Pictured is Gerald Ford moments before being subjected to a Soviet terror banquet.

        • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Flip-flops are another term for sandals or a kind of sandal, they kind of flop between your feet and the ground. They're a popular item at beaches so to see more of it in the flip-flop of the hypocrisy (other meaning here) than on the beach is quite a feat.

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  • RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    If the churches were full, it was a sign of the citizen's defiance against the state. If the churches were empty, it was a sign of their oppression.

    • Michael Perenti (loosely quoted)
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        In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

        -- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds

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  • jackmarxist [any]
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    1 year ago

    Funny seeing the fucking economist crying about feasts and banquets.

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml
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      Was the Economist the one that fervently defended the US's decision to block the UN resolution which deemed food is a human right? Or was it another lib news site?

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Me in front of my fourth lasagna of the evening: "Please grandpa, I'll burst if I have another"

    Stalin, preparing to dish out a comically large soufflé: "Eat theory, lib"

    ^Molotov, somehow maneuvering a nuclear freighter through the kitchen: "Make room for dessert!"^

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      1 year ago

      Don't forget Kaganovich coming in with the finisher in the form of trainloads worth of good soviet wine, soviet champagne, and soviet tap water (vodka, lol)

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, liberal society is so violent and anti-social that it's probably hard for them to comprehend someone using the knife to cut food, as is considered civilized in the west. In the lib mind, it's only a matter of time before somebody takes a knife and goes on a stabbing spree.

  • TΛVΛR@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Knifes, forks, a spoon...

    Seems like Stalin made the west shit itself with the whole arsenal of a typical kitchen shelf

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The primitive and fearful Anglo brainpan can only comprehend social interaction along the axis of intimidation and submission