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Temporarily doffing his libertarian drag, Rand Paul suggests that we use a technology that is often flattered with comparisons to voodoo in order to find out who dared to criticize the Leader of the State [PoliticusUSA]

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Dec. 29th, 2016 05:28 am
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The zombie-eyed granny starver wants Congress itself to be a police state.

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce, from whom I also got the Homeric epithet
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The good-guy government in Star Wars is a republic with princesses, in other words, “an undemocratic, ineffective government maintained by a combination of religious awe and martial force.”

Thanx to Metafilter
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When I was growing up, they told me one of the horrible things about communism was that you were expected to snitch on your friends. (The prep school that told me that tried to institute an honor system, but that's another story.) The Soviet Union is one with Nineveh and Tyre, but Uganda, perhaps harking back to the proud traditions of Idi Amin, wants to set up a similar mandatory snitching system to defend against the Lavender Menace.

Thanx to Shakesville

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