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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A "big" PC (compared to a "smart" phone).
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On 2024-10-21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2024 18:33:14 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> The US is merely a state, a political entity, whose existence is
>> premised on Enlightenment ideals.
>
> Enlightenment ideals were about a secular state, free from religious 
> influence. And also the beginnings of the idea that all human beings are 
> created equal.

Yeah, the paradises of the Soviet Union and Red China were more like that. I 
bet you're hankering to go back in time so you can enjoy one or the other.

> The US was never that.

It's getting close now, though. Note how happy everyone is these days — 
we'll be even happier when we own nothing, or so we're told by the godless 
morons at the WEF.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien