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Robert Granniss's avatar

I worked on Lynne Cheney's memoir years ago (Blue Skies, No Fences). It stood out in particular, because, after the usual pablum (Dick's football games, stupid americana about how beautiful Wyoming is, etc), in the epilogue, almost as an aside, she covered the suicide (or potential murder of her mother by her father), with almost a shrug and attitude "well, they looked into it, but we'll never really know..." Bone chilling.

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Esha's avatar

Lynne Cheney is the wife?

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Robert Granniss's avatar

Yeah Lynne is Dick's wife.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Life amidst a dying civilisation is bone chilling - especially when we are being deliberately killed off. Guess resurrecting what’s remaining is the game here. Remain stubbornly free wild humans.

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Esha's avatar

Well, it is the cult of individualism is so strong.. the people in the USA have no clue what is coming soon. It scares me.

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Claire C's avatar

I still can’t wrap my head around the American exceptionalism around the word “liberal”, which means something entirely different in Europe, Oceania, etc.

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Esha's avatar

Are we talking about Odoliberalism or Neoliberalism? We go over both. https://historicly.substack.com/p/ep-21-neoliberalism-a-history-of-f17?s=w#details

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Boris Petrov's avatar

“Search, Find, Tell” -- https://youtu.be/3taV2GC-udA

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Esha's avatar

Is this a suggestion for next week?

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Boris Petrov's avatar

You decide -- but stand with Russia ;-))

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Jamal's avatar

So, it appears Esha, apparently writing for her high school publication is completely out of touch with reality. Her photo should include Trump’s ass with her lips on it.

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Robert Granniss's avatar

"you, a marxist who is dumb: libs shouldn't immediately get in bed with demons who worked with Trump to enact his worst policies just because there's some mild performative outrage.

me, a very smart liberal: actually Liz Cheney is yas qwern energy incarnate. voting against the dream act and gun legislation is awesome and aligns perfectly with my values"

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lehoi's avatar

You really didn't read the article, right? First of all, Cheney wrote that article while she was in college. Secondly, she was against the divestment of the Apartheid state of South Africa. You tell me if it isn't out of touch or not.

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Esha's avatar

Everyone who supported Apartheid South Africa was against divestment.

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