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Libs/progs must reclaim the flag as 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 pats. Trumpers are Children of a Lesser GOP. Russia could fit in Europe 𝘰𝘳 Asia, but Putin belongs in a supermax.

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My geopolitical predictions track record kinda sucks (I earnestly feared a [Trump-enabled] KJU nuke strike against SK), but here's another: IF Ukraine manages to largely frustrate Putin's land-grab war, and IF the West maintains crippling measures, RF will break up in a few yrs.

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@noclador Thomas, you are sorely missed on bluesky, where you haven't posted for over a month. Please give it another shot; I think you'll be pleased by the continuing growth of that site's base and by the robustness of its UA and pro-UA community.

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@JohnLeFevre https://t.co/QUP0gAweiv

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From the Wiki page, "List of Latin phrases (full)". It's a banger, even if you're not an American dreaming of emigrating to Europe, anywhere in Europe...

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"An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?" [Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?] -- Axel Oxenstierna in a letter to reassure his insecure son, a delegate to the negotiations that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia.

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... overfishing every resource, until our country has been reduced to a toxic wasteland, carved up by the billionaire political puppet-master class, picked clean by vulture capitalists and private equity firms, until there's nothing left but the hair and bones...

of you and me.

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A year-plus ago, the social-mediasphere, our wired-not-tired version of the chattering classes, was amusing itself with a novel question: "How often do you think about the Roman Empire?"

I suggest a follow-up parlor game, but re. the Seleucid Empire... now newly relevant.

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...siccing cops and mil on peaceable if PO'd marching citizens, suppressing every labor union except for the "Thin Blue Line"'s own denizens, rolling back every business reg that saved a life or spared a tree, and exploiting, mining, drilling, fracking, sawing, grazing, and...

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Don't get me started on "WWII began in Sept. 1939", 'cuz... [deep breath] ... Spanish-Civil-War-&-Franco-Japan-invading-China-&-estab.'g-in-'32-"Manchukuo"-Germany's-demanding-a-Danzig-Corridor-&-the-Sudetenland-&-their-"false-flag"-stunt-in-Poland-&-the-Anschluss-furthermore...

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Done the math yet? They lasted 248 years. The same span as, um, 1776-2024.

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, the historian in me can quibble the hell out of that, and I wasn't even a 17th C - Federalist Era specialist, but history is full of such simplified stats...