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skeptonomist commented on the blog post The Production of Ignorance
The post is on the whole a good one, but accepting the popular picture of the Tibetan lamas as advocates of Democracy and pre-communist Tibet as an idyllic Shangri-La is a manifestation of ignorance. There were some very bad aspects to both the previous theocratic rule as well as the communist takeover, and there is no need to accept the extreme propaganda of either side.
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skeptonomist commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: In Case It Wasn’t Obvious That Bigots Run The GOP
There is no need to call on racism to explain the ouster of Steele – he was simply grossly incompetent, at least in terms of public relations. And the selection of Priebus probably has little more real significance than the original selection of Steele. Priebus’ “populist” Tea-Party principles will not necessarily affect the real running of the party any more than Steele’s did (whatever Steele’s principles were). The big-money interests which actually run the party have obviously evolved mechanisms to bypass the chairman.
