Protestors Storm Capital

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-and white centering or privilege even greater than the disparity in numbers.  That is what they men, though.  They mean that they see alot of Other faces and those Others getting their way.  In their zero sum theory any improvement in the lot of the Other is detrimental to their own.

Yall qaeda just casually strolled out of the capitol buildings after launching an attack.

Because of my background, I was conditioned to think this way but through lots of learning and many experiences, I no longer have those fears.  There may be some negative aspect to not experiencing this sort of fear but where I am now, I just don't care to indulge it.  Rome ultimately vanished because outside cultures took over many aspects of the population and the old Roman population was impotent to reverse the trend (as if they created a utopia anyway), so maybe that's our fate as well no matter what we do.  I'm OK with it.  5,000 years from now there will probably be humans on earth but I see no reason why the old USA should still be around, telling everyone else what to do.

No, Rome disappeared because the system of rule it created simply fell apart because it wasn't capable of holding together a polity of that size, and more importantly because it couldn't check the ambitions of sucessful generals or senators.

The thing is the Germanic tribes only really started winning against Rome when they became Roman.

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Hmmm, after watching this video, I'm not so sure about this Ashli Babbit woman.  She appears to be on crack.  She makes valid points about problems in the US but, like Trump, no coherent solutions except nonsense about choosing America.

https://www.facebook.com/bob.moses.946/v...4399521746

And she's part of a mob that's actively trying to invade the Capitol with the goal of overriding the election of a President who not only won the popular and electoral vote, but got more votes than any other candidate in the nation's history. If she was just a Congressional intern or summat (maybe a tourist, but I'm not sure that this is even an option during the pandemic), then the concern over killing an unarmed woman would be totally justified. At this point, however, it's tragic, but inevitable.

She participated willingly in a coup d'état. The police had every right, and quite possibly the responsibility, to shoot her dead. Along with all the other putschists. The US authorities should learn the lesson of the Beer Hall Putsch and learn it well.