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Symiliptic report August 30
Building the Sixth Republic Creating the sixth republic out of some of the fragments of the fourth and the fifth is a generational project. Like the first republic, we tried to avoid the characteristics of society that resulted in the former problems. For us, that meant the many problems that were present even at the Continue reading
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2025
“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the worldview and mental habits proper to the devotees of [the Party], but to make all other modes of thought impossible.” “The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as ‘This dog is Continue reading
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The crisis
Dornbusch’s law: “The crisis takes longer to happen than you can possibly imagine, then happens quicker than you can possibly imagine.” Rüdiger “Rudi” Dornbusch Continue reading
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Symiliptic Report Aigust 23
I was thinking this morning about how the fourth republic fell, and how the real world people finally decided to be done with the scum once and for all. And not a single shot was fired. it was all done with social media, which the scum have always been surprisingly compliant with. Suggest (or “influence,” Continue reading
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So now we know
Remember that thing about the orange baby getting a lot of electoral help from its friends in Russia a few years back? And how it has said nothing but “hoax” ever since? Well now we know, the orange baby did collude with Russia to win its first presidential election. How do we know? Its national Continue reading
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Contradictions can both be true
“At every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men. There was Stalingrad and there was Buchenwald, and neither of Continue reading
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Happy now?
The nation formerly known as the United States now has a dictator-in-ascendance who is above the law, military occupation of cities, a vast and growing secret police/gestapo, blatant bribery of government officials, and concentration camps. To add to this, the new book The Fort Bragg Cartel documents the now long-standing operation of death squads. They Continue reading
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They really think we’re that stupid
The orange baby held an impromptu press conference last week when Stephen Moore, supposedly an economist, arrived with a big chart purporting to refute the official Bureau of Labor Statistics report. His big chart was labeled “Medium Income.” Assuming the mooron meant “median income,” the numbers on the chart were fact checked. And those weren’t Continue reading
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Now we are all expatriates
In The French Dispatch, all of the stories are from Ennui-sur-Blasé, France. One of them is by Roebuck Wright. “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” relates Wright’s dinner at the Police Station, prepared by the legendary police chef Lt. Nescaffier. The journalists in The French Dispatch are part of their stories, although they Continue reading
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symiliptic report Aigust 9
The sixth republic is quite young still, and many things are still settling out. How to keep the scum happy and engaged, and on a path out of their scummy swamp is a major topic of concern and debate among the real world people. After they managed, almost accidentally, to dissolve the fourth republic, and Continue reading
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I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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