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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3750 on: June 10, 2025, 09:08:03 pm »
The publication date would be, roughly, today, June 9. Yes, I can access it online, but prefer not to.

Being chronically behind in my issues, I haven't gotten to that one yet.

I just started June 2.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3751 on: June 14, 2025, 04:25:11 pm »
I feel like I haven't gotten one in a long time. My subscription isn't expired, so I was planning to call them Monday.


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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3752 on: June 15, 2025, 02:01:38 pm »
I still am missing the June 9th issue but I did receive the June 16th issue and have read it already.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3753 on: June 17, 2025, 10:34:09 am »
Did you find out anything, Serious? From the preview email I get, it looks like this week's issue might be a good one.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3754 on: June 17, 2025, 05:37:00 pm »
I still am missing the June 9th issue but I did receive the June 16th issue and have read it already.

I'm reading the June 9 issue now. I enjoyed the article about the conflict over Nutella. I'm reading the Amelia Earhart article now; so far it's pretty good.

That's as far as I've got.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3755 on: Yesterday at 05:23:58 pm »
I am currently reading the Curtis Yarvin profile in the June 9 issue, and I'm finding it absolutely chilling.

It's hard to describe what this person believes and stands for, other than the complete destruction of the political and governmental order as we know it--some of which DOGE has already done.

The extremely chilling part is that this man approves of the writings of a retired economics professor from UNLV named Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who believes that universal suffrage should be replaced by rule by what he calls a "natural elite" and calls for "communists, homosexuals, and others who oppose this rigid social structure to be 'physically removed.'"

We all can guess exactly what he means by "physically removed."

Call me an alarmist, but I can see it coming. I've said time and again that once they get tired of rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants, they're going to turn on gay people (they're already doing it to trans people). They will trot out the old lies that we're child molesters and "groomers" and deviants and encourage violence against us and eventually start rounding us up; look what happened to the Japanese Americans during World War II, except I don't think they'll stop at just interning us.

Really, this is figuring into my attempt to decide whether it would be better (safer?) to stay in a historically well-identified "gayborhood" or keep the house and try to live quietly in a dispersed community where there is no identifiable "gayborhood."

When they start rounding us up or at least charging us with spurious crimes, I'm going to get a lot of the best scotch I can and all the pills I can.
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