On Mike Bloomberg Doesn't Care How Banks Treat Poor People
NYC checking into how banks invest their money locally="a new low for idiocy"
NYC offering Goldman Sachs hundreds of millions in tax concessions to stay, when they bluff about skipping town=good policy
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On Future Brooklyn: The Dadvorcé Mancave
All of this is just bringing me closer and closer to joining the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
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On The Kids Are Deranged: The Best of NYU's ITP Student Show
I went there yesterday, not really knowing what to expect. I'd say that if you approach it as an arts exhibition, some of the stuff there is quite brilliant; if you approach it as a tech exhibition, a lot of the projects will seem rather frivolous.
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On The Coming Real Estate Disaster for White-People Brooklyn
@barnhouse Also, I imagine Millennials might have a certain aversion to divorce given the number of them who were raised by divorced parents. So, maybe there's that too?
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On Roman Emperors, Up To AD 476 And Not Including Usurpers, In Order Of How Hardcore Their Deaths Were
@Tyrantanic This is one of the cases where the actual event as it happened was so very much better than as depicted in the movie. Beware of the Greco-Roman wrestlers you invite to your Bacchanalian ragers--they could be your undoing!
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On White People Stealing Jobs
Isn't this the origin story of Bagger Vance?
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On The Frightening Politics Of Hungary's House Of Terror
@Clarence Rosario p.s. I did want to visit Gruto Parkas while I was in Lithuania but couldn't fit it in. It remains on my list.
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On The Frightening Politics Of Hungary's House Of Terror
@Clarence Rosario Not to get too deep into the numbers game, but for comparison during the 1940-41 Soviet occupation 1.8% of the Latvian population was arrested and deported by the USSR (some of whom eventually returned home), during a similar period from 1941-42 the Nazis exterminated over 90% of Latvia's Jews.
There is no question that museums exposing the oppression of past communist regimes should exist, especially now that more and more people did not experience them directly. And even with the issue of time spent under each regime figured in, there remain questions on weight, framing, and and equivalency; e.g. why does Lithuania's Museum of Genocide Victims dedicate no exhibition space to the actual victims of genocide in Lithuania (i.e. Jews)?
As a non-Latvian who's lived in Latvia, I found the misuse of the term "genocide", ignorance about the Holocaust (including among those living what was the Riga Ghetto, where I resided), the yearly commemoration of the Latvian SS Legionnaires, and praise for the 1930s authoritarian regime rather odd and disturbing in an otherwise lovely country. Eastern Europe needs a better narrative than "communism=Nazism and we are victims of both" to properly address its 20th century history.
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On The Frightening Politics Of Hungary's House Of Terror
Great essay. This rewriting of the past to suit the present and equating of communism with Nazism (though often not with the homegrown fascist governments of the 1920s/30s) by right-wing parties across Eastern Europe has been more frequent (and more successful) in recent years.
One very troubling thing that these museums on "terror", "genocide" (Lithuania) or "occupation" (Latvia) all have in common is sidestepping or minimizing the single greatest 20th century instance of terror/genocide (while under occupation) in that region, the Holocaust.
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On Get Ready For The Future, It Is Fires
At least I'll get that Northern Siberian farm I've always dreamed of before mass ecological disasters and societal breakdown occur!