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I love that you saved your ammunition for a final heavy barrage of fact that hit almost like a surprise attack. Bravo.

Are you beginning to wonder what the Social Studies teachers were handing out to your generation about History? I can remember a moment of horror when I found out one of my fellow Humanities teachers who was teaching 1984 was calling National Socialism another "socialism" (like IngSoc) without ever explaining the difference, and without realizing that Orwell was a practicing democratic socialist. A discussion about Norman Thomas and the Nazi-Soviet Pact helped to fix things, but it's clear that our citizens who come from Latin America will always be sure that socialism is a tyrannical form of government when it works, and a corrupt one when it doesn't.

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Add-on. Seen some objections to this post, framing the stuff outside the judges' houses as equivalent to the MAGA anti-COVID-rule protests in the summer of 2020, and so calling the position I take biased. That's funny, because the position I take is that it can be hard to perfectly distinguish more or less peaceable assembly from more or less physical intimidation--but man, if there were ever a bright line, it would lie between the kind of action seen in the video I embedded in the post and the entry into the state capitol in Michigan by armed, militarily costumed dudes in '20.

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