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So what was up with Hunter Biden and Ukraine? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I forgot all of the details but libs keep smugly referencing it and now I'm curious.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why did a German communist name his blog after a random Native American tribe?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The about section explains it. There used to be a forum called the Whiskey Bar where geopolitics was discussed. The forum’s admin gave up and closed down, but many of the users followed ‘b’ over to his new blog.

It’s an old song they are quoting, Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Alabama Song’.

The name of the original Whiskey Bar was taken from Bertolt Brecht's Alabama Song where the first line goes:

"Show me the way to the next whiskey bar".

The name Moon of Alabama was taken from the first line of the chorus of that song:

"Oh, moon of Alabama ...".

The design of this site has been directly stolen or re-engineered from the Whiskey Bar site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a Marxist playwright and songwriter from the GDR, which explains the German communist connection.

In addition, Soviet states also had a sort of fascination and admiration with American natives, they even created a genre of western films called Osterns that inverted the Cowboy-Indian dichotomy and glorified Native Americans above the settlers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Soviet states also had a sort of fascination and admiration with American natives, they even created a genre of western films called Osterns that inverted the Cowboy-Indian dichotomy and glorified Native Americans above the settlers.

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