• Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    American Spectator, so probably H.L. Mencken wrote that.

    He also wrote this: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

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      9 days ago

      The old days when politicians had scandales like having a pregnant girlfriend.

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      And these scandals feel way more tame than what we are used to seeing on the news nowadays.