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The easy conflating of military boot-camp conditions with life under Lenin or Stalin or Hitler or Mao confirms how free we are to think like morons and still think ourselves clever. What surprised me is that football training camps weren't dragged out as another example of the totalitarian impulse. Remember how Bear Bryant used to deprive his players of water in the thick of Texas summer?
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