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Armas No. 3 — Armas Weekend Reader

7-8 January 2023

Joshua Treviño
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This week: Robb on “democracy,” wokeness in the American natsec bureaucracy, British decline, Caro’s cork board, mariachi in south-Texas high schools, end Title IX, how fighter pilots debrief, and more. Let’s go —

0) “On February 24, millions of us made a choice. Not a white flag, but a blue and yellow flag. Not escaping, but meeting. Meeting the enemy. Resisting and fighting.”

https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/novorichne-privitannya-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelens-80197

1) “The more we dig into how “defending democracy” is used, the more inconsistencies we find in the superficial narrative.”

Global Guerrillas
Democracy?
The term “democracy” or the “defense of democracy” became the focus of the networked opposition to Trump and Trumpism after January 6th, 2021. Specifically, it allowed the networked swarm to target election denial as anti-democratic agitation and the Capitol riot as an anti-democratic insurrection. It was effective in that role…
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a month ago · 11 likes · 1 comment · John Robb

 

2) “The Biden administration’s monomaniacal focus on vaccines over new treatments has left the highest-risk Americans more vulnerable to new variants. Why doesn’t that seem to worry the experts?” 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-vaccines-fueling-new-covid-variants-xbb-northeast-antibodies-mutation-strain-immune-imprinting-11672483618

3) “The Department of Veterans Affairs has a gender gingerbread person. NASA says beware of micro-inequities. And if U.S. Army servicewomen express ‘discomfort showering with a female who has male genitalia,’ what’s the brass’s reply? Talk to your commanding officer, but toughen up.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-governments-woke-training-federal-employees-diversity-equity-inclusion-11672251764

4) “To restore sanity to American higher education, we must repeal Title IX.”

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/01/repeal-title-ix

5) “Gut-wrenching as these cases are, they at least involve people who independently opted for assisted suicide. The biggest MAID-in-Canada controversy may be the revelation that at least one caseworker working for Veterans Affairs Canada had been actively pitching euthanasia to veterans who had no interest in it. One reported being offered MAID instead of treatment for post-traumatic stress, another in lieu of a wheelchair ramp.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/maid-in-canada-whats-behind-the-euthanasia-scandal-suicide-rent-trudeau-mental-illness-equal-rights-11672397399

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