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Comment by zrn900

1 day ago

The uncomfortable reality is that there does exist an 'us vs them' situation in every other aspect of society today, and those who ignore it end up on the losing side.

It's not new. Quoth one of the best lyricists of the past century:

> There is a war between those who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't

- Leonard Cohen, 1974

A statement so vague and ominous it could have been uttered at any point in human history by persons of any ideology without loss of meaning.

  • Yet you have to admit that 4 days lecturing about the Antichrist is an order if specificity greater than the tangle of European alliances before WWI.