How strange it is to be alive when the USA jumped the shark. - ThreadSky

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jowolff.bsky.social • 7 days ago

How strange it is to be alive when the USA jumped the shark.

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roytsao.bsky.social•7 days ago

ok you win. won't be unseeing this one anytime soon

jckspk.bsky.social•7 days ago

And in a time when we are able to see it happening.

ebolaphone.bsky.social•7 days ago

Maybe The Fonz should give Trump a talking to, in the gents at Arnolds

secularsadie.bsky.social•7 days ago

I want to live in precedented times

lizmorrish.bsky.social•7 days ago

You're right. But I've seen signs over the last 20 years or so that I didn't take seriously enough. Trying to write something reflective about this.

bmcleish.bsky.social•7 days ago

It was inevitable really. The parallels with the Roman republic are really stark.

aidan.skinner.me.uk•7 days ago

I really don't think "Praetorean guard as a service" has been thought through

bmcleish.bsky.social•7 days ago

I have previously (on The Other Place) described the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys as "brownshirts for the Uber age" and compared them to the street gang of Clodius Pulcher. We really do seem to keep repeating the same mistakes!

davidhardstaff.co.uk•7 days ago

History can happen very quickly, it seems!

endofmeoldcigar.bsky.social•7 days ago

Stranger still, they decided to abandon the skis and hurl themselves, singing The Star Spangled Banner, into the shark’s jaws.

A foaming, scarlet sea seems an unnecessary epitaph.

dr-alp.bsky.social•7 days ago

That is maybe the most British way of describing our hostile gov't takeover that I've yet heard & I kind of love it.

neuroyogacara.bsky.social•7 days ago

Imagine what it's like to be in the belly of the beast...

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