02-19-2021, 05:18 AM
I have some heated arguments with "COVID-32" (get it?) and Einzige. Classic X'er endorses a plutocratic hierarchy having sharp tinges of racism and religious bigotry in which "useless" people by his criteria are cast out to suffer from exposure (freezing in an American winter in most of the country, heatstroke in the summer), and either street crime, drugs, or outright hunger at all times. The rest of American humanity, which one can presume is largely white, gets to enjoy either ostentatious indulgence if part of the economic elite or bare survival while being treated like livestock but knowing well enough to accept the abuse and degradation as charity. Because the elites metaphorically crack the whip people work hard enough and long enough with complete obedience to avoid starvation and homelessness. Food may be unpalatable and sparse; housing may be crowded slums ("twelve in one room in A-may-REE-caw!" But there is hope, if not for the juvenile delinquents unless they clean up their acts.
Classic X'er is an economic sadist like the late Rush Limbaugh. Einzige is a Marxist fool.
Classic X'er is an economic sadist like the late Rush Limbaugh. Einzige is a Marxist fool.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.