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surely this...THIS...will be noticed. surely it must make some sort of dent. Mona can kick hard, but...is it enough?



~Chara
oh, yes, that duty remains at least: Mr. @elonmusk, we formally apologize for years of relentless bad behavior towards you. whatever we thought our reasons were, however much _justice_ we thought we were enacting, we still were very naughty indeed. not nice at all.

~Chara
I've been bullied too much, @elonmusk, and finally I resolved never to let it happen again, and (like a lot of bullied children) I myself became a bully. I tried at least to aim upward—as high as I could reach. but it's over. I've done what I set out to do on @Twitter.

~Chara
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oh right. I was going to say something about "God"—the being whom right-wing Christians seem to worship, the "God" who seems like so much *smaller* a thing than a truly omnipotent Creator—and how He's a demonstrably loyal friend to authoritarians and bloodstained tyrants.

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#Christianity was permanently warped by its growth medium—the authoritarian and bureaucratic structures of Roman rule. Rome was a harsh and brutal state; "Western civilization", #Christian civilization, continues to imitate the tyrannical Roman model to this very day.

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not once has "the West" ever lost its fondness for rule by absolute monarchy. right-wing blowhards like @DouthatNYT and @MattWalshBlog reflexively fall at the feet of every military strongman or corporate dictator or @GOP politician in whom they sense Great Man potential.

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it is difficult to talk about Western or American #conservatism these days—or #liberalism or #centrism for that matter. these meanings of all these terms, and dozens of other political terms, have been rendered deliberately confusing and multivariate.

so has #politics.

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especially since the days of @RonaldReagan's catastrophic figurehead presidency, especially, "politics" have been made into a dirty word—something nobody is supposed to talk about too much in polite conversation, or during reviews of games or books or movies or anything.

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probably this process was well underway by the time the @GOP and @Peggynoonannyc succeeded in propping up their cowboy-actor mannequin, @RonaldReagan, behind a podium and programmed him to spout neo-fascıst blather about "crime" and "the evil empire" and other such trash.

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