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

On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:43:28 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
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.

The system did not make them tyrants.  Any system can allow and
encourage rotten leaders.

>"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
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or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
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dares: Ned
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