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John Merrick
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John Merrick
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- They’re eating what now … pret sandwiches? Alright that’s it, you won me over. the innocent children must dieThe Columbia protester diet: Students munch on Pret sandwiches, pricey nuts and sip Dunkin’ trib.al/8pdLpXS
- this is an amazing quote from a 26-year-old Chinese man Luo Huazhong taken from a vital post on Baidu protesting the stagnant wages and poor work-life balance in the country on.ft.com/31J3TmD
- Sorry but have we returned to a preliterate age or something? Since when did “landscape has ideological content” become controversial?Looking at landscape paintings now problematic, experts determine
- being a writer is just googling "synonym for xxxx" 100 times a day
- I’ve been looking forward to this book for ages, and man does it not disappoint! Fascinating and almost ludicrously erudite
- This, in fact, is nice, and ascribing it to "Yookay" just shows how nakedly racist all of that stuff isup the mountain the other day and this indian gentleman had set up his tripod so that he could facetime relatives. a picture of life in rural yookay
- Ah yes, “cancelling” people who express solidarity with Palestine famously has never happened before this week, and is merely an offshoot of “cancel culture”
- some really wild responses here to this interview with a respected historian of the DDR. anti-communism is back baby!In 1990 the experiment of communist East Germany came to an end. Yet for a time it was a successful project, raising living standards against the odds. @AaronBastani speaks to @hoyer_kat about Europe’s most successful communist country, the DDR. youtube.com/watch?v=sCbM1W…Readers added contextAccording to Angus Madison, East Germany's GDP per capita in 1950 was 65% that of West Germany. By 1970, it was 59%, and, in 1990, 27%. East Germany, in 1961, also had to build a wall to keep its citizens in. stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Pa… history.com/topics/cold-wa…
- A really bad essay from Zadie Smith this, which in doing a nice humane liberal even-handedness ends up reproducing the most bad faith reading of the supposed opinions of the student protestors possible.Why, yes, Zadie, it is just rhetoric. But it’s your rhetoric. newyorker.com/news/essay/shi…
- One of the worst things about social media is how quickly such bizarre, grotesque lies can spread. seems this myth started with the Hindu right and has now quickly spread to Britain's stupidest Islamophobes
