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JoelKS's avatar

::checks the presidium::

Bezos still applauding

Zuckerberg still applauding

Musk still applauding

Tim Mellon still applauding

Linda McMahon still applauding

Miriam Adelson still applauding

Bill Koch still applauding

Ernst still applauding

Graham still applauding

Orban still applauding

Le Pen still applauding

Farage still applauding

(etc)

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Gordon Strause's avatar

Recognized this immediately. It's the passage from The Gulag Archipelago that has stuck with me the most for 35 years. It is the perfect summary of life in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Not where were are today but certainly worth recalling today.

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willoughby's avatar

Brilliant.

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KELTIK_WARRIOR (VINCE T 🦁 )'s avatar

Interesting, Radley. Interesting. In particular, I noted the statue of Lenin in Ukraine's national colors. I have friends who are Ukrainian.

Here's a quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that I especially like: ""The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart". Is this a prelude?

FOOTNOTE (added later): Gospel of Mark: Evil lives in the hearts of men (abridged).

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Lot⁴⁹'s avatar

Salutary images, every one. Thank you.

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Abraham J. Bonowitz's avatar

AMEN!

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

Where the US is headed.

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