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Republicans would win this election by 20 points if they made it a referendum on Fauci. Instead they are obsessed with a large young black woman playing James Madison's crystal flute. It's a perfect encapsulation of the (national level) Republican inability to focus on the issues that really matter to voters. The flute was bait to tempt Republicans into being racist *ssholes right before the election. And many took the bait. Do they even want to win the election at this point? Or just keep chasing their tails?

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The dirty little secret of the last few hundred years (at least since start of the British empire) is that the fancy orchestras, art museums, and philosophy symposiums that are the hallmark of civilization are funded by empire and serve as cover to justify the rape and conquest of the world. You see, if we are CIVILIZED then we have a right to take over those other places and make them work for us. The logic is that we are doing them a favor. I'm asking whether society and civilization have ever been all that civilized or perhaps are just a tool for elites to do what they wanted to do anyway.

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