Wednesday, May 7, 2025

This Is Not A Good Sign

They Can Run, But They Hopefully Won’t Hide

May 7, 2025

As you are no doubt aware, we here at Paying Attention™ persistently strive for optimism and the utmost positivity, though from time to time it might not appear that way. That is only because things are so irreparably fucked up it can be difficult to let our sunny dispositions break through the current nuclear-winter-cloud of sheer evil and stupidity.

Today however, we are completely unable to sugarcoat what might be some of the most disheartening and troublesome news we’ve heard in quite some time. And that is saying many things.

Professor Timothy Snyder is an historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust (which contrary to the opinion of many a Trump cultist is a real thing that actually happened in the real world). Snyder and two other professors have decided to leave their positions at Yale. But not for Harvard or some other East Coast elite institution – you know, the ones that Christo-fascist, Trump-licking assholes like Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and JD Vance always associate with the “radical left” but attended personally.

Snyder is the author of, among others, the seminal works On Freedom and On Tyranny, being an established and highly respected expert on both. Snyder and his colleagues are moving north. But not to Massachusetts or Maine. They have all gone to Toronto. In Canada. Which, contrary to a certain syphilitic, psychopathic White House inhabitant we know, is and always will be an independent nation that has the bad fortune of sharing a border with the syphilitic, psychopathic autocrat’s Amerika.

Hopefully, these wise educators will still find time to help those less fortunate who are unable to escape to friendlier locales.

20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder/read by John Lithgow

I. Mangrey recoiling. 

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