Tag: Trump
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Ordinary Men and 5y old terrorists.
The holocaust didn’t “happen”. It was a deliberate human act of inhumanity. And a good deal of the actions that underpinned it were undertaken by people who a few years before would be seen as decent, ordinary men. Ordinary men, but in uniforms. It didn’t take these men long to go from helping old ladies…
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Just change the name..
So thejournal.ie has a reflective and thoughtful piece today by Larry Donnelly, on why his neighbours and family in Boston voted Trump. Below I show that with very little changes this can read quite differently, and chillingly. I have changed Donal Trump to Hitler, USA to Germany, Pell to Mosley, Democrats to Social Democrats, Republican…
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2016 – Goodbye to all that…but 2017 may be worse
Looking back at 2016 it is hard not to think that there were tectonic shifts in the western economic and political system, even allowing for the tendency of us all to overweight recent events. Ever since Cicero politicians have been complaining “o tempora, o mores” and we should have a healthy suspicion of those words…
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Godel’s loophole : Turning the USA into a dictatorship, constitutionally
In summary, Gödel’s loophole is that the amendment procedures set forth in Article V apply to the constitutional statements in Article V themselves. In addition, not only may Article V itself be amended, but also it may be amended in an upward or downward direction. Lastly, the Gödelian problem of self-amendment or antientrenchment is unsolvable.
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Fascism and Free speech
Fascism is ineradicable. It lies like a virus in the body politic. All we can do is try to prevent the virus breaking out, and when it does, at the first stage, deal with it swiftly and ruthlessly. Fascism is back. I have written before on how Trump hits most of the markers for fascism. Here…
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Donald Trump is hitting all the markers of a fascist
In 2004 Dr Laurence Britt, a political scientist, suggested that there were 14 common tenets of fascism. Lets see how The Donald matches up. Oh, and do read Sinclair Lewis’s wondrous dystopia.