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Thread: Götterdämmerung -- The Twilight of the Gods

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    Default Götterdämmerung -- The Twilight of the Gods

    In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world.

    For the first time, the international community felt compelled to send disaster relief to Washington. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.” As American doctors and nurses eagerly awaited emergency airlifts of basic supplies from China, the hinge of history opened to the Asian century.

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    The rot was already in the heart of our culture. It took #TRE45ON only a couple of swings to split the bark and expose it. How can we repair our nation? Can it be repaired?
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    God bless America! Everybody wants to immigrate to America, since we have the best country on the globe!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evmetro View Post
    God bless America! Everybody wants to immigrate to America, since we have the best country on the globe!
    Thanks for contributing, Sparky.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    The rot was already in the heart of our culture. It took #TRE45ON only a couple of swings to split the bark and expose it. How can we repair our nation? Can it be repaired?
    Lefties are a cancer to our country, but we will still prevail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world.

    For the first time, the international community felt compelled to send disaster relief to Washington. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.” As American doctors and nurses eagerly awaited emergency airlifts of basic supplies from China, the hinge of history opened to the Asian century.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...is-1038206/amp
    It did not have to be like this. The first step should have been to take this deadly serious, and decisively prepared to minimize the risk of transmission and spread.

    What we had instead was a president and large parts of one of our major political parties calling it a Democratic hoax, that it was no different than the common cold, and chuckling about face masks and social distancing being for wimps

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evmetro View Post
    Lefties are a cancer to our country, but we will still prevail.
    The intellectually impaired like yourself are the ones causing this country to disintegrate.

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    From the OP article:

    The end of the American era and the passing of the torch to Asia is no occasion for celebration, no time to gloat. In a moment of international peril, when humanity might well have entered a dark age beyond all conceivable horrors, the industrial might of the United States, together with the blood of ordinary Russian soldiers, literally saved the world. American ideals, as celebrated by Madison and Monroe, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, at one time inspired and gave hope to millions.

    If and when the Chinese are ascendant, with their concentration camps for the Uighurs, the ruthless reach of their military, their 200 million surveillance cameras watching every move and gesture of their people, we will surely long for the best years of the American century. For the moment, we have only the kleptocracy of Donald Trump. Between praising the Chinese for their treatment of the Uighurs, describing their internment and torture as “exactly the right thing to do,” and his dispensing of medical advice concerning the therapeutic use of chemical disinfectants, Trump blithely remarked, “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” He had in mind, of course, the coronavirus, but, as others have said, he might just as well have been referring to the American dream.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    The rot was already in the heart of our culture. It took #TRE45ON only a couple of swings to split the bark and expose it. How can we repair our nation? Can it be repaired?
    It will take many years to repair the damage by Trump and his lackey followers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    It did not have to be like this. The first step should have been to take this deadly serious, and decisively prepared to minimize the risk of transmission and spread.

    What we had instead was a president and large parts of one of our major political parties calling it a Democratic hoax, that it was no different than the common cold, and chuckling about face masks and social distancing being for wimps
    It is dishonest to perpetuate the notion that Trump ever called the virus itself a hoax. You are trying to marginalize the fear mongering that was really what Trump was calling a hoax.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    It did not have to be like this. The first step should have been to take this deadly serious, and decisively prepared to minimize the risk of transmission and spread.

    What we had instead was a president and large parts of one of our major political parties calling it a Democratic hoax, that it was no different than the common cold, and chuckling about face masks and social distancing being for wimps
    Yes. I think this article rings true for me because it puts into words thoughts that I have been having since 2016, and even more so since the pandemic began. The cult of individualism in this country is a deadlier disease than COVID-19. It is the reason why a selfish corrupt egotistical moron was selected president. It is the reason why there was no coordinated national response to the disease, and the reason why even before the extent of the plague became evident, we had stupid ppl with guns invading state capitols and demanding their right to spread it. It is the reason why we have idiots crowding into restaurants and bars without PPE. It is the reason why we have both politicians and citizens demanding that schools open in the fall even though it means more deaths -- of our own children, no less.

    The coronavirus is the worst enemy we have faced since WWII. Back then we worked together to defeat the Axis world. Today? We are fighting with each other while this uncaring, sightless pathogen sends us spiraling into third world status. All because of individualism triumphing over community.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evmetro View Post
    It is dishonest to perpetuate the notion that Trump ever called the virus itself a hoax. You are trying to marginalize the fear mongering that was really what Trump was calling a hoax.
    I do not think you and Trump actually know what the definition of hoax is.

    Democrats, scientists, the world health community called COVID a deadly serious risk which required immediate and decisive action to mitigate.

    That was all 100 percent correct and prescient.

    What exactly was the malicious deception in that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not think you and Trump actually know what the definition of hoax is.

    Democrats, scientists, the world health community called COVID a deadly serious risk which required immediate and decisive action to mitigate.

    That was all 100 percent correct and prescient.

    What exactly was the malicious deception in that?
    It is dishonest to perpetuate the notion that Trump ever called the virus itself a hoax. You are trying to marginalize the fear mongering that was really what Trump was calling a hoax.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evmetro View Post
    It is dishonest to perpetuate the notion that Trump ever called the virus itself a hoax. You are trying to marginalize the fear mongering that was really what Trump was calling a hoax.


    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...-rally-remark/
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