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-Land of the Free
The Four Boxes of American Freedom
[YouTube] Your rights are in jeopardy today. To defend your liberty, you need to understand the “four boxes” of American liberty: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box. We give you the information you need to do just that at the Four Boxes Diner, your source for Bill of Rights news and for identifying gun control efforts in the name of so-called gun safety.
Soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammunition box.

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1768 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't ever forget, don't ever surrender. The four are the guarantees we have of our continuation as a free people. Fight anyone that opposes any one of the four.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/14/2026 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  No need for boxes.

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Moral Man Needs No Ethics

The distinction between a moral man and an ethical man is often defined by the difference between **internal conviction** and **external compliance**.

In this view, a moral person does not need ethics because their actions are driven by **personal standards** rather than a desire for social approval or fear of punishment. Ethics are described as **social constructs** that determine what is "right" based on mob mentality or institutional codes, while morals are **internal beliefs** about right and wrong. Therefore, a person with strong morals acts correctly regardless of societal expectations, making external ethical frameworks redundant for their behavior.

However, other perspectives argue that ethics are necessary for social cohesion. Albert Camus famously stated that **"a man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world,"** suggesting that ethical constraints are the minimal restraints that keep individual actions compatible with communal life. Without these ethical boundaries, behavior can become unpredictable and destructive, even if the individual possesses personal morals. Thus, while a moral person may not *need* ethics to act rightly, society may require ethics to ensure that individual morality aligns with the greater good.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2026 11:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Downside to Redistricting is This Putz is Running in my District
[TennesseeStar] State Rep. Justin Pearson Accused of ‘Evil Race-Baiting’ After Confirming Intention to Run in Tennessee’s Redrawn 9th Congressional District

Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) was accused of using “race baiting” in his campaign advertisement announcing the relaunch of his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 9th Congressional District, where first launched his campaign to unseat U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) before the Governor Bill Lee signed the newly redrawn districts into law.

As part of the redistricting legislation, candidates must refile or file a notice that they no longer intend to run by Friday. In his video, Pearson confirmed he intends to run in the same district, despite most analysts saying it now leans overwhelmingly Republican.

“Today, we re-launch our campaign to take on billionaires and the political status quo. Whether you live in the new TN-09, the old TN-09, or anywhere that our systems have failed you, I’m running for Congress for all of US,” wrote Pearson in a post to social media.

Pearson described the redistricting as “immoral and wrong” in his advertisement, before claiming Tennessee’s redrawn congressional districts, “are racist tools of white supremacy,” enacted “at the behest of the most white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.”

The Democratic lawmaker compared congressional redistricting to slavery, lynchings, and institutionalized racism.

“This nation, this state has legislated and legalized the worst things in humanity, including our enslavement,” said Pearson. He later continued, “I want my nephews, sons, and the future to know, no matter what you do, no matter how much you try and break us, and make us bend, and make us quit, we will still be here.”

Posted by: Unoluper Creng1217 || 05/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1810 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  Wrong and immoral when the right does it. Virtuous and right when the left does it.

Fuck you and die asshole.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/14/2026 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems you have the same mindset as I do Darth. I'm so fucking sick of placating these assholes. When are we going to take the blinders off and do as to them as they would do unto us?
Posted by: chris || 05/14/2026 2:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Put the evil, recalcitrant bastards to the sword and be done with it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2026 2:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Wow! I agree completely with posts #1, #2, and #3.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/14/2026 2:29 Comments || Top||

#5  If y'all are going to continue in this vein, please express your rage with metaphorical references.

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
-HL Mencken
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2026 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Mississippi's GOP governor drops election pledge in huge setback for Trump’s midterm plan

"Understand something, that maybe while it may be in the best interest of some individual politicians in Mississippi to talk about congressional redistricting, what happens in Mississippi doesn’t happen in a vacuum," Reeves said in a talk-radio spot Wednesday.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2026 11:29 Comments || Top||

#7  what happens in Mississippi doesn’t happen in a vacuum

Oh yeah; why not? Your assignment is Mississippi, not what some butterfingering intern in DC thinks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/14/2026 11:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Re #5: A metaphorical reference (w/ minor edits) to help counter the rage...

Trust in God

1 My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials.

2 Be sincere of heart and steadfast, and do not be hasty when things go against you.

3 Cling to him, do not leave him, that you may prosper in your last days.

4 Accept whatever happens to you; in periods of humiliation be patient.

5 For in gold is tested in fire, and the chosen, in the crucible of humiliation.

6 Trust in God, and he will help you; make your ways straight and hope in him.
Posted by: Melancholic || 05/14/2026 12:42 Comments || Top||

#9  That guy; he any more of a stereotype he'd be wearing a gold chain.

I know that gal's shirt doesn't say, "Abolish Ice Cream."

That Escher Beret looks like something from a second-hand store.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/14/2026 14:50 Comments || Top||

#10  The Putz is running for the D nomination in new TN District 9. There is an incumbent D Putz now in this district, Steve Cohen (who is 69 years old which is actually pretty young for a Democrat in Congress)
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/14/2026 22:05 Comments || Top||



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