As a radical polyamarous leftist, yes, send all your witchy women to me.

Compare my life to yours, and kill yourself.

MY hero!

Here’s a cool book about it related to the meme (and it’s got an appropriate title).

Endless Holocausts

The issue, as I see it, is that police only need to exist if you believe force is an acceptable way to compel people’s behavior. From a nonviolent perspective, the argument can simply end there. People do not need to be policed because force itself should not be used to compel anyone against their will.

And even if you accept the premise that force is sometimes justified, you still have to reckon with the fact that any organization sanctioned to use force will always carry the risk of being captured and repurposed for ends other than its original intent. In my view, that risk is unacceptable. So even on pragmatic grounds, it is better not to create institutions whose defining feature is the sanctioned use of force.

The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It’s really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.

I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you’d consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.

So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It’d be impressive if it weren’t so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.

Oh dude the CIA has their fingers in soooooooooo much shit in the era between WWII and… now? It’s all published on their web site.

Shhhh they still don’t know radio free Asia is a CIA project.

We cannot choose the period of history we reside in, but we can rise to meet the occasion.

Exactly. This should be framed as a failed coup that will result in social reform/revolution. These clowns are poorly organized, on drugs most of the time, and have no clues how the social organism works.

It’s pretty shitty that they’ll cause a lot of unnecessary pain tho.

I’d say it’s supposed to be punch a Nazi, but same difference.

Hey, just a few thoughts I wanted to share in response to this:

First, citing the CIA to praise Stalin is… an odd move. Second, it’s important to recognize that liberals and neoliberals aren’t the same thing. The terms get conflated a lot, but they refer to different ideological frameworks, especially in terms of economics and state intervention. Neoliberalism is basically a rebranding of laissez-faire capitalism whereas liberalism favors more of a welfare-state capitalist system.

Third, I’d encourage reading the full context of the document in question. Here are a few excerpts that stood out:

There will not be a dramatic purge.

This might seem like a neutral observation, but it’s actually referring to a change after Stalin’s death. The implication is that dramatic purges did happen under him, and they’re noting that the new leadership wouldn’t continue that pattern.

Inasmuch as the MVD has already been cleaned up.

Again, this is post-Stalin. The MVD (Interior Ministry, which ran the secret police) being “cleaned up” suggests reform following abuses that were, again, tied to Stalin’s regime.

There is now no organized opposition inside the Party in the Soviet Union.

This kind of political consolidation didn’t happen in a vacuum. It reflects the legacy of Stalin’s crackdowns on dissent and internal opposition.

Since the death of Stalin and the blow which was given to the power of the secret police…

That’s a pretty direct reference to Stalin’s reliance on the secret police to maintain control. Again, the document frames the aftermath of his death as a shift away from that.

No improvement in the food situation can be expected.

This points to long-standing issues in agricultural production and distribution under the USSR, including during Stalin’s time. Whether or not the shortages were intentional, they’re part of the broader legacy of how poorly the Soviet agricultural system was managed. They were pretty much just experimenting with ways to grow food while failing to produce enough for their own population. I’m all for agricultural research, but only after the people are fed.

In short, this isn’t a glowing report of Stalin’s achievements. It’s describing a system trying to recover from the kind of authoritarian control he enforced.

If you’re interested in more critical perspectives from the time, I really recommend My Disillusionment in Russia and My Further Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman. They were written in the early 1920s (just as Stalin was rising to power) and they offer a fascinating, firsthand account of someone who initially supported the revolution (Emma Goldman was an American anarchist exiled to Russia for her beliefs) but became deeply disillusioned with how it played out.

We really don’t need to dig up dead guys to give them accolades. We can think of a better system that the USSR or USA.

50? Oh this’ll hit in your late 20s or early 30s

Being intolerant of society destroying behaviors seems exceptionally reasonable.

The movie takes place in Italy right before WW2 breaks out, and op is an actual quote from the movie. I feel like that’s worth pointing out.

Less than 25% of the US population voted for him. Of the people that voted, a majority voted for him, but an overwhelming majority of Americans did not vote for him.

Comparing a modern day American apartment to a Soviet one from 1950 lol okay.

Lol people actually believed that social credit score bullshit?

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Well what is it, goth chicks, thick thighs, or chubby bearded men? Why are you posting so many memes like this with slight variations?

The only people that benefit from antagonizing liberals are fascists. That means that anything you’ve seen in volume to divide people along anything other than class lines is likely propaganda.

Boomers aren’t the problem. Immigrants aren’t the problem. White people aren’t the problem. LGBTQ+ people aren’t the problem.

The problem is our ideology and cultural celebration of individuals that put profits (or anything, for that matter) over the health and safety of people. Never loose sight of the prize, which is first and foremost, changing our culture. We do that by creating a culture that people want to be a part of, which means welcoming all with open arms.

These are my opinions, of course, but considering that the other side is pushing an ideally of death, environmental devastation and inequality, you’d think it’d be easier…