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Vin LoPresti's avatar

I can still picture myself as a kid doing those absurdly useless under-the-desk nuke drills during the late 50's. I recall that, even back then, I wondered "WTF is the sense of this?" Now, 70 years later, the lack of cognitive evolution in our idiot species is poignantly framed by that same question, that cognitive and ethical stasis emphasized by the fact that so many war criminals continue to walk free — and enriched. In my darkest inhumane fantasies, I picture Bolton et al. sharing a filthy windowless damp dungeon cell in the Bastille with a one-gallon paint can as a latrine, while being served maggots on burned toast for breakfast. Sadly, the depths of my disgust for these sociopaths buffer me from feeling any remorse for conjuring such a horrific image.

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Carol Diane Bevis's avatar

There but for fortune go you or I. Demonizing people is what the empire does. Punishment is what the empire does. Things will not change until we change.

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Kevin's avatar

NORAD bunkers. 1000 people trapped 2 miles in a mountain, strategically engineering the destruction of the planet, willingly I might add. Ok boys and girls, everyone is dead, what do we do now?

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