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

On 8/23/2026 3:03 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:00:48 +0100, Julian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That is not what I said.  I said a rotten leader can corrupt any
> system, and a good principled wise leader can make any system work.
> 
> Too bad we have such an oversupply of the first kind.

He wasn't replying to you.