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Irish_Dem

(75,586 posts) Thu Sep 18, 2025, 08:29 PM Sep 18

We are time traveling at high velocity. [View all]

We are living the Salem Witch Trials/Great Purge/Nazi pogroms/McCarthy Era all rolled into one, in real time.

Feels so bizarre and unreal.

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We are time traveling at high velocity. [View all] Irish_Dem Sep 18 OP

Whiplash government Deuxcents Sep 18 #1

Yes we re-enact ten time periods in one day. Irish_Dem Sep 18 #3

...AND Mein Kampf. lastlib Sep 18 #12

Now that sounds interesting. ananda Sep 18 #13

Interestingly, I had the same experience taking a sociology class, the study of religions. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #19

How wonderful. Great titles by the way. ananda Sep 19 #22

Interesting. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #25

Also the same good qualities. ananda Sep 19 #31

Yes people have a strong need for spirituality. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #32

It really is weird to live in such an upsidedown reality. ananda Sep 19 #35

There you have it. Exactly where we are today. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #37

I sometimes think Shakespeare was a real subversive. ananda Sep 19 #38

If there is a heaven one of my first acts will be to get all human mysteries solved. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #39

I suspect St Peter will want to know too. ananda Sep 19 #40

I assume they know it all on the other side? Irish_Dem Sep 20 #41

I have never seen anything like this in America in my adult life surfered Sep 18 #2

We thought the Viet Nam era was tumultuous. Irish_Dem Sep 18 #5

The mindset of those legacies has never left this country. ananda Sep 18 #4

America's dark underbelly was always there just waiting to make a comeback. Irish_Dem Sep 18 #6

I've had direct experience with this shit all my life... ananda Sep 18 #7

Midwest farmland is similar. Irish_Dem Sep 18 #8

Well, at least my Irish ancestors were A-OK! ananda Sep 18 #9

Good for them! You should be so proud. Irish_Dem Sep 18 #10

You got that right! ananda Sep 18 #11

I live in a damn suburb I_UndergroundPanther Sep 19 #15

I was just in the US róisín_dubh Sep 19 #14

Exactly. This is part of the surreal nature of things. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #18

I'm thinking we're in an intermediate loop of someone preserving a timeline where s/he obtains a time machine 0rganism Sep 19 #16

Perhaps it is not pilot error, but deliberate on the part of the Time Machine owners. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #17

We're experiencing the most corrupt government in our nations history. Emile Sep 19 #20

Yes, the greatest moral collapse in US history. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #21

I will be the same, so pbmus Sep 19 #29

None of us who are intelligent and moral beings will be the same again. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #30

That is a fatalistic view based on , pbmus Sep 19 #33

I admire your ability to remain untouched and unfeeling about the tragedy unfolding in front of us. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #34

The USA has experienced many pbmus Sep 19 #36

That's been the GOP's "flood-the-zone" plan all along. They had eight years to allegorical oracle Sep 19 #23

Yes the damage is incalculable. And take time to repair. Some damage is permanent. Irish_Dem Sep 19 #24

Approaching terminal velocity of a falling nation... MiHale Sep 19 #26

Yes exactly, the velocity is terminal. :( Irish_Dem Sep 19 #28

Yep. I've never seen Trump let anyone steal the limelight like he has with Kirk underpants Sep 19 #27