re: #118 The Ghost of a Flea

Somewhere in here, it amounts to: the US can be the empire umpire on what is legitimate/illegitimate because it is strong.

_{well, “empire” for “umpire” was a Freudian slip….}

So it’s just establishing a power dynamic, not making a moral statement.

Kind of like most conservative stuff involving fucking.

Right. “Do as we say, not as we do.” When we do it, it’s dealing with “rioters and looters.” When they do it, it’s “repressing the voice of the people.”