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Kid Berwyn

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19. The Mirror

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #18)

Sun Aug 24, 2025, 03:32 PM

Sunday

YAMW, Uncle Joe!

Words from the end of Pinter's Nobel speech:

"When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.

"I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.

"If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us – the dignity of man."

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Americans Do Not Want Authoritarianism. [View all] Uncle Joe Saturday OP

Well they sure as shit vote for it over and over again. RockRaven Saturday #1

That's because they voted or didn't vote out of anger, not hope making them more susceptible to a charlatan Uncle Joe Saturday #3

That ball is already rolling lame54 Saturday #2

That makes change easier because the energy is there, all it needs is redirecting. Uncle Joe Saturday #4

BS. Millions of people voted for precisely that. niyad Saturday #5

Not the total majority of Americans, and not even the majority of the ones that voted. Uncle Joe Saturday #6

Odd, I did NOT give a percentage or put a name to it. I simply said niyad Sunday #10

I didn't state that you did, I just clarified the point of the OP for everyone, Uncle Joe Sunday #12

Then it should have been addressed to your OP, not to me. niyad Sunday #13

The crazy minority was enough to take over Germany in the 1930s Mysterian Sunday #15

That's correct, we can't take our democracy such as it is for granted, we need to strengthen it. Uncle Joe Sunday #16

Yep. Sure did. LisaL Saturday #7

They have a funny way of showing it. BlueTsunami2018 Saturday #8

Right-wingers do Oeditpus Rex Saturday #9

Authoritarianism is being forced on us because one guy appointed himself king of the world. Initech Sunday #11

For anyone who is confused about the matter when political leaders state that "Americans" or the "American People" Uncle Joe Sunday #14

"The American People" Kid Berwyn Sunday #17

"The American People" has been the national identity phrase at least since the days of President Madison. Uncle Joe Sunday #18

The Mirror Kid Berwyn Sunday #19