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	<title>Comments on: The Romanian Reality TV Show</title>
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	<description>"Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before."</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: spyked</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-7276</link>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It so happens that I like Cristoiu even when he's dead wrong on some subject, mainly because when he is right, he is precisely right, and out of competence rather than sheer luck.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Well, I mean... not really.

The man clearly knows his history on one hand, while on the other, he's two levels above the normie press that simply regurgitates stuff from the "source". I'll give him that: he doesn't just push some point of view, but he clearly launches speculation from an assumed point of view that he is prepared to change. I can at least sympathize with him on this.

Still, his perorations tend to get tiresome after a while, since it's quite clear that this "assumed point of view" is also assumed from some occult "source"; which is not much of a &lt;a href="http://thetarpit.org/2023/the-problem-with-independent-journalism" rel="nofollow"&gt;surprise&lt;/a&gt;, after all. After all, even Trump changes his discourse on a daily or even hourly basis nowadays, which at the end of the day seems to be merely a strategy for sowing confusion.

So I don't know, meh.</description>
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<p>Well, I mean... not really.</p>
<p>The man clearly knows his history on one hand, while on the other, he's two levels above the normie press that simply regurgitates stuff from the "source". I'll give him that: he doesn't just push some point of view, but he clearly launches speculation from an assumed point of view that he is prepared to change. I can at least sympathize with him on this.</p>
<p>Still, his perorations tend to get tiresome after a while, since it's quite clear that this "assumed point of view" is also assumed from some occult "source"; which is not much of a <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2023/the-problem-with-independent-journalism" rel="nofollow">surprise</a>, after all. After all, even Trump changes his discourse on a daily or even hourly basis nowadays, which at the end of the day seems to be merely a strategy for sowing confusion.</p>
<p>So I don't know, meh.</p>
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		<title>By: Wag the Dog &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-7244</link>
		<dc:creator>Wag the Dog &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] are absolutely superb, in the sense that they made me, at least judging by my understanding of TV productions, buy into the whole process entirely. You cannot simply look at the news with the same eyes after [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] are absolutely superb, in the sense that they made me, at least judging by my understanding of TV productions, buy into the whole process entirely. You cannot simply look at the news with the same eyes after [...]</p>
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		<title>By: On perversion &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-7182</link>
		<dc:creator>On perversion &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] whose public face is reduced to nothing in particular through its process of transformation into sheer entertainment. Or... really, I could go on and on for days without so much as taking a [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Winter in the postmodern Soviets &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-7108</link>
		<dc:creator>Winter in the postmodern Soviets &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] mind you, but because I don't really listen to any of the bullshit spewed by either side of this reality show; or rather, I don't interpret public communication as a source of truth, but rather as a source of [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] mind you, but because I don't really listen to any of the bullshit spewed by either side of this reality show; or rather, I don't interpret public communication as a source of truth, but rather as a source of [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The City of Lost Children &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-6620</link>
		<dc:creator>The City of Lost Children &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] and themselves. And there's also the tropes of madness, of ruthlessness, of addiction, of love, of circus, or why not, of failure; TCoLC is full of characters who in some long forgotten past were someone, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] and themselves. And there's also the tropes of madness, of ruthlessness, of addiction, of love, of circus, or why not, of failure; TCoLC is full of characters who in some long forgotten past were someone, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: AI and the tech serf &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-6605</link>
		<dc:creator>AI and the tech serf &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] out and I am thoroughly unimpressed with the notion that AI can manipulate people; yeah, and so can reality TV, and... so what? Sure, the common man lives in constructed society, that's a fair premise; sure, he [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Squid Game &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-5510</link>
		<dc:creator>Squid Game &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] inmates develops. Said development was so carefully crafted that it's really hard to tell it from a reality show. But the show is also brilliant due to the subtleties in such interactions. I think in particular [...]</description>
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		<title>By: On science &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-5259</link>
		<dc:creator>On science &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a given action there's an equal and opposite reaction; but let us not compare Newton with today's reality TV actors slash "employees of the people". Sure, your solar panels may run on Millikan and Einstein's [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Further on the future of edumacation &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-4915</link>
		<dc:creator>Further on the future of edumacation &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] case you don't know him, guy was one of the first Reality TV owners in Romania. Seriously, if you have the patience look up some of the older Pro TV stuff, it's [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The Reality Shitshow continues &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-romanian-reality-tv-show#comment-4458</link>
		<dc:creator>The Reality Shitshow continues &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] article imports The Romanian Reality TV Show whole into its namespace. Thus prepare [...]</description>
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