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https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:14:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18186 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:14:37 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/#comment-18186 Actually he has a better class of agitprop than the Shrubbery, and better manners at dinner parties.

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18185 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:14:54 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/#comment-18185 Hmm, sounds a lot like the United States of America, now that I think about it…

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18181 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:32:44 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/#comment-18181 He oppresses his people with a good deal more flair than his neighbors. He doesn’t shut down newspapers – the printing companies magically cancel contracts with the papers. He has a much better understanding of the West and has a much more effective PR effort, than the other thugs living in the area.

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18180 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:50:00 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/19/borat-will-love-this/#comment-18180 Khazakstan “sane”? Well, like you say, compared to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. “free”? Hardly. Nursultan Nazarbayev has become a de facto “president for life”, and has engaged in all the usual stuff you associate with those kinds of fascist dictatorships — specious show trials followed by swift executions, suppression of the press, that sort of thing. Of course, as you say, compared to Uzbekistan it’s veritably Berkeley…

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