"It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power."

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Max Blumenthal

#Depressing Quotes #Issues Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“The tall team takes the low road into the lead”
“If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?”
“I like the punch beggers and panhandlers when they ask me for change. I feel like I am doing my part to clean up the streets.”
“I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.”
“I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.”
“If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst.”
“The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all”
“A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.”

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