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He basically just uses Stalinist to mean overly bureaucratic which he does roughly explain. The language he uses isn’t always great but I think it’s an overall insightful book but quite pessimistic though I think that’s fair given when it was written. I do think the “state of the left” has slightly changed since then but maybe that’s just terminally online brain
i still don’t know why this site was named hexbear and im kinda nervous to ask
The original is just a ripoff of that William Carlos Williams poem but with peaches:
This is just to say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
Damn, guess they are smarter than me now :deeper-sadness:
I want Tumblr to rise again so badly. I haven’t used it in a long time but it is the only social media I can say I ever had a long-term good relationship with
Speaking to the Irish Times, Wolfe Tones songwriter Brian Warfield said: "What the hell is wrong with IRA? It is the Irish Republican Army. It is the people who put us here and gave us some hope when we had no hope. "There were terrible things that happened on both sides, but don’t give me the argument that it was one-sided. Don’t tell me that you can’t sing Celtic Symphony but you can sing God Save the King? Don’t give the argument that Land of Hope and Glory isn’t a rebel song. It is. “In England they wear poppies and rise them up to sir this and sir that for killing for English expansionism but to kill to gain Ireland’s freedom is a terrible crime.”
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