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The Real Threat to Democracy

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The Booker Prize was awarded to a novel that imagines a far-right totalitarianism “destroying our democracy” in Ireland. Apparently, the judges chose the book as a winner in response to “far-right violence [that] erupted in Dublin following a stabbing attack on a group of children”. The quote is from the NPR, which one can easily guess based on the use of the words “far-right” and the elision of the perpetrator of “a stabbing attack”.

It’s truly fascinating how people can live in the existing reality, observe everything that is going on and still think that it’s the Right that threatens our freedom. The exact same people who are terrified out of their heads to mention who actually stabbed the children in Ireland. The same people who live in actual daily fear of the censorious, aggressive, destructive left.

11 responses to “The Real Threat to Democracy”

  1. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    sigh.

    Have an ear infection. Can’t afford to go see a real doctor. Drove to the walk-in clinic this morning. There wasn’t anywhere to park close to the clinic entrance. Drove around the block three times, but everywhere I could have parked and walked to the clinic, there was at least one twitching fentanyl-zombie and no witnesses. Like, literally twitching. Three different ones, in three different potential parking areas. Decided it was better to just live with the ear infection a while longer than get out of the car there. Drove back home.

    But sure, the biggest danger to us all is the “far right”

    Frankly, if the “far right” decided to come patrol the neighborhood with their AR-15s, I’d feel a helluva lot safer getting out of my car.

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      …I realize that’s just my “white entitlement privilege” whatever talking. Because it’s wrong to feel entitled to a certain degree of physical safety when you’re seeking medical care and sh*t. The liberal ideal is for everyone to feel as unsafe as the residents of the worst urban ghettos.

      Give it a couple years and we’ll *all* be willing to vote for whatever asshole looks like he might deliver reasonable personal security for regular people on regular streets.

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        Stringer Bell

        The liberal ideal is for everyone to feel as unsafe as the residents of the worst urban ghettos.

        This is literally the plan, to keep the population terrified by cynically wielding the lumpenprole (which, at this point, must be acknowledged as an unofficial arm of the state). Just observe the zeal with which prosecutors in blue cities pursue people who defend themselves against psycho criminals in public places (the latest NYC subway case comes to mind), and how reluctant they are in pressing charges against actual criminals.

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      2. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        El Salvador had to become a gang paradise before people voted for an anti-crime leader. I hope we don’t let it go that far.

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        1. methylethyl Avatar
          methylethyl

          For real. On the other hand, FL has constitutional carry now, apparently. So I’m holster-shopping for Christmas.

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  2. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “Booker Prize was awarded to a novel that imagines a far-right totalitarianism “destroying our democracy” 

    It’s a wish fulfillment fantasy. Guaranteed every member who voted for it despises democracy and wants to be the one destroying it in the name of leftist catchphrases.

    These people are sooooo transparent.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      It’s also fake conservatives like Nikki Hayley who recently suggested that every anonymous user of social media needs to be identified and tracked.

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  3. Demotrash Avatar
    Demotrash

    If I ever had any respect for the Booker prize, it was entirely gone when A Little Life was nominated a few years back. Read a synopsis of the plot and you’ll see what I mean.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I know about this book. It’s pedophilia porn. I first heard about it on Russian social media where people were pissing themselves with delight over this “great work of art”.

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      1. Demotrash Avatar
        Demotrash

        I was also not surprised when I heard rumors the author used to write fanfiction. It’s not good that the fanfic-ification of writing is spreading from trash like 50 Shades of Grey to “high literature” (obviously her books don’t merit that label if we’re talking about literary quality but that’s not my point here.)

        It’s not just this book by her either. They all seem to involve the sexual abuse of boys, gay men suffering horribly, or both. Obviously I don’t think you have to be a gay man to be allowed to write about them, but there’s clearly something rather sick about her fixation.

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  4. PaulS Avatar
    PaulS

    Historical enemies and foreign conflicts are great for distracting people from your own failures.
    https://dailyfriend.co.za/2023/11/29/the-ancs-concerns-for-south-africans-a-bitterer-gelechte/

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