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Apr 14Liked by Sam McCommon

The Egyptian Mamelukes are another example - they have ruled Egypt for hundreds of years and still do. Same in Myanmar.

Gore Vidal wrote the novel "Empire" about how his beloved Republic became and Empire.

The solution of defunding DC is not a magical pill, and the dance always restarts and gets amplyfied.

The only democratic means of runing the affairs of a political community is via election by sortition. The election of representatives in competing elections is an aristocratic approach. Once you get refreshes every 2/6 years, they will clean the legislation and start to strangle the entrenched interests/powers - unless of course they are overthrown and a more "appropriate" system is put in place. Even sortition can be corrupted, by corrupting the algorithms for picking the SIN numbers of elected representatives. Or if people have moved into a sociopathic mode of being, and then the majority of those randomly elected will consider their own interest, and it will be like winning the lottery. Atomization of society pushed by the consumer capitalism has oppened that Pandora's Box. While a politician famously said, holding on her little purse: "There is no such thing as a society...".

Then the hope will only be from outside, from the Barbarians...

It will always be a struggle. But people need to understand the problems in the first place, need to understand what could be solutions for fixing systems, and need to be desperate due to hunger, etc. in order to act in mass against TPTB.

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Apr 14Liked by Sam McCommon

The date you are searching for in the 9th paragraph is likely November 22, 1963.

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It's funny that you say Court Eunuchs, I use "Pharisees" and "Mandarins" interchangeably for this purpose, especially because they believe in nothing but controlling temple/state revenue, obscure regulations, and what I call "The liturgy of government" [notice all the times they freaked out about Trump breaking "precedents" but those precedents were obscure things that Plebs didn't understand, to add yet another analogy, its as if they were saying the auspices were taken incorrectly]

However I have mostly seen Janissary used to reference the white people with power who are anti-white activists, of course relating it to the status of Janissary as those born Christians and propagandized into being the arm of an oppressive Muslim state.

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