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The Blind Ass
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redgreenvines
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as it falls will Canada slide south? not much supporting us here either.
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The Blind Ass
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If they fall I hope whatever emerges from it takes Mexico, the US, and Canada and combines the 3 into one big fam. More than currently with nafta/usmca.
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I want my guaranteed income with dignity and education and a flying car
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lostintimenspc
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Nothing said about the CIA is true. They are brilliant, capable and usually beautiful people.
Trump isn't just some guy that popped up...
People wanted him in there to fix the country.
Manifest Destiny is a real thing. There is a real force pulling America into the future, and the private sector and Russia are doing everything they can do to stop it, because they're insane, mostly.
Most of the world is insane. I would say undiagnosed schizophrenias are in excess of 50% of the world population.
If you're the son of an Englishman, like me, Manifest Destiny can get to you too, living in Australia, which is like a North European America as far as government and society goes.
Just think, you've got the Roman Empire which as far as I know was Germanic, then they take over England and collapse, then England takes over most of the world before collapse, leaving its colonies in America to the newly formed American state, then Germany has a shot at it, America shoots it down, now America is so far on top it's world hegemony more or less, I mean somewhere in here, there's a group of people or a spirit that is destined to take hegemony and then take us into space...
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space force sounds a bit like space farts
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The force pulling America into the future are the projections of America itself. No reason to pretend as if it’s anything greater or more ethereal. “America first”, “exceptionalism” are internal states that are projected outwards. However, America has screwed itself externally through various economic and statist movements. “America first” and “exceptionalism”, therefore, are beginning to get weak in the legs.
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redgreenvines
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waiting for the face plant so we can get on with our lives.
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DividedQuantum
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Well I think our response to this crisis might be the face plant.
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laughingdog
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. Anyone who reads some Alfred W. McCoy, or books by Chalmers Johnson, or Christopher Hedges, can straighten out their thinking on these matters.
. I suppose there are some other choices like Noam Chomsky, but he seems too dense, to be very readable.
. But most likely those subscribing to the views referred to above, don't read much anyway.
. Hence, as is often the case, having a mission, to educate others is usually pointless, unless a meaningful fee has been charged first, and unfortunately, often even then homework or grades or black and white belts, or some sort of reinforcement is required.
. Therefore I feel Gregor Mendel who "discovered / explored genetics", and was ignored by the world and forgotten, (until the laws of genetics were rediscovered much later), was yet a lucky man as he nurtured his own curiosity, loved to learn for its own sake, & kept his mind open. . He was also amazingly persistent and independent, definitely a cool dude, although he was also an Augustinian friar .
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redgreenvines
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so if you come up with some reasonable theory, write it down, the world may become ready for it in a few centuries, but don't push it into the www of fake news, only the loonies will latch on.
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laughingdog
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Depends on if you want to raise Watermelons or loonies. Seems Fox news, & AM talk radio and the POTUS, like to raise loonies.
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Jokeshopbeard
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laughingdog said: Depends on if you want to raise Watermelons or loonies. Seems Fox news, & AM talk radio and the POTUS, like to raise loonies.
If the high, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. --George Orwell, Ninteen Eighty-Four
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redgreenvines
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hey, talk nice, here in Canada, loonies means cold hard cash.
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laughingdog
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Re: DQs original post ..."...This is the long-awaited official end of Empire. Thoughts?..."....
All Empires end.
Everyone at the apex of an Empire's timeline, pays this no more mind than the tobacco smoker, - sure that they are the exception to the lung cancer statistics, if they even consider the issue.
That this is now a topic here and elsewhere shows we are way past the apex.
That population size, pollution, & climate change consequences are now, all unimaginable, and that world interconnection, is now total, means that this time around its not just an isolated Nation about to suffer the consequences of decades of follies.
Even if a Covid-19 vaccine is found soon, the factors that are at work, seem very likely to change little, with the result that continued decline world wide, of quality of life, for most, is highly likely. History shows that this is not some unexpected anomaly, only the scale is different this time around. And of course on the larger time scale, - the one before history, extinctions are perhaps even way more common that the fall of human empires. To call such events "dystopian", seems to me to be just another bit of human preferences overlooking / sugar coating the total indifference that is contained in the phrase: "cause and effect".
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truth being we do not know what will happen.
if we copy south korea then it's all gonna be pretty good soon, and corona may be cause for coronation.
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I vote yes!
sounds wonderful!
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laughingdog said: It was pretty exposed already ( animation by Steve Cutts) :
You forgot the best one: "HAPPINESS"
Steve also has his own website showcasing some equally brilliant illustrations:
https://www.stevecutts.com/illustration.html
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doolhoofd
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lostintimenspc said: Most of the world is insane. I would say undiagnosed schizophrenias are in excess of 50% of the world population.
Art by Robert Crumb:
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