Comments on: Open thread 4/29/22 https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 01 May 2022 22:02:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ObloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621476 Sun, 01 May 2022 22:02:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621476 I hope the eyes are doing fine. I’d hate to be in a world without your regular surveys of the world at large.

]]> By: Owen https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621241 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:08:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621241 Neo: welcome home. Very glad that the trip was successful. Stay well.

]]> By: Milwaukee https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621221 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:11:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621221 About Disney going woke. I’m sure we could find earlier examples, but here is one.
Hollywood Consultant Admits ‘Glee’ Started the Wokeness Epidemic
The theater was for centuries considered a disreputable place, and actors and actresses low-lifes. Now, we revere the utterances which drip from their lips. My grandmother was against the movie industry, and suggested we would end up worshipping the actors and actresses’.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621211 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 03:19:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621211 There’s an excellent compilation of “the eXile” magazine, which I highly recommend for its humor, wackiness and particular keyhole into an historical moment.

https://www.amazon.com/Exile-Sex-Drugs-Libel-Russia/dp/0802136524/ref=sr_1_1

Or there was. It’s out of print. And now going for $250! Oh, my beating heart…

I gave my copy away, “Hands across the water” or something, to a Russian expatriate in Silicon Valley.

She was the one who told me, “You Americans always think things will get better.”

I still do.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621210 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 03:10:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621210 Welcome back, neo! So happy for a happy ending.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621209 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 03:08:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621209 Re: Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled (MBunge)

Not to say yea or nay, but just FYI…

I was pretty sure Ames was the Mark Ames who founded and edited, “the eXile,” a free paper for English-speaking expatriates in Moscow after the Soviet Union collapsed. And he was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ames

Ames hired Matt Taibbi to work for “the eXile.” Which is where Taibbi go his big first cred as a journalist.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

]]> By: Tuvea https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621205 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:18:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621205 Fantastic!

Be safe and stay well.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621174 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:28:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621174 Another CIA guy and Sundance from ConservativeTreehouse.com have spoken. Fog of war.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621171 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:17:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621171 this is what the current CIA director william burns, stated in his book, as sundance pointed out, now what is our interest in a conflict that could turn nuclear,

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/04/29/open-thread-4-29-22/#comment-2621169 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:02:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=116450#comment-2621169 Geoffrey:

Did you listen to the interview?

Beebe made the claim that NATO “expansion” into Eastern Europe was unacceptable to Russia and a “red line.” He faults the west for that. You may agree if you actually listen.

I do not find his argument credible; too accomodating to Vlad’s Roosia and its goal to dominate Europe IMO.

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