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A whole civilization might die tonight
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> Women get acid in the face for dressing wrong, and protesters are killed in the thousands. Gay people are thrown from rooftops or hanged.
By your standards, civilization in the United States has been dead for a long time and shows no signs of revival.
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#13In a lot of ways I feel the discourse that he means a nuclear attack buries the lede. This is not likely to happen. What is more likely to happen is just as bad. Devastating civil infrastructure would put 10s of millions of lives at risk. And even if one were to look at this from a myopic USA centric lens, has anyone considered how many of these people we were told needed liberation are now radicalized against us?
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Israel is currently discussing a Hiroshima / Nagasaki model.
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I hate to break this to you, but before the current regime, the Shah was violently enforcing no burka/niqab dress codes. The Shah that was installed by the West
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#16This is what happens when there's no effective opposition. Where are the dems? Where's the press?
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#18This is what happens when there's no effective opposition. Where are the dems? Where's the press?
The fatal flaw in our separation of powers is that even if congressional dems had a super majority, congress is powerless to enforce anything.
And the press has been covering Trump's rhetoric and the war pretty heavily.
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#19That went quickly from "America the supposed liberator is here" to "America is going to genocide your entire civilization."
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#20This is what happens when there's no effective opposition. Where are the dems? Where's the press?
The fatal flaw in our separation of powers is that even if congressional dems had a super majority, congress is powerless to enforce anything. And the press has been covering Trump's rhetoric and the war pretty heavily.
So the "checks and balances" we were taught in school was just nonsense?