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Elon mishegas for your Thanksgiving pleasure
Harper’s Weekly Review provides: Elon Musk, who tanked the value of the social media platform he renamed “X” by at least 71% in just one year of owning it, challenged Putin to “single combat” to end the war in Ukraine, … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Government, Journalism, Mishegas, The god problem, Trumpism, War on Ukraine
Tagged Cybertruck, Elon Musk, Harper's, Putin, Tesla, Twitter, X
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And then there was light! (When was that? Where?)
Here I am, once again bearing a torch against despair. There are some realities that might lighten your mood or shift it into resistence (a lot better than despair), one of which is Lawrence Tribe’s talk with Ali Velshi on … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Human rights, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, The god problem, Trumpism, War
Tagged " RR Palmer, A History of the Modern World, Age of Enlightenment, Ali Velshi, conservatism, Edmund Burke, humanitarianism, Joel Colton, Lawrence Tribe, liberalism, nationalism, plutocracy, US Constitution, white supremacists
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Two cults brilliantly described in one magazine issue
I don’t know whether David Remnick conceived of the August 26 New Yorker as cult-themed. But I think it is, after reading two long, riveting pieces of journalism, each about a nightmarish movement, one in our country, one in Kenya. … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Guns in the U.S. of A., Journalism, The Facts of Life, The god problem, Trumpism
Tagged "A Cult in the Forest", "The Infiltrators", Alexis Okeowo, American cult of violence, David D Kirkpatric, David Remnick, doomsday cults, Jim Jones, Kenyan death cult, Kool Aid, The New Yorker, William Branham
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