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I can sympathize. Been inhabiting my brain for days, lol.

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The war between the abolitionists and the slaveholders (also known as the Northern War against State Rights) resulted in 640,000 - 700,000 deaths. The on-going war between Eugenicists and Christians in the United States resulted in 850,000 deaths in the year 2000 alone. The war has been going on for nearly 60 years and it continues.

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No doubt! Thanks.

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...and there has been war in heaven for 6,000 years. There has also probably been a whore in heaven for that long too. "Oi, Satan I want a word with you..."

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???????

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Forgive me if I misunderstand, but Satan is the ultimate whore and presents himself (I use 'himself' advisedly for 'he' is LGBTQ+ etc. hence today's problems) in heaven from time to time. So the story goes anyway, e.g. Job.

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I have a different view but that is an old story.

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The 850,000 deaths in 2000 alone refers to what exactly? Abortion?

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Number of abortions per year U.S. 1973-2020 | Statista

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185274/number...

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There were plenty of illegal abortions going on long before 1973 though. And also long before eugenics was even a thing at all. We will never know the exact number, as those were generally hushed up for obvious reasons, but it was most likely NOT radically different than what it is in recent years on a per capita basis. Just saying.

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May 13, 2022Liked by KW NORTON

I'll have to think about this concept. On the surface I think a revolution is a change in fundamental governance, a civil war is over the flow of resources. Interesting stack!

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I think that was very fair. I suppose we aren't going to change the names in a hurry though.

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We already have the Fourth Industrial Revolution thanks to Klaus Schwab. Feels like a war to me.

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I had forgotten, thank you for reminding me. Very definitely a war, there are all sorts of war, but all wars are ultimately battle of words, propaganda. The best words win.

And forgive the play on words, let everybody take a proper gander as we can say in UK by looking properly at the issues.

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As Harry Truman famously said, "Speak softly and drop an atomic bomb".

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All those poor little rich boys - the American United Families of the American Presidencies. It is a wonder we even had a revolution. Some complicated psychology there.

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Top shelf post.

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Very interesting, KW.

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