Being a Soviet Jew means spending a lot of time thinking about how you would behave in an authoritarian regime. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/27/trump-realism-vs-moral-politics-choice-we-face/ …
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That is the saddest essence of 20th century; what happens now, though, so unclear.
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yes, the good news is that if there’s another war it’ll be the last one,
so we’ll all go together when we go
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You know how to cheer me up.Had new batch of books on mass killing for when done with current work. Now not sure will ever get to.
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having you gloomy guys in my timeline feels like being a Goth again. Let’s go smoke clove cigarettes down at the cemetery
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You have not yet met middle east gallows humor? We are the funniest right before the firing squad.
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at least in eastern europe we know how to use a gallows!
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we should compare notes. Oh, wait. We did. Should loop in someone Irish into this thread and call it a day.
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Russian anecdotes are pretty good, although you end up having to know a lot about the politburo to get them :-/
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Brezhnev did more for humor than Mark Twain did! I majored in Russian mostly so I would get more of the jokes
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