Yeah it helps when it's a bunch of people who have been protesting this whole time, rather than only showing up after the election lol

I don't remember the source, but I always think back to that Stalin quote where he said he felt like a cult of personality was being built around him, with the aim that it would be used against him eventually. It seems like his suspicions were true, since that is exactly what happened after his death.

Reading about things like him being referenced in the national anthem, or the naming of Stalingrad, as a couple examples, there's always a note that he objected to it before it was approved over his objection. Of course that's usually portrayed as him putting on a show after ordering the things himself, but it seems to line up with the idea that it wasn't being pushed by him, since he's noted as disapproving of those kinds of things every time I've read about them.

It's been probably a couple of years now, I stopped in the middle of an episode after Robert or the guest or someone (I don't really remember at this point lol) went on an apropos of nothing rant against China, and I haven't listened since. It had been getting on my nerves for a while, but that was the last straw for me. Something about an "anarchist" who makes their living entirely off of corporate sponsorships, enough that they stopped being a journalist and moved into a "compound" (his word, iirc), never sat right with me anyway.

As far as I know, which to be fair isn't much, it's more of a landback kind of thing. Same deal as tribes in the US purchasing land in recent times, just involving the government directly rather than buying it from individual owners.

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I know Yugopnik posted in the last couple of days that he had just met JT and Hakim in person, so that would explain JT being outside the US at least lol

Lol I've been waiting to see some takes on it. I haven't read too much into it yet, but it seems like it could potentially be a big deal

And the christo-fascist president in Parable of the Talents using the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again". I wish she had been able to write the third book

I feel like the execution could have been better as well. I don't know how many people actually listen through albums from start to finish nowadays, but for anyone who doesn't it's just random hatred with nothing to contextualize it. Especially since they may never even hear the latter half of the album if they only listen to playlists or something. I was interested with the concept of the album before it came out, and there are a few good songs on there, but I'm pretty disappointed with the way he chose to do it

Can anyone suggest a good current events recap video or something similar? Some of my siblings were recently homeless for several weeks, and now that things have improved and stabilized for them, one of them mentioned feeling like they don't know anything that's going on right now. I was hoping there's something out there that would help them get caught back up, without me sending them like ten different videos on individual topics

Goes to show that the "two-state solution" is a liberal fantasy that could never actually happen

I also see what looks like half of a lemon in the top left. I just noticed the brussels sprouts too lol