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Some meandering thoughts on writing and being lost....

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Mario De Biasi, Park Avenue, New York, 1964

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Gustav Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, Under Construction, 1889, Paris, France, Photo Credit: Delpire

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"In the Metro" by Samuil Adlivankin (1945)

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“Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? I lived in eastern Europe when memories of communism were fresh. I have visited regions in Ukraine where Russia imposed its occupation regime. I have spent decades reading testimonies of people who lived under Nazi or Stalinist rule. I have seen death pits, some old, some freshly dug. And I have friends who have lived under authoritarian regimes, including political prisoners and survivors of torture. Some of the people I trusted most have been assassinated. So I think that there is an answer to this question. Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.”

— The Strongman Fantasy - by Timothy Snyder

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Orange Julep, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1942

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Moscow, 1960

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Great use of San Francisco street scenes shot by Philip Lathrop for Experiment in Terror (1962)

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Also, Biden didn't plot and execute a coup that thankfully failed.

Also Biden hasn't announced that he's going to build camps and force undesirables and "vermin" to live in them.

Also Biden isn't facing 91 felony indictments.

Also who gives a flying fuck that Biden is three years older than wish.com Hitler?

Biden is not a Fascist, and the other guy is.

THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.

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Karol Kállay. Filled with Light, New York. 1965