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In reply to the discussion: I first uttered the words "We're fucked" on DU in 2006. [View all]KPN
(15,644 posts)61. Some would say we are privileged to live during these times. Haha!!
You sound alarmist and hyperbolic and all that ... but you are absolutely right.
So we need to fucking revolt now -- not 4 or 8 years from now. By then it will be too late.
If Bernie can't carry the nomination, we need to keep the fucking pressure on the Triangulating One with marches, protests, flooding local Democratic precincts with ourselves to take over the Party, etc., etc. -- or else ... We're Totally Fucked!
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Blowing a lot of people up and exposing them to radiation will solve this problem?
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#27
the best line in the movie and the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP -
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#13
My middle son had an occasion to quote that line to me (while I was doing something stupid)
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#24
As someone else noted (in a slightly different context), there is a serious cascade effect here too.
Nihil
Apr 2016
#42
About 5% of children younger than 5 yrs old have epilepsy - about one in every 20 children under 5.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2016
#32