Not perfectly straightforward and also a bit of a slog in parts, but one doesn't have to understand all of the references on any deep level in order to get the overall point at the end.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/07/22/other-stories/?utm_source...
The title and subhead alone make a good teaser
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is absolutely furious with Bernie Sanders. Why? Because he used the appropriate word.
In Aesop's Fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, we learn the moral "that when liars speak truth they are not believed".
I've found that this is not always true, especially where politics is concerned.
In politics, truth is a relative concept that lies can beat into submission by repetition.
There's some rhetoric out there that I would like to see fade out of the so-called "Left." Life is politically pointless in America for the "Left" now, the main contests being between competing versions of the "Right," and we ought to ask why.
This country badly needs an honest and intelligent debate about immigration, but neither side appears to be willing or able to do so.
On the Republican side they scream "terrorism", when it's a proven fact that the immigration ban has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.
... at least you'd think so for all the heated discussion it has spawned.
Sigh. Once there was a dream of a site where a community of smart, kind and decent people gathered to organize and make change.
I've been reading through the various threads from Sunday this morning debating whether the word "bitch" should be verboten on this site. One side of the debate is adamant that its use is hurtful and sexist. The other side of the debate is adamant that it is their "right" to use it, regardless of whether it offends people.
Both sides expect the site moderation to side with them and enforce their rights.
A bit long for a comment, so --
My recent absence from c99 is due to emotional overload due to the ongoing filth of the HRC steamroller. It has taken several days of abstention from the media to allow me once again ability to resume communication on matters political.
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a song may be worth 1,000,000 words. Music is the universal language. It can convey more emotion than words and pictures combined.
{{{2016}}}
My one Rec on TOS (is that the right term?) when I first started to write again. It was a beginning.
[edit: TOP, not TOS, sorry]
{{{2013}}}
I had a stroke
I have trouble speaking, but I can understand you
