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АидяёА ЦZ

If you want to write me something and you are in Europe, the duty is 26%.
If you are in the rest of the world it is 45%, but only if you like pizza, otherwise it goes up to 52%.
If you are blond it goes down to 38.

Se volete scrivermi qualcosa e siete il Europa, il dazio è del 26%.
Se siete nel resto del mondo è del 45%, ma solo se vi piace la pizza, altrimenti sale al 52, se invece siete biondi scende a 38.

#democracy#NoTrump#tariffs
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Kent Pitman

«I am unforgiving of GOP Congressional cowardice. They pledged an oath to support and defend the Constitution. They have historically sent millions into war, the sometimes-tenuous justification being a need to defend our way of life. There is now a coup afoot and it falls to Congress itself to defend us.

Any in Congress sustaining the coup because they fear for their job, their safety or the safety of their family are committing treason.

Protecting and defending the US is not optional, something to do if it's convenient. It is a sworn duty. »

netsettlement.blogspot.com/202

netsettlement.blogspot.comCongressional CowardiceAn essay explaining why the cowardly actions and inactions of the GOP Congress are unforgivably traitorous.
#politics#USPolitics#fascism
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Aristotle

For of course it is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
 
[οὐ γὰρ ἴσως ταὐτὸν ἀνδρί τ᾽ ἀγαθῷ εἶναι καὶ πολίτῃ παντί.]

Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
Nicomachean Ethics [Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια], Book 5, ch. 2 (5.2.11) / 1130b.29 (c. 325 BC) [tr. Thomson (1953)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/aristotle/74914/

Aristotle - it is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Tolkien

   “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
   “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]

The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, ch. 2 “The Shadow of the Past” (1954)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/tolkien-jrr/3881/

#quote #quotes #quotation #challenge #crisis #duty #era #fate #lifetime #time #today #troubles #tolkien

WIST Quotations · The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, ch. 2 "The Shadow of the Past" (1954) - Tolkien, J.R.R. | WIST Quotations"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given…
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