I wouldn’t be mad at a Year of Five Presidents but I gotta say that one thing that separates us from Fascism Classic & very much Could Get Worse is the lack of political murder, which Rome, Italy, Nazis & current Russia all do habitually
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YEP. I joke but the folks online who act like this is the most vicious and dangerous regime ever to exist are QUITE unfamiliar with just how very murder-y basically all of the past is.
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 pm • 21 2 • view
Even the present: It’s part of contemporary politics in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua/Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, India, Russia, Belarus, probably more that I just haven’t read about. So far here, it’s “just” terrorism
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, like EVEN NOW, after all of this, in 2025, it's like "wow we still do have some of those 'norms' you hear so much about, don't we? Yay, norms!"
aug 29, 2025, 5:39 pm • 2 0 • view
I kinda wish this regime was that murder-ey only because they're idiots and their plotting to kill one another would be the real world equivalent of one of those '70s stage/film mystery-comedies writers like Tony Shaffer and Sondheim would come up with to tweak Agatha Christie.
aug 29, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Which reminds me of how much I'm looking forward to Wake Up Dead Man this winter, but that's another subject entirely.
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We had that murder in Minnesota which is appalling but thus far we've kept that kind of thing at the "disaffected grassroots sicko" level. The government is not yet just offing people.
aug 29, 2025, 4:46 pm • 12 0 • view
Went to the state capitol and thought, "I sure hope I won't have to say that I can remember how the flowers smelled at the beginning of our years of lead"
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