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On third millennium geopolitics.
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a garbage dump in siberia
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When I tell you the Russians really, really, really revere their Great Patriotic War heroes, I'm not just whistling Dixie. Their memorials and museums and cemeteries are in every town across the entire expanse of their country, right along with art museums, every imaginable type of museum, and theaters and opera houses and gorgeous parks and playgrounds and seemingly endless restaurants and nightclubs and street vendors of all sorts.
Yeah, it's way more low key out in the tiny towns where dashas abound, and half of them don't have even electricity, let alone plumbing, just places to go be away from the pressures of the city, and closer with your family, in the summertime.
There really are a thousand things about Russia you would find admirable or even enviable if you took the time to educate yourself on it, instead of just letting propaganda waft through your head... I, for instance, have still not gotten over seeing the late night street cleaners in Peter. Not just the vehicles with the brushes, but guys emptying the trash cans that line the streets and SHAMPOOING the sidewalks with those spray wands you see at the car wash. If you are amazed to see how Russia's cities actually sparkle, this would be part of it.
It reminds me of San Francisco and Portland and Seattle back when I was a young lady... only even safer, cleaner, and prettier. It's as though Russians are like Americans before we were debauched and demoralized to bits.
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think of all the people who died of AIDS
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And then think of the people who have lately been killing people with the not-a-vaccine. Amazing coincidences abounding.
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sing song solipsism
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Just sort of skips over the parts about the effort to change over from rule by capitalist vampires to a fair shake for the people, while not understanding fully the ways the vampires can still suck you dry.
I remember Jimmy Carter coming up with a nonviolent way to impose enmity on other countries, thinking, of course, that sanctions would squeeze governments into no longer sustaining themselves. Well, it pretty quickly became apparent that governments were not going to let that happen to themselves. It would happen to their people instead.
So, as quickly, sanctions became a way to convince the people of other countries to overthrow their governments, starvation being THE way to get them on that task... except, they ended up just starving instead... which proves the ancient truism that nothing good is all good and nothing bad is always all bad... say, you could break your leg and it would end up saving you from the press gangs roaming Ukraine for unwilling ground meat, or win the lottery and get so excited you drop dead of a heart attack.
Still, the SCO figured out a way to turn the tables on the sanctions-addicted Collective West, and it's been spectacularly effective already, and very well might end up making us starve, for once, instead. Maybe even me in the first wave.
Anyway, here we have one of those pleasing indoctrination voices, telling us that Venezuelans are too unsophisticated and too easily corruptible to save themselves.
This fine mess has ended up giving US employers a steady flow of cheap labor, Democrats a steady flow of dumbed voters, just when Venezuela is becoming able to get out from under the thumb of the oppressors, making deals with Russians to solve their problems with both refining and sales of their number one commodity and bringing their economy into shape for other industries to flourish, but... ahem... Sing Song, here, doesn't mention that part.
Still, he does, despite himself, manage to illustrate how fallible socialism actually is when humans are in charge of it... and no, AI won't fix that. It would only make it yet harder to reason our way out of.
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clown world
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I remember a time when it was okay to be gay, as opposed to it being trendy. I remember a time when, to a marked degree, "content of our character" had finally overtaken race barriers for the most part, and where races were still in the grip of oppression, whites were among them. I remember when we finally could see the end of some of the very worst things in our culture.
We were even really near a very reasonable compromise on the matter of abortion.
I was feeling that my generation had ended up making real progress happen, maybe even just despite ourselves. Yes, the kids were getting pretty far out there on the extremes of culture-denial fashion trends, but that's kids. I had started to think even that the rest of the world was going to beat the corporations, the oligarchs, the globalist psychopaths out of their WWIII, that there still might be skirmishes here and there, but countries were mostly shaping themselves into workable independent units.
I was then distracted from it to work my frazzled butt off to beat some Wall Street thugs out of decimating tens of thousands of acres of redwood timberlands... which just happened to be when Clinton was "peacekeeping" in the former Yugoslavia. Had I not been SO busy accomplishing my big impossible feat of environmentalism, I think maybe I'd've lost my feeling of hopefulness about the future of my country and the world right there.
So, yeah, I was too dreamy... but there really were blatant signs of sense about to prevail in almost all directions. Then the 2000 election was stolen for Dubby, then 9/11, then everyone lost their shit, all kinds of anti-American activity going on in the government of the United States, then Obama mops the floor with them, out anti-Americans them by many orders of magnitude, even in the anti-Russian department, until finally Donald Trump, of all people, saves us from the antichrist, only to have the cabal of subhuman power mongers blow up into a planet-swallowing evil-generation machine... which is where we find ourselves now.
I remember when clowns were happy and bright instead of terrifying and dark.
"You vill eat zee bugs."
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eeeven more macgregor
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Just in case your relaxation from listening to someone sensible has not yet let you have a nap... and I tell you what, I am NOT the only one plucked off the edge of despair by hearing him speak. All manner of self-appointed backups channels have cropped up on the video services AND people are posting the living snot out of each one of them they come across.
It's starting to be very hard to separate one from another, so I've stopped being too picky about which incarnation, just trying to stay current, and taking heart that so many people are cropping up to register on my eyeprints that sensible people ARE still out there. That's vital, you know.
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okay, two things
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[1] If you did not see this coming, you have not been paying attention; and [2] that image they used was snapped a split second before those two horses tossed that geezer across the paddock.
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