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		<title>Comment on The sweeping, unstoppable wave by The spirit of the times, such as it is &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2022/the-sweeping-unstoppable-wave#comment-7416</link>
		<dc:creator>The spirit of the times, such as it is &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 17:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] By their site, and their site alone, it seemed to me like some hipster folks coopted a bunch of lăutari1 into the sort of postmodern project which blends traditional music with the more modern kind, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] By their site, and their site alone, it seemed to me like some hipster folks coopted a bunch of lăutari1 into the sort of postmodern project which blends traditional music with the more modern kind, [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Artificial intelligence by The spirit of the times, such as it is &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2024/artificial-intelligence#comment-7415</link>
		<dc:creator>The spirit of the times, such as it is &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 17:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] my fellow bipedal apes, but sometimes it's hell of a lot more fun to wage a conversation with a LLM than with you folks; and let's be honest, those are abysmal as far as actual conversations [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] my fellow bipedal apes, but sometimes it's hell of a lot more fun to wage a conversation with a LLM than with you folks; and let's be honest, those are abysmal as far as actual conversations [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on The bubble by The spirit of the times, such as it is &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/the-bubble#comment-7414</link>
		<dc:creator>The spirit of the times, such as it is &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 17:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] culture: "d'you have a few lei to spare?"; "Bolojan has failed the no-confidence motion"; "that Dan is such a disappointment"; "Bucharest is so full of potholes as of late"; "have you seen Trump's [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] culture: "d'you have a few lei to spare?"; "Bolojan has failed the no-confidence motion"; "that Dan is such a disappointment"; "Bucharest is so full of potholes as of late"; "have you seen Trump's [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Romanian Reality TV Show 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>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>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.</p></blockquote>
<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>Comment on Angine de Poitrine by spyked</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2026/angine-de-poitrine#comment-7264</link>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>P.S.: Check out &lt;a href="https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/1164121?page=1&#038;message_id=12148519" rel="nofollow"&gt;this dramedy&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>P.S.: Check out <a href="https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/1164121?page=1&#038;message_id=12148519" rel="nofollow">this dramedy</a>.</p>
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		<title>Comment on On the tangled ball of music that is rock by Angine de Poitrine &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2021/on-the-tangled-ball-of-music-that-is-rock#comment-7263</link>
		<dc:creator>Angine de Poitrine &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] through a form of expression that was unheard of before, one that was approximated at the time as "rock and roll", but that was indeed much more than that. In less than a decade, they managed to invent quite a [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on The sweeping, unstoppable wave by Angine de Poitrine &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2022/the-sweeping-unstoppable-wave#comment-7262</link>
		<dc:creator>Angine de Poitrine &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I don't know if the reader realizes this, but at this point I should say that they're now as pop as any manele act out there, which would be quite the paradox, given that their whole musical and overall artistic message is [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] I don't know if the reader realizes this, but at this point I should say that they're now as pop as any manele act out there, which would be quite the paradox, given that their whole musical and overall artistic message is [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on The "problem" with independent journalism... by spyked</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2023/the-problem-with-independent-journalism#comment-7248</link>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Almost three years have passed since I wrote this, and with them, the so-called activity of "journalism" has continued its slow march down the proverbial drain. Just to take a quick look: BuzzFeed News is gone, Vice Media is (thankfully) kaputt, and meanwhile CNN, BBC et al. aren't faring well &lt;b&gt;at all&lt;/b&gt;.

This only goes to show that beyond the usual propaganda to tell the common man &lt;a href="http://thetarpit.org/2022/on-wills-wonts-and-lack-thereof" rel="nofollow"&gt;what he ought and oughtn't think about things and matters&lt;/a&gt;, journalism has pretty much run its course. As far as civil matters are concerned, Twitter and the likes are just as good as any other medium; while from a military point of view the fog of war is so thick that not even the proverbial machete helps any. When all is said and done, we have always been at war with Eastasia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost three years have passed since I wrote this, and with them, the so-called activity of "journalism" has continued its slow march down the proverbial drain. Just to take a quick look: BuzzFeed News is gone, Vice Media is (thankfully) kaputt, and meanwhile CNN, BBC et al. aren't faring well <b>at all</b>.</p>
<p>This only goes to show that beyond the usual propaganda to tell the common man <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2022/on-wills-wonts-and-lack-thereof" rel="nofollow">what he ought and oughtn't think about things and matters</a>, journalism has pretty much run its course. As far as civil matters are concerned, Twitter and the likes are just as good as any other medium; while from a military point of view the fog of war is so thick that not even the proverbial machete helps any. When all is said and done, we have always been at war with Eastasia.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Winter in the postmodern Soviets by Wag the Dog &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2026/winter-in-the-postmodern-soviets#comment-7247</link>
		<dc:creator>Wag the Dog &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This is why the folks running the system invented "sovereigntism".&#160;&#8617; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This is why the folks running the system invented "sovereigntism".&#160;&#8617; [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on My Dinner with Andre by Wag the Dog &#171; The Tar Pit</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/my-dinner-with-andre#comment-7246</link>
		<dc:creator>Wag the Dog &#171; The Tar Pit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] point isn't even that the propaganda machine works; it's that it works by quite easily spinning a few words the right way, and that whichever argument [...]</description>
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