Unlike other posters who make this thread, online takes are cool here, but bonus points for IRL stuff.

I was drinking with a coworker last night and somehow communism and the USSR came up. They went on about the Holodomer, implying it was engineered and targeted. I explained "hey you're literally repeating nazi talking points" and I dont recall the rest of the conversation, but im happy I got to defend Stalin at a work gathering.

Not the worst thing I've heard all week I don't think, but its both IRL and fresh in my brain.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    On the US embassy publicly warning about a potential terrorist attack in South Africa without communicating with South African authorities beforehand, Source:

    Surely if US intelligence receives info about an impending terrorist attack it has a duty to warn its citizens.

    Imagine the fall out if they had kept quiet and a US citizen was killed, or if anyone was killed and it came to light that the US knew but said nothing.

    :thinking-about-it::thonk:🛩️🏙️🏙️

    Also how many mass shooters are on wanted lists or known to police?

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      When the US is the first to warn of an impending terrorist attack, it reads as "don't come to school tomorrow"