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John's avatar

I can't help myself from wondering why the qanonsense corporation has been so silent on protecting these children.

Does their charter extend exclusively to the wellbeing of children targeted by the face-eating, blood-guzzling, bad-touch "Left"? Seems a narrow scope.

Anyways, about a year ago I asked a client when they thought people would begin to take Covid seriously. Their answer? When children start to die.

I want to believe that's true (repugnant as it is to need for that to happen) but I've learned a lot over the past six years about the current state of our collective moral boundaries.

There are none - so it seems.

Reminds me of Thom's reading from "They Thought They were Free" (I think that's the title) in which the people of Germany in the 1930's never noticed the transformation of their society into an authoritarian death machine because there was never one single moment; one catalyzing event to wake them from their slumber. I see this here too - frogs being slowly brought to a boil.

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Pam R's avatar

I just can't stand this. It's infuriating. I suspect that a lot of mothers and grandmothers especially will feel the same and it will hurt them in the midterms. It had better or I suspect American democracy won't last and as other democracies fail and the climate war is lost, human beings will end up as small bands of hunter gatherers in a few isolated places in the world. Maybe that's all for the best. Maybe we should step aside and give the dolphins a chance. I don't want to live in a world that sacrifices the vulnerable for the sake of greed, anyway.

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