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In reply to the discussion: can I just say.......WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FAWK!!!!!! [View all]k_buddy762
(638 posts)54. I was too young to remember that
but I can tell you this: after many decades on this rock, knowing humans the way that I do, my gut tells me that its been millennia since we've had a truly "free and fair" election, if we ever have at all. Both sides (or all sides I guess, more accurately) cheat, connive, cajole, and otherwise tamper in an attempt to guarantee one outcome or another. I think its built in to the human condition: to win at any cost, especially if the perception is that it can be done without repercussion. I don't think any political party, politician, candidate, etc., is completely innocent. Not a single one.
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Unless or when he and his gang overplay their hand and fail at a full-on coup, perhaps a peaceful general strike.
usonian
May 23
#4
Seal off the tunnels underneath mara lago, that go to neighboring houses, and one tunnel
Meadowoak
May 25
#51
There is no way these Orcs leave office peacefully. And that will be a result of their own making,
Efilroft Sul
May 23
#6
Learn meditation; do it even w zero instruction: a SERIOUS suggestion. And listen to an Alan Watts video; ask yourself
Bernardo de La Paz
May 23
#11