This brilliant guy was on Bill Maher this week. Timothy Snyder is his name. He has written a book

[applegrove]

called "On Tyranny". I'm going to get it. https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnTyranny?src=hash

[Upthevibe]

1. He was excellent and he wasn't joking around. I even think he told Bill he couldn't laugh.n/t

[applegrove]

2. Yes he was brilliant.

[Jonny Appleseed]

3. Yeah but it's a comedy show

I think he's appropriately counterweighed by Bassem Youssef (who has been making the late night rounds) who says that we must laugh in the face of tyranny. And I'm more inclined to ascribe to the opinion of the guy who got arrested and exiled from Egypt for speaking out against his government, than I am the Yale-educated dude whose experience with tyranny is scholarly.

[applegrove]

4. Humour is important when you are going through awful times. If you can step out of your situation

and look at your fear or pain from another perspective you get a little respite and a bigger picture. But I find Snyder's list of 20 really scary and I've only heard 3 of them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Thank you for that link, apple... n/t

[applegrove]

6. My pleasure to share. I wanted to post it a few days ago but could not

remember his name.