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It's another sign that -by some measure- "America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism". There was this opinion piece some months ago in the New York Times by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt which I recalled when I read this. [https://archive.is/WZMpM]

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In 1940, the face-eating leopards were crocodiles:

> Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. —WLSC

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Re: feeding estuarine man-eaters

The left ("authoritarian" or not) is currently better at getting outraged (bottom, "delicatus"/"pasivo"?), and the right is better at trolling (top-- "activo"(?))

(This was the unambiguous Roman ideology I was maybe hinting at ..so you know Scott Locklin is indeed "non authoritarian" just like he claims

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/

I basically picked the book because of this, and because wakipedia said it was the world’s most offensively misogynistic series of novels (all four novels were in this book). I was disappointed in this;

Note that here he applies the incorrect strategy --> )

Long before we get to selfdeprogramming, mutual reprogramming looks like the left trolling the right, and the right learning how to get outraged.

Thus.. tips from homophilic role-switching ex-Nazis (leather lovin' fans of Rome long before the SV-neocon detente)?

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looks like asking people to read the greeks is already considered trolling.

for latin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Bithynia ?

„Die Partei ist kein Internat für höhere Töchter, sondern eine Kampforganisation.“

Q. What do woke parents and maga parents have in common when their kid Silas wants to be called "she/her"?

A. "Oh my god ... we no longer have a son!"

^-- above the belt ----------- below the belt --v

Q. Why won't the new East Room ballroom be a success?

A. Because Trump is good at holding balls, but he always chokes when he goes to them.

Trump and Putin are meeting at Mar-a-Lago for the Strategic Hypersonic-Arms Restraint Treaty. Kayleigh McEnany wants to get on Trump's good side to start her interview, so she compliments his outfit: "Hey Donald, nice top". He starts to reply, "Thanks! I was gi..." but is interrupted by Putin, who gruffly says "У меня есть имя, знаете ли!"

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That last one could work (someone mid has to find it funny)

https://youtu.be/dzdBE6c1cwA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1J5lUKnD4I

other examples of the tone you're going for (at anyone's expense) would be helpful. Normally I get almost all my good lines from Rabinovich, but even a wider late soviet net doesn't turn up much beyond "...and it's in Melania's handwriting"

(I agree that oestrous propaganda is unlikely to play on HN, but I must admit upon hearing the rumour that there is good money to be had in drawing commissions for Rule 34 content that the only deep-pocket collectors I could think of were Three Letter Agencies)

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Fwiw salty pro-AfD comments together with one American(?) (mid?) asking if they had a branch in the ole country indicated trolling had happened (whether intended or not)

Re: other vid-- that one seems to sit on the thin line between satire and documentary