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Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.
Thierry Van Kerm@Strandjunker 🤣🤣🤣
Claire McNab@Strandjunker Some day, Americans may learn the merits of using the popular unambiguous word for the season after summer, rather than a word whose primary meaning is wholly distinct.
Until then, they will live with confusion whilst buying into the myth that the Amerucan empire is a democracy.
Ashwin DixitRight on! USA is (was?) a Republic, one we can't keep.
soean
LibbyDocker@Strandjunker But are you ready for the follow?
ArchaeoIain@Strandjunker I remember watching that moment of glory for the US when Obama spoke to the crowd in Chicago after his triumph in the 2008 election. He spoke, he said, "on a warm autumn evening"
@jacquiharper@ArchaeoIain @Strandjunker I’m proud that you remembered this detail
@jacquiharper @Strandjunker that evening was an emotional experience for me, and one of my greatest regrets. I had the opportunity both to go to Harvard Square to join the celebrations of the election and then to go to the Mall in Washington to join the massive crowd at the Inauguration. Both missed. But the complement to the Obama speech was McCain's concession speech which was truly memorable in its graciousness (and is firmness in keeping the woman away).
Red_Shirt_no2@Red_Shirt_no2 @ArchaeoIain @Strandjunker I so appreciated the civility on both sides — lent dignity, respect, and (fans self) composure to the whole endeavor
Like that high-water mark HST described in _Fear and Loathing_
@ArchaeoIain @Strandjunker The Obama years seems like a million years ago. Most countries are now aiming for Orban style ‘Democracy Light’
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@Strandjunker why not both?
trumpresistance@Strandjunker What's winter going to look like?
Trisha Lynn 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 🇨🇦@Nobodyknows789 @Strandjunker A whole lot of discontent?
(wassup English lit nerds!)
@trishalynn @Strandjunker ok...I was thinking more nuclear winter, but yours is more clever! Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of...
Jacqueline@Strandjunker democracy never truly existed except in a malformed and disfigured guise
Thomas Ball@Strandjunker eh, at this rate they're coming at the same time.
@Strandjunker And however, we build democracy every day, while living this dream!
BoxOfRain@Strandjunker
Are you sure?
Are you sure?
KanaMaunaWell my mind went immediately to the song by the band Ministry.
Jeremy Mallin@Strandjunker
I usually assume they're about to trip me when they use that phrasing.
I usually assume they're about to trip me when they use that phrasing.
EndicottRoad59@Strandjunker I'm not ready for either.
Roz@Strandjunker “Ready as I’ll ever be!”
dot.mg@Strandjunker Now I'm asking you, are you ready for the complete collapse of democracy? And are you ready for the complete collapse of human civilization?
Lebramor@dot @Strandjunker and the complete collapse of leaves ?
Vassil Nikolov | Васил НиколовReady for what comes after pride?
Bhante Nuntiyo Bhikkhu@Strandjunker s/democracy/civilization
R.L. LE@Strandjunker Same! Oof,
ytscorp@Strandjunker
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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Very understandably.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@Strandjunker Find your courage & solace in the eternal wisdom that no dictatorship lasts forever & many wannabes don't even make it past the first week — if at all.
America will make Trump's ambitious puppeteers & their criminal puppet jump into the trash bin of history by themselves — because they underestimated the sovereign American people's will & power to be free.
America for sure doesn't need & want its own orange Adolf, who btw was born in Austria 4 years after Frederick Trump set foot on American soil, dodging the draft in Germany, a questionable example later copied & pasted into America by his psychopathic grandson Donald — may all bowls of mashed potatoes be with him!
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America will make Trump's ambitious puppeteers & their criminal puppet jump into the trash bin of history by themselves — because they underestimated the sovereign American people's will & power to be free.
America for sure doesn't need & want its own orange Adolf, who btw was born in Austria 4 years after Frederick Trump set foot on American soil, dodging the draft in Germany, a questionable example later copied & pasted into America by his psychopathic grandson Donald — may all bowls of mashed potatoes be with him!
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Adara Astin@Strandjunker For a mysterious third thing, there's always Das Untergang.
Dustin D. Wind@Strandjunker Until seeing your post, I didn't realize at all that I probably misread something in a similar fashion. 🥴
