On Popes and Punks

Posted by mshupe 1 year ago to Politics
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An excerpt: The Pope failed to mention that the Enlightenment, the emergence of reason and rights (including freedom of religion) except in the arts, never reached Russia. Russia has been politically totalitarian, a champion repression and mass murder throughout its history: from pre-Communism to Communism to post-Communism.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 year ago
    While you certainly don't have our freedom of speech in Russia... I find the claim that Post-communism... It's been totalitarian AND mass murdering (implying of it's own people)...

    China, to me, fits that description. But they are NOT post-communism at this point.

    My amazement with Russia... After many visits... Is that the Average Russian is more American than MODERN Americans. (part of that is a BETTER education system, that would gladly EXECUTE a teacher teaching what passes for school in America)...

    Personally, I would swap our current president to have Putin... As he would do a better job! Watch the machine guns at the border change things in HOURS...
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year ago
    Well written mshupe and BobCat.

    All of this is aimed at achieving Ellsworth Toohey’s penultimate goal “…Haven’t you been able to catch their theme song – ‘Give up. give up, give up, give up.’?” One Planet, One Government, One Concentration Camp. A downsized human population of a size necessary to produce enough to satisfy what they, the Elites, need to live in the style to which they have become accustomed. For the rest of us; no sunshine, no happiness, no freedom.

    If given the choice of living in misery in the knowledge that the Elites were dead, I’d take it in an instant.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year ago
    Long live thumbscrews! Or have they been replaced by better, more humane, methods?
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    • Posted by 1 year ago
      Well, maybe, sort of. The thumbscrews of the mind. Unearned guilt and recognition remain the psychological tool, but the physical tools are more subtle: looting and smashing stores, car jacking, art destruction, progressive prosecutions, 'extremist' smearing, bail cancelation, etc.
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