Bullshit. Is that what we tell ourselves, or are the actions of the Left simply put down the garbage disposal of the Memory Hole? Cambodia was a revolutionary Marxist paradise. Private property, religion and money were abolished. Here's a contemporary account of the Leftist view of Cambodia. You'll recognize the tropes, eh?

"For years western imperialism raped an Asiatic land, killing nearly a million people, transforming a beautiful cultured Cambodian city into a ghetto, a brothel. But the people rose, freed themselves, threw out the intruders, found that their fine towns needed restoration. So they emptied the houses and began to clear up the mess. They began to scrub floors and walls, because people were never meant to live in degradation here, but in peace and with dignity. Then crocodile tears poured forth in the West. The brothel has been emptied and the clean-up is in progress. Only pimps can regret what is happening."

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"When Gunnar Bergstrom was a guest in Khmer Rouge Cambodia of Pol Pot in August 1978, the Swede enjoyed a rare meeting and dinner of oysters hosted by Pol Pot.

The meal followed a rare interview he and three politcal comrades from Sweden were given by the innaccesible and secretive Pol Pot who was then presiding over the death of more than a million and a half people that was actually escalating and under full rage at the time of that August 1978 feast. he returned to Europe and labeled talk about genocide under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge rule as a Western lie.

The young Swedish leftists shared Pol Pot's view, seeing the Khmer Rouge takeover as a revolution to transform Cambodia into a fairer society benefiting the poor."

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Edgar Snow lied like a dog about Mao Zedong, and Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for covering up Stalin's genocide in the Ukraine. The Pulitzer Prize committee flat-out refused to revoke his award.

Go visit our universities and do some research - people were not cast out for these views. Most of them (or their proteges) are still teaching students.

This makes sense - if the point of journalism is to deliver high-quality photography of the kind that other photographers will appreciate. So much of old-fashioned journalism is a gigantic circle-jerk. It has been repeatedly proven that nobody needs this sort of hugely expensive photography in order to tell a story. A couple of snapshots are enough. "But how will anyone win the Pulitzer Prize?!?!" Yeah, the local newspaper won't win that anyway. It's more of a political award than an acknowledgement of talent.

Frankly, the people who will be providing said snapshots are ordinary folk posting on social media. Who cares what the f-stop was, or if someone took a shot facing into the sun? It's a freaking photo, it will be gone in 24 hours, why spend any money on it?

Professional photographers are, predictably, butthurt about the whole thing as it directly attacks their livelihood. When I became an adult I was just shocked at how horridly expensive photography is. And how stupidly overpowered this photography was for my needs. Nobody wants to pay $1500 for a photo of some ducks at a lake. I'm just illustrating an article, thanks. And yet until now this sort of market has existed. Insane, and it is quite gratifying to see this sort of elitist nonsense finally obsoleted.

Oh, don't believe me? One need only spend time on pro photographer forums to find out just how prevalent the snobbery is. Let's not even get into Nikon vs. Canon.

LOL. Go ahead and talk to the lower classes in your precious Sweden. Invite them to your parties. Oh, you won't be doing that? Why, exactly?

Why do any of us even bother listening to Swedes? In another 20 years you'll all be gone.

Europeans make private residences with 8.5 inch thick concrete walls? Ugh, concrete is so soulless. I prefer natural materials.

The smart people don't really want to help the lower class. Ugh, have you actually met any of them? Shudder. If anything they should be vexed even more than they are already.

What the smart people want is to be seen as helping the lower class. This gives you fantastic social status (among other smart people, naturally) and ensures that you will be invited to all the right parties. The lower class will themselves not be attending these parties. Again, a five minute conversation with any of them is quite enough.

Which brings to mind an interesting point: 40 years ago gays and pedophiles were both considered bad. Today, one is untouchable while the other is, if anything, worse off. Why is that?

In the 70s attempts were made by progressives to change society's attitude and achieve the sexual liberation of children. Unfortunately they failed and we as a culture are still stuck with attitudes that are centuries old.

No, there are no canals on Mars, you anti-scientific moron. Canals are artificial, they are made by MARTIANS!@#@!# Go back to your religion and constitution-worshipping wingnuts. Canals! On Mars! Modded +5 Informative! Ugh makes me want to puke when I see this sort of garbage in public.

This insistence on sticking to the letter of the constitution smacks of Tea Partyism. Let's get to the root of the matter, let's give up on the constitution. It contains archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions. Moreover, it is worshipped by right-wingers and anything that they like is dodgy by definition.

Ah, another person who has no idea what the Straits of Malacca are, why they are important, or why Singapore was built where it was.

Feynman was a womanizer and misogynist. He freely admits to it in his autobiography. Stop idolizing the man. He's a disgrace and if he was around today would be tossed out of any reputable university.

What a bunch of B.S. D&D came from miniatures wargaming. The whole dungeon crawl thing was just another terrain. The "interactive improv theater" idea of D&D is something quite recent. Honestly, it was added in retrospect by players who just got bored with combats. Look at the damn rules of AD&D - spends most of its time describing combat and spends very little telling players how to riff off of each other, never contradict another player telling a story, and the well-worn story archetypes such as "the hero's journey".

Settlers of Catan is well-balanced?!? Oh, now THAT is hilarious! Settlers is well-known for being horridly UN-balanced! You made all the right choices, you placed in the right areas - and yet you watch while turn after turn, the dice fail to roll your numbers. You lose. LOL. Ask any serious Euro-gamer: Settlers of Catan is a joke. Might as well play Monopoly or Sorry, the outcome is equally random.

What's wrong with that? There are no laws against it. We pure humans have to defend ourselves against the creeping normalization of genetically modified organisms. Don't eat them, don't deal with them, and especially don't date them.

Yes, but the Creatives who work for Google have to exercise their precious Creativity. Telling them to leave shit alone because it works fine is not how they perceive their role in the organization. They have to change things just because change is good. Simplicity is dumb because simple people can make simple things, only Creatives can make true complex works of art. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.

The best part was where he said "The old studios just aren't making many movies and are following formulas more than ever" without any trace of irony. I used to think that the "doublethink" part of 1984 (thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods) was a dumb and unrealistic part of an otherwise chilling novel. I feel like Orwell outsmarted me now.

I can't help but notice that the map not only uses the "north = up, therefore north = good" ideology but also places Europe square in the middle of the map. I expected better from an elite artist.