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| John Minchillo/AP |
The few million Americans on the hard left, and the many more millions of the nationalist populist right - #Cult45 - each want to commit genocide against all who disobey them. There is no other possible endgame for all of their madness. They have no intention of living in peace with others, they want the ‘others’ gone. Each extreme is a manifestation of their various resentments and their hatred for everybody who does not look, think, or act as they do. When the civil war begins in earnest, it will be those in the middle who will be targeted first by each belligerent side. To ideologues and murderous extremists - which roughly two-thirds of this country has either become or is becoming - not taking a side is the greatest sin of all. Truth be told, the rest of us are on a side: The side of reason and sanity. A losing battle. We had one last victory in November 2020, and as a result we have a president who is level-headed and doing what he can to slow down America’s descent into Hades. All he can do is try to slow it down, but the people of this country will not allow him to do so. Our battle is pretty well lost, we have entered the ‘gates of delirium’ (and if one wants an aural portrait of the hell that is about to descend upon the United States, google the song with that title and listen.) I’ve been feeling this coming on for several years, and the dread only grows stronger: We are closer to civil war than even its highest ringleaders know. #Murica
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Republicans leading generic congressional ballot in ABC News poll, respondents blame President Biden for every ill in the universe - Newsflash: Americans are either pathetically, embarrassingly stupid, or they approve of sedition, racism, treason, and Fascism. Of course, the answer is ‘a bit of both.’ (ABC News 5/01)
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First civilians allowed to leave Mariupol steel plant, hundreds remain - Prayers for the Azov Regiment and all else still defending the plant. (AP 5/02)
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President Zelenskyy thanks President Biden and the American people for their support - Unfortunately, not all in #Murica are actually supporting Ukraine. Best I can tell, after about a week or two, most wanted to hear nothing more about it. They are more concerned with celebrity scandals, race baiting, and what others are doing with their private parts. All too many - a large percentage, and the loudest voices - have spent the last two years kicking and screaming for their right to be ignorant. Longer than two years, but it is reaching a fever pitch. The country is self-destructing, and anyone who thinks politicians, businessmen, and ‘elitists’ are solely to blame for that is a bloody fool. Thank you, President Zelenskyy, on behalf of that remnant of Americans who still want to live in an orderly and free universe. Слава Україні (Ukrinform 4/28)
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| Democracy Now |
Hard left icon Noam Chomsky spouts baseless conspiracy theories, praises Trump for seeking a ‘diplomatic solution’ to the war in Ukraine, and demands that innocent Ukrainians submit to Putin - It is the extreme left and extreme right that are driving the agendas of the Democratic and Republican parties, and they are the ones driving the public discourse. The plurality of people in the middle have been drowned out, and that is not by accident. Extremists always hate moderates more than they hate the extremists on the other end of the spectrum. It is becoming outright dangerous to be a moderate, to not take a side, in #Murica today. It is really no surprise that both extremes are falling over themselves to praise Vladimir Putin and victim-blame the Ukrainian people. It is no surprise they are turning a blind eye to the genocide occurring, as they wish nothing more than to witness a large-scale purging of the American population. Noam Chomsky and every hard left radical can join #Cult45 and the rest of the right-wing whack jobs in the depths of Hell. (Mediate 5/01)
A succinct thread identifying the key reason that Europe has been so reliant on Russian energy - Slowing climate change is a must, but how to balance that with more immediate economic and national security imperatives is the Catch 22 of our time. (Nika Melkozerova 4/29)
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