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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. # 8 is so on the money:
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 12:10 PM
Nov 2013

8. Ever since it stopped creating things, the empire that monopolized foreign debt can no longer pay its public workers and it declares bankruptcy, which leads to its assets being put up for auction,
but nobody bids anything for the noose used for lynching blacks,
nothing for the ashes of the girls incinerated in Vietnam,
nothing for the miserable cultural industry that broke every art form down to dividends,
nothing for the intelligence built up by the dictatorship of stupidity,
nothing for the military-industrial complex that only managed to turn everything into nothing.

wow.

Stumbles of an Empire [View all] unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP
Beautifully done! dixiegrrrrl Nov 2013 #1
Kick for "the idol-worshipping paradigm of profit-seeking...." truebluegreen Nov 2013 #2
# 8 is so on the money: dixiegrrrrl Nov 2013 #3
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