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"Within the intelligentsia, a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain is more or less compulsory, but it is an unfaked emotion in many cases. . . . English left-wing intellectuals did not, of course, actually want the Germans or Japanese to win the war, but many of them could not help getting a certain kick out of seeing their own country humiliated, and wanted to feel that the final victory would be due to Russia, or perhaps America, and not to Britain. In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result, "enlightened" opinion is quite largely a mirror-image of Conservative policy."
-- George Orwell
The likelihood of communist Nithya Raman getting 40% of the mail-in vote is
equal to calling 6,053 coin flips right in a row
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I’ll give the Democrats some credit where it’s do… They are amazingly good
and efficient cheaters. And they know weak
The post The likelihood of communis...
7 hours ago
Thanks for a timely post.
ReplyDeleteOrwell also had some trenchant observations on pacifism and pacifists which are just as damning.
There is a 4-volume collection of Orwell's essays, reviews, letters, etc which is well worth reading.