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December 18 - December 22, 2022
In a bizarre twist of history, one of the earliest restrictions of the Second Amendment was against the militant left.
shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, but.
It would have been no surprise to anarchists that in the Supreme Court there was a bipartisan, unanimous consensus in favor of the powers of the government and against the rights of the individual citizen.
the whole manner of speaking on important subjects with inappropriate sarcasm as his only weapon,
Loyalty to family was a quintessentially bourgeois worldview, the private interest over the public good, and any hint of that was anathema to good Communists.
At the time, Mussolini was regarded as somewhat of a moderate, a fusionist who combined the best elements of socialist Russia and capitalist America to create the “third way” of fascism.
through them, the movements make their fantastic lies more generally acceptable, can spread their propaganda in milder, more respectable forms, until the whole atmosphere is poisoned with totalitarian elements which are hardly recognizable as such but appear to be normal political reactions or opinions.
The words of Mikhail Bakunin, Marx’s foremost rival, came to mind: “When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People’s Stick.”
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The Stasi had another technique for breaking up groups, which by their nature tended to be regarded as conspiracies against the state. All it would take was one Stasi operative in an organization urging its members toward increasingly radical and aggressive actions.
Fascism and Nazism were imitations of Soviet forms, with manic nationalism and racism replacing international proletarian solidarity as their central “spiritual” content.
As he put it, “my previous belief in the superiority of socialist democracy over the bourgeois system was shaken as I observed the functioning of civic society and the different political systems. […] [P]eople there lived in better conditions and were better off than in our country.”
At 6 a.m. on December 13, 1981, the Polish government declared martial law and abandoned even the pretense of a country where law had any meaning. Hundreds of telecommunication exchanges were raided and telephone lines cut in order to prevent what they called “misinformation” from spreading.
Nicolae Ceausescu. One glance at the man whose bottom lip always stuck out called to mind those unfortunate people that can be seen wandering around at airports, who cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up.
Taylor Branch: Clinton had received notice of a major predawn security alarm when Secret Service agents discovered Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi. Yeltsin slurred his words in a loud argument with the baffled agents. He did not want to go back into Blair House, where he was staying. He wanted a taxi to go out for pizza. I asked what became of the standoff. “Well,” the president said, shrugging, “he got his pizza.”
Utopias don’t exist—but progress does, and so do victories by good over evil.
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The foes of liberty are many and they are powerful—but they are not particularly impressive. They will do everything within their ability to convince others that their might is eternal, that battle against them is pointless and doomed to fail. This is just another one of their many lies.
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It is possible that those of us who fight for the dignity of mankind will lose our fight. It is not possible that we must lose our fight. That is the white pill.
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