“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , “The Gulag Archipelago”
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The chink with the red ball head sounds suspiciously like a Dalek from Dr. Who. EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!
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I keep seeing movie parodies and I don’t get them. I may have stopped watching movies in 2012. 😀
I tend to watch documentaries or crime investigation stuff for the past 15 years.
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Why does ChiCom have a British accent? Who is really in charge?
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Mail-In Ballots and Masks now seem like permanent parts of our future, but both will be replaced before too long by something worse: Internet Voting, via Mandatory Social Media participation, wherein Silence = Violence and daily account maintenance of approved opinion is required.
Masks? They will be replaced by a mandatory vaccine, proof of which will be required to vote.
And cash? Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha……………………..scan your mark, please.
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Thirdtwin, a few years ago I would have laughed at that, today I could see it starting January, 2021.
Although I’m seeing people talking civil war that are surprising. One example is a military friend of my kids that has became a friend of the entire family. I’ve never heard him talk politics, he doesn’t even talk about his military career much other than he retired on disability after 20 years because he was injured in Afghanistan, shrapnel still in his body and that the kids under him called him Hitler because he was so tough, but it was because he wasn’t going to let one of those kids go home in a casket.
He said on FB, he never writes on FB, just shares family pictures, that he never wanted to go to war again, but it was looking as if he would have no choice but go to war to save his country. I always assumed he was a democrat because we talk politics a lot and he never joined in on our conversations. So I told him after seeing that I always assumed he was a democrat, he said anyone who served in the military who is a democrat is an idiot.
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@MJA I think it’s a James Bond movie.
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Uh, isn’t that what we have now???
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@Left Coast Dan:
Why does ChiCom have a British accent?
He’s from Hong Kong?
Who is really in charge?
Have we ever seen George Soros and Xi Jinping in the same place at the same time? Hollywood makeup artists are very, very good.
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MJA – do you you like to watch Doctor G, Medical Examiner? She cuts people up, although a little differently than you do. 😀
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LOL! I know of her. I haven’t watched in a while.
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From a Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997).
Clip where Carver is writing headline and story before the event happens. Tomorrow Never Dies 1997. https://youtu.be/-nBZ-u1ilBI
Carver News (soundl lik CNN).
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…we are informed by the past to tell us the future here,too, as far as seeming media prescience is concerned…
“According to the story, Remington wired that he was returning, as he did not think there was going to be any war involving the United States; and Hearst is reported to have replied, “Go ahead, you furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.””
…then, as now, the media settled on the narrative, then became the story. Then, as now, a media mogul knew better than America and took steps to make the Nation conform to his will.
Then, as now, Americans had to die before it was over.
The devil has only a very few tricks, so he always has to repeat them.
Fortunately for him, he always has a new generation to try them on that refuses to listen to their elders.
…plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, as always, and forever is the result…
…another possible future, if past is prologue…
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , “The Gulag Archipelago”
The chink with the red ball head sounds suspiciously like a Dalek from Dr. Who. EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!
I keep seeing movie parodies and I don’t get them. I may have stopped watching movies in 2012. 😀
I tend to watch documentaries or crime investigation stuff for the past 15 years.
Why does ChiCom have a British accent? Who is really in charge?
Mail-In Ballots and Masks now seem like permanent parts of our future, but both will be replaced before too long by something worse: Internet Voting, via Mandatory Social Media participation, wherein Silence = Violence and daily account maintenance of approved opinion is required.
Masks? They will be replaced by a mandatory vaccine, proof of which will be required to vote.
And cash? Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha……………………..scan your mark, please.
Thirdtwin, a few years ago I would have laughed at that, today I could see it starting January, 2021.
Although I’m seeing people talking civil war that are surprising. One example is a military friend of my kids that has became a friend of the entire family. I’ve never heard him talk politics, he doesn’t even talk about his military career much other than he retired on disability after 20 years because he was injured in Afghanistan, shrapnel still in his body and that the kids under him called him Hitler because he was so tough, but it was because he wasn’t going to let one of those kids go home in a casket.
He said on FB, he never writes on FB, just shares family pictures, that he never wanted to go to war again, but it was looking as if he would have no choice but go to war to save his country. I always assumed he was a democrat because we talk politics a lot and he never joined in on our conversations. So I told him after seeing that I always assumed he was a democrat, he said anyone who served in the military who is a democrat is an idiot.
@MJA I think it’s a James Bond movie.
Uh, isn’t that what we have now???
@Left Coast Dan:
He’s from Hong Kong?
Have we ever seen George Soros and Xi Jinping in the same place at the same time? Hollywood makeup artists are very, very good.
MJA – do you you like to watch Doctor G, Medical Examiner? She cuts people up, although a little differently than you do. 😀
LOL! I know of her. I haven’t watched in a while.
From a Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997).
https://youtu.be/7PqjhsPYyy4
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Clip where Carver is writing headline and story before the event happens. Tomorrow Never Dies 1997.
https://youtu.be/-nBZ-u1ilBI
Carver News (soundl lik CNN).
…we are informed by the past to tell us the future here,too, as far as seeming media prescience is concerned…
“According to the story, Remington wired that he was returning, as he did not think there was going to be any war involving the United States; and Hearst is reported to have replied, “Go ahead, you furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.””
…then, as now, the media settled on the narrative, then became the story. Then, as now, a media mogul knew better than America and took steps to make the Nation conform to his will.
Then, as now, Americans had to die before it was over.
The devil has only a very few tricks, so he always has to repeat them.
Fortunately for him, he always has a new generation to try them on that refuses to listen to their elders.
…plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, as always, and forever is the result…