Sometimes, after a life-altering, traumatic, global pandemic, the masses just dislike their current leaders. It just, like, happens I guess.

I just poke around on google earth and street view when I can't sleep. Helpful for general geography knowledge and for reminding you how big and beautiful the world is

I've been on a "political imagination" kick lately. We gotta start trying new shit on smaller scales, to demonstrate to the people watching that we (collectively, individually, locally, and nationally) are competent and trustworthy and can accomplish things. Then we can build up from there

Yeah, I appreciate the occasional dunk, but I'm basically only going to use the news mega anymore. Big fat unforced L from the admins/mods

Bring out Young Dro at the DNC and they both do the shoulder lean

Even events with probability 0 still happen

That shit makes me feel insane, he's literally the boss of the secretary of education and they tried basically nothing and then gave up. And people still hand it to them! The lack of imagination liberals have is seriously depressing. These people live hollowed out, empty lives devoid of any legitimate hope or vigor, content with their allowance of imperial treats and the endless "aw shucks, well... next time for sure!" as everything decays around them.

I'm fascinated to see the PSL results in my state. There's a reasonably active chapter in my city, but I wonder how that will translate to votes

I’m sure you’ve seen it, but this always kills me.
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Tossing around big numbers to estimate things like this is so fun, thanks for the write up!

If you're into extreme metal at all, Red Nebula is a cool collective of communist and communist-adjacent music. Periodeater is the band on their label I've listened to most.

all glory to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic: representing the Real™ thin blue line

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Another resource: The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz

In Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti also talks about how East German officials who prosecuted collaborators were, after reuinfication, held liable to West German laws that made their earlier rulings illegal.
From the footnote on page 83:

Helene Heymann, who had been imprisoned during the Hitler regime for her anti-Nazi activities, later was a judge in the GDR, where she presided over anti-sabotage trials. She was put on trial in 1996. When her conviction was read out, it was pointed out by the judge that an additional factor against her was that she was trained by a Jewish lawyer who had been a defense attorney for the Communists and Social Democrats.

It'll only take a few minutes (for real, it's less than 1000 words)! Link

Some days I kinda wish I were this stupid. Life would be a lot simpler if it obeyed baby-brain lib logic

Need to get around to finishing Liberalism, but Losurdo has been a big influence on my worldview the past couple years. Reading his works is like a breath of fresh air. I hope Henry and Salvatore (or others!) can do some more translation work, because more people need to read his stuff.

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