Trump has sown the wind. Now, let him reap the whirlwind. (View Post)

You’re a paranoid rich man, who’s persuaded himself he lives in the worst of times. My grandparents faced much worse, with a lot more fortitude. (View Post)

That’s the problem. So many people on the right have persuaded themselves that living in a flawed, but free and prosperous democracy, is the worst fate that can befall a nation. It used to be the far… (View Post)

It's a very old trope, likely dating from Tacitus' Germania. The idea that people who live in terrible circumstances, who are both subject to, and dish out, unbridled cruelty, make great so… (View Post)

The alt.right view somehow translates that as Ukraine is the aggressor and/or a quasi-racist belief that Russia’s soldiers are ubermenschen.. (View Post)