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I google panoramic marxism assuming he would come up at the top of the list. Instead, I got a lot of links that may or may not include the phrase verbatim (alt text: the panoramic view of Marxism) but look like they may not support his exact ideological viewpoint.

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They were real stereoscopic tech. The photos were taken with double cameras, each aimed at the target but at a slightly different angle, producing an effect that allowed the eyes to see the location in true binocular vision. I marveled at that for three or four minutes, then got bored in about five minutes of looking at the pictures.

An early example of toys that sold because of their wow factor in the store, but the kids couldn't really do much with them. My Lincoln Logs, erector set, and Legos got more attention from me, as did some kids' jump ropes, badminton sets, and hula hoops.

As an adult, I don't have toys any more, but when we're not having pandemics I play train several hours a week with my friends using sticks, mostly.

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If we go back 88 years, to Nazi Germany

Wow, that was, erm, "subtle."

https://www.adl.org/educati...

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I assume that "no-nonsense" from this character means you don't have to be considerate and even that shoving a grapefruit in her face is okay.

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I had a sudden flood of nostalgia for them about two years ago and went nuts on eBay. They seem so much smaller--now that I've tripled in size--but I don't regret the purchases one bit.

Some of the sets really represent a lost art that I still can't quite grasp how were accomplished, like Beep Beep the Road Runner or the various Peanuts sets. They appear to be miniatures, like Hummel figurines, but gloriously detailed and with constantly changing faces or heads. Did they honestly create a different head for each shot of Wile E. Coyote, like a Henry Selick animation? And those backgrounds, simultaneously so very simple and so wondrously detailed?

http://viewmasterworld.blog...

I'd totally buy a photo album of these sets. Others, like Batman '66 or The Poseidon Adventure I grabbed just to marvel at how they pulled the effect off using already-shot media. (Christ, just imagine ViewMaster sets of Irwin Allen's other disaster movies.)

http://viewmasterworld.blog...

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So, what's worse to hear about from a goom who looks like Leonid Brezhnev? "Panoramic communism," or sex? Wait, I've got it! Pansexual socialismism!!

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Just wondering who found it and sent it to Wonkette. But I love your comment.

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I prefer portrait or landscape Marxism, personally. I also have a bad feeling he's yet another shonda.

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Is there a Mrs. Rudov in the picture, lucky enough to be the recipient of his marital wisdom?

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Not a real book. If it was, conservatives would demand it be spelled, "Masterbation".

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You, also too, can own a copy of "Under the Clitoral Hood" in PDF format. And, it's free!!

https://kupdf.net/download/...

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After pandemic stress eating for a year, pandemic Marxism is the only kind that can get me all in frame.

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My college girlfriend had a pacer. With the back seat down, there's all sort of space for two short people to screw.

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Thank you for clearing that up for me.

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Oh wow, I only got through a few paragraphs and it's beyond amazing.

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