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Desire and Fate

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Jan 19, 2022
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The Triumph of the Traumatic #5

“Don’t deny Stalin’s lived experience.”

I have tried not to reproduce too many quotes that illustrate The Triumph of the Traumatic. To spin the old military expression, some target rich environments are just, well, too target rich.

But this one, a Tweet I saw via Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet), is irresistible and I reproduce it her…

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