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We encouraged rogue militias

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:10:10 +0000

In reply to Jilani makes a good point in

We encouraged rogue militias post-9/11 with our anti-Muslim trajectory.

The Tom Friedman's of yesterday weren't always much better than today's nuts.

I didn’t respond to @paulkrugman's original tweet because I assumed it was just a bad tweet and that he’d figure that out on his own. But now I'm realizing that a lot of the events that defined the past 19 years for people like me didn’t even register with him. THREAD https://t.co/Bufz1B5aPk
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) September 14, 2020

Curiosity killed the cat. But

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:33:12 +0000

In reply to If we get ready for them,

Curiosity killed the cat. But then he had 8 more lives, so he mauled Curiosity up good.

looks like yet more

artappraiser — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:10:41 +0000

In reply to Fascism, Caesarism, Weimar...? What really is the most accurate analogy?

looks like yet more authoritarian evidence coming, the better to make refined historical analogies, not that it helps our real life much:

.⁦@jonathanvswan⁩ scoops on ⁦@nytmike⁩ book - Trump offered Kelly the FBI job and did the same loyalty demand he made of Comey. https://t.co/U4SAsv0JCR
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 30, 2020

Kelly has told people Trump wanted to behave like an authoritarian and had to be constrainted https://t.co/U4SAsv0JCR
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 30, 2020

immediately what popped into my head Oath of the Horatii

If we get ready for them,

moat — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:00:35 +0000

In reply to Are you telling me there'll

If we get ready for them, maybe better days will find us more interesting and try to get closer out of curiosity.

Are you telling me there'll

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 20:42:47 +0000

In reply to That is some strong beer.

Are you telling me there'll be better days?

Good news indeed.

That is some strong beer.

moat — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 20:34:08 +0000

In reply to Ah, that kind of underground,

That is some strong beer.
I will check it out in better days.
Kitsch models are simple and keep the stress levels down.

Ah, that kind of underground,

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 15:08:38 +0000

In reply to I will follow your guidelines

Ah, that kind of underground, chetniks vs ustaše and such...
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

I will follow your guidelines

moat — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:57:40 +0000

In reply to Just leave the Mary Ann vs

I will follow your guidelines.

The drama clearly prefigures the Covid system with a group suddenly becoming trapped in a pod. The only people who can visit them are castaways themselves instead of anybody who could return them to the world. The solo submariner who thinks the war is still going on is the archetype for the mask free militia roaming the streets with rifles.
The islanders practice their previous roles to protect themselves from each other and not collapse into despair.
The tiny ship was tossed.

Just leave the Mary Ann vs

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:42:06 +0000

In reply to Victoria's kung fu was pretty

Just leave the Mary Ann vs Ginger question out of it. We're more a "who carries the conch?" and "kill the pig" crowd around here.

Victoria's kung fu was pretty

moat — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:54:30 +0000

In reply to I always thought it was

Victoria's kung fu was pretty good. Does this mean I get to use Gilligan's Island as an historical reference?