next he’s going to tell us we have a tradition of mounting bayonet charges into a human sea of seditionists and heroically turning the tide in America’s most epochal conflicts as the battle hymn of the republic plays in the background, and also that’s bad

"Some men just want to see the world burn"

Reminded of what George Carlin once said on Charlie Rose:

"People who hate the government are involved in a form of suicide because government is self-government, and if you hate the government, you hate yourself."

Hitler and Speer explicitly set out to design and build architectural monuments that would look majestic as ruins.

"Ozymandias" wasn't a warning to them, it was their aspiration.

I always feel so conflicted over the anger I get whenever I’m reminded of Magda and Joseph Goebbels killing all their kids.