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Today's Robert Arnold

A timely holiday message that ought to be a daily thing.

Remember

In a time not unlike today in USAmeric Inc, a couple of millennia ago (supposedly starting about this time of year) we got an important lesson about what to do in the face of a government bent on conquest, domination, and exploitation.

We've had to relearn that lesson on a fairly regular basis, and it's time to revisit it now.

• Tyrants can't be appeased
• Appeasement feeds their insatiable hunger for power
• Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable

Without mass submission,

a tyrant is powerless.

Stress

Marital stress is when your wife

won't tell you where she hid

the peanut M&Ms

you told her to hide from you.

About That 60 Minutes Thing

Fascism is when you have to

find a Canadian bootleg copy

of a news story produced

in your own country

because it makes

your government

look bad

Helluva Record

For the seventh year in a row, USAmerica Inc has produced more mass shootings than there are days in a year. With a full week to go.

Seven. Straight. Years.

This place is nine kinds of fucked up.

Amanda

The first of what is usually lots of Year End Roundups - this one from Amanda Nelson.