tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post2322535759402681465..comments2023-11-18T01:01:39.761-08:00Comments on exile in happy valley: Notes from the Queer Hillbilly UndergroundComrade Hermit (Nicky Reid)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15143429283240217518noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post-68137831569462748412022-12-09T13:33:38.847-08:002022-12-09T13:33:38.847-08:00Christopher Hitchens was always little more than t...Christopher Hitchens was always little more than the rich man's Alex Cockburn. His latent Islamophobia turned him into a full-blown neocon. Sadly, a common career trajectory among many Trotskyites. Comrade Hermit (Nicky Reid)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15143429283240217518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post-77665559379914336132022-12-08T16:46:47.884-08:002022-12-08T16:46:47.884-08:00Christopher Hitchens was another who abandoned rea...Christopher Hitchens was another who abandoned reality to become what he despised, which was a neocon.<br />Thereby the controllers of the propaganda machines would say in his later life, he finally saw the light & said favourable things about the parasitic class.Fritz Stehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11579649062636092557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post-34525842708211660802022-12-07T00:07:39.321-08:002022-12-07T00:07:39.321-08:00Nicky, you've outdone yourself again. This wee...Nicky, you've outdone yourself again. This week's polemics would do justice to the fiery class analysis of Raimondo, and even Rothbard, during their younger days, when they actually were anarchists. I still have difficulty dealing with the cognitive dissonance of both men when they, as far as I am concerned, simply abandoned reality during their latter years. But in their prime they were the very best, and you are following in their footsteps.<br /><br />Your perspectives from being both pink and "trash," (oh hell, I admit to being white trash. I literally live in a trailer in a very rural area of western Montana.) are quite valuable as far as giving insights into the "state as divider of people." One thing Rothbard never lived to see was the overwhelming triumph of the effort to divide people into two warring camps such that your own family could literally keep you from attending holiday dinners because you vote Republican (or Democrat).<br /><br />I, for one, would welcome your efforts to put your insights into book form, in addition to your weekly blog posts.The Borghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928718850468526199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post-48986919924394145262022-12-06T11:28:58.737-08:002022-12-06T11:28:58.737-08:00Glad to be of service. There is plenty of hate to ...Glad to be of service. There is plenty of hate to go around without letting a drop of blood stain working class boots.Comrade Hermit (Nicky Reid)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15143429283240217518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post-68286086056968513992022-12-05T15:27:04.317-08:002022-12-05T15:27:04.317-08:00Every week when I open up this column it never fai...Every week when I open up this column it never fails to bring to light something I knew nothing about. <br />This week in particular it was the scumfuck JD Vance of whom I had never heard of before reading this essay, notwithstanding, I have read several of “America’s Most Literate Redneck” the late Joe Bageant’s books: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-netflix<br /><br />Thank you again Nicky/CH, for supplying my intense animosity with a variation. It is somewhat of a relief to give my loathing of Manchin, Sinema and the bankster Rothchilds a temporary break. Fritz Stehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11579649062636092557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903948190815094163.post-92098602080973198712022-12-05T11:50:27.612-08:002022-12-05T11:50:27.612-08:00I keep telling people my theory that all the QAnon...I keep telling people my theory that all the QAnon, those fearful of "groomers" and Rust Belt militia types etc. have been abused and have not been able to be treated for the psychological trauma in our inadequate healthcare system. Why has no one gone out and studied that? Instead it's just another culture war endless "debate" and analysis of "what does the working class want". Noellegihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12768051865502219522noreply@blogger.com