It is utter hubris for us to believe we can never reach this end, even if we take the same turn.
hear DSA: read Bolsheviks
The Interrogation
The Gulag Archipelago
Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3
“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.”
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Suddenly my timeline is flooded with far-left takes, and most of my favorite follows are invisible.
Anyone else think it just turned April 1? Algorithm been hijacked.?
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Yesterday
Make no mistake…. Trump understands how the pardon system works and that Tina Peters is in jail on state charges.
But this now has national attention!!
The DOJ needs to open an investigation into election fraud in Colorado, make her a material witness, and put her into federal protective custody while they go after the actual criminals that are running Colorado.
Do you agree?
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Excellent summary:
Violence has become normalized within trans activism
andrewdoyle.org/p/violence-h…
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To ANYONE in your conversation circle pretending Antifa doesn't exist, ask them if they've read the manual yet.
ANTIFA: The Democrats have been instructed to pretend they have never heard of Antifa. Here is Keith Ellison claiming he doesn’t know what Antifa is. In 2018 he tweeted a picture of his copy of the Antifa terror handbook.
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You do need 'Seal Team Six' ish protection if there's a high chance people are going to be shooting at you for doing your job while deporting the guy picking your strawberries.
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Free speech will continue to take partisan hits until we reckon with the rank authoritarianism of 2021-24...
racket.news/p/as-jimmy-kimme…
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Ok, left. Keep going on about cancel culture and how Antifa is just an idea.
We remember.
On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore.
Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob.
I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses were all shuttered, remnants of the ongoing destruction from the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
They caught me. Antifa tackled me to the ground, tearing my knee tendon in the process as I slid across the pavement. They punched me over and over and tried to choke me out. I barely managed to stumble into @theNinesHotel, begging the staff to call 911. Instead, they tried to force me back outside and told me to wear a Covid mask. I dropped to the floor, refusing to move, pleading for them to call the police. They refused.
Outside, Antifa gathered. One of their ringleaders, Elizabeth Richter — the blonde woman — began rallying the crowd. She called on others on a livestream to come finish me off. She went inside the hotel and threatened me. Antifa also tried breaking their way into the hotel.
I escaped only by jumping into an elevator with a hotel guest. After that, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a police guard. I was soaked in my blood. On social media, Antifa immediately began trying to track which hospital I was in, hoping to finish the job.
As soon as I was discharged, I had to flee Portland. I moved between safe houses in different states. Antifa’s hunt for me was far from over.
@PortlandPolice closed the case a few weeks afterward, saying they couldn’t identify anyone. Nobody was ever arrested, just like in 2019 when I was beaten to the point that my brain bled.
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Do better @nos !
Anyone can beat a straw man but it doesn't make you look intelligent.
Take a moment to learn Charlie's real beliefs and legacy.
Might improve your outlook and reporting.
State television @NOS news just told millions of Dutch people that “Charlie Kirk called all black women dumb. He believed black people are worth less than white people.”
This is the first impression millions of Europeans get of Kirk. The media are murdering him a second time.
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This is an affront to constitutional authority. IF they can't get their oversight work done, they have to step aside for temporary appointments or STAY AT WORK.
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All data, no hype:
Atlantic Hurricanes Preseason 2025, by @RogerPielkeJr open.substack.com/pub/rogerp…
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Classic moral conundrum: would you go back in time to execute baby H*tler?
New conundrum: given the results of Marxist thought put into practice, should Britain have given Marx the refuge they did to develop and publish his ideas? It was the Liberal thing to do but...
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True/false has 4 states:
*True
*False
*More true the more you believe it
-IE "I can accomplish x if I try harder"
*More false the more you believe it
-"my government is not corrupt"
-"our elections are secure"
-"public employees just want to serve the public"
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