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« Reply #735 on: October 07, 2023, 09:47:04 am »
"..“The threat is here; the time Orwell warned about is now.”

It never ceases to amaze & terrify me that in under 80 years, less than a human lifetime, we have allowed the putrid, lethal stench of fascism to return.

In the countries that destroyed it, in those that were destroyed by it, & in many others seemingly inspired by it.

And the populists will exploit the looming disaster of climate change to stoke hatred for their own narrow, short-term power & profit.."


‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dysto...
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« Reply #736 on: October 07, 2023, 09:49:14 am »
"..This - every word of it.👇🏼

"Prolonged exposure to Trump is injurious to intelligence and fatal to principles,” said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican consultant in Florida. “It is like a disease. You are exposed to it, become infected and succumb to it. The people I know who I once thought well of who have now lost their minds are legion. It’s depressing.”

Me:  Trump is a cancer on America- a terrorist who should be dealt w/ like the terrorist he is--not like the former leader he never was.."
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« Reply #737 on: October 07, 2023, 09:50:42 am »
I'm keeping it real....

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« Reply #738 on: October 07, 2023, 09:51:48 am »
".."Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe died #OTD in 1849.

Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.."
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« Reply #739 on: October 07, 2023, 10:00:45 am »
".."Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe died #OTD in 1849.

Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.."
So, I'm reading the wiki bio of Poe and apparently someone edited the article.  Read:

"Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as "congestion of the brain" or "cerebral inflammation", common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism.[77] The actual cause of death remains a mystery.[78] Speculation has included delirium tremens, heart disease, epilepsy, syphilis, meningeal inflammation,[5] cholera,[79] carbon monoxide poisoning,[80] and rabies.[81] One theory dating from 1872 suggests that Poe's death resulted from cooping, a form of electoral fraud in which citizens were forced to vote for a particular candidate, sometimes leading to violence and even murder.[82]"
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« Reply #740 on: October 07, 2023, 10:03:23 am »
This is what I was looking for.  Poe wasn't as screwed up as everyone thinks. He was  successful. His character was assassinated after he died by a jealous rival:


"Immediately after Poe's death, his literary rival Rufus Wilmot Griswold wrote a slanted high-profile obituary under a pseudonym, filled with falsehoods that cast Poe as a lunatic, and which described him as a person who "walked the streets, in madness or melancholy, with lips moving in indistinct curses, or with eyes upturned in passionate prayers, (never for himself, for he felt, or professed to feel, that he was already damned)".[83]

The long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune, signed "Ludwig" on the day that Poe was buried in Baltimore. It was further published throughout the country. The obituary began, "Edgar Allan Poe is dead. He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it."[84] "Ludwig" was soon identified as Griswold, an editor, critic, and anthologist who had borne a grudge against Poe since 1842. Griswold somehow became Poe's literary executor and attempted to destroy his enemy's reputation after his death."
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« Reply #741 on: October 07, 2023, 10:06:27 am »
Israel is going to stomp Gaza. They're gassing up the jets right now.
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« Reply #742 on: October 07, 2023, 10:08:13 am »
"..If you were wondering who benefits from an escalating war between a newly equipped Hamas and Israel, have a look at the Russian social media accounts.."




That’s why I said it’s worrisome. If we get pulled into this conflict, our ba k is left open.

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« Reply #743 on: October 07, 2023, 10:09:56 am »
The US has an enormous stockpile of munitions IN Israel.
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« Reply #744 on: October 07, 2023, 10:11:44 am »
"...Washington Post:

Amazon's Alexa, when asked about fraud in the 2020 election:

"It was stolen by a massive amount of election fraud”

The problem with automated news gathering. Only going to get worse. 😐..."
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« Reply #745 on: October 07, 2023, 10:12:22 am »
Good job you stupid fck.

Biden restores millions in U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians cut under Trump

In 2018, then-President Donald Trump cut nearly $300 million in annual funding for the U.N. agency supporting Palestinian refugees.
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« Reply #746 on: October 07, 2023, 10:14:35 am »
Good job you stupid fck.

Biden restores millions in U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians cut under Trump

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/07/biden-restarts-us-aid-relief-programs-to-palestinians.html
That way they'll have more money for rockets and rifles.
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« Reply #747 on: October 07, 2023, 10:16:25 am »
That way they'll have more money for rockets and rifles.

Exactly. That stupid fck.

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« Reply #748 on: October 07, 2023, 10:17:01 am »
Israel is going to stomp Gaza. They're gassing up the jets right now.

Unfortunately, that is true.  The heroes don't stand a chance, it will be yet another glorious defeat.

They have still not learned that attacks only empower Israeli propaganda that will sucker in millions like yourself.

The trick here is going to be sending waves of unarmed women and children at the occupied land. Israeli will kill them, keep killing them, and world opinion of Israel will change, they will get starved out.
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« Reply #749 on: October 07, 2023, 10:17:49 am »
That’s why I said it’s worrisome. If we get pulled into this conflict, our ba k is left open.

We should have put an end to it decades ago. 
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