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''Politics'': Of a state, playground faction, or collective of some sort, to formally cooperate with another for a military or other purpose.
''Politics'': Of a state, playground faction, fashionable political cause or marginalised constituency or [[community]], to formally cooperate with another such [[community]] of which you are not a part for a military or other purpose.


We are frequently invited these days to [[Virtue signalling|declare]] ourselves “allies”. But to “'''ally'''” is to take sides, which it to accept the premise that there is a side to take — that there is some kind of ''war'' going on.  
We are frequently invited these days to [[Virtue signalling|declare]] ourselves “allies”. But to “'''ally'''” is to take sides, which it to accept the premise that ''there is a side to take'' that is, that there is some kind of ''war'' going on.  


The [[JC]] has a hard time accepting this premise — at any rate, not between the factions he is usually invited to suppose are at war, especially since he seems, by accident of birth, to have been lumped in with the one most of them feel they are at war against, so ''if'' there ''is'' a war (and let’s say it again: there doesn’t ''seem'' to be) then declaring oneself an ally for the oppo doesn’t seem an awfully smart move. I mean, do you know what the secret society ''[[senum pallidorum]]'' does to people who break its sacred oaths? These dudes don’t muck around, you know. They’ve been sacrificing virgins in a Bavarian castle since the fourteenth century.
The [[JC]] has a hard time accepting this premise — at any rate, not between the factions he is usually invited to suppose are at war, especially since he seems, by accident of birth — or, cough, arbitrary gynaecological identification — to have been lumped in with the one most of them feel they are at war against, so ''if'' there ''is'' a war (and let’s say it again: there doesn’t ''seem'' to be) then declaring oneself an ally for the opposition doesn’t seem an awfully smart move. Does it not make one a traitor?
 
I mean, do you know what the secret society ''[[senum pallidorum]]'' does to people who break its sacred oaths? These dudes don’t muck around, you know. They’ve been sacrificing virgins in a Bavarian castle since the fourteenth century.
 
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*[[senum pallidorum|Senum pallidorum]]
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