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…и, натурально, остаётся прежним.

Размышляя о реалистах и идеалистах (поводом – смерть Навального), и итогах их жизней – и когда, собственно, считать эти итоги, совсем необязательно в день смерти – наткнулась на байку в своих старых постах. Байка, кроме прочего, как раз об идеалистах и прагматиках. Так странно, про прошествии 10+ лет, видеть подтверждение набоковской идеи эллиптичности в собственной жизни…

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100 years

Repost: The Truth About Vladimir Lenin a Century After His Death

[at K. Kisin’s Substack]

See also Ed Driscoll on the subject.

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Wollstonecraft called life under the Jacobins “nightmarish”. There were gigantic daytime parades requiring everyone to show themselves and lustily cheer lest they be suspected of inadequate commitment to the republic, as well as nighttime police raids to arrest ‘enemies of the republic’

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Not from Orwell

[…]a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims.

[…]The DAS program, formerly known as Hemisphere, is run in coordination with the telecom giant AT&T, which captures and conducts analysis of US call records for law enforcement agencies, from local police and sheriffs’ departments to US customs offices and postal inspectors across the country, according to a White House memo reviewed by WIRED. Records show that the White House has provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure—a maze of routers and switches that crisscross the United States.

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И оно работает без запинки.

В dreamwidth l_eron велел мне вести себя как нравится ему, быть дружелюбной с высокомерным левым дураком квантом. Не поленился поискать свои предыдущие подобные указания.  Я в ответ (наверное, тоже неоднократно – брезгую мелочно искать записаные ходы) попросила не брать на себя смешные цензурные функции моей free speech. За что была немедленно забанена.

В таком же посте, но в жуже Л-Ерон возмутился неким коллежским чинушей, кто ” с комической серьёзностью следу[ет] формуле “ненавижу расистов и негров” или “молчать, если хотите со мной разговаривать!”.

Какгрицца, isn’t it ironic!

 

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I declare

I refuse to “unpack white violence.” I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.” I will not — and in fact cannot — “examine my implicit biases.” I’m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me me.

I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.” I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands. I reject Cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex. I’m Jeff.{and I -ETat}

I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.” I am hostile to your sexualizing of children. I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech. I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master, or else the Useful Idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you and your ideology no power over me.

I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived. I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.

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She told police she left her cellphone in the couple’s bedroom, but phone records show that the device had been used multiple times in the child’s bedroom.

How can they track that? Do the “cell towers”, whatever they are, can pinpoint gps signal coming within a few ft inside someone’s home?

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From RUBICON, by Tom Holland

  • in Athens servility and arrogance had long been two sides of the same coin

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Контора всё пишет, и пишет, и пишет

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Headline

“‘Staggering’ fraud: NY AG Letitia James sues Donald Trump, kids and company”

and the comments under: 2.5 (3.3К now) THOUSANDS as of this minute.

Expected reaction:

“Another Witch Hunt by a racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who failed in her run for Governor, getting almost zero support from the public, and now is doing poorly against Law & Order A.G. candidate, highly respected Michael Henry,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I never thought this case would be brought – until I saw her really bad poll numbers. She is a fraud who campaigned on a ‘get Trump’ platform, despite the fact that the city is one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch!”

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After a long break, I am starting a course Samuel Johnson Rasselas at Ralston College, presented by Theodore Dalrymple, aka Dr. Anthony Daniels.

Week 1st intro says:

At Ralston College, we’re dedicated to recovering the call of higher education—to be a place to discover the treasures of humanistic inquiry and to seek out life’s highest purposes. We value four things above all: the pursuit of truth, the freedom on which that pursuit depends, the apprehension of beauty in all its forms, and the fellowship, or friendship, to which that pursuit gives rise.[…] We are delighted to present to you a unique learning experience in the course that follows. The format of the course comparable to the journey of the protagonist of our story. Like Rasselas, you will be led by a wise guide on a voyage of discovery with your companions.

First quote: worthy of remembering and reminding oneself:

“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.” (Rasselas, p.15)

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Twist

Заметила интересное искривление  в мозгах пищущих из России.

Подробно – в этом отрывке анонимного автора

Будет ли у нас возможность когда-то самим задать вопросы? Например, где были санкции, когда у Украины отняли Крым? Нормально ли западным странам пользоваться ворованными российскими деньгами, вот Абрамович прощает «Челси» 1,5 млрд долга? Нормально ли принимать в Париже модный дом дочери Кадырова – уже после Крыма и после вопиющего попрания прав человека в Чечне? Очень удобно стоять в белом пальто – и особенно удобно делать это тем, кто уехал из России 10-20 лет назад, – но нельзя не видеть, что у рос. правительства были основания не особенно опасаться реакции других стран. И если бы Запад начал проявлять принципиальность не сейчас, а пораньше, могло бы быть по-другому.

Или вот ещё:

Ю. Белый:

В 2014 Путина остановили от полноценного вторжения, рассказав, какие санкции будут.
В этот раз Путин ожидал санкций на уровне 2014 года, но они оказались гораздо жестче. К санкциям 2014 года был готов. Неприятно только то, что приманкой в капкане сделали Украину

Обманули бедного путю, заманили в засаду – наказания за войну с геноцидом не объяснили заранее, да ещё приманкой подложили Украину! Ишь, принципиальность показывают!

Даже пятиклассники знают – будешь ныть “а чо, петрову можно, а мне нет? “, училка  ответит “а у тебя своя голова есть? сам отвечай за свои поступки”.  Но, видимо, за 30 лет моего отсутствия до пятого класса больше никто не дорастает.

У русских произошло какое-то замещение морали с уголовным кодексом. Если наказание за преступление не пообещали открытым текстом, то всё можно. Можно резать, можно бить, и роддом взрывать: не сказали же, что за это накажут! о санкциях же не предупредили!

PS

Мой коммент того же содержания, но в более парламентских выражениях был сначала заскринен, а потом вытерт в канадском блоге по ссылке выше. Всё та же история: люди, с гордостью употребляющие слово “интеллигенция”* отчего-то позволяют себе контролировать что и как я говорю. Туда я тоже больше не ездок.

* Для меня это скорее ругательство. По-крайней мере, уважения к представителям я не испытываю.

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Apt note

Frank Tallis, Death and the Maiden (somewhere about 39% of the book):

“I have long subscribed to the view that those who achieve high office cannot enjoy perfect mental health. Such self-belief must be delusional.”

And further, from Mephisto Waltz:

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From NYPost today

We were in the welcoming arms of the Ambassadors Theatre Group.

Soon a member of staff came to warn me that I had failed to pull my mask up fast enough after my most recent swig of beer. As the show began, someone with a name badge saying “Libby” came over and told off another member of our group for failing to bring their mask up swiftly enough after sipping another of the overpriced drinks the Lyric Theatre had just sold us.

As the show began, it seemed that Libby (a k a Dolores Umbridge) had identified us as troublemakers. Flagrant sippers. After the lights had gone low, I noticed Libby standing at the end of our row staring down it, hands on hips. There she stayed, glaring through the dark.

To say this distracted from events on stage is an understatement. Impressive though the effects are, the 3¹/₂-hour plot was already pretty arse-numbing. What made it more so was knowing Libby was monitoring us throughout. Whenever she slipped out briefly, another monitor took her place. Eventually, Libby got what she wanted. About an hour into Act 1, she spied through the dark that a female member of our party had failed to replace her mask swiftly enough over her nose and mouth. Libby clambered behind our row in the stalls and startled my friend by spitting at her loudly to pull her mask up.

By the time the interval came, one of my Canadian friends — Jordan Peterson — and I decided it might be a good idea to do that regrettable thing and ask to speak with the manager. We asked. At which point we were reintroduced to Libby. Libby was the manager, and explained that we were under suspicion because our group had already received three warnings for insufficiently speedy remasking after sips. Jordan and I both asked for further guidance on what exactly constituted permissible sip length.

You know what? I’m glad I’ll not be allowed even into the line outside that theater.

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It’s back, baby

Link

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I was under a misapprehension that proof of pseudo-vaccination is required for employment at companies with more than 100 workers.

Apparently, in NYC that magic number is not a 100.

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30

It was a dark and stormy night…actually, a day – but so gloomy there wasn’t much difference.

We came out of the plane with its familiar interior and artificial comfort – and got a reality shock. Customs officers looked at us with suspicious disdain, American English turned out to be incomprehensible, and the geography of the airport – almost impenetrable. Consequent cab trip to Brooklyn revealed the city unlike I’ve ever seen – and certainly not the New York of the movies: dried-blood brick buildings of 2 stories, block after a sad block, low cloudy gray of the skies, cracked pavement and dark-dressed , hurrying people looking strictly under their feet, leaning into the wind.

O Lord, what have we done?!

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…In late July, 40,000 truckers, squeezed by price controls and rising costs, tied up transportation in a nationwide strike that lasted 37 days, costing the government US$6 million a day.[15] Two weeks before the coup, public dissatisfaction with rising prices and food shortages led to protests like the one at the Plaza de la Constitución which had been dispersed with tear gas.[16] Allende also clashed with Chile’s largest circulation newspaper El Mercurio. Tax-evasion charges were trumped up against the newspaper and its director arrested.[17] The Allende government found it impossible to control inflation, which grew to more than 300 percent by September,[18] further dividing Chileans over the Allende government and its policies.

 

См. также.

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On one hand:

Walmart requires the unvaccinated to be escorted by staff as they shop

Those without proof of vaccination are only allowed to buy groceries and pharmacy products.

[…]Under the new rules, those who show proof of vaccination will be free to shop. Those who don’t show proof of vaccination will be told to wait in a blue box until a member of staff is available to escort them as they shop. This member of staff will then follow them around the store and make sure they don’t buy any prohibited goods.

Source: Walmart introduces vaccine passports in Quebec, will require the unvaccinated to be escorted by staff as they shop
On the other,

Anti-vaccine tracker convoy coalition called Freedom Rally, are moving all over Canada in direction of Ottawa

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How is it

…that women have bigger balls than men?

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Wider perspective

A pithy quote:

“With getting a Chinese virus, we are getting more and more Chinese ourselves”

From where, you ask? Mark Steyn on GB

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Социальная страта продолжает фильтроваться в две корзинки, о кот. я говорю уже давно. Антропологу, наверное, интересно наблюдать случаи переходa (из порядочных людей – в наоборот).

Например, следите за развитием треда, вот здесь. Имея в виду что и некролик, и ефим-пп когда-то были определённо в первой корзинке – милые, мягкие интеллигенты, чгк – музыка -дети- литература- путешествия и проч. приятности.

Их всех, трусливых недомужчин в стокгольмском синдроме, перевешивает один автомеханик (примат пролетариата! правы были классики):

Требование покинуть помещение в данном случае НЕ законно. Дискриминация по признакам medical history в Канаде запрещена. Опасность данного человека для окружающих не доказана ровно ничем. Безопасность ровно такого же но вакцинированного человека для окружающих не доказана ровно ничем.

Вам может показаться логичным что невакцинированный от ковида может иметь больше шансов заразить другого человека ковидом, а я могу решить что негр может иметь больше шансов украсть из моего магазина. И на этом основании запретить вход всем неграм в мой магазин. На каждого вошедшего негра я буду вызывать полицию и они его будут вежливо в наручниках выводить. Ну и что что именно этот негр ничего не украл – статистика (тоже наука, кстати) показывает что негры воруют больше и значит мое требование не пускать негров в магазин ровно так же законно.

В свое время считалось что евреи больше распространяют болезни чем арийцы – чем это кончилось мы все знаем, напоминать казалось бы не нужно. Но по всей видимости напоминание скоро прилетит, brace for impact… Обьявить 10 – 20% населения недочеловеками за нежелание испытывать на себе некий медикамент, поразить их в гражданских правах и ожидать что они с этим просто смирятся могут только идиоты. Не смирятся и я лично поддержу всех и каждого из них в полную меру своих сил. Тех кто тогда шел в партизаны и подпольщики тоже называли преступниками и террористами и казнили на площадях под радостное улюлюканье толпы. Состоящей из таких же как вы баранов уверенных в том что власть все делает правильно.

В этой стране власть уже сгоняла в концлагеря сначала украинцев, потом японцев, потом детей индейцев – и каждый раз под дружное одобрение большинства. Ведь отдельные вредных элементов действительно надо перевоспитывать, если потребуется – силой, for a Greater Good. Потом каждый раз власть извинялась, изображала раскаяние, a дружное большинство делало вид что оно всегда и осуждало подобные действия власти. В этот раз эта страна превзошла саму себя умудряясь изображать раскаяние и делать точно такое же говно одновременно!

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Заставь дурака…

 

Чтоб посмотреть, идите на у-туб: ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ht5lu0QVgM

Виа

Впрочем, не надо зарекаться. С нынешним руководством, скорее всего, нас ждёт то же самое.

 

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Обложили.

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Vestiges of American spirit

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Medical apartheid

It is with a heavy heart I announce that I have come to the decision to step down from my position as Chorus Director of the San Francisco Symphony after almost 14 wonderful years with this top-notch organization in the magical city of San Francisco.I have with a growing sense of alarm observed the tide turn in the direction of medical passports, and now that the SFS has adopted a vaccine mandate that disregards even natural immunity from those who have had the infection, my mind is set.Medical privacy, bodily autonomy, and informed consent are basic human rights, and the C-19 injections are still experimental and operate only under Emergency Use Authorization.To coerce experimental medications on humans goes directly against The Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Declaration, regardless of what the US Justice Department has declared.My decision is informed by the very large and growing group of whistle blowing top-level scientists with concerns on long-term effects, (there are two appeals to the European Medicines Agency to halt the roll-out) and also since the reports on injury and death is already more than the past 20 years combined, both in Europe and in the US. Whatever the media tells us, the science is NOT settled on this matter and I urge people to seek out and listen to a large number of whistle-blowing scientists (I personally know several here in Sweden) in order to make an informed choice.I also struggle to understand the promotion of fear of people who have chosen to abstain from these injections. Why the fear of those who abstain if you are protected?? After the risk groups are vaccinated, why the alarm? To separate a group of people as spreaders of disease also rings ugly historical bells.Part of my decision is also that I am on principle against the medical control system now being implemented, where one is regarded sick until proven healthy, and which has already resulted in medical apartheid.I have friends in Sweden who suffer from narcolepsy after the swine flu scandal in 2009 when a badly tested vaccine was rushed to the market and injured many before it was pulled. This too has informed my decision.My heart is filled with many years of magical musical memories with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. Unforgettable performances of Mahler Symphonies and works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, Berlioz with MTT, the many brilliant guest conductors we have had, and also the times when I had the honor of being on the podium, with works by Bach, Handel, and Poulenc’s Figure Humaine and more. I also deeply regret resigning just when Esa-Pekka Salonen is taking over the helm at the SFS.I will miss this extraordinary group of talented and dedicated singers more than I can express. I will also miss the beautiful Bay Area where I met so many wonderful people and forged deep friendships.Sincerely, Ragnarhttps://www.facebook.com/ragnar.bohlin/posts/10158442122813131https://california-artists-management.squarespace.com/ragnar-b

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Некий тима:

Маски, значит, носить не хотите? Вакцинироваться не желаете? Поправки к Конституции вспоминаете? Пытаетесь тут нам дурдом устроить?! А в солнечном Пакистане все решилось очень просто. Не вакцинируешься? Не пускаем на самолеты и в поезда. Тебе это по барабану, и ты стоишь на своем? Отлично, отключим тебе сотовый телефон. Продолжаешь не вакцинироваться? Задерживаем зарплату, пока не поставишь прививку.

Только так победим! А не вашими бумажными свободами и криками на демонстрациях. Ишь, демократию развели тут, панимаишь.

 

Когда я такое читаю, одна мысль:  уебать подонка ржавой шваброй по самые гланды. научить свободу любить, коммуняцкую шваль

 

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QotD

By Dr. Patrick Frank, elsewhere:

The mRNA treatment is not a vaccine in any conventional or medical-science sense of that word.

The US presently has about 12,000 mRNA-associated deaths and more than 1M adverse events, many very serious.

Meanwhile, SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19) is dangerous only to older infirm people. The young to age 30 are virtually immune without treatment. By age 50, the infection survival rate is still 99.9% and is 99% at 70. And that’s when left untreated.

Treated with Ivermectin and/or HCQ/Zn/Vitamin D, and survival increases by a further 60-80%

Even the CDC reported that ~5.5% of the reported deaths were from the virus itself. The remaining ~94.5% had an average of 4 comorbidities.

The whole Covid frenzy is built on nothing. SARS-Cov-2 is not dangerous. The mRNA treatment is experimental and now known to be acutely dangerous, with completely unexplored long-term dangers.

No one should get the mRNA treatment. The benefits are non-existent and the costs are ever more obvious.

The whole thing — the alarm, the lock-downs, the active suppression of effective drug-treatments, the character assassinations of physicians who speak out, the coercive pressures to get jabbed – in some countries forced injections – the injections of infants, the subversion of parental authority — it is the worst crime against humanity since Mao Zedong imposed Communism and murdered 120 million of his countrymen.

But in this case the crime is carried out by elected officials upon previously free peoples.

The reason people are quiet, I think, is because they have not yet come to accept that it may take a shooting war to resist the culture war being waged against them.

No one wants to upend their normal life. Upending requires people driven to desperation. People who have nothing more to lose. That may be coming.

ps

PF adds:

interview with Peter McCullough
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UUntQrk2OLzI/

Also this conversation with Reiner Fuellmich and David Martin
https://rumble.com/vjo5wr-pademic-scam-blown-wide-open.-dr-david-martin-dr-reiner-fuellmich-july-9-20.html

Fuellmich translates for his German audience, making the discussion 2 hr. You can skip across if you like.

Both interviews are extraordinary, and paint a picture of malignancy beyond understanding.

Recorded 9 October 2020, but still relevant and still stunning.

https://rumble.com/vamvw1-crimes-against-humanity-dr-reiner-fuellmich.html

 

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Из langobard-а (к которому вообще-то отношусь с осторожностью):

Особенность опыта девяностых заключается в том, что пережившие вспоминают его именно как возвращения того, что в пионерлагерном раю брежневизма считалось принципиально невозвращаемым. В холоде и кипятке девяностых оказались люди, свято верившие, что массовая нищета, бессмысленные войны, культ денег, повальное пренебрежение элементарными нормами морали, абсолютное общественное равнодушие к чьим бы то ни было страданиям, цветисто говоря, “цветущая варваризация”, более в принципе невозможны. Все это является этаким пройденным этапом, прожитым и преодоленным историческим прошлым из книжек и фильмов. Но ведь всё это вернулось и показало себя во всей красе.

Да. То чувство из 90х – что земля осыпается под ногами, вокруг в лучшем случае – равнодушные, а в худшем – активные погромщики, бывшие ещё вчера милыми соседями, делившимися рецептом”сирного торта” – отозвалось потом ещё несколько раз. В первые годы после приезда. В первый взрыв WTC. Во второй. Во время NY blackout. И – затяжное – весь прошлый и весну нынешнего года. Бог весть, что день грядущий нам готовит.  Веры, спокойствия и безопасности уж точно больше не будет.

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уличных боёв о природе происходящего вокруг гнусного корыстного надувательства:

…кстати, это fallacy of inconsequence. вы выдаёте за следствие то, что таким не является (распространённaя агитка, что локдауны, маски и проч. белиберда остановили инфекцию – ETat). природа вирусов – становиться со временем менее заразными и значительно менее смертельными. просто-напросто грипп (тяжёлый, но грипп) – пошёл на спад сам по себе, по своей природе, потому, что у населения выработался естественный иммунитет. выдавать это за достижение хрен-пойми какой”вакцины” – недобросовестно, в лучшем случае.

it’s a classic “tiger repellent” argument fallacy. See Simpsons:
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn’t work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]

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When the Republican Party abandoned the US President on November 4th, Lin Wood and a handful of American patriots stood with the president and worked to expose the fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[…]

Lin Wood is not (sic! possibly “now”) communicating to his supporters on Telegram. On Thursday Wood told his followers the State Bar of Georgia wants him to undergo a mental health exam.

Source

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At Mencius:

Isn’t it amazing, by the way, that the great temple of our democracy which that foul mob of lawless and irresponsible hooligans defiled—dumping someone else’s tea into the harbor is not who we are—is… about as democratic as the Supreme Soviet?

Specifically: it has the incumbency rate of the late Bourbons, a seniority system that would get Chernenko hard, and the popularity of Idi Amin Dada. And standing behind it is the whole legislative branch, miscalled the “executive branch,” with its permanent civil service—as permanent as anything in the USSR.

I grew up in the Cold War. I took it seriously, especially the nuclear holocaust thing. But in the end, did East and West turn out to be all that different?

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To whom it concerns:

Open an alternate account on Dreamwidth. And it wouldn’t hurt to start learning Russian: it seems, we are the last American Patriots of anti-commie persuasion here.

Read this, for instance. 

Even w/o knowing the language of the commentary, you’ll appreciate the links: they are in English.

PS.

You can find me on Gab and Parler under Besed_ka and Besedka, accordingly.

Tell me how to find you there (I will not publish your comment, if you so wish)

 

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, that we thought were left behind in the country of inept treacherous intelligentsia have caught up with us here:

Whom to blame? and What is to be done? [Кто виноват? и Что делать?]

The former is obvious. The latter is where all kinds of problems start.

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