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RomaVicta

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  1. They are going to hate us so profoundly and righteously. The rusting carcasses of giant pick-ups and SUVs under globally warming skies will be our legacy. The oligarchs will likely come out okay.
  2. You could certainly be right. We'll just have to see. I don't think many are saying this is happening exactly like Germany. We started as a democratic experiment and improved on the model over the generations. I think our general misunderstanding of democracy in the last century has been that it's an evolutionary peak. The wise, pragmatic Greeks saw it all as a cycle. Monarchy, democracy, anarchy, monarchy... (I think that's right). Democracy and liberty as causes to fight for got deformed into Capitalsm and moral law in the second half of the last century. It's hard, apparently, to keep a vision of a country consistent over generations. I'm writing too much, aren't I? Free time and free thought.
  3. We're of like mind, and I know that. Thanks for this post, and you had/have a point.
  4. They will also have generated a new norm with two years to take hold. I think that's also part of the blitzkrieg strategy. I guess that fits with the Hitler metaphor, doesn't it?
  5. That reads like a football recruit commitment tweet.
  6. My point exactly. I cannot figure out a way to use words to change the minds of the anti-republic mob cheering their own subjugation. The firehose of falsehood, a new term to me for what we've all observed*, has effectively destroyed argument/discourse. Total exposure of the wicked intentions of Trump and now his (vicarious led?) team have no impact. Our faith in transparency seems to be a quaint relic of the old republic. I'm totally mystified trying to imagine a civil way to halt this dreadful change. Like others here, I begin to place my faint hope in the notion that the changes will be so devastating that the mob will leave their cult. The thing is, I'm not conviced it's a personality cult. I think Trump is just the personifcation of deeply held foundational beliefs. The GOPs were afraid to say the quiet part out loud and didn't really need to. Their fear, IMO, was based on the mob rejecting openly racist fascism. Trump proves that they love it. The Hate Cult won't die with Trump. I'll still be pleased when he's in the ground, but I don't think it will be the end of things. *Wasn't it called alternative means or something like that? I couldn't find it on google, but it's been referenced here, and there's even a thread, I think. Anyway, firehose of falsehood will do.
  7. Fuck that? I'm looking to join a cause, and I'm not doing it quite well enough? I shall try to be more like you in the future. Please lay out your exemplary ways so that I may follow. I'll try to be a better Aggie Longhorn by conforming. I'll start by becoming an anonymous scold.
  8. Yep, it's old paradigm. Trumpists have been getting shredded by smart people for eight years to no effect.
  9. Ah, of course. Austin's not far and I can support the cause remotely.
  10. It is like he's given us all a double oh.
  11. I don't get it.
  12. I'm in Johnson City. Thanks.
  13. Forgive my ignorance, Troph, but can you direct me to an organization that I can join and be publicly on the right side of this persecution? My anonymous posts don't seem to be having much impact. I don't want to be stuck here on the sidelines. Seriously, my friend.
  14. This was Alex Jones shit back in the last century.
  15. Time to pray to the aliens.
  16. The assault on the media goes back to Nixon. Watergate was a vedetta of the press against Milhous, and his hard core follwers (he left the White House with 24% approval which, I've noticed, is a hard foundation of the right wing no matter what they do) never believed he'd done anything wrong. Reagan and Rush took up the attack on the things you so accurately name. The press, lawyers, unions, Congress, the government bureaucracy are all evil. Now it's dogma for even more than Nixon's 24%. What was that ol' timey thing we thought the communists did that we didn't do? Oh yea, brain washing. Good post.
  17. Here come the Fightin' Ts in their Fightin' T-shirts! Anybody know where they're from? They're from T!
  18. Don't forget the template factory, journalism schools, where unworldly surbanites learn all the proper formulas for getting quotes instead of hunting up stories. Never dare call something what you see it to be. Listen to the boys down in legal. Two equal sides to everything.
  19. One would think, my friend, that an attack on the US Capitol or the dismantling of the republic might stir such a response from tens of thousands. We're inert.
  20. Literally a death cult. They want people dying. What would the long term advantages be for the mega wealthy if there were a period of famine, disease, and weather death reducing the population, oh, say, by 40%? Are we about to effortlessly surpass HItler's death toll? They're clearly wanting mass deaths. I'm surprised the CDC still exists under this regime. Fauci will be hanged in the public square and that organization destroyed due to its wickedness. Any Dem with a pulpit should be calling this exactly what it is. I'm not talking about the trivialilty of "messaging" about inflation or fucking egg prices. Thank God the mass media are following that with intense up-to-the-minute reports! They know their jobs. Denying climate change, removing regulation of industry, and lowering our defenses against plague amounts to mass murder. The Gaza plan is genocidal displacement after the Israeli slaughter of the native people. We want to develop the ruins into condos. "Buy early if you want to live on this Indian burial ground!" We spoke for Nazis in Europe. They're not weird. They're fucking evil. Speak the word. Stand on your feet. Get voted out of office if that's the cost. Don't go quietly. We've pretty much lost this war. We're going out with nary whimper let alone a bang. I expect this post to make a huge difference. You're welcome, America.
  21. Do you honestly think that the Trump regime is pretty much business as usual or are you just finding ways to stick pins in people for neglible hypocrisy? Your posts the last few days don't read like the usual you. As I mentioned earlier, it wouldn't surprise me if you're just fed up with the wall you always face here. I think the instant dismissal of anything you write is unfortunate. I think your point about the wealth of the Catholic Church is valid, btw. Your antagonistic voice muddies your point.
  22. I will not have murderous thoughts. I will not have murderous thoughts. Think of the shrugging clown girl. Do not have murderous thoughts. O.J.T. They're the future. Thank goodness we've educated our electorate to comprehend the elegance of the language and courage of the move. This will have great impact. Musk owns Trump one way or the other. I speculated that he'd bought all of Trump's debt a few months ago. Maybe that's not it, but he has Trump in a vice. No telling what Musk could have turned up with all of his resources. Trump seems to be a front man in the tradition of Ronald Reagan but without the avuncular charm. I hope Trump does tackify the Rose Garden and anything else about the White House that attracts his whimsy. Defile it. Make it what it's supposed to be: the image of America at its best. Paint it gold and put some statues out on the lawn. Do it!
  23. That's an even better song than I thought it was. I had the lyrics all fucked from my youth and never thought to look them up. I've got to say the video is rather brilliant as well. I was so dumb that it didn't occur to me that the street fighting man was a rioter. Thanks!
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