Hey, readers. A while back, I got an inquiry about the Standing Rock protests. I was linked to a lengthy article that made an argument, and asked for feedback. This was before the news that the Army Corps of Engineers would refuse to grant the easement to the pipeline (YAY!). I suspect this friend was given the article by a conservative loved one
whose opinion was swayed or reinforced by it and offered it to her
during or after one of those civil political conversations I'm
personally so fond of having with my own conservative loved ones. Could be she came across it on her own, just by having enough conservative loved ones on Facebook that it came up.
However she found it, she shared it with me, and it pissed me off.
I'm making a conscious choice, by the way, to NOT link to that piece of
garbage in this post. It doesn't need any wider circulation than it got already.
My first response to my friend was a brief coupe paragraphs:
