Kee HinckleyApr 5
When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong.
Show threadBenjamin GeerApr 5
@nazgul @benjamin The joke is even older than that, there’s a very similar one written down by a 12th-century Persian poet https://archive.org/details/AnvarisDivanAPocketBookforAkbar
Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar : Schimmel, Annemarie, and Stuart Cary Welch : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Show threadBeeCyclingApr 5
@benjamingeer @nazgul @benjamin People have had to put up with the same crap since forever. 😫
Show threadToni Aittoniemi
@beecycling @benjamingeer @nazgul @benjamin Yes. MAGA is indeed nothing but a reversion into the baseline of toil & suffering experienced by humans under tyranny since antiquity.
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