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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
The same dudes who ran through machine gun fire were afraid to clock out five minutes early on Fridays after they got home.
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^ HA! That's a good point I never considered.
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Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr
I read this a few years ago and goddamn if it ain’t some similar ****. Hopefully the “fall” comes sooner than later.
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^ wow that looks like a great book. A good title and I bet an fascinating look at a country that in the UK was a byword for misery.
The bolded, about the US I presume, is pretty worrying as all those much-praised checks and balances are proving to be ineffectual in curbing the steady decline of democracy in the US. I'm reminded of something I once read: the majority of authoritarian dictators do not gain power by revolution - they are voted into office.
