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duzreg's avatar

Economist article is partially pay-walled, but you can get behind it with archive.today

Link: https://archive.ph/0BWAc

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Cynic's avatar

I guess youre just going to ignore the obvious when it comes to likes and the BAP guys? Okay

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the long warred's avatar

The Obvious can be relied on to be Conspicuous, to their certain Doom. A rule so recursive it meets the standard of engineering.

Really this is fundamental: Obviously. 🙄

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Cynic's avatar

Possibly. Though I’ve yet to see anyone really dig into this group beyond calling them names, and most of their followers couldn’t even truly tell you what most of that milieu actually believes in beyond “broadly right wing”.

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the long warred's avatar

Being Survivors.

That’s what they believe in.

Indeed their very reification.

To some of us the Heroes are Dead, for example ☘️.

Others hold survivor higher than the instantly forgotten fallen.

You can probably recite a couple of household name survivors, but I who am positivity OCD on historical details cannot even picture one. 🤔

How odd, now that I think of it…

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Nuland on NATO ““Don’t throw it out,” she said of the trans-Atlantic alliance, “because you would never be able to re-create it again.”

Oh. A lot of that going around.

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God Bless Chang, er China for doing the Drone Carrier first.

Don’t worry, we’ll follow.

What we call NAVY SEALS was pioneered by the Italian Fascists, it didn’t save them.

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