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Jan 07, 2021 - 11:55 AM - by mickthinks
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I've been meaning to start a thread to lay out some ideas I have about extremism, centrism, and socialism, and maybe engender a discussion and sharing of ideas. Last night's shennannigins and Obama's response provide the spur.
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Originally posted by Barack Obama 
History will rightly remember today’s violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation. But we’d be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise.
For two months now, a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem has too often been unwilling to tell their followers the truth — that this was not a particularly close election and that President-Elect Biden will be inaugurated on January 20. Their fantasy narrative has spiraled further and further from reality, and it builds upon years of sown resentments. Now we’re seeing the consequences, whipped up into a violent crescendo.
Right now, Republican leaders have a choice made clear in the desecrated chambers of democracy. They can continue down this road and keep stoking the raging fires. Or they can choose reality and take the first steps toward extinguishing the flames. They can choose America.
I’ve been heartened to see many members of the President’s party speak up forcefully today. Their voices add to the examples of Republican state and local election officials in states like Georgia | ... [Read More]
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ME AGAINST TURKEY SOVIET |
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Dec 24, 2020 - 9:33 AM - by SOLZHENITSOF
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THE EXECUTIONER: HILMI YAVUZ
Hilmi Yavuz TOBB ETÜ'de bir konferansta (08.03.2007).
THE CHIEF OF THE ISLAMIST GANG: F. GULEN
Gezinti kısmına atlaArama kısmına atla
Fethullah Gülen
AND THE VICTIM: BRITISH POET NAIPAUL
Nobel ödüllü yazar İstanbul'a gelmiyor
(Nobel laureate writer does not come to Istanbul)
The winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature, Trinidad-based Indian writer VS Naipaul, gave up her participation in the European Writers Parliament, which will begin today. The foreign press gave wide coverage to the development caused by Naipaul's criticism of Islam nearly 10 years ago.
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