@ruthdelioncourt@kingofthehood89 Just last year, I had some SSPX broad really tell me that wearing Hawaiian shirts and guayaberas is “immodest” for mass and I should only wear a suit every Sunday…and if im not, I’m “improperly dressed”
I was seething: that’s insulting to me tbh
No no, take him very seriously, this is the core reason why they happily tolerate communist dictators but despise fascist dictators. They think one side had good intentions and the other evil intentions, like a child's interpretation.
Joseph Stalin murdered more human beings than almost anyone in recorded history, and he did it with a clipboard and a five-year plan.
Let me give you the numbers, because the numbers matter. The Holodomor, the man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, killed somewhere around 4 million people. Stalin engineered it. He confiscated the grain, sealed the borders so starving peasants couldn't leave, and let them die in the snow while the state exported wheat abroad.
He collectivized agriculture, meaning he seized private farms and forced peasants onto giant state operations. The productive farmers, the ones who owned a cow or two and actually knew how to grow things, he branded "kulaks" and shipped to Siberia or shot. He destroyed his best producers on purpose.
Then came the Great Terror of 1937 and 1938. Stalin's secret police executed roughly 700,000 people in about two years. Not battlefield deaths. Confessions extracted in basements, quotas handed down for how many "enemies" each region should find.
Quotas. For arrests. Somebody in Moscow decided your town owed the state 200 traitors, and the local officers went and found 200, guilty or not.
The whole thing rests on a simple lie: that a handful of men in a Kremlin office know how to run millions of lives better than those millions running their own. Stalin believed that lie hard enough to build a machine of corpses around it.
Property rights aren't some dusty legal technicality. They're the thing standing between you and a bureaucrat deciding your grain belongs to the collective and your life doesn't matter.
Stalin proved that 20 million dead is just a statistic to a central planner.
@avstorm Instead of making the logo ridiculously large, they should return to the 1960s era Raymond Loewy designed diamond can and just have more logos