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0rganism

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8. They did it to all of us, really; their special flavor of ruin seems a curious subset of what they've done to America...

Reply to slightlv (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:33 AM

Jun 11

...and the whole world to some extent. Tinged with awful-yet-poetic strains of a cruel karmic irony, braided with the TBD fate of journalism itself, this scenario has become an extremely educational chapter in the study of self-destructive democracies. I reserve some hope that the survivors can make use of such knowledge when they rebuild.

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I hate to say this, because I think this is abhorrent, slightlv Jun 10 #3

They did it to all of us, really; their special flavor of ruin seems a curious subset of what they've done to America... 0rganism Jun 11 #8

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