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We're at the most dangerous point in humanity's abusive relationship with US unipolar domination, for the same reason the most dangerous point in a battered wife's life is right when she's trying to escape. The empire is willing to do terrible and risky things to retain control.
"If I can't have you no one can" is a line that can be said to a wife or to the world.
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Nobody likes feeling like they're part of the problem. The reality that the US is the most tyrannical, murderous and belligerent government on earth causes people discomfort for the same reason they don't like thinking about factory farming or their own socioeconomic privilege.
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Canada: We're euthanizing people now.
Conservatives: EVIL! SATAN!
Canada: *Poor people.
Conservatives: We're listening"
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