Matt Philbin
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Matt Philbin
@Mattphilbin
Conservative COLONIZER (just cuz it sounds fun). NOT Trumpy. Friend to distillers, golf ball manufacturers, guitar string merchants & debauched sloths.
ÜT: 38.805747,-77.269489 Katılım Aralık 2008
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So many innocent horses falsely convicted on that one day. SMH
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Prince Charles, sporting a new beard, attends the Badminton Horse Trials.
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Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for systematically lying about the Ukrainian famine while 7 million people starved to death under Stalin's forced collectivization. The New York Times correspondent knew exactly what he was doing when he filed reports describing "shortages" and "food difficulties" instead of the mass starvation unfolding before his eyes.
Duranty's articles praised Soviet agricultural policy even as entire villages disappeared. He wrote glowing accounts of collective farms while peasants ate bark and grass. When other journalists reported the truth about the Holodomor, Duranty dismissed their accounts as "malignant propaganda" and assured American readers that Stalin's five-year plan was working brilliantly. The Times promoted his coverage on the front page throughout 1932.
Duranty lived in Moscow, traveled through Ukraine, and witnessed the consequences of central planning firsthand. He chose to cover for Stalin because he believed the Soviet experiment represented humanity's future. Like many Western intellectuals of his era, he convinced himself that millions of deaths were acceptable collateral damage for building socialism. The Pulitzer committee rewarded him for this moral bankruptcy.
The Holodomor perfectly illustrates what happens when states control food production and distribution. Stalin confiscated grain to feed cities and export abroad while rural Ukraine descended into cannibalism. Free market economists had predicted exactly this outcome when central planners replaced price signals with bureaucratic decree.
The Times has never recinded Duranty's Pulitzer Prize.

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#BREAKING: Approximately 40 Iranian speedboats spotted in the Strait of Hormuz tonight, possibly laying mines.

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Nah… you wanted this and I say you should get it.
Micah Erfan@micah_erfan
This is the disgusting map we are heading towards. Ugly insanely gerrymandered districts, that in the end produce a near tie. Congress can end this race to the bottom with a simple five-page law instructing courts to strike down politically motivated redistricting.
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