This line gave me a chill: "But I guess what should be noted is that we really are in a bizarre moment in terms of election manipulation, and everything that happens going forward needs to be subject to immense scrutiny." Having thought and read somewhat deeply about Czech history under Communism, and having witnessed the lingering effects on people there -- even now old men sniff each other out to see if they might be Communist sympathizers -- it's a truly alarming prospect. But it seems like a not-illogical outcome of political polarization. Once that lid of a totalitarian government slams shut, it is incredibly difficult to open again.
I would like to think that America is just too large, too unruly, to control in that way. But it all begins with media, which is wielding precisely that kind of control -- to the point that you can scarcely have a conversation like this with anyone. I've spent some guilty moments feeling like I ought to quit splitting hairs with Harris and just be glad about how well she's doing. But I also recognize that some of what she's saying about price controls is pretty alarming, and that this is not some Golden Age of matriarchy that we're about to enter. Historic firsts should not require us to stop thinking critically, and neither should the relentless specters of crisis. I deeply resent my hand always being forced by the feeling that if we don't rally behind so-and-so, we better watch out.
Was struck recently by how lucky we all are that language drift has not sped up and the words thecstare department uses are still legible. Sanctions still rhymes in thesauri with boycott. In other words while we might accept with positive emotions the apparent ineffectuality of sanctions, that all, those look at father fade jokiness, is as if nothing compared to the punitive deaths that US sanctions achieve. In Cuba, neverminding Russia, in Haiti, our natiinal mind is sick with lazy vindictiveness and already one of these situations is fiasco. We are going to feel good about vomiting after Cuba falls, real politic to what end? I am sick. I have more muscle mass than Jane Fonda, but she does more for strangers than our generosity in dreams. Characters and ideas welcome...
I'm not in favor of testing Putin's "red lines" Enough improbable chances of a catastrophic event and inevitably you'll get a catastrophic event.
This line gave me a chill: "But I guess what should be noted is that we really are in a bizarre moment in terms of election manipulation, and everything that happens going forward needs to be subject to immense scrutiny." Having thought and read somewhat deeply about Czech history under Communism, and having witnessed the lingering effects on people there -- even now old men sniff each other out to see if they might be Communist sympathizers -- it's a truly alarming prospect. But it seems like a not-illogical outcome of political polarization. Once that lid of a totalitarian government slams shut, it is incredibly difficult to open again.
I would like to think that America is just too large, too unruly, to control in that way. But it all begins with media, which is wielding precisely that kind of control -- to the point that you can scarcely have a conversation like this with anyone. I've spent some guilty moments feeling like I ought to quit splitting hairs with Harris and just be glad about how well she's doing. But I also recognize that some of what she's saying about price controls is pretty alarming, and that this is not some Golden Age of matriarchy that we're about to enter. Historic firsts should not require us to stop thinking critically, and neither should the relentless specters of crisis. I deeply resent my hand always being forced by the feeling that if we don't rally behind so-and-so, we better watch out.
Was struck recently by how lucky we all are that language drift has not sped up and the words thecstare department uses are still legible. Sanctions still rhymes in thesauri with boycott. In other words while we might accept with positive emotions the apparent ineffectuality of sanctions, that all, those look at father fade jokiness, is as if nothing compared to the punitive deaths that US sanctions achieve. In Cuba, neverminding Russia, in Haiti, our natiinal mind is sick with lazy vindictiveness and already one of these situations is fiasco. We are going to feel good about vomiting after Cuba falls, real politic to what end? I am sick. I have more muscle mass than Jane Fonda, but she does more for strangers than our generosity in dreams. Characters and ideas welcome...
State Dept.