You say you want a
Revolution can never come about by the gentle persuasion of the ruling class to give up the benefits they receive from the current system
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politics
Side effect
Who would have thought that a major effect of global warming would be a decrease in the intelligence of politicians?
500 years? A thousand?
There should be a term limit set on how long some ancient, historical grievance can be used to justify slaughtering people today.
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Destroyer of Worlds
Does Bolsonaro not know that whatever remnant of the human race remains next century will curse his name in the same way that Hitler, Attilla, Genghis, Stalin, Pol Pot and Trump were cursed, or does he not care?
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Definitions by example
“Religious cult” is a tautology; “Sustainable development” is an oxymoron.
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The old schoolyard
If we knew why, and how, a school classroom, full of students, all from the same town, all exposed to the same experiences, the same information, the same culture and society, can turn out, fifty years on, to be Right and Left, Believer and Atheist, nice and not so nice, we could understand why the
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In a crowded theatre
Donald Trump is the end result of confusing quantity of free speech with quality of free speech
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Quacks like a duck
There were racist Presidents before Trump, and there will be racist Presidents after Trump, but I think we can safely say there has never been and never will be a President as racist as Trump.
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Crying like a refugee
The way of Empires is to wreck countries all around them and then refuse to accept the consequences.
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Choose your side
Is every country now faced with the prospect of its own version of the Spanish Civil War?