Re: on why are you a bunch of racist pricks?

On 23/08/2026 18:43, Wilson wrote:
> On 8/23/2026 11:55 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:37:21 +0100, Julian <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Concerning the long leftist tradition of disposable peasants....
>>>
>>> "The deadliest man-made and politically driven famines in history were
>>> caused by extreme state policies, forced collectivization, and
>>> intentional food requisitioning.
>>>
>>> The largest include the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) with 15 to 55
>>> million deaths, and the Soviet Holodomor (1932–1933) which killed 
>>> millions.
>>>
>>> Major Man-Made and State-Induced Famines
>>
>> It is odd to me that you blame the systems and not the dictators who
>> ran them.  But that coincidence of their pairing is often used to
>> bolster rightie thinking.  As if the system made them tyrants instead
>> of the tyrants ruining the system.
> 
> The system not only allowed, it encouraged the tyrants.
> 
> "If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time 
> guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been 
> told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in 
> Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron 
> rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they 
> would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a 
> ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal 
> (the “secret brand”); that a man’s genitals would be slowly crushed 
> beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible 
> circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping 
> for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of 
> Chekhov’s plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes 
> would have gone off to insane asylums.
> 
> Yes, not only Chekhov’s heroes, but what normal Russian at the beginning 
> of the century, including any member of the Russian Social Democratic 
> Workers’ Party, could have believed, would have tolerated, such a 
> slander against the bright future? What had been acceptable under Tsar 
> Aleksei Mikhailovich in the seventeenth century, what had already been 
> regarded as barbarism under Peter the Great, what might have been used 
> against ten or twenty people in all during the time of Biron in the mid- 
> eighteenth century, what had already become totally impossible under 
> Catherine the Great, was all being practiced during the flowering of the 
> glorious twentieth century — in a society based on socialist principles, 
> and at a time when airplanes were flying and the radio and talking films 
> had already appeared — not by one scoundrel alone in one secret place 
> only, but by tens of thousands of specially trained human beasts 
> standing over millions of defenseless victims."
> 
> The Gulag Archipelago
> 
> https://x.com/AI_Solzhenitsyn/status/2091503798195724672

There'll always be some who insist the ideology is infallible
and it's just a simple matter of correct implementation that
has, conveniently, finally emerged and is in their possession.