• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    But think of the children!

    These are the same people who push things like age verification, and banning porn. The really worse part about this, despite his hand-waving “I didn’t mean to offend anyone” bullshit, is that this apparently has become so normalized that this has become something that is taking a large amount of effort and time to resolve (if it ever gets resolved).

    In any normal timeline, this a) would have never happened so publicly, and 2) he would’ve been immediately removed and stepped down in shame.

    But here we are: the Dark Ages pt. 2. Their masks are off, and they are leaving their shame behind. This is our new normal.

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      La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.

      • Antonio Gramsci

      Now is the time of monstrous acts

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        You might think history teaches; it repeats;

        page after page, a poem in perfect rhyme

        tolls echoing bells from both sides of the sheets

        for births and funerals, tells the time

        of ageless Alice, Hamlet’s fallacies—

        the latest light from vanished galaxies.

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          As Antonio Gramsci would put from his prison cell while wondering why Italy became Fascist without people putting up a fight.

          History teaches, but it has no pupils

          We fell to the same thing, we let the wealthy define our culture. Our culture is now that of being cruel and taking. And people wish to be popular and wealthy more than moral or right. So we shift towards their world and act like them, till we have the cruelty in our own hearts.

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          Well alas we’ve seen it all before

          Knights in armor, days of yore

          The same old fears and the same old crimes

          We haven’t changed since ancient times