Comments on: Reading Lolita in Tehran is even more relevant than before

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:07:27 +0000

A sisi was the best of the available options that doesnt mean hes really trustworthy

By: one

one — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:07:21 +0000

Lunatics tend to hijack the majority of revolutions in the third world.

Iran – Khomeini
Iraq – Saddam
Egypt – From Abdul Nasser to Alsisi in the present day.
Syria – Alasad

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:49:06 +0000

good men make for soft men how did yeats put ‘the worst filled with passionate intensity’ there was a troll at another blog, which i’ll not name, like invoking beetlejuice, because he called me a bastistiano, as if that was some kind of curse, whereas Maoists and Stalinists, see Anita Dunn and Jeremy Corbyn, technically he was a Trotskyite are non deemed unredeemable, they as Burnham a former Trotskyite, described the drive to power, which angered Orwell, even though he borrowed liberally from Burnham

By: Cappy

Cappy — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:10:24 +0000

Thinking back to the true believers of those days, the ones that still hold fast to their hopes and dreams, and thinking of the eager, earnest young sadistic Jew haters of today, the phrase that comes to mind is

“Meh”

By: Fred the Fourth

Fred the Fourth — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:23:53 +0000

Jj:

Pilots…

When my father retired, after a career as a NASA pilot and a USMCR squadron CO, the first thing he did was get rated to fly seaplanes. Oddly, NASA did not see a seaplane rating as work-related…

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:53:10 +0000

So danny strong the punk that gave us empire and game change is trying to paint castro as a victim in a propaganda piece for show time about the mob

By: Gringo

Gringo — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:47:05 +0000

If it wasnt for mexico shipping him to us like one of those stink bombs the world would have been a better place they served a similar function to the German General Staff and Lenin

Blame “humanitarian” motives. Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez all led a failed coup/putsch/insurrection. Instead of the “humanitarian” penalty of some time in prison followed by release from prison, the world would have been better off if all three had been executed. So much for “humanitarian” motives.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:55:26 +0000

Who said that the Times Herbert Matthews (of whom buckley made that mock advertisement for fidel) as with halberstam a decade later he was talking out of his rear quarters

Batista was a nice guy compared to the wandering coma as luque escalona one of the last great dissidents described him, this is why urban paramilitaries arose in brazil and other places

If it wasnt for mexico shipping him to us like one of those stink bombs the world would have been a better place they served a similar function to the German General Staff and Lenin

By: R2L

R2L — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:52:11 +0000

David Foster: ““Intelligent but not creative” describes a high % of our academic and media classes.”
That would fit with my definitions of intelligence as the ability to recognize patterns, and of creativity as the ability to recognize new patterns.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:16:43 +0000

miguel cervantes

in pre Castro Cuba, many intellectuals of a center left beat did go on the ritual denunciations of Batista, because reasons, frankly in restrospect, he was probably too soft too clubbable for the task at hand, why regimes in South America, were decidedly more aggressive

Fidel Castro exposed the incompetence of Batista’s army, which showed itself to be the veritable “paper tiger.” I have read that about 2,000 lives were lost in Castro’s gaining of power. Not many.

That led to an overconfidence on Castro’s part regarding what he could accomplish with his governance. “Yes, it is difficult to increase milk production, but after all we accomplished the very difficult task of overthrowing Batista.” Actually, it was relatively easy to overthrow Batista.

Castro’s overconfidence resulted in many failed projects- the 10 million ton sugar harvest, etc. Milk production in Cuba is about 10-20% greater than it was 6 decades ago, while milk production in Latin America has more than quadrupled during that time. Castro was very skilled at acquiring, maintaining and increasing his power, but not so skilled at using that power to benefit the Cuban people.