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tears_in_rain wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:07 pm Image



:beer2:
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tears_in_rain wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:07 pm
tears_in_rain wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:07 pm Image



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Then move to Mexico and try the same shit there. See how that works out for you.
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Something called "The Corner" by the same people who wrote "The Wire"

Not the best read; the author goes to great lengths to make us feel sympathy for the characters and in the process made the fucking book about twice as long as it should be

It's like Irvine Welch and Richard Dawkins fucked and the author of this was their bastard child
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Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington.

These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to stand up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. These leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy.
https://b-ok.asia/book/21357526/f5b68a
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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I will read this in May. Love me some Needham!
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phuketrichard wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 8:08 am Image
Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington.

These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to stand up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. These leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy.
https://b-ok.asia/book/21357526/f5b68a
is that link to a site similar to LibGen?
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Doc67 wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:11 pm
tears_in_rain wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:07 pm
tears_in_rain wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:07 pm Image



:beer2:
Then move to Mexico and try the same shit there. See how that works out for you.

Classy.
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Doc67 wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:37 pm
phuketrichard wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 8:08 am Image
Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington.

These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to stand up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. These leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy.
https://b-ok.asia/book/21357526/f5b68a
is that link to a site similar to LibGen?
better and my go to site for ebooks :beer3:
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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