Micah Morrison
@writermicah.bsky.social
Investigative reporter. Personal views only. Follows politics, corruption, horse racing, wildfire. Occam was right: use the Razor.
Poor angry man. I feel sorry for you. Joyceans are precious dilettantes? Never! No one is asking you to read anything. Peace. And move on. 🙏
January 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Poor angry man. I feel sorry for you. Joyceans are precious dilettantes? Never! No one is asking you to read anything. Peace. And move on. 🙏
Please add me to the Joyce Studies list. 👋🏼
December 2, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Please add me to the Joyce Studies list. 👋🏼
Agree this is a concern and bears close watching, particularly since the U.S. is such a heavily armed country! But re the Weimar context, I was struck that the political parties were fielding heavily armed militias that literally were killing each other in large numbers, fueling the final crisis.
November 25, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Agree this is a concern and bears close watching, particularly since the U.S. is such a heavily armed country! But re the Weimar context, I was struck that the political parties were fielding heavily armed militias that literally were killing each other in large numbers, fueling the final crisis.
The lesson for us, today, that I derive from Weimar is to we need to be ever watchful for the rise of powerful heavily armed militias or military-police units devoted to the dear leader or a political party. I don’t see that happening today.
November 25, 2024 at 3:15 AM
The lesson for us, today, that I derive from Weimar is to we need to be ever watchful for the rise of powerful heavily armed militias or military-police units devoted to the dear leader or a political party. I don’t see that happening today.
Correct. We are not Weimar and Trump is not Hitler. But democracies can stumble into crisis and collapse in many different ways. Tim Ryback’s “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” is fascinating in this regard. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727483...
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback: 9780593537428 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph....
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November 25, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Correct. We are not Weimar and Trump is not Hitler. But democracies can stumble into crisis and collapse in many different ways. Tim Ryback’s “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” is fascinating in this regard. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727483...