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

whatabouterismerino

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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.

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.

roll tide roll

Alabama caught in the crossfire

Gonna see them for the second time next month!! So fucking hyped

I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A TRAIN I JUST WANT A

ML and AI-type stuff is sick as hell, but the media hype-bullshit and stable diffusion stuff that people use for slop gives it all a bad name. I know people doing really cool research on different types of cancer and cleft palate data using ML approaches, to good effect. Stuff like that should be prioritized and publicized much more. It’s a tool like any other.

b from MoA has some pretty sharp analysis. They’ve been proven right on some predictions multiple times, since I’ve started reading

I saw TWO artsy looking ones in the wild the other day and wanted to crash my car

It is fully a system that gives people a sense of false agency, none of the initiatives that have not aligned with the interest of the powers that be have passed/impacted anything.

Similarly, a few years ago Florida voters pretty overwhelmingly voted a “ballot initiative” to give felons their right to vote back after time served. The state basically flipped them off and kept right on going. Same game, different players

If the religious YanKKKees had any self-awareness, they’d probably consider their country “Babylon” or the antichrist.

Having grown up around a lot of them, a common retort takes you into the “can’t fail, can only be failed” territory. “America isn’t horrible and evil at it’s ontological core, it’s just filled with ~insert minority here~ that’s doing awful things (i.e. existing) and THAT’S why this awful thing has come upon us”

let out an involuntary “oh hell yeah” Really hope this can help to ease some of the pressure from the US’s boot on their neck, and excited for the longer-term consequences this could have

Hey that’s me

Nine days later, he escalated the harassment, adding seal barks and the bleating of sheep.

The idea that adding different animal noises to the voicemails is “escalat[ing]” the harassment is killing me