“Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls.
That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.”
Hitler, Stalin, Freud, Trotsky, and Franz Joseph all lived within a radius of a few km in Vienna in 1913-14. “Stalin could have, with real probability, walked past a homeless Hitler trying to sell his mediocre watercolor paintings on the street…”
The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying. “Tariffs are the most obvious example” but also food prices rising due to the immigrant crackdown, rising energy prices bc of the regime’s anti-solar bias. And the tax is flowing into corporate coffers.
Disgraced Double Bay property developer charged with impersonating AFP officer
I fled Putin’s brutal regime, now Trump is deporting me back to Russia
Russian dissident fears ‘deadly threat’ upon his return after US rejects his asylum application
Trump and the return of Great Man theory
Gilded Rage — an origin story of the new tech right
How the Proud Boys invented antifa
Salon – The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump’s White House: “The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance:
There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long time, in the sense that there have long been leftists who fight fascism with tactics like outing, public shaming and a very occasional fist to the Nazi nose. But antifa, at least as imagined by President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, simply does not exist. The president recently signed an executive orderdeclaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” which is not a legal designation.
His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all. Antifa is not “a militarist, anarchist enterprise,” nor does it use “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism.” It doesn’t “conceal its funding sources and operations,” and it certainly isn’t involved in “spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech.”
MAGA’s imaginary version of antifa is no different than past urban legends about demonic possession and QAnon’s claims that Oscar winner Tom Hanks eats children’s brains. But this false conflation between individuals throughout history resisting fascism and “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to confuse…
MAGA’s imaginary version of antifa is no different than past urban legends about demonic possession and QAnon’s claims that Oscar winner Tom Hanks eats children’s brains. But this false conflation between individuals throughout history resisting fascism and “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to confuse, just like Trump’s ridiculous roundtable on antifa earlier this month. Conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, one of the event’s attendees, insisted that “antifa is real” and there were “various iterations” that go “back to Weimar Republic in Germany.”…”
