Reposted by Andrew Sabl
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it.
Monstrous
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![Actual revolution, far right or far left, has not come. But too many
Americans seem to think we are
immune to such a fate or, worse, that they would find themselves to be the beneficiaries. "Sure," they seem to think "the violent breakdown of social
order might be bad for some. But I'm built different." Some deserving elites may die, but the virtuous will win out.
And if not the virtuous, then at least the clever and deserving. As a friend noted, "They watch Mad Max and see themself as Max, never as the poor bastards tied to the front bumpers of the dune buggies.”
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