Ancestors

Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-01 at 20:27

US media has traditionally been far more clear-eyed about antidemocratic purges abroad

so here's an exercise in how a US correspondent might describe the events of the last week in Washington, were it occurring overseas

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government

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Written by pettter on 2025-02-01 at 20:30

@clive I'm not sure a 'clear-eyed observer' would describe a '250-year-old tradition of the rule of law' in the USA

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Toot

Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-02-01 at 20:35

@pettter @clive

Yeah, that part could use an editor :)

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Descendants

Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-01 at 20:35

@eloquence @pettter

truly

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Written by Jeremy Kahn on 2025-02-01 at 21:31

@clive @eloquence @pettter

More like

"the regime has in recent decades (begun concurrently with the French communes of 1968) tentatively attempted an experiment with equal justice in the eyes of the law, known locally as "Civil Rights" or "Diversity and Equity".

Even in the 1960s and 1970s, the country was locked in one of another of a series of expensive and bloody undeclared wars.

Musk's strongmen today definitively declared that experiment over."

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Written by Clive Thompson on 2025-02-01 at 23:11

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Yep

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