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8. yes, serial murderers
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:00 PM
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...because they aren't operating out of any principle except dominance; asserting their dominance over the people they blithely demonize and then kill.

It's the way the barbaric 'Normans' established themselves in Britain after repeatedly invading and killing the Saxons and others settled and farming there; building castles and churches.

One difference, although their history is a gory mess, was a notion of 'honor' on the battlefield that was established and practiced in the course of their savagery by 'knights' like William Marshall, an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman in medieval England who fought bloody battles, including his last which determined the very fate of England, yet ended up being a signatory to the second Magna Carta which helped end the age of kinghts and their 'chivalry,'ushering in the predominance of democratic government.

Trump is going the exact opposite way. We'll soon be back to fighting each other with the rocks and stones we're left with.

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