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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

The idea of the internet allowing identities to coalesce that are not tethered to a territory deserves its own long piece, I think. What are nations in the face of supranational identity groups? Where do we go from here?

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Another interesting take, thank you. Could you comment on Tablet's article (by Jacob Siegel, I think) that Israel should NOT rely on direct support from the American government?

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Welp, they really are telling me this for the first time.

https://x.com/LeftVLockdown/status/1715931643729330557?s=20

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🎷🎶🎵 ...you had plenty content in ‘22 , now you sit around feeling blue... why don’t you do write... like other stacks do... 🎷🎵🎶get out here and post some content too...🎷🎻🎺🥁🎵🎵

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(letter to Tablet Mag)

Golems of the Copybook Margins

The American Interest: We America need to stop the pattern of betrayal, of our own above all and our unfortunate allies.

All we need to do with Israel is not betray them and let them handle their business. The cycle of betrayal must end sometime. Now is fine.

Your interest: get this off the screens - change the subject…. they only react to what’s on the screen.

Then frankly face who created the Social Justice Golems and opened the borders to our new neighbors? Who is Columbia University?

It’s not the Baptists.

It’s not the Catholics.

It’s not the Mexicans either.

The next problem by the way is your Golems of the Copybook Margins may be the Ushers of the Dark Gods of the Copybook Headings returning…

And there’s nothing to be done but ride it out.

And fade into obscurity, frankly. You blew it. Doesn’t mean you should be vilified or harmed. You should be told.

Fade away. Not die, just get off the screen.

And stay away from whatever is slouching but picking up speed towards the American Jerusalem, because its hour is here.

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Ultimately America has no need of Empire beyond our shores, nor as the inescapable Federation the ability to centralize enough to maintain one. Every American large scale arrangement from the Iroquois to the Internet has been a Federation, including our present arrangement.

While we are guarded by oceans, tundra-arctic and mountains-desert-jungle to the south- we are also then bound by geography. We cannot escape, but we have no real need to expand.

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“traditionalist Catholics are another group with their own supranational allegiances and goals)” .

We are?

What are they?

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