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Fake news versus real news in a dictatorship: upsidedownism and samisdat in the U.S. of A.
How peculiarly upside down things are. As I was commenting on the scary Charlie Warzel interview with a games designer,I kept thinking about samisdat. I kept reading and typing and thinking, “What the hell?” Trump calls our free press, our … Continue reading
Posted in American fascism, How I Learned The Facts of Life, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Amazon, Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, French resistance, KGB, Mikhail Bulgakov, samisdat, Soviet Union, The Master and Margarita
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Racism, corporate and Christian awakenings, and police blotters
From Harper’s Weekly Report: Colgate-Palmolive announced that it is considering changing the brand name Darlie, which is marketed in Chinese as “Black person toothpaste”; the line was formerly called “Darkie” and used a man in blackface for its logo. “…considering…” … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged Ahmaud Arbery, Amazon, Bubba Wallace, Colgate-Palmolive, corporations and racism, Darlie toothpaste, Derek Chauvin, Harper's Weekly Report, Juneteenth, McDonald's, NASCAR, police news, racism, Snapchat, Washington Redskins, white privilege
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I never buy from Amazon. Two new reasons in support
From 538 Significant Digits: 8 pages During its failed establishment of a second headquarters in New York City, Amazon reportedly kept a “burn book” — “an eight-page, bullet-pointed, Calibri font testimony” of what the company saw as insults from politicians … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer boycott, The Facts of Life
Tagged 538 Significant Digits, Amazon, Amazon headquarters, Amazon Ring
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