We infected half of Europe with coronavirus from it in March.

Note how the question isn't "what's your favourite string quartet", or violin sonata, or even symphony - no, it's high society's first-choice musical genre to attend for representation purposes. But yeah, I'm sure it's just about art.

I come from an educated bourgeoisie background, and I can't really abandon judging people by their intelligence/education. Makes me feel like I'm just a champagner socialist, but I can't help it because it's too deep a part of my identity.

This is were being a Christian Socialist comes in handy: You believe in hell.

It's also another disproof of horseshoe theory. Were we childish enough to spin elaborate conspiracy theories in April about how Bernie was playing 4D chess and gonna be president?

Which site wide rule does this break?

Oh well, of course Chomsky Boy has a problem with humanities / continental philosophy.

Red Vienna's housing architecture gets overlooked too much on Chapo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/D%C3%B6bling_%28Wien%29_-_Karl-Marx-Hof.JPG (probably the longest residential building in the world, and it's made even better by the fact that it was erected opposite to an extremely posh neighbourhood on the hillside, so the first thing the capitalists see when they quite literally look down on the city is a big chunk of socialism)

https://deacademic.com/pictures/dewiki/71/GuentherZ_2008-03-01_0172_Wien05_Reumannhof.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Heine-Hof_Panorama.jpg/800px-Heine-Hof_Panorama.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Floridsdorf_%28Wien%29_-Karl-Seitz-Hof%282%29.JPG/1920px-Floridsdorf_%28Wien%29_-Karl-Seitz-Hof%282%29.JPG

If you want to make sure you're not losing any audience, the only way to do it is essentially saying nothing at all, which Obama perfected. Problem is that this doesn't win any audience either.

Oh well. Never underestimate the America-ness of America.

No shit? I know Rowling pulled a lot from other stories to the point where it was bordering between allusion and plagiarism lol.

Yeah, I remember reading Great Expectations (the first part) and thinking: "Oh, so that's where Rowling got her entire way of writing from".

There's a pretty good satire on the English middle class happening in these opening chapters though. Nothing special, but some of the best writing of the entire series.

Shoutout to my compatriot, the first tagger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kyselak

The Obama memoir is 768 pages, and it's only the first of two volumes. Enough for many hilarious quotes to come.

I'm sure the dog is gonna love being locked in a small box alone for an unspecified amount of time.

I feel like it got worse since last time I visited, and it already was terrible then.

And they say the left can't meme

Yeah, he makes Ben Garrison look professional.

Installment #23543 of our beloved series "If only Dems were like Reps say they are".

Not only is he a perv, he read Foucault and did what he did as POTUS. Meaning he either didn't understand a single word, or he did understand and chose to be a force of evil.