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If Killing Were As Evil As Flirting
I, Robert Gates, resign my position as Secretary of Defense of the United States of America with deep regret for actions that do not reflect my true values. For decades I have experienced a steady lapse of judgment for which I accept full responsibility. I lied about the strength of the Soviet Union and failed to see its collapse coming. I lied about abandoning Afghanistan and went on funding terrorists. I've been lying about cutting the military budget while actually increasing it. I've pushed for war escalations and fought against withdrawals. I'm sincerely sorry for these mistakes. I apologize to those my actions have killed, wounded, disemboweled, traumatized, or driven suicidal. Above all I apologize to my wife.
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War is all the fault of young women who receive pornographic pictures from near strangers; if they would just stfu and take it, one feels certain the US military would withdraw from Afghanistan any day now.
Srsly, if that is your idea of flirting, I'm just as glad you live in Virginia and not North Carolina.
weiner and some woman were writing back and forth
let's assume he was purely harassing people -- I still think it's better than killing them
received entirely unsolicited porn.
One submits to you the idea that your hierarchical ranking of wrongs is a good bit of the problem. This mentality insists some groups must endlessly go to the back of the justice line so that their issues are never addressed as there will always be "more important" wrongs.
Inevitably I have found this means women must go to the back of the line.
And yet it seems to me that the desire to categorize everything and line it all up in a row is at the root of war. The mindset that allows some to say that men should have hegemony over women's autonomy is identical with that that says Americans must have authority over Libyans.