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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSurprise! Dictators don't like Democracy! Oh! My!
How marvellous that America is back in the game. Dictators don't like Biden cause Biden is not Putin's Poodle, China's Chump or Jung Un's Joke.
All of the dictators, strongmen and wannabee strongmen love themselves a wannabee destroyer of democracy, defenders of democracy, not so much. But then as Boebert is a insurrectionist Nazi, and a fucking idiot, democracy bad, totalitarian trump state good. Heh.
On other note - looking at the response from Dictators R Us to Bidens Administration, reinforces how close the west came to a real threat to our democratic way of life. If Trump had won a second term it does not bear thinking about how much strain that would have put on the post WW2 settlement. A strain I am not sure it could have born.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)PrOof Of NuTtErY?
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)tanyev
(42,550 posts)Its consistent and deliberately done in the words respected again. I just cant think of a logical reason why. Some type of Q code?
Norbert
(6,039 posts)like spelling, civics, history...
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)Cosmo Blues
(2,480 posts)Marjorie Taylor Green and I don't know his first name but another member named Gosar have started a white supremacist caucus. (I wish that was a joke)
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)In honor of the Angles and Saxons who invaded England and defeated King Harold?
So, Americans of German, Swiss, Italian, Irish, Polish, Prussian, Austrian, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania...
Not enough to be "white" but a special kind of white.
I'd hazard a guess that Goehmert and Gosar and Green are not the 100% Aryans they think they are.
Their proudest, most significant accomplishment is being white. Which is an accident of birth. Pretty pathetic to have peaked upon delivery.
Cosmo Blues
(2,480 posts)Some DNA samples from that bunch, they should require it to join that caucus I'm at a loss to know what Anglo-Saxon Traditions are, hopefully one of them is not to invade England again
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)All the Anglo Saxon traditions you could ever want to know about.
Beowulf ripping Grendel's arm off, snapping the sinews from the shoulder, all with lots of alliteration and kennings.
And meade. I think I'd be ok with meade.
Anglo Saxon = not those Scots, not those Irish, not those welsh, just a very narrow sliver of the inhabitants of the south of England.
Not even European traditions or descendants, because those Italians were once dirty WOPs, with their olive oil charm and olive complexions.
One idiot on twitter wanted to tell me that Anglo Saxon was synonymous with English. Well, no, Olde English is in now way English, it's almost German, and Olde English gave way to Middle English because of the Norman French influence. No one speaks those dead languages, kind of like Latin is not modern Italian.
Then, he wanted to say A-S was commonly used to describe the "shared traditions of the Commonwealth countries, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US. They were all founded by Anglo Saxons." Oh, OK. Kiwis are all about their Anglo Saxon heritage. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but the American Colonies were never part of the "Commonwealth." Outside the English departments of the world, one doesn't really bady about the term Anglo Saxon.
India? I asked him.
Crickets.
It's telling that Traitor Greene isn't invoking "Judeo Christian" traditions, as that includes Jewish people. Ms bottle blonde is using A-S to eliminate Catholics and Jews, and all non northern European whites. This is the same bullshit my Italian great grands ran into when they immigrated. My pop's nonni couldn't get a job as a telephone switch board operator because she was Italian. But she could clean their toilets.
23 and me all these racist ass hats. They're none of them pure anything, and they don't understand that if yougo back far enough, we are all 14th cousins.
Human Race, just one.
everything else is ethnicity.
She is emblematic of the cancer of the racism & xenophobia that is America's original sin.