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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:03:26 -0800
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On 12/11/24 09:39, quadibloc wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:56:54 +0000, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
>>     Like Ghandi I believe that Western Civilization would
>> be a good idea but I fail to see where it has arrived.
> 
> Not long after Gandhi's quip, though, came the partition of India in
> 1947.
> 
> Say what you will about the industrialized nations of the West, but they
> have
> outbreaks of what India calls "communal violence" rather less often than
> India. And today India is governed by the BJP and its leader Narendra
> Modi,
> who openly favors Hindu supremacy.

We in the USA, have outbreaks of individual violence, attacks on 
schools, churches, synagogues and temples.
	In 2020 on January 6 we had communal violence.
	Before that we had frequent communal violence directed
toward African-Americans and referred to as Lynching  The same
sort of violence has been directed against Jewish people,
gay people and their cohorts with state laws suppressing their
rights to exist

> 
> However, since the U.S. has elected Trump, and Canada appears to be on
> the
> verge of electing Pierre Polievre (who tries to come across as a normal
> Conservative politician, but by supporting the "Freedom Convoy" he
> revealed
> himself to represent the same madness as Trump) perhaps I should not be
> quite
> so sanguine about the West.
> 
> (The Freedom Convoy was a protest that blocked off a significant area of
> Ottawa,
> interfering with the ability of several businesses to operate, demanding
> the
> resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which was a protest
> against
> the basic public health measures Canada took in response to the COVID-19
> pandemic.)
> 
> Apparently the world is going mad, and will soon fall into a global
> tyranny, in
> which the world's three nuclear superpowers, Russia, mainland China, and
> the
> U.S. will all get along just fine, dividing the world between them as
> three
> like-minded dictatorships. I dread this prospect. Not that I feel it is
> certain - but even a detectable probability of such a calamity is
> intolerable
> to me, so I'm not satisfied with the hope that the entire GOP will stop
> short
> of supporting Trump when it comes to the point of him leading America
> into the abyss.
> 
> John Savard

	First comes the North American Alliance.
	
	bliss