• arrow74@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    At least they’re still working under pretense and condition. They “can’t” turn them around because they’re already in route.

    It’s not good, but they are using a contrived reason. I’m afraid for the day they stop trying to justify it and keep doing it.

    Things are getting to that point rapidly

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        7 months ago

        Saying I felt like it is not a justification. Wouldn’t call this a cope either. I know things are bad, but there’s still room for them to get much much worse. I think they will reach that point. It’s just watching the milestones pass now.

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            7 months ago

            Sure we can spend all day defining words, but that’s obtuse. You very well know what I meant. Not turning an active flight around is magnitudes different than continuing arrests and deportation after a court order.

            A justification requires at least some pretense of a reason. Just because you want to is a statement.

            Once again, it’s not a cope to acknowledge that things are bad now and they can get worse. I’m going to protests, I’ve stopped all discretionary spending, and I tell my story to anyone that will listen (my work has been directly impacted). Hell I haven’t spoken to my Trump voting father in months. Short of taking arms against the government there’s not much left to do, and frankly to get to that level the milestones on the way to the bottom do matter a lot.

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                7 months ago

                Okay so we’re going to have to define words.

                Reason:

                1. a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
                2. the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.

                Please refer to definition 2.

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        7 months ago

        Like a bank robber holding a sign that says “This is not a robbery. And even if it is, it is permitted under Article II”.

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      7 months ago

      And as we all know, planes can’t turn around. Too bad those Wright brothers couldn’t figure that little maneuver out. And it’s made air combat in wars very complicated and pointless since planes can’t just turn around and get back to where they took off from.

      /s