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Tim Barrus: We Are Living In a Gulag
I am a communist. Thank you for this piece with Slotkin. I learned a lot. Elissa isn’t getting it. She’s not alone. Our elected officials are way behind on this. Slotkin still feels that the system works. She is an institutionalist, she’s from the CIA, and those folks are all…
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Tim Barrus: The Great Highway
I am a communist. I lived in SF for decades. I like the no cars paradigm. I lived in a hole in the Tenderloin. I’m poor. Looking at the photography that goes with this piece, startled me. I was working in a group home for neurodivergent autistic children. I had…
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Tim Barrus: Eat the Rich
The New York Times has a set paradigm where frequently, I am asked – by third parties – questions, questions. And I try to address them. I think I got some of that action with this one. Sometimes there are so many questions, I don’t have time. I wish I…
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Tim Barrus: Male friendships Are A Thing Of The Past
I am autistic. My mates protected me. I had a big mouth. They did not have words for it. “We know you are a weirdo but we love you.” This was a rust belt factory town. Bar fight town. Football town. Poker town. Hunting and killing animals town. Lawn mower…
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Hecuba
Make me stop.
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Tim Barrus: Autistic Being Touched
I am autistic. I do not hug. I do not look at faces, and I never look directly at eyes. Covid gave me an excuse to not shake hands. People do not believe that the experience of being touched is not the same for everyone. If I read my books…
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BIGWIGGY
I am a communist. Mainly because there are so many little American henchmen I desire to annoy. Guerrilla Theatre: A bank lobby. A department store. A mall lobby. Break up a corporate bigwiggy conference. Sing songs. They hate songs. Parking lots. Free diapers for everyone. Give a die in a…
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Boys And Bedrooms
I am autistic. Sex seems to be the proverbial bugabuga that it’s always been. Leave the kids alone. Or they will find another place and it might not be a place adults approve of. Sex in cars is a lot of work. I would bet the ranch that the two…
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Sleeping in the River
I am autistic. My family says: He’s lost in day dreaming again. I’m not there. I am not looking into your eyes. I am not focused on what you are saying. Why. Because I do not care and there it is. As I age, I have less and less reason…
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Tim Barrus: Public Schools Are Finished
I am a communist. I am a writer. Did someone say rejection. The Shibboleth. “Waiting Times” are measured in years. They’re ghosting you. Rejection is when your agent hasn’t called you ever. But you keep waiting because you are a writer and you have hope. Hope is a rarity as…
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Marelybone
Romeo Void is an albino warrior at the end of the ends, the dark, and the moonless pitch twisted not unlike the murklights eats the Grim with fog, so who is Romeo Void, wtf, i told you, Romeo is an albino at war with the Normals. Romeo is many things.…
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Community Works
I am a communist. I am a communist because I am intimate with poverty. How bad was it. The question isn’t how bad was it. The question is how bad is it now. We are still living in voodoo economics. I am not indolent. I am not a grifter. I…
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snowbirds
In Dirt Bike Town, we are all angels. – Tim Barrus
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Wolf Puppies
I am a communist. The only thing that has ever brought me “happiness” was sitting in a bare room that contained a box, and then having six timber wolf puppy new-borns climb out of the box to come find me to nibble on. Wolf puppies are born toothless, deaf, and…
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TIM BARRUS: THE HA HA
I am a communist. I would read anything by Jamelle Bouie. To create a list of the deviant’s crimes, would take several issues of NYT. History will see the deviant as even more deviant than we knew. Mister Deviant, you are not running the world. Nanny has been busy. But…
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HOMO SAPIENS
I am a communist. What does that mean. I don’t really know. I am attracted to the idea that Capitalism has no heart in its cold and bitter soul, and having studied civil societies for a long time, I would argue that we are still living with political paradigms that…
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Tim Barrus: David Brooks Calls For Massive Resistance
I am a communist. Finally, a voice at the New York Times is saying it. A mass civic uprising to overthrow the Deviant. I have one question. Where is Stormy. Where is General Milley. Where is E. Jean Carroll. Where is Liz Cheney. This is the short list. The long…
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Tim Barrus: All Americans Are At Risk
I am a communist. This is the best thing Ezra Klein has done in his career. Some of us have been screaming this stuff from the rooftops. For years and years. No one listened then, and no one is listening now. I always thought there would be a big bang…
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Tim Barrus: Harvard Is a Class Warfare Machine
I am a communist. Class and caste. I feel disoriented reading this. I was not educated at Harvard. I was educated in a grey depressed factory rust-town where the principal would shave your head if your hair touched your ears. That was the focus of education. Your hair and what…
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Tim Barrus: No Safe Zone Underground Bunker
I am kinda stunned. For the last ten years, I have been writing a book about how do homo sapiens build back an entire culture. A bit dystopian, but grounded in reality. Everyone leaves their bunkers at the same time. I am afraid of Americans. I am terrified by Americans.…
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Tim Barrus: Playing In The Rubble
I am a communist. I note that short term pain is code for something is going to be removed. For the disabled, it will mean food. It will mean medications. I know that is not what you want to hear. But the measuring itself is an institution of massive variables.…
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Tim Barrus: Save When By Fits
Controversy is a pathfinder of trouble, and at times in your face honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of life itself that shatters assumptions, unsettles easy presumptions, and yet, while we walk through our day-to-day existence, the sheer gravitas of everything around us in our ordinary vision…
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Tim Barrus: Other Circumstances
I have copyright of this novel. – Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: Tyranny
The Gods Were Cruel Little Tyrants – Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: The Dark King
I am a communist. The issue is class and caste. The capitalists love putting their wealth in everyone’s face. The old adage – the poor want to be rich, too – is showing cracks in the facade. Americans cannot afford the lives they are living. There is fuel to this…