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I'm a touch drunk but this is maybe the best thing I've read

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"... natural, inevitable and even overdue—like the fall of East Germany" is IMHO quite a stale doughnut. That particular colour revolution would have been quite impossible without the assent of USG stooge Gorbachev and his network of traitors -- whose posh houses in Miami, "professorships" in Washington, "consulting gigs" at "think tanks" etc. were already waiting for them. Current-day Russia, incidentally, is still ruled by more or less the same people (albeit well-masqueraded) -- their children are at Harvard, Oxbridge, etc., their money -- likewise in NATO Reich banks.

Russian storyteller Viktor Pelevin had a nifty passage in one of his recent books, where "in our Soviet shithole, we had one great thing: people could sometimes smuggle in bootleg jeans and music; and it was even sometimes possible to get out. And now you are building a very similar Soviet shithole right in your USA. But there is one very important difference between ours and yours: no one will ever smuggle bootleg jeans and music into *your* shithole. Because there won't be *from where* to smuggle them. And no one will ever get out from it, because there won't be *to where*. Because *your* new Soviet shithole in fact will have *no outside.*"

If Anglos did not suffer from their peculiar allergy to the study of languages -- would have recognized Trump immediately as simply an Americanized version of V. Zhirinovsky -- hired and scripted clown, originally 1991 project of the Communist Party, but later retreaded and continues to carry out the very same function (tame-oppositioner pet, Russian version of "MAGA" circus) 30 years later!

The Reich no longer has an outside. Previously there was a theatrical "opposition", but now is being sacked as surplus. What'd be the point? "Where will you desert to, from this submarine?"

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I just learned that the Walk Away people and their pages were banned on Facebook. We truly are now in a one-party state where the Party and the country are one and the same

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I don't know if it's just me - and I'm not a 'Columbian' - but the regime just feels very old and tired in the way it's spinning its current narrative. It seems like every move they're making is costing them massive amounts of energy.

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The mention of the doctor’s phone call at the end of A Serious Man gave me chills. I think of that scene often in situations like this. I almost feel like the whole movie is like a long Soviet joke that builds up to that punchline. Thanks for mentioning it, I love that film.

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> Rather, it must represent the end of this farce; it must hold a vision, and hold to a vision, of a government which effectively serves every American.

Sounds good. And _nihilism_ is what you're selling as the annealing force?!

"Folks, folks, calm down. All this disagreement is petty. Let's all come together on this: life is meaningless. [PAUSE] Now, breeeeeeeeath, and hug your fellow man, woman, or dog. [PAUSE] And bow before me, your prince, who will give you quests to simulate meaning while the AI bots serve you dinner and anti-trade provisions make sure you're poor enough not to question me."

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One quibble. Originally, the Right was the establishment, so by definition all revolts were from the left. Now that the establishment brands itself Left, have we not just remapped the terms, and the structure is unchanged?

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Turkey in 2016 would seem to provide a model for how a right-wing self-coup could be conducted in the face of a System attempt at removal. If one had a leader who understood realpolitik.

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Seems like you are finally ready to read Ernst Junger's Eumeswil.

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Dynamite essay.

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