Well, fuck

I have a feeling we’ll have plenty of stories to fit here.

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It was nice knowing all you USA people.

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Silver lining?

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Heighten those contradictions!

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No need, these days. They heighten themselves.

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i tend to think that is hopelessly optimistic. i regard this as a prelude to the dismantlement of the welfare state in the u.s. and a return to the period 1870-1928.

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Whereas I think that is overly optimistic.

Climate can’t wait…

…and the empires of a hundred years ago did not have this:

The Trumpists are charging towards full-throttle unrestrained fascism, and they are not isolationists.

It’s at crisis point, either way. Either there’s a socialist revolution in the USA, or the USA kills the world.

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Fuck 'em all.

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I don’t believe that, sadly.

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This is a pretty good analysis:

Guardian:

And more analysis from the Guardian:

Fucks grad students but repeals the Johnson Amendment and installs language in federal law that fetuses are people.

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Exactly. It’s Stockholm Syndrome. People will identify with those fucking them over, and take their aggressions out on the “takers”, aka those in the same position they’re in.

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A Facebook friend posted:

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I guess I’m back to hating McCain again.

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You mean we were supposed to stop hating him?

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But won’t ever put in language admitting that women are people.

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Us? No.

Some other folks, though…

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/936402703101628417

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I thought there was hope for him when he gave McConnell the ol’ pollice verso.

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