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But chairman Xi what about our emotes!?

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o7 all good Comrade we all get worked up

Just from cursory googling

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2019/05/07/how-the-iowa-writers-workshop-saved-kurt-vonneguts-fledgling-career/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg3/how-the-cia-turned-american-literature-into-a-content-farm

My laymen’s understanding of the subject is that basically the CIA needed a culture counterpoint to the artistic output of the Soviet Union and this was a part of that. They deliberately cultivated a mileu of “I’m a socialist but Stalin was a fascist” because it allowed them to highlight the progressive values and free speech of the U.S. while painting the Soviets as an authoritarian police state. It’s not as simple as “The CIA invented post-modernism” but they certainly helped

It’s been a lot of years since I read Vonnegut and it’s the imagery that sticks with me more than anything else. I did not remember that specific quote but it’s pretty cringe. For whatever can be said about the moral weight of the bombing of Dresden it was definitely not the biggest massacre in European history. I’ll always say I like Vonnegut and definitely important part of my pipeline but he’s got Iowa writers workshop brain worms like many of his contemporaries.

I agree in spirit but as a lifelong Vonnegut fan this still gives me a great feel of unease about what Germany and Europe will become in the near term

Why is the U.N. On the “evil” side? So they can set up terrorist stay behind networks of course

I wonder more and more every day; in what meaningful sense has WW3 not already begun?

Racist tropes don’t have an expiration date what are you talking about

Gotta say I was expecting some friction with ya’ll at lemmygrad after Federation (because we are all libs on hexbear) but so far you folks rock and I have been very pleased to see your high quality posts on my feed.

Loving to see posts like this. Can’t remember the Sankara quote but ya’ll know it. Cannot get tired of explaining ourselves because when the people understand us they will side with us.

Loving having new comrades in the posting trenches with us.