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“…, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Matthew 26:52. The “sword” was used to build the U.S. and it has been its favorite tool domestically and overseas to the present day. Unfortunately, for this country and the rest of the world it has had catastrophic from Native Americans of the early Republic to present day people around the world. Have we arrived at point the “perish” word is being fulfilled?

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I was in another country when all this happened. There, many people thought this was political theater. The foolish youth (not a professional sniper) encouraged to take a pot shot from an inexplicitly unguarded vantage point. The small bladder of blood tucked behind the ear. It seems like a classic trope.

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Compelling. But “structural violence of economic inequality also kills us” is most certainly said by liberals.

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"We live in Biblical times."

Nope. "WE" do not. You, maybe. I'll give a pass on the relative merits of the bible as an entertaining work of fiction, with many fans to the present day.

No heaven, no hell.

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Trump may have a showman's instincts, but they're given a greater value only because corporate media and interests magnify them. They continue to write the script as if we were all living an episode of the apprentice.

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Expertly said. Historically correct.

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