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Harvard conservative magazine is suspended by its own board after publishing article laced with Nazi rhetoric

A conservative magazine at Harvard University was suspended by its board of directors Sunday amid scrutiny over an article published in September that closely resembled the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler.

In its September print issue, the Harvard Salient published an article by student David F.X. Army that read “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans,” echoing the words Hitler used in a January 1939 speech to the Reichstag in which he forecasted that another world war would lead to the annihilation of Jews.

The Harvard Salient piece also argued that “Islam et al. has absolutely no place in Western Europe,” and called for a return to values “rooted in blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own.” (The phrase “blood and soil” also echoes a Nazi idea that the inherent features of a people are its land and race.)

The school’s mainstream student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, published three opinionpieces criticizing the rhetoric used in the Salient piece, to which [Salient's editor in chief] Rodgers published his own article last week lamenting that “ordinary conservative thought is one headline away from criminality.”
In a statement to the school’s newspaper, the Salient’s editor-in-chief, Richard Y. Rodgers, claimed that Army “did not intentionally quote Adolf Hitler, nor did any member of our editorial staff recognize the resemblance prior to publication.”

Rodgers continued, “The article was a meditation on how nations and cultures preserve coherence in an age of rootless cosmopolitanism and global homogenization. To confuse a defense of belonging for a manifesto on exclusion is a fault of the reader, not the writer.”
The print edition of the article was placed in undergraduate dormitories last month. Harvard installed Salient distribution boxes in dorms in February after the publication, which is independent from the university, complained that students could not easily access its work.
The uproar comes as politicians and other public figures on the right have faced allegations that their rhetoric echoes that of the Nazis. It also comes as Harvard and other universities face pressure from the Trump administration to show that they are not clamping down on conservative voices.

If the words were from a quote by Hitler, what do you do with this?
Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans,”

Was Hitler being deceptive? He certainly did not believe that.

If the writer of the article believed those words, when is he leaving?
When are you all packing up.
I'm 34 percent indiginous american. Can I stay?

The accusation is stupid and duplicitous. Words twisted to stir the anger and anxiety in underdeveloped adolecent hearts.
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Why Zohran Mamdani won and New York will pay a terrible price

The OP stated he was a "Muslim" in a way that implied that would be a bad thing for New York who don't need any help from me or you in deciding who to vote for.

"Democratic socialism" - like in Scandinavian countries for many years since WW2 - of course the people in those countries are all poverty stricken as a result. How's their life expectancy cf US?
Do you want to be like Scandavia where the governments take about 70% of your income?
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Gio Benitez, Openly Gay ABC News Weekend Anchor, Joins Catholic Church and Reaffirms Faith with Husband by His Side

They can join but if they refuse to live chastely they cannot receive communion. I’m not sure about the legal union.

ETA: just quickly researched it… they are not required to dissolve the legal union. Just to live chastely. The reason being is the Church does not recognize same sex marriage.

Thanks!
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He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.

I see, so only stares.can be sued for civil rights violation but the federal government can't be.
Currently, yes. Blevins was supposed to correct that but SCOTUS has neutered it to the point of uselessness. We really need something like 1983 for the federal side of things.
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The Final Experiment (Flat Earth Bites The Dust)

It is round but it is like a dish shaped disc, it is not spherical.

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No. Is a sphere not a disc. We know that for a fact because airplanes fly around the earth all the time and we have explored every continent. There is no room for a flat earth.
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Called of God to Ministry

Do you remember the story in Luke 7:36-50 of the sinful woman who entered the Pharisee’s house who, standing behind Jesus, at his feet, weeping, began to wet his feet with her tears and with her hair, kissing his feet and anointing them with perfume? And do you recall the Pharisee’s response? He said to himself, “If this man” (meaning Jesus) “were a prophet he would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.” And do you recall Jesus’ response to him?

And Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he replied, “Say it, Teacher.” “A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more?” Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”
Turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave Me no kiss; but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet. You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume. For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.” Then He said to her, “Your sins have been forgiven.” Those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?” And He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.” (Luke 7:40-50 NASB1995)

Now once upon a time there was a girl named Sue. She believed in Jesus as her Lord and Savior at age 7, and she committed herself to following the Lord the rest of her life. She was not perfect, and she made mistakes along the way, sometimes, but she loved Jesus, and her desire was to live for him and to obey him. But she kept coming up against Pharisees who did not and who would not see her through the eyes of the Lord. They did not value her as Jesus did, but they treated her much like this Pharisee treated this woman in this story. So she kept being rejected over and over again.

The hits just kept coming, one after another after another. Sometimes she felt like she was a basketball being slam dunked into a basket over again, and sometimes she felt like she was in the water with people continually pushing her head under the water trying to drown her. And as soon as she came up for air there was someone there trying to drown her again. And one day she finally crashed and she became the person that they treated her as though she was, and she was not the person she once was. But then God brought her back, and he forgave her, and later on he called her to ministry.

For he had a plan for her life from even before she was formed in the womb of her mother. He had a calling and a mission for her. And he allowed her to go through a life of persecution, abuse, mistreatment, and rejection, all to prepare her for the time when he intended to use her for his glory to reach the people of the world with the truth of the gospel of our salvation. And he planned to use her in ways, perhaps, that normally would be what God would call men to do, but who did not and who would not answer his call as she did. So he had her ready to go to fill that void that needed to be filled.

So, he called her to write down what he was teaching her each day from her times spent with him in the Word of God, and she was to place these writings on the internet so that “a herald could run with it.” 21 years ago she began that ministry to which God called her. And she has been faithful to that call ever since then, no matter how many persecutions or rejections or mistreatments she faced, and even through sicknesses and oppositions of many kinds, because God was her strength, and she depended on him, because she loved him, and she wanted to obey him, and she loved people.

And, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, and under the direction of the Holy Spirit, thousands of people (perhaps millions) have been reached with the truth of God’s Word, and with the truth of the gospel of our salvation, in over 100 different countries throughout the world over the course of the past 21 years because a despised and rejected woman who was nothing of value to the Pharisees of this world (including within the church) had the courage to step out in faith, and against all odds obey God’s voice and let herself be used of God to reach the world for Jesus Christ.

So, don’t let the opinions or the mistreatments of other people or their devaluing of you and their criticisms of you stop you from obeying the Lord in being who he has called you to be. For if God can use a donkey to get his message across to someone, he can certainly use us women, even if men or other women devalue us and disregard our worth in the eyes of the Lord. For in our present age, sadly there are many men who are spiritually AWOL and who are not willing to answer the call of God, and so God is calling women to fill their shoes and to do for him what the men did not and would not do.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Romans 5:3-5; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; 2 Timothy 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; James 1:2-4; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Hebrews 12:3-12; 1 John 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

A Believer’s Prayer

An Original Work / July 31, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


With my whole heart, Lord, I pray
To be Yours, and Yours always.
Lead me in Your truth today.
May I love You, and obey.
Lead me in Your righteousness.
When I sin, may I confess;
Bow before You when I pray;
Live for You and You always.

Love You, Jesus, You’re my friend.
Life with You will never end.
You are with me through each day,
Giving love and peace always.
You will ne’er abandon me.
From my sin You set me free.
You died on that cruel tree,
So I’d live eternally.

Soon You’re coming back for me;
From this world to set me free;
Live with You eternally.
Oh, what joy that brings to me.
I will walk with You in white;
A pure bride, I’ve been made right
By the blood of Jesus Christ;
Pardoned by His sacrifice.

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Called of God to Ministry
An Original Work / November 13, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.

As I explained in my previous post, you can't use 1983 because it is specific to the states. Blevins has been reduced down so it can only be used in specific circumstances regarding someone coming into a house. I suggest Legal Eagles video explaining the nuances. The upside is that you can not sue for a civil rights violation, only put in a tort claim for damages.
I see, so only stares.can be sued for civil rights violation but the federal government can't be.
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He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.

Effectively, you're suggesting that you and I, based on our appearance, have more rights than my wife who has been a citizen for over 20 years.
Not at all. If you were in a place where known mobsters were and there was a raid I would expect you would be picked up too and detained until it was determi ed you were not part of the mob.
Would you feel the same way if you are detained for an hour, a day or weeks?
If I were detained for a reasonable amount of time I'd feel fine. Weeks is not reasonable. By law a person can be detained up to a couple of days without charges. I do expect ICE to prioritize those who claim citizenship and make them the FIRST people to be cleared. If they Don't do that then I think they are wrong.
I didn't invite anyone. My wife immigrated legally.

I meant more broadly speaking. People in sanctuary cities have absolutely invited illegals to come. And Democrats through Biden allowed them to come in essence inviting them. Cause thats how it works.
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Using AI vs. Talking To Humans

Just a reminder, if you base a "human choices are determined" argument on a statement like the above, you FIRST need to prove, or at least give very good evidence/argument for, that statement.

I'll save you some time by telling you I've read enough to know that that's never been done, from the days of the ancient Greeks to the days of Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett. But you're a smart guy, keep trying. If I am actually an atom puppet, I actually would like to know. :)
I'll just tell you my main evidence/points about this real quick, as I'm not really wanting to get into an argument here about it.

Everything from/on the level of the atom up, is all deterministic, and that much can be proven, and the only reason we can't prove that yet on the sub-atomic level yet, is because we don't know enough about it yet, and don't have the right maths for it yet, etc.

Everything from the level of the atom up is based on certain mathematical assumptions that we think are 100% absolutes, but that might not be 100% absolutes on the sub-atomic level though, requiring us to come up with whole new different mathematical assumptions for everything on the sub-atomic level, and needless to say, we don't have any idea or clue what those are or would have to be yet, etc, but once we do know, then I'm pretty confident that we'll find it operating on certain kinds of maths that will allow us to predict, and it being entirely deterministic in nature as well, etc

And my other point/proof is, if you believe in an 100% fully omniscient being, then that eliminates the possibility of free will, or other possibilities, or multiple different ways (or paths) a thing, or things, can go also, and there's absolutely no wiggle room there, or for that, or no way of mixing those two, etc. If any being knows for sure 100%, then there is no other way it can happen or go ever, otherwise it's not 100%, and therefore that being doesn't/can't know for sure 100%.

God Bless.
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Did the early church worship on Sabbath?

Everything of the law is subject to what was written in stone by the finger of God after God spoke those things, including the priesthood, the sacrifices, the ways to be me made clean in the rituals all of which were shadows in the old covenant that Christ is revealed to be in the new covenant, penalties in civil law are shadows of justice from God, which Christ bore for the redeemed, the ones with repentant faith that came, and those with that who will come, to Christ, and be restored to God. What to do right in that is still what is right to do, in the new covenant that was prophesied this would be from the heart, that is the essential change. Everything before God is to involve living justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.
Sounds good so far :thumbsup: Let's apply it to a specific instruction. Is this one from Leviticus 23 in the New Covenant, as you understand it?

the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly
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Release from Epstein files

Russiagate was a fraud and a hoax perpetuated by the progressive left wing liberals upon the American people.
So you continue to claim. Though after being repeatedly asked you could not identify what the hoax was nor how the liberals managed to trick the Republicans into conducting it.
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Democrats finally vote to open Government

So they could have done so.

It's not all or nothing. They could have amended the rule so that CRs could not be filibustered while still keeping it for most legislation. In fact they showed they knew that was a possibility by eliminating it for group confirmation votes.

Also, there has never been a serious effort to change the size of the Supreme Court, and if the Democrats ever wanted to institute a change that significant, they would simply override the filibuster themselves.
No, they could not remove nor modify the filibuster, without major consequences in the future.

All the democrats had to do is vote for the clean Continuing Resolution, which they eventually did and the government reopened.
It was the democrats who refused to vote for the CR.

When Biden was president, they talked of stacking the Supreme Court, but again, it would require 60 votes in the senate and
they knew unless they got control of both the House and the Senate, it could not be done.
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Harvard conservative magazine is suspended by its own board after publishing article laced with Nazi rhetoric

This is a repulsive, and disgusting conversation. And I don't see that in the Bible or the CCC or anywhere for that matter, so I don't know where you're getting that from in regards to Christianity.
That's because it isn’t in the Bible or the CCC, those aren’t sources Early Medieval legal codes. The Christian code I shared comes from Gratian’s Decretum.
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Trump promises $2000 tariff dividend to all Americans

Apparently $2000 going directly to the American people is bad. But $2000 going directly into the pockets of health insurance companies only to continue raising their rates and profit margins is good.
I do not find your strawmen and red herrings of interest.
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Can Truth Be Known? How

Truth is not what we humans want it to be, but the opposite of what we desire. God said from beginning to end in the Bible to put His Will, that being His truth, ahead of our own. The pursuit of self by both human and elohim has steered us away from His truth to our own. We were given two commandments to rectify this but either we refuse or adapt it to suit our desires, not His. More people use God to justify themselves than actually follow His will. We even built a religion that makes it about us rather then God's plan to have both man and elohim alike no longer follow self and abuse our self-awareness. We were made with self-awareness to be of use to the Father, but until we stop grabbing the reins from Him, we are useless to His purpose and are cancers within His creation.
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