Got me thinking, who could

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 03:18:14 +0000

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Got me thinking, who could end up like the Irish did if he wins this "civil war"? majority rule -> not always necessarily a happy outcome for everyone.

Then got me thinking, look at the gays in Egypt right now. Majority rule + demagoguery + modern media tools =:

...The trial underway now seems particularly cruel. On Dec. 7, Mona Iraqi, a television journalist who works for a pro-government channel, barged into a traditional hammam, or bathhouse, in Cairo, to document what she billed as “the biggest den of group perversion” in the Egyptian capital. The police, operating in concert with her, promptly raided the establishment. Ms. Iraqi posted photos of naked men being corralled by authorities and promised viewers, in a since-deleted Facebook post, that her exposé would feature the “whole story of the dens for spreading AIDS in Egypt.”

The Egyptian government has persecuted gay men with varying degrees of intensity over the past two decades. The latest crackdown has driven the gay community underground like never before. It is not entirely clear why Egypt’s military leaders have ordered, or condoned, the prosecutions of men accused of being gay. In a deeply conservative Muslim country, demonizing sexual minorities has served in the past as an effective way of deflecting attention from actual problems the state has failed to fix....

Postscript thought:

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.~Donald Rumsfeld

The cross cultural stuff is

moat — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 03:09:17 +0000

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The cross cultural stuff is there. People go through a lot of things other people have also gone through. History may not repeat itself but many other things do.

hey yeah. (how'd you know I

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:59:46 +0000

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hey yeah. (how'd you know I love cross-cultural stuff?)

It is like the English Civil

moat — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:49:35 +0000

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It is like the English Civil War all over again.

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Got me thinking, who could

The cross cultural stuff is

hey yeah. (how'd you know I

It is like the English Civil