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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/two-weeks-at-the-front-in-ukraine

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/the-system-that-failed-jordan-neely

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The breaking of a people.
Exploited by two rival capitalist factions, the extermination of the Highlanders marks a prelude to the colonial holocaust of the succeeding century and the victory of King Capital.
1964 film classic.

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https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/article275346011.html

America today. Nowhere is safe.

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Similarly with homosexual and feminist etc. activists. They support armed forces and join them.

Today, Quentin Crisp could not have adroitly used his sexuality to avoid the draft!

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In The Laughing Man, Victor Hugo calls the heirs to the British peerage ‘a troop of brats.’

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The Blood Behind Britain’s Bling

Of interest.

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The U.S. militarization of law enforcement and the threat spiral.

https://www.magzter.com/stories/culture/The-New-Yorker/HOME-FIRES

“[McVeigh] joined the army, where he remembered being made to scream “Blood makes the grass grow! Kill! Kill! Kill!” twenty times a day during training until his “throat was raw.” “

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“Someday you (the ruling class) will be gone. Someday true society will begin.”

Gwynplaine’s speech.

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Article on Charles III in this week’s New Yorker (May 8th): “King Me” by Rebecca Mead.

Of interest.

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The Christian who is a socialist? Hm, that would be Thomas More (the original one, that is).

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I’m going to open a new thread on Sade, because this has gone seriously off topic.

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Must We Burn Sade?

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Thank you, but i’m housebound.

Horrifically, I did in fact desert to the King’s side, from Devereux’s regiment to Sir Bevill Grenvile’s! (Oh, horror!)

Yes, I had a pash for the three pretty sisters who ran the royalist regt, and preferred being with them to being with beer-bellied middle-aged roundheads.

Not all bad news though. At least I signed up for the rebel side in the 1985 Monmouth re-enactment, and got kicked in the groin by a royalist colonel on Glastonbury Tor.

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Next you’ll say Alexandre Dumas was a reactionary for making his musketeers try to save Charles I. in Thirty Years After.
An admirable novel. You’d do well to read it, to give you some “pluck” and buckle your swash a little.

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