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Look at the title of this book published by Monthly Review:
https://monthlyreview.org/product/washington-bullets/
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eumaas wrote:
09 Nov 2020, 6:14pm
Look at the title of this book published by Monthly Review:
https://monthlyreview.org/product/washington-bullets/
Real interesting sounding book (and good cultural tastes, obviously).
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Flex wrote:
09 Nov 2020, 10:03pm
eumaas wrote:
09 Nov 2020, 6:14pm
Look at the title of this book published by Monthly Review:
https://monthlyreview.org/product/washington-bullets/
Real interesting sounding book (and good cultural tastes, obviously).
He has lots of tweets mentioning the Clash
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Least surprising news of the day. Almost certainly, the Republican Senate will respond to this with four years of constant investigation of how he stole the election.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Nov 2020, 6:58pm
Least surprising news of the day. Almost certainly, the Republican Senate will respond to this with four years of constant investigation of how he stole the election.
It's hard to not think that democrats only exist to help republicans do whatever they want.
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Kory wrote:
20 Nov 2020, 7:05pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Nov 2020, 6:58pm
Least surprising news of the day. Almost certainly, the Republican Senate will respond to this with four years of constant investigation of how he stole the election.
It's hard to not think that democrats only exist to help republicans do whatever they want.
One side is utterly shameless, the other obsessed with looking respectable. The results tend to generate themselves without much input after that.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/88avmx/ ... ks-on-cops
“Are cops just antifa and BLM in taxpayer provided uniform?” another asked on TheDonald, a pro-Trump online hub. “In Dem cities, yes,” someone replied.

“Burn D.C. to the ground. Start with metro police HQ,” one person wrote in Parler after Tarrio’s arrest. “Once a cop violates the oath he took, he loses any protections that oath provided. Fair game.”
Extremer gets weirder, weirder gets extremer.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jan 2021, 5:21pm
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88avmx/ ... ks-on-cops
“Are cops just antifa and BLM in taxpayer provided uniform?” another asked on TheDonald, a pro-Trump online hub. “In Dem cities, yes,” someone replied.

“Burn D.C. to the ground. Start with metro police HQ,” one person wrote in Parler after Tarrio’s arrest. “Once a cop violates the oath he took, he loses any protections that oath provided. Fair game.”
Extremer gets weirder, weirder gets extremer.
So now EVERYONE hates cops? That can't be too bad...
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Kory wrote:
05 Jan 2021, 6:01pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jan 2021, 5:21pm
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88avmx/ ... ks-on-cops
“Are cops just antifa and BLM in taxpayer provided uniform?” another asked on TheDonald, a pro-Trump online hub. “In Dem cities, yes,” someone replied.

“Burn D.C. to the ground. Start with metro police HQ,” one person wrote in Parler after Tarrio’s arrest. “Once a cop violates the oath he took, he loses any protections that oath provided. Fair game.”
Extremer gets weirder, weirder gets extremer.
So now EVERYONE hates cops? That can't be too bad...
I expect this means centrists will bind themselves ever tighter to the cops.
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My brain explodes with the thought of all these people that have a philosophy of individualism and personal freedom, but they throw their entire identities behind ONE GUY that they basically want to be their king.
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