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Sharon Dymond's avatar

Orwell had no idea what fascism would look like when it conquered the world. He envisioned big clunky cameras and tape recorders badly hidden everywhere. Did he envision pinhead video cameras and listening devices connected to invisible global networks of quantum computers bouncing off satellites and the moon itself. A network owned and operated by masters of the universe? No, he did not. Did those brilliant founding fathers, those pious men of property have a clue? Get outta here! Nostradamus? Give me a break! Even John the Revelator's imagination failed him. Like the Marines used to say back in the day, "Do not make Ms. Dymond say the f-word."

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MikoMoby's avatar

✊🏻😂❤️

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

Plus did those demi-gods, the founding fathers, have the slightest idea what an heavily armed twenty-million man march would look like? No, they did not. The Holy Constitution is a relic.

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MikoMoby's avatar

The sheer absurdity of this Far Right Christian Creed would have blown their wigs off. They would be absolutely bewildered at the state of our Country.

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

They were the flower children of the enlightenment not bible-thumping rubes ferchrissake.

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

Indeed, they were privileged men of the world. Many were agnostics or outright atheists. The rubes in my neighborhood believe this nation was actually founded under the principle of one nation under God. I just disabused a neighbor of that very notion today. Geezus, these people!

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MikoMoby's avatar

I’m in TN, so lots of that here. This “Christian hierarchy /caste system based on gender” is BS. And I think THEY know enough of US know. Maybe we should take up a collection for you when you end up getting arrested due to your “hysterical woman rants in the Village”. 🤣 JFC.

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

Oh yes, the old "hysterical woman" trope. Sarah Kendzior won my heart early in the TFG term when Joy Reid asked, "Am I being hysterical?" "No," she said, "That's the term men have always used when women speak plain truth."

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

I wish for all of you to note that "plain truth" is completely different from other kinds of truth. Personal truth. Scientific truth. Spiritual truth. Existential truth. Even truth. It is its own much neglected category.

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MikoMoby's avatar

That is a really good point.

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

I tried to do it in a kind way, BTW, but it's hard to hold your mouth right these days.

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

During my personal tour of human degradation, I stood before a mirror and said "fuck" until I could do it without flinching. It's a less lethal weapon than an AR-15 for expressing rage. I can out-cuss Malcolm Tucker.

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MikoMoby's avatar

It is. I swear PROFUSELY these days. I try to be creative about it 😜 I think it is usually just a emotional stressor. It just helps the emotion…get out. ☺️

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

Fish wives of the world, unite!

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MikoMoby's avatar

😁✊🏻

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

This is the agenda: arm feral late adolescent males, a/k/a "cannon fodder", to make the public square, particularly the public school, too dangerous for women and children. What better way to get women back at home where they belong? The war against women is World War 0, and it will never end.

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McLain's avatar

Truth.

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Tracy Sample's avatar

And it's working. My very liberal daughter is seriously thinking about homeschooling my granddaughter instead of sending her to the neighborhood elementary school around the corner. I just hate this.

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Sharon Dymond's avatar

So is mine. She's thinking of finding another country to live. These morons should worry more about the brain drain than about the white birth rate.

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