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If you have fond thoughts about Lenin and the Revolution…stop. it. right. now
Or else. (That’s an empty threat, in case you shivered in fear when reading it.) Because I went to an excellent high school, a large public high school with terrific (union) teachers, my classmates and I were assigned an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Journalism, Politics, Propaganda, Revolution, The Facts of Life
Tagged Angela Balabanova, Angelica Balavanova, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Lenin, Leonid Krasin, Nazis, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, Victor Sebestyen
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A wowser (and terse!) description of how postmodernism has warped minds
When I had my little revelation about the possible causation of what we’ve been going through as a nation, aside from multiple traumas, I suggested postmodernism. Which is pretty hard to make sense of for an untutored mind like mine. (I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Journalism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged Encyclopedia Britannica, New York Times, Patrick Healey, postmodernism, PTSD
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What’s wrong with the NYT? In a word, kinahora
Anyone who spends a lot of time reading the New York Times and then scrolling through TAFKAT* must be aware of the antagonism directed at the Times by journalism critics. While I find much of the criticism frantic and hysterical … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Journalism, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, The god problem, Trumpism
Tagged Jewish culture, Joe Biden, journalistic grafs, journalistic heds, Kamala Harris, kinahora phuh phuh phuh, New York Times, TAFKAT, the Evil Eye, Tim Walz, Trump, Twitter
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