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Can't visualize a thing, so I make it real instead: Puppets!
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While mostly true, these bills were introduced in 2017. The current administration governs by executive orders and no longer feigns adherence to democratic principles! www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
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Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society. 2/2
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believed in dismantling institutions, and viewed crisis as an opportunity for rebuilding society. Their manifestos, separated by 100 years, share an unsettling blueprint: tear down the old to forge the new. History keeps echoing. 3/3
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A century before Steve Bannon called for "deconstructing the administrative state," Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti's promoted a similar philosophy of creative destruction. Both saw or see chaos as necessary for transformation, ... 2/3
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But how much better to provide from the first that there should be no such pre-eminent individuals instead of letting them come into existence and then finding a remedy.“
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… this is a condition of affairs out of which there arises a monarchy, or a family oligarchy. And therefore, in some places, as at Athens and Argos, they have recourse to ostracism…