The Patrician is always right
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New Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXublG-D98 #Jingo Jungle #Opening #instrumental

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Jingo, Part I
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https://www.tor.com/2022/08/19/terry-pratchett-book-club-jingo-part-i/

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)
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“Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.”
- Sir Terry #Pratchett, #Jingo, #Discworld #quote #ThursdayThought

This feels oh so relevant at the moment:

"‘Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.’
‘Are you telling us that Ankh-Morpork is bankrupt?’ said Downey.
‘Of course. While, at the same time, full of rich people. I trust they have been spending their good fortune on swords.’" - Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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