Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/11/09/if-ever-there-was-a-time-to-wa.html
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I would suggest a different classic for this occasion:
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Thank you Cory.
That speech is something to keep in mind as we muddle through the next few days and then prepare for the coming storms. A reminder that justice and compassion are worth living for, especially as impending fascism threatens to consume our very souls with the darkness of hopelessness.
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He even has the frickin’ hair…
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This classic has been looping for me
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Chaplin’s words are timeless and stirring. It’s also a nice fantasy, that he’ll remove the mask and turn out to be a modest and kind man after all. But that’s not what happened.
The U.S. has done it: elected a preening right-wing populist to the executive branch, given him a majority of sniveling cowards, opportunists and other proto-fascists in Congress, and left him to fill a hole in the Supreme Court with whatever retrograde throwback he likes.
This being a democracy (for the moment) it is everyone’s fault. In our own ways we liberals and progressives thought it was impossible, but It Can Happen Here. And it did.
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Thank you Cory! Human spirit–must prevail!
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Oh, geez. Watching that, at this moment, I have never felt simultaneously so inspired and so helpless.
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No, forget that. This the right movie reference:
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Great work Cory,
This speech is a great piece that really helped me take a second to stop and listen!
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His victory speech was very… subdued. Then again three in the morning and all that entails.
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It was certainly more magnanimous, especially towards Clinton, than I expected.
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When one dictator dies, another one will be born.
Rex mortuus est, vivat rex.
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“Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another.”
Yeah, well, agree to disagree on that. It would be a better world if that was the case but it’s not.
Still great movie though.
Always expect him to take a bullet at the end of this. 
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