"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."

#DavidRunciman, August, 2024

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"But, we are being reminded, it happens in other places and it's happened very, very recently. Since the publication of The Handmaid's Tale, you can tell similar stories about other places; Afghanistan is another.

#DavidRunciman, August, 2024

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"There is in Gillead a wall ... where traitors are hung after execution ... But these places are guarded by ... potentially trigger-happy young men, with guns, but who look to the women like they should be in school.

This is, Checkpoint Charlie, this is the Berlin Wall. These things were policed by young men who looked like maybe they should Stoll be in school."

#DavidRunciman, August, 2024

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Reminds me of the checkpoints in the walls around Occupied Palestine.

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