Honestly the Cultural Revolution was almost anarchist in nature, and in my personal opinion, the various excesses that occurred were because of not enough wielding of centralized power rather than too much of it

Amusingly, these are two of the only people in the world who would recoil and want to leave when being near a Shiba Inu

"Excellent work, 47. Now get out of there."

I dunno how much we should trust Mike Huckabee's understanding of politics

Communists conveniently forget the passage in Capital where Marx says "I support Obama's New World Order FEMA death camps"

That's right

The best way to oppose social imperialism is to enthusiastically support regular imperialism

Since it looks like you're open to genre fiction, I've been working my way through The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (four or five books depending on who you ask, the first of which is The Shadow of the Torturer); it's got incredibly elaborate worldbuilding with lush prose that rewards close reading. I just started the fourth one, The Citadel of the Autarch, and the series has been blowing my mind.

That's what the ghost that invented it called it

My friends have this framed in their house and it makes them the coolest people I know

"Name MacName" is perfect for a con artist

The latter, I'm pretty sure

Conrad Adenauer Sucked Me Off???

The assassination attempt broke him; he was confronted with the possibility of his death for the first time in his life and he's fucked up by it

Her performance was so fucking bad in that game

This is the background music of my memories of being 10-12

This might be a good opportunity to do some self-reflecting on your beliefs about the DPRK! When you observe that objective facts don't line up with your perception of this country, the correct thing to do is not to say "how can I twist what I'm observing into an explanation that will leave my perception unchallenged"; it's to say "perhaps my perception of this country is flawed" and re-evaluate

Stop sending them the munitions and money that cause the suffering and maybe we'll believe you

Figured he might be one of these guys

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By not voting for Harris, you're de facto voting for Trump. At the same time, however, by not voting for Trump, you're de facto voting for Harris