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1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2019 23:23:42 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

   Support for the federal administration is now a simple litmus test for "white supremacy"? Well, that's apparently good to know. I do hope these same people avoid securing any monies or benefits from Uncle Stupid like the Earned Income Credit, Child Tax Credit, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Federal Student Aid, disaster assistance from FEMA, airspace navigation control by FAA, food/drug safety checks by FDA, and the like. The rank and file of the "administration" do those things.

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   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2019 23:26:45 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     THIS is what is bothering me: https://www.ravelry.com/content/no-trump

     That is where the now apparently rather quite simple litmus test comes from.

   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2019 23:30:40 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     And then the Legal Insurrection blog apparently has already weighed in: https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/ravelry-knitting-site-bans-support-of-donald-trump-and-his-administration/

   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2019 23:38:36 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     People have to be careful slinging the word "administration" around. There are somewhere around 2 million civil servants. Are we all evil minions of the current president? This isn't the Spoils System where we should have all resigned en masse upon Mr. Trump's election. The lower ranks staff is supposed to stay consistent between administrations. We don't have the right to frustrate the political leadership's goals unless patently illegal orders per Nuremberg principles are received.

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   • Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2019 23:39:07 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

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     That is to say unless "war crimes" are being ordered we do what the bosses say.