Should discussion about The Poem be ... censored?

[PrimeJunta]

IMO one of the touchstones of a well-functioning polity is orderly and regular transfer of power with significant churn in the governing elite. If you get a quarter-century of Stalin, or, for that matter, Bush/Clinton with an interlude of Obama, that's a pretty good sign that something ain't right.

 

Edit: Page 31, WTF?

Edited April 20, 2015 by PrimeJunta

[Namutree]

 

Edit: Page 31, WTF?

This thread is a straggler.

[gkathellar]

Edit: Page 31, FTW!

 

FTFY.

[Malcador]

Oooh, oooh, I've got one.

That was awful.

[PrimeJunta]

 

Oooh, oooh, I've got one.

That was awesome.

 

 

FTFY

[Malcador]

 

 

Oooh, oooh, I've got one.

That was awesome.

 

 

FTFY

 

Nah, just seems like he didn't put much effort so it's not subtle and is the kind of thing you get sycophantic fans posting "OMG QFT!" and so on. Using that as bait or what have you here is decent enough.

[Namutree]

I wonder how long this thread will live.

[Malcador]

Page 33 before a moderator decides to nix it for length. But, we can always make a new one, where you SJW ninnies can whine about punching up and we can also talk about the virtues of vi as a text editor and grilled cheese sandwiches.

[PrimeJunta]

Real men write with Vigor.

 

http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

 

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00jan/20000104.html

Edited April 20, 2015 by PrimeJunta

[Ineth]

Stalinism was at the same time a glorious march of progress and purpose, and an inhuman meatgrinder.

[...]

Poor USSR. Such an epic tale of good intentions going horribly wrong.

 

And you're in denial if you think the "inhuman meatgrinder" part was a random accident of history, rather than the inevitable harvest from seeds that were part of that "good intentions" ideology, which you hold dear, all along.

 

When you built an ideology on collectivism-over-individualism and end-justifies-the-means, you're bound to arrive at mass murder and mass starvation (provided you're successful in staging a revolution and forcing said ideology on a whole country).

[Namutree]

 

When you built an ideology on collectivism-over-individualism and end-justifies-the-means, you're bound to arrive at mass murder and mass starvation (provided you're successful in staging a revolution and forcing said ideology on a whole country).

 

I'm not so sure that's 100% assured.

Edited April 20, 2015 by Namutree

[PrimeJunta]

Individualism over collectivism doesn't seem to do much better. The British Raj alone makes the victims of Communism look like small potatoes.

 

Edit: Ah, I almost forgot: obviously they don't count since they're brown.

Edited April 20, 2015 by PrimeJunta

[Ineth]

Yeah Stalin liked to play it safe. He assassinated or executed pretty much everyone who was anyone among the Bolshevik old guard.

 

And yet, socialists love to pull out the "Hitler rounded up socialists and executed them! This proofs that National Socialism can't possibly have anything to do with Socialism!" argument every time...

[PrimeJunta]

It would be stupid to claim that Hitler had nothing to do with socialism. The word is right in his party's name.

 

He was, however, a staunch anti-Communist.

Edited April 20, 2015 by PrimeJunta

[Malcador]

Real men write with Vigor.

 

http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

 

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00jan/20000104.html

What heresy is this.

[Gfted1]

Mmmm, grilled cheese.

 

Closed for length. Feel free to revisit the topic if interest warrants.