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1. NoDoxGregBrady (nodoxgregbrady@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 01:58:46 JST NoDoxGregBrady

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   • Judge Dread
   @judgedread There was a movie about ancient Rome, same timeline as Gladiator, released something like 1964. Absolutely epic. Everything every red-blooded American wanted to see about the literal Foundation of the West.
   
   Right at the critical decision point, inside the Senate, a debate raged between those ignorant bigoted Romans and the smart and reasonable Greek-on-a-leash that was allowed to speak. The subject was about extending Roman citizenship to non-Romans.
   
   This massively influential political speech was cloaked. Exact same topic, given the Civil Rights Act. People were brought to support it because they enjoyed the movie.
   
   What the movie didn't discuss was that Rome had been extending "citizenship-without-voting-rights" for hundreds of years by that time.
   
   Nor did it mention the rapid decline that took place immediately afterwards.
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   • Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 01:58:47 JST Judge Dread
     The case can be made that To Kill a Mockingbird is the most EFFECTIVE evil film ever made in terms of scope and timing. Lots of Whites saw it at a critical moment in US history when it was still possible to turn things around.
     
     But I'm not talking about that one.
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