When cholera threatens a nation or troops open fire in the rain

[sovay]

I just wanted to spend my afternoon announcing the poetry acceptance I woke up to and then finishing my film review from last night, but instead there is armed sedition—terrorism, treason—at the Capitol and I had so much wanted the stoking of this violence to be like the specter of a shooting war at the polls in November, all talk. I have not wanted a shooting war. What I want is this obscenity burned down and the earth where it grew salted and then burned over again. What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

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"Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook"

[nodrog]

This is marvelous.  Only Heinlein predicted the 21st century would be so wacky.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55569604

(Even Ron Goulart, author of After Things Fell Apart, et al., only extrapolated from current trends.)

“How did we conjure up a monster in our midst?  And why?  That is the question we must answer.” - Avalow, Zardoz

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and millions still recognized him as the lesser of two evils