I didn’t mention it on Lemmygrad, but in one of the matrix rooms I told my friend Ayjan that I was actually crying several minutes after I read the comment ‘The Ottoman Empire did many things wrong[.] The worst was losing at Vienna[.]’ I’m not Armenian myself, but that comment actually hurt my feelings because it implied that the Armenian massacres were a ‘minor’ mistake. I thought about the awful things that the German media said about the Armenians, and the violence that the Armenians suffered reminded me of the Fascist destruction of Kufra, so I cried for about one dozen minutes. I had to calm down because I had work to do.

Today I am feeling mostly adequate… though I am still unhappy about the situation in the Middle East, and having to think about the Axis’s exterminatory ambitions gives me the creeps. I’ll say one thing, though: that antisocialist’s clueless comment inspired me to get a copy of The Holocaust and North Africa, of which I have read the first few dozen pages, and it’s satisfying to realize that I, an anti‐Zionist, understand the Shoah better than a Zionist chump does.