Yasha Levine
You ever wonder WHY people like Elie Wiesel attain such enormous success in America? Why do they quickly become iconic figures, the toast of Hollywod liberals and the favorite pets of media billionaires like Oprah? Certainly NOT because they are speaking truth to power, that s for sure. They have consciously become tools of imperial power, valuable soldiers in the culture wars. Wiesel, who for many decades perfected the image of premier victim of the Holocaust that was his schtick as Yiddish so beautifully has it never opened his mouth to denounce the horrid crimes of Zionism, or imperialism, in general, for that matter, which, incidentally, many brave Jews of good conscience openly condemn.
Bird Song of the Day
The Resplendant Quetzal!
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
I know that these are daily vaccinations. But the pandemic is a multiplicative process. To me, the best curves of all would be rising continuously until there’s a sudden drop, because there’s nobody left to vaccinate. It’s too soon to see these numbers dropping. This should worry people. (The Northeast jump was an enormous reporting error, now rectified, though I
Good deed (1). OK, OK, it’s from the political class. Nevertheless, good for Mondale:
1/ The story of these gloves will tell you the kind of man Fritz Mondale was and why he meant so much to me. Please take the time to read this thread – and wait for it. Its worth it. pic.twitter.com/0rkPEWX1l2
Good deed (2):
Very proud of Mayur Shelke, Railwayman from the Vangani Railway Station in Mumbai who has done an exceptionally courageous act, risked his own life & saved a child s life. pic.twitter.com/0lsHkt4v7M
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative Control
Published: April 5, 2021
Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that I’ve been meaning to write about ever since.
It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties them to the sudden spike in anti-Asian hate crimes we’ve been seeing. Smith shared his screenshot with the caption, “I hold by my prediction that the American Left is going to split into A) social democrats, and B) foreign-policy-obsessed pseudo-tankies.”