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The fact you think you're special is the issue
American exceptionalism
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"These United States of America, we are not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators. The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised," Harris said.
No it isn’t. A bunch of genocidal white people came to a vast resource-rich continent just as the industrial revolution was about to start and brought burgeoning technology and some rule of law. Your founding fathers were rich slave owners who wanted to insult the King and gave rise to the freedom of speech Trump abuses, in the framework of a fragile constitution built for rich slave owning white men working together. The US constitution is not fit for purpose and the fact that a lunatic Russian agent Nazi is about to take power proves that in fact America is not the greatest idea.
Manifest fucking Destiny Exceptionalism has brought the world to the precipice and you’re still going RARARARA
Unless you stop believing you’re special, you’re chosen, you’re the greatest and the best…
IT WILL HAPPEN HERE.
The Germans were told for half a century starting with Bismarck that they were the best.
IT WILL HAPPEN HERE.
And it has.
On the subject of stupid exceptionalism
Christopher Walken doing his stuff
Space fascists!
BTW Remember that Great President Trump inaugurated the ridiculous Space Force Guardian Bestest Stormtroopers
Send Elon Musk to Mars
How about ignoring judges stealing the election
One weird trick lawyers don’t want you to know, if everybody ignores a MAGA judge, he can shout into the void
I should have been an astrophysicist
Nihil novi
And this disaster has slowly disappeared from the news
Two incidents in the past week shine a spotlight on Israel’s loss of a moral compass.
The incidents highlight the failure of Israel’s government, society, and institutions to enforce universally recognised moral, ethical, and professional norms and hold to account military and civilian professionals.
The incidents also suggest that stepped-up US and European pressure is needed to save Israel from itself as the Jewish state’s Western supporters conclude, albeit belatedly, that they no longer sing from the same music sheet as Israel.
Feel sorry for Greg
I woke up Thursday morning at 4:30 am and couldn’t fall back asleep. So I got up, and made coffee, and sat at the laptop, and banged out most of Friday’s “Purple Haze” piece. When I finished, it was a little after six—still enough time to catch some shut-eye before work.
And feel sorry for the world.
Chill out
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book out now!
Also on Amazon.
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