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Mme. Defarge

(8,028 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:10 AM Mar 2020

I'm starting to wish I hadn't read the first few chapters of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands:

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

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'It's been extremely inadequate': Gov. Brown says federal gov't hasn't sent masks, ventilators
The governor asked for these items March 3, and found out March 12 the state is only getting 10% of their request fulfilled.

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I'm starting to wish I hadn't read the first few chapters of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: (Original Post) Mme. Defarge Mar 2020 OP

Why? cilla4progress Mar 2020 #1

It's crossed my mind a time or two that this looming disaster LuvNewcastle Mar 2020 #2

cilla4progress

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1. Why?

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:27 AM

Mar 2020

Intentional murder of country's own residents by its leaders?

I wish I hadn't read The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.

LuvNewcastle

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2. It's crossed my mind a time or two that this looming disaster

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:47 AM

Mar 2020

isn't happening altogether naturally. I think that we have some of the worst people in the world placed highly in our government, and they are capable of any variety of evils.

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