The House at the End of the World
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Read between July 29 - August 12, 2024
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AR-15 that is often called an assault rifle by people who don’t know anything about guns.
Jim Price
Bullshit
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“Do you really believe the past is past? I think the past might be our future, that we’re busy laying the groundwork for new Dachaus, new Auschwitzes, all in the name of compassion, progress, justice, prosperity. Of the hard lessons that humanity learns, how many are retained? How very few? The passion of angry ideologues, the ignorance of the arrogant, the ferocity of utopians—how can such people lead the world to anything but its end?”
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We never learn.
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quotidian
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I learned a new word!
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signal their virtue and are celebrated for it will always prove to be among the most corrupt.
Jim Price
Amen!
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Let’s dismiss with jargon and hundred-dollar words. Let’s render it down to language that anyone can understand, even the most benighted of the Great Unwashed who don’t recognize that science is the last bastion of honest individuals of every gender and race.
Jim Price
Yes
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Maybe the majority of politicians and their appointees are corrupt, but not all.
Jim Price
They are indeed!
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elaeomancy
Jim Price
What?