tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post9597294077319552..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Links 7 May 2021Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-51834408075901826002021-05-09T10:40:35.267-04:002021-05-09T10:40:35.267-04:00I love the Princess Bride reference.
Many of my s...I love the Princess Bride reference.<br /><br />Many of my students are convinced Hitler was a Communist. Some instinctively use the terms Communist, Nazi, and hereditary aristocracy as synonyms. Some state baldly that Communism is about protecting inherited wealth; they do not mean this as a subtle comment on the reality of North Korea or anything like that. Some are simply impervious to my attempts to convince them otherwise.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-38688545202455622142021-05-07T14:44:56.375-04:002021-05-07T14:44:56.375-04:00"Makes me wonder once again about American bu...<i>"Makes me wonder once again about American businessmen."</i><br /><br />What's to wonder about? The corporations are run by idiots and have been for a long time.<br /><br /><i>"Arizona's bizarre "audit" of the ballots from Maricopa County. And the added mystery of checking for bamboo fibers that might prove thousands of ballots were flown in from China."</i><br /><br />I love how these idiots 1) think that it makes any sense whatsoever to falsify national election ballots in a foreign country whose government is a totalitarian terror which rivals us geopolitically and that would just LOVE to be able to produce even the slightest evidence that our election was illegitimate...<br /><br />...and 2) are <i>so gosmackingly racist</i> that they think the smoking gun to look for isn't a shipping manifesto, a flight-plan, a customs declaration, or any of countless other records (either American or Chinese) that would quite naturally have to exist (and presumably be falsified) in order for the idiotic ploy above to work, but rather to look for <i>goddamn bamboo fibers</i>, as if they're just somehow literally everywhere in China for no particular reason, floating around in the air, drifting in the wind, and any item which comes from China MUST be sporting a light dusting of bamboo (even if the items were manufactured in the Tien Shan, the Gobi Desert, Manchuria, or basically anywhere outside of warm, bamboo suited Southern China).G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com