As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, the State Department is discouraging diplomats working on Middle East issues from making public statements suggesting the U.S. wants to see less violence, according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”
Typical tankie. Coming back after making their point to edit their post with a great book recommendation. You tankies are always trying to improve literacy and I won’t stand for it any longer. I’m going to sit down with it and a hot drink on a comfy armchair instead.
Fr though, when was the last time a lib have you a book suggestion and said, this will change the way you think about everything and they were right? The last one for me was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Not a bad book, as it goes. But that was about 15 years ago. Marxists, on the other hand, they don’t stop.
Non-fiction humanities? Literally never.
I like to believe I’m a pretty open-minded person. Liberalism is a dead end for open minds; an amorphous cage that can be everything and anything you want it to be at any given time.
Fiction? Labyrinths by Borges. The guy was an avid anti-communist and he can burn for that, but damn he does psychological terror really well.
I grew up drowning in liberal propaganda, 1984, animal farm, etc… None of it ever synced with the real world. The easiest way for me to become a tankie was that, everything in it lines up with the way people behave, i.e…material interests and imperialism, and the way the world works.
Oh, liberals do like recommending books. But as you say, they make you think smaller. And it’s a closed list. Like, once you’ve read Animal Farm, 1984, and a few others, that’s supposed to be it: you’re supposed to read those and never think again because no new information is allowed to contradict what those books say. These books are the concrete fence panels that restrict your view so you can’t see past the liberal world outlook.
Kind of hard to accept liberal values (even static ones) when you are from a country that the US has installed a military dictatorship in.