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Anarchism was a significant topic a century ago. Just before I read for the first time (I'm on my third read), Fr. Brown mystery writer G.K. Chesterton's metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday, I read about anarchists, that they posed an insoluble problem to police, because their habit was to show up in crowds, holding the rip-cord as it were, rather comparable to today's middle-East suicide bombers, on the threat that if police would shoot them, they would be able to detonate and take significant loss of life. The Man Who Was Thursday starts out like that.

I was taken aback by Lon Chaney's 1921 silent film The Ace of Hearts because what I read about anarchists just before reading Chesterton, seemed to me to indicate that anarchists were dirty and crazy. Lon Chaney's portrayal of them is the opposite, and much like the educated, alienated members of BLM today: upper-class, educated, cultivated miscreants.


1 posted on 11/02/2020 1:31:24 PM PST by CharlesOConnell
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2 posted on 11/02/2020 1:33:30 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

I started predicting this possibility weeks ago. I’d stay away from famous public places over the next few days.


3 posted on 11/02/2020 1:34:03 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: CharlesOConnell
Get Exited...and...Make the Voting booth a TRUMP RALLY!!


7 posted on 11/02/2020 1:45:37 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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Did you ever see Hitchcock’s movie “Sabotage”? It was made in 1936 and has many of the same elements. The ending is quite chilling and prophetic.


10 posted on 11/02/2020 1:51:57 PM PST by MHT
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To: CharlesOConnell
upper-class, educated, cultivated miscreants

I think that they have no real meaning in their lives, and that they're bored/empty.

They get a twisted rush of superiority and excitement from the games they create and direct.

12 posted on 11/02/2020 1:58:03 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: CharlesOConnell

I forgot to say thank you for sharing the links.


13 posted on 11/02/2020 1:59:13 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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I’m not sure how effective an attack at a polling location would be in suppressing the vote, and it might suppress the remaining liberal vote more than the conservatives in a way that even overpowers the liberals early voting advantage. I already early voted for Trump, but speaking only for myself, I would have been willing to risk my life to vote in this election. I would have accepted odds much worse than I would normally accept for just about any other activity. I estimated what odds I would have been willing to accept. My estimate is that if I knew for a certainty that there was a 1% chance that I would die attempting to vote, I would do it anyway. My threshold is maybe 10%, so I would stay away if there were certain odds of 10% or greater of dying. I would not have taken odds as great as that in 2016.


16 posted on 11/02/2020 2:12:13 PM PST by Texan Tory (Laissez rouler les bons temps!)
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Lots of other interesting stuff before the 40 minute mark.

MSM can put over hoaxes. E.g. Trump says drink bleach. Trump said Charlottesville skinheads were nice people.

They could report that Biden won the election.

Trump could say he won the election.

Interesting confrontation when moving vans show up at the White House.

ML/NJ


17 posted on 11/02/2020 2:18:47 PM PST by ml/nj ( stuff)
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It goes without saying that if Trump wins this country's cities will be ablaze in a way that can be spotted from space.And ILLary,Osama Obama,Bella Pelosi,Sniveling Little Schitt and Occasional Cortex (among others) will blame the President.
29 posted on 11/02/2020 7:56:02 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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