Dimitry Toukhcher

And there's a great story about it.

There's three guys in a Soviet gulag.

And the first guys go to the second guy.

He goes, what are you in the gulag for?

Gulag was like a Soviet prison.

He goes, oh, I said some bad things about Romanov.

And then the second guy goes to the first guy, why are you here?

He goes, I said some good things about Romanov.

And they go to the third guy, why are you here?

He goes, I'm Romanov.

That's funny.

But the point of the joke was that you never knew what was true and what wasn't.

And so you would only respond to government directives so that you don't end up in the gulag.

And this is the attack on the gender ideology.

This is the attack on the historical facts regarding the Middle East.

It's all an attack on truth as a fundamental source of our being able to base our decisions on anything at all.

So when you say, oh, AIPAC is this big scary thing, it's like, well, yeah, $3 million compared to a billion.

Who cares?

But when you have no relative measure to compare it to, you don't actually know it's true.

Scary, right?