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In reply to the discussion: Trump registered a complaint about the hand towels aboard Air Force One (not soft enough). [View all]Locut0s
(6,154 posts)66. Well it certainly was a deeply macabre joke...
And yes I was referencing Nazi era references to human lamp shades, and or Josef Mengele like experiments.
I don't necessarily think the US is headed there yet. But what terrifies me is that I never thought in my life I'd see the US on the same path that leads towards that terminus point. And you guys really have started down that path, even if it is early days. I still find myself in a state of shock when I think about what is transpiring in the US. We don't have concentration camps, there aren't mass killings. And I don't think there will be, hopefully. But this IS fascism. I never thought I'd truly see that in the US, as much as I have 1/2 joked about the possibility in the past.
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Trump registered a complaint about the hand towels aboard Air Force One (not soft enough). [View all]
Miles Archer
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American cotton is too rough for him. He needs to import some of that Egyptian Pima cotton.
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