ICE: "followed by will stancil"

the early communists at least were trying to build utopia, and were willing to build the gulag if it was necessary to get there. these days sometimes it seems like internet communists are trying to build the gulag, and are willing to refer to utopia sometimes if it lets them get there.

"you should get killed for disagreeing with Stalin" was something modern Stalinists believe but not something Stalin himself ever claimed. it was true but no one was allowed to say it was.

Worth remembering that way back when we had that first Signal chat leak that at no point did anyone say "the president said X." Instead we got Miller saying "my sense is the president wants ___"

i just don't think it's great that i'm expected to respect people who openly fantasize about murdering me

the crazy thing about modern M-Ls is that the two largest causes of death among committed communists in the 20th century are Hitler and Stalin, and i'm not sure which of the two comes out ahead

yeah the USSR shouldn't have liquidated its officer corps for imagined crimes, made an alliance with the Nazis to split Poland, murdered the Polish officer corps, ended the popular fronts against fascism, turned over German and Austrian communists to the Nazis, and demilitarized the Nazi border

it was a 6-3 holding that the approval power of the Dept. of the Interior did not have to be used in the interest of the Navajo Nation.