brown shirts in all but name

Haven’t We Learned From History?

Having elected a government that takes pride in not learning anything about anything, the answer is no.

No contradiction there (I’d very much like to ban infant circumcision)

Well yes. In addition to the body parts we all have, women have some that are exclusive to them; and as they’re a bit special they require extra rights.

Ten hours?

'Tis but a scratch in the record

oh, right. - i was under the impression we were talking about the elites among their respective societies.

Some people with a lot of money who want to change politics in a given country do NOT belong to that country’s elites. To name some of the most prominent examples – think (dis)information campaigns by individuals like Mohammed bin Salman, Vladimir Putin or Rupert Murdoch.

Conversely, members of cultural elites like journalists or artists can often be quite poor (or at least not in the monetary class to be able to finance info ops)

elites

I think you misspelled “anyone who is able to throw a lot of money at it”

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what he does matters, of course. what he says… idk. what he says does not relate much to what he does. and he says awful things every day, every word a lie, and manages to dominate the news cycle for years on end. it’s a constant stream of shit. we’re doing ourselves a disservice by bathing in shit everyday.

No he doesn’t, because he can’t.

But good to know we still talking about all the hot air escaping Trump instead of more important things happening in the US and elsewhere.

a powerful man with a vision can be a great thing. until it isn’t.

hit as many different corporate metrics as possible

ah yes. product roadmaps where every stakeholder gets their share except the users

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evolution has given us a drive to have sex sure enough.

but my impression is that there’s not a lot of biological drive to have children per se, as shown by a lack of children the moment that women can actually decide whether to have them.

A Nazi is a normal human being with a set of particularly bad convictions.

But same as nobody is born a Nazi, nobody needs to die a Nazi.

This is fundamentally different from cockroaches, who are all cockroach from conception to death.

once you have paid him the Danegeld / You never get rid of the Dane

tells you nothing about the presidents’ job performance and everything about the media

What, you eat polyester? That does it. We’ll coat the whole world in PFAS, try and crack those.

Kind regards, humanity

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the sheer hubris…