Every new law represents a new opportunity to report our neighbors anonymously to the authorities.
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Censorship, under more competent rule, would indicate something worth reading.
Americans are ruled by a government that intrudes in every conceivable matter yet cannot count its population, its votes, or its dead.
The great trick of governance, as yet imperfectly mastered, is to loot without having to fight.
The lower your class, the more time and humiliation it costs you to collect your dole.
There are people who understand the power of speech, and people who oppose restrictions on speech, but rarely the same people.
Any country that allows its citizens to vote is at least obliged to make it difficult.
Greatest Evils of Communism
1. Millions dead
2. Widespread use of the term “bougie”
Recycling laws exist to remind you that your rulers, though they have nothing to charge you with, can force you to sort through your garbage.
You think your political opponents are unqualified to vote, they think the same of you, and you’re both right.