"Happy" July 4th, everybody!

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"Happy" July 4th, everybody!

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:14 pm

“In the same way as men cannot for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaninglessness in their individual lives, so they cannot for long accept a society in which power, privilege, and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria.”
Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of a Bourgeois Republicanism

"If you don’t breathe the spirit of the nation, if you don’t have a fierce sense of belonging to each other, you’re not going to sacrifice for the common good. We’re confronted with a succession of wicked problems and it turns out we’re not even capable of putting on a friggin’ mask."
David Brooks - NYT -The national humiliation we need

“I look at you; I don’t see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared kid”
from Good Will Hunting, quoted by David Brooks NYT
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: "Happy" July 4th, everybody!

Post by hippiewannabe » Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:51 pm

Yes, happy birthday to the greatest country the world has ever known, imperfect though it may be. We are the last, best hope for freedom in the world. If we don't get our shit together, the totalitarian model will win.
Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.

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