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Actually the most interesting relation is between "equity" and "justly," "fair," "square" because they all mean the same thing except the other three imply AUTHORITY responsibly exercised, so "equity" means "We're authority pretending we're not authority"

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Early 20th century Great Liberals means libertarian pious murderers by spreadsheet like Peel and Clinton, made temporarily impotent because neither the levellers nor the reactionaries wanted to hear it - that isn't the whole truth but it's more than half of it

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Very Roosevelt writing upbeat letters to every regional Democratic leader about how we'll get them next time immediately after Al Smith lost - unfortunately Sanders is a million years old and the party leaders who don't hate him are scared to death of the ones who do

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Very useful word, equity, on the one hand it sounds better than "inequality," but even better, if someone is for equality, you can scare them by saying they're for inequity, which is of course necessarily true

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What's interesting is that the one thing these liberal freaks hate even more than stopping the war is re-industrializion - they half consciously want to keep grinding Americans into hamburger until there aren't any left because that's what will maximally pwn the chuds and tankies

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The important part here is the delusion that the nice liberal big trade deficit America that nice Democrats love could do a Marshall plan (secondarily that the Marshall plan mattered)

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A Survivor From Warsaw is an easy target because of the text, but the music reminds me of the Kol Nidrei that no one complains about - what I'm saying is Late Schoenberg is underrated because he was already a decade ahead of the kidz using 12 tone as just one item in his tool kit

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Going to keep saying this would be less bad if the Democrats weren't likely going to keep choosing leaders who've been wanting to do this forever, because economists say it's Responsible Tough Choices, and won't undo it

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Joachim suppressing Schumann's beautiful violin concerto and Brahms and Clara going along because it showed Signs Of Madness - showed signs that you traitors would have cancelled him for Music Of The Future tendencies if he'd kept going is what it did www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM2T...

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Someone said British seem to still care about World War I more than Russians or French - World War II gets more attention in Russia for obvious reasons, if it's the same in France maybe that proves that people care more about civilian than military casualties

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I'll never blame anyone for playing the classical keyboard repertory on a guitar because (1) most of it is wrong for a modern piano too and that never stopped you and (2) have you heard the classical guitar repertory

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I'm not saying Paglia was right that Sappho and Dickinson are better than other female poets because they were lesbians I'm just saying Hildegard of Bingen in another autistic field would fit the pattern

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The snag in my theory of the far right reassembling the original French-German-Italian European Union trinity is that AfD is a Protestant affair - 1989, the gift that keeps on giving

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It's cute how Anglo-Saxons used to shake their heads at Voltaire blaming Shakespeare for not writing exactly like Racine - and then blame everyone for not writing exactly like Shakespeare - or: fetishizing Mixed Drama leads to the Funny parts in John Ford that no one likes

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People say Lisa Simpson prefigured the girlboss but that's an oversimplification, the girlboss wouldn't request All Live Musicians, that would be giving cool girl rockism www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Mu...

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Belgian who doesn't have enough problems and makes a point of calling Shocking Blue a KINGDOM OF THE Netherlands band

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There's a MISTAKE in the first canto of the standard 19th century English Inferno - how did people live like this www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8...

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Between one station playing Mozart's flute quartet in A major that I've heard too many times, and the other playing Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture that I've heard too many times, I definitely wanted to continue with Mozart, so the condition of my soul could be worse

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Well you would have told him he did Jim Crow and the racial wealth gap and put Japanese people in camps so maybe this is an improvement

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People with opinions say the new Woody Guthrie writes sprawling sloppy lyrics but comparing early outtakes with official versions makes me think that when the latter has a banal line it's usually the result of over-editing, replacing something better but "too derivative"

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Descartes left France to continue his controversial work in the United Provinces, at the same time Grotius left the United Provinces to continue his controversial work in France, sweetly exemplifying how France was always the United Provinces' sidekick ever when they were at war

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I haven't seen anyone call Sabrina a Cool Girl yet, does that mean we left that back in the Long 2010s, that would be nice

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My most High Functioning opinion is when you say it out loud it's "the second world war," don't say it like a movie sequel, pretend you're an adult

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgA1...

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The surge is working!

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Latin race blindness in Latin countries is one of those silent majority things that most people might still like, but conservatives with Opinions don't value, and leftists with Opinions HATE and try to abolish - which makes Anglo-Saxons with Opinions who admire it double misfits

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Speaking of '90s alternative, Graham's theory - maybe Slint is Better, but that's their problem, because with them the line that alternative is just King Crimson's Red makes all too much sense, with Nirvana none - like the Zombies (bebop) and the insects

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Train of thought - '90s alternative is becoming The Beginning Of Music History - Loveless and Peter Ablinger's IEAOV were sort of doing the same thing in Rock and Classical at the same time - some amazing things must have happened in music since 1991, I wish I knew about them

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Proud that I've trained my eyes to avoid the robot answers in search engine results well enough that when someone else mentioned one I legitimately had no idea what he was talking about

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It's funny how someone dug up an obscure song without words as a possible Mendelssohn source for the fanfare at the beginning of Mahler's 5th, when the Midsummer Night's Dream wedding march was right there

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