- 28 Aug 2020 01:47
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Paul Edwards nods his approval at this thread, saying that the time for irony, humor, and bootstraps-pulling-up have long past and all that's left is to watch a serious tragedy unfold.
And then there's this gem of End is Near jeremiads:
And the comments section doesn't dissapoint either:
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55508.htm
...There’s no zest, no satisfaction, no pride in ridiculing an unmitigated tragedy, and what has happened to America is a tragedy. To make fun, to satirize, to cleverly lampoon it, as if there was a purpose in such ridicule is just too sad, too grim an exercise to justify.
What’s changed? Why won’t the old ways of critiquing our country work any more? It’s because wit, humor, and irony are devices used to impel change for the better. They lose all effect when change is impossible and essential change is no longer conceivable in America. ...
And then there's this gem of End is Near jeremiads:
The absurdist commedia del arte of two old, ridiculously inept, and grossly impaired buffoons heading two sick cadres of leased political whores who jointly serve the .0001%, is the memento mori of America. Regardless of the outcome of this sorry farce, the end of the country in any recognizable form will be accelerated, fast tracked to implosion.
And the comments section doesn't dissapoint either:
I was born March 21,1941 before America's first Pearl Harbor. Since March 13 2020 we have been in lockdown against our will waiting for that lethal injection
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55508.htm
The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange