barely told someone My Tuxxie was grinning goofily at a pet meme she linked me to. They really are life-savers. Mine insists on sleeping on an old handbag at the foot of the bed. He has as actual anxiety disorder and purrs about four hours a day, but needs security help. That’s where dogs excel, the great ones always greet everyone like they’re coming back from war.

@DharmaDog Outstanding quote! Huge thanks for capturing it all. News in the US has Fifty Shades of Gray before breakfast.

Which now includes the increasingly bizarre and insufferable NY Times, parenthetically.

#dumbfuckery #news #weirdnews #MayorPete

= ( what happened?! It's like a war zone in here! )

( I gave birth! ) =

@DharmaDog Makes me wish I was on twitter so I could thank him for analogizing kids with a war zone. I'm not even kidding. Months to years on half a night of sleep, worry that your house will get burned down, it's that loud, teaching people life/death survival skills who don't speak English, mess AND latrine duty every night, you seldom get to see the people you love, ugly uniform most of the time, heartbreaking decisions....

Condoms work. #Choice

@DharmaDog I forgot the blood. Ther's generally a lot more of it than you thought there'd be.

And it's terrifying. Kids pretty dumb, and people are not careful with yours.

@DharmaDog he's red hot isn't he? Love it.
@DharmaDog Remember when Trump denigrated McCain for getting captured in a war zone?
@DharmaDog also like war isn't everything. I never saw combat but I have a humanitarian service medal

@DharmaDog

Wow, that was well stated.

It analyses how Vance thinks and how he is completely wrong.

Thank god for people like Pete Buttigieg!

@DharmaDog “Tooth to tail” the ratio of soldiers deployed to the supply / support chain is about 10:1.