The French Red Terror, the Soviet Great Terror, the Cambodian autogenocide, and many others were all examples of what I call left political singularities. Left wing repression tends to make things lefter, which tends to worsen left wing repression, which makes things even lefter, which …  The process only stops when the latest despot starts to realize he is not left enough, he is being outflanked on the left, is …
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The shape of things to come
We are seeing a political singularity – the leftwards slide that has been under way since 1710 or so is going faster and faster. Many people have already commented on the ludicrous absurdity of calling 1% cuts in a budget that rose 27% in three years, “drasticâ€. Supposedly this makes the Tea Party not merely conservative, but “ultra conservativeâ€. If the tea party is ultra conservative, what then would we …
British political prisoners.
Two british nazis, Simon Shappard and Stephen Whittle, were charged with writing heresy. They fled to the USA, but last month were forced back to Britain, where they have each been jailed for two years and two months for publishing thought crimes: They posted on their web site that Hitler did not exterminate the Jews, but that he should have.