9/ oh, absolutely which reminds me of...https://twitter.com/TheLumpenprole/status/1498655643229634563 …
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10/ ...Bill Clinton's reaction to the 1995 Quebec referendum, where he weighed in and said that if Quebec voted for secession, the resulting state would not be party to NAFTA.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Quebec_referendum …
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11/ It was very clearly an attempt to interfere with foreign politics (someone alert Hillary Clinton; I know she HATES this sort of thing) and at the time I was mystified ... WHY did Bill care if there was 1 Canada or 2 Canadas? I had already been a libertarian for years but
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12/ ...I grew even more cynical at that moment (which is saying something - this is just after I'd watched Bill Clinton and Janet Reno burn women and children to death at Waco live on TV bc they'd embarrassed the BATF's "Operation Showtime" designed to justify higher budgets).
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13/ So anyway, I realized then that the elite class (a) have sort of a teleological world view where civilization means that everything becomes more and more centralized, and local independence / freedom upsets this vision of the anointed (b) they share class interest >
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14/ and it was likely physically painful for Bill Clinton to contemplate a member of his fellow elite having half of his serfs stripped away from him.
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15/ How I want Canada to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave. How I want Ukraine to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave. >>>
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16/ How I want the US to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave.
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Hippokleides @HippokleidesIn a few short days, we've moved from pundits mournfully intoning platitudes about the terrible return of war to Europe (completely ignoring the 90s, of course) to shrieking for a great power war and explaining nukes aren't that big a deal anyway. This is political psychosis.Show this thread3 replies 7 retweets 151 likesShow this thread -
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