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Also, USA, good job! If there was any doubt we were still King Fucktards of the world, that has been laid to rest.

This is how it starts...

ATJG wrote: "This is how it starts..."

Actually, I see it more as a kind of inevitable result, or culmination, of things started years ago...

Sure, sure, the current disturbing trends in American politics can be traced back to our time as anaerobic bacteria struggling against the oxygen in the newly minted atmosphere of brimstone earth, but this HAS to be a marker in time...beyond which...well.

That aside, I have such mixed feelings. Yes, I have grown weary of seeing the loathsome pigface garbling latest astonishing bullcrap. Yes, he scares the living (and the dead) shit out of me. Yes, all that. But watching him burn the Republican party to the ground has been very gratifying.

Douglas wrote: "I, on the behalf of the city of Malmö, hereby welcome thee (on over)."

I love you. (Now, how to transport 1,000 cubic feet of books to Malmö...)

ATJG wrote: "Sure, sure, the current disturbing trends in American politics can be traced back to our time as anaerobic bacteria struggling against the oxygen in the newly minted atmosphere of brimstone earth, ..."

Yeah. If he loses.

"There is great disorder under heaven. Conditions are excellent."

Also, USA, you know, not everything has to be apocalyptic. We could do some stuff that was only kinda scary. (Or maybe even mildly acceptable once in awhile?). It all doesn't have to be endtimes all the time!

Oh Mao, you funny bastard.

"Immigrants dream of coming to America. Americans dream about the end of the world."

PS I guess Doug changed his mind?

Ha!

Oh. Total missclick. Yer still welcome, G! We're known for our brutish dialect and cheap falafel, if that seals the deal.

You had me at cheap falafel!

Also always plenty of room for everyone here in Copenhagen (though you'd better be quick, because the way it goes with our very own insane right wing government here I guess you soon have to be able to prove arian blood six generations back before being allowed to enter...)

Marc wrote: "Also always plenty of room for everyone here in Copenhagen (though you'd better be quick, because the way it goes with our very own insane right wing government here I guess you soon have to be abl..."

Yes, things seem to not be going so well there either - but, as bad as Trump? I dunno....

It doesn't look good down here either.

So the world's pretty much entirely going to shit? Doesn't sound new, but it never sounds good. At least I can text an emoji of a pizza to order a pizza while taking a crap. All's well with civilization.

But we're clearly living through the retreat of the Enlightenment, yes? Can I coin a phrase for our times? The Unlightenment?

It's too easy to blame technology IMO, I think the real source is the baby boomer generation.

I'm not blaming technology. I'm blaming global capitalism.

"The Unlightenment : it's the Uncola, but with weapons of mass destruction."

Global capitalism is just the sum product people's qualities: greed, vanity, fear, envy &c. The way those qualities might manifest themselves could be different in a communist world but they will always be there. There is no 'a priori' system being imposed, I think.

That's true, for sure. So what do I blame? I certainly won't be blaming myself! That's just crazy.

Communists.

Oh okay cool Muslims too okay we're all set here

The Jews are a little passé.

That's what they want us to think. Sneaky.

We tried blaming the communists in the US. Didn't work out so well. They're still blaming the Maoists in India. Working out even less well.

I'm sticking with Geoff's targeting of Global Capitalism.

Geoff wrote: "That's what they want us to think. Sneaky."

Hahaha.

ATJG wrote: "I'm sticking with Geoff's targeting of Global Capitalism."

Thata boy. Hear that lovely sound in the air? The swish-swish of the guillotines...

Go head and take a good handful of the Trump wig and show it to the crowd...

ATJG wrote: "Go head and take a good handful of the Trump wig and show it to the crowd..."

Yes.