I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the Eye of Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll likely spend their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are >>> all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the Eye >> of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll likely
spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no countries will never trust USA again.
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they
are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the
Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll
likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no countries will never trust USA again.
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they
are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the
Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll
likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no countries will never trust USA again.
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the Eye of Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll likely spend their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-pm-economy-reforms-9.7241016
Of course it remains to be seen which reforms actually get implemented
and how quickly they take effect. There may well be massive pushback
from the vested interests that run things now. But with Raul Castro's
stamp of approval, it might be tough for anyone to resist these changes.
Of course, these are politicians and Communists at that so it's entirely >possible this is just a sham. But it will be interesting to see what
happens next.
Will these reforms be enough to keep the current regime in place? Or
will Cuba's experience echo that of the Soviet Union where a program of >reforms leads to the collapse of the entire regime? Personally, I'm
hoping for the latter!
BTR1701 wrote:
"Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the Eye >> of Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll likely >> spend their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're
going capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no >countries will never trust USA again.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no
countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is >untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no
other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a >thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely
since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming
into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very
long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and >fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with >horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
Rhino wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-pm-economy-reforms-9.7241016
Of course it remains to be seen which reforms actually get implemented
and how quickly they take effect. There may well be massive pushback
from the vested interests that run things now. But with Raul Castro's
stamp of approval, it might be tough for anyone to resist these changes.
Of course, these are politicians and Communists at that so it's entirely
possible this is just a sham. But it will be interesting to see what
happens next.
Will these reforms be enough to keep the current regime in place? Or
will Cuba's experience echo that of the Soviet Union where a program of
reforms leads to the collapse of the entire regime? Personally, I'm
hoping for the latter!
I suspect they know that Trump is gunning fo rthem next, now that Iran
is concluding.
On 2026-06-21 4:30 a.m., Ubiquitous wrote:
Rhino wrote:Oh my, this open Marxist is absolutely furious that Cuba is (apparently) giving up the ghost on "socialism".
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they are
all in the direction of free enterprise!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-pm-economy-reforms-9.7241016
Of course it remains to be seen which reforms actually get implemented
and how quickly they take effect. There may well be massive pushback
from the vested interests that run things now. But with Raul Castro's
stamp of approval, it might be tough for anyone to resist these changes. >>> Of course, these are politicians and Communists at that so it's entirely >>> possible this is just a sham. But it will be interesting to see what
happens next.
Will these reforms be enough to keep the current regime in place? Or
will Cuba's experience echo that of the Soviet Union where a program of >>> reforms leads to the collapse of the entire regime? Personally, I'm
hoping for the latter!
I suspect they know that Trump is gunning fo rthem next, now that Iran
is concluding.
https://marxist.com/faced-with-unbearable-imperialist-pressure-cuba-moves-towards-capitalist-restoration.htm
I'm betting the bozo who wrote this is a college professor who's never
even travelled to a Marxist country and is just spouting this nonsense
based on "established Marxist theory". If he had been to a place like
Cuba and seen how poorly they live - compared to how comfortably he can
live in an "imperialist" country - he'd probably give up on Marxism on
the spot. Or at least he would if he were a decent person, although
that's not too likely if he can spout this sort of fantasy about how wonderful it can be in a Marxist country.
I'm looking forward to watching Cuba blossom as their current broken
system gets replaced by a new, vibrant one that lifts them out of the destitution they've endured for decades. Cuba was one of the richest
places in the Western hemisphere when Cuba took over; now it is rivalled only by Haiti for poorest.
Let us begin by describing the measures approved:
--The end of state planning of the economy, and the allocation of resources by >the state to be replaced by "policy signals for all economic actors" (public >and private) and the primacy of "market signals".
--The end of the foreign trade monopoly.
--"Transforming socialist state-owned enterprises into commercial companies >with shares or equity interests" and allowing private capital, both domestic >and foreign, to purchase their shares.
--State-owned enterprises will have complete autonomy to decide their >investment policy, their sectors of activity, their workers' wages and the >sale of their assets to the private sector; they will set their prices in >accordance with costs, and those that do not turn a profit will be wound up.
--The creation of a private banking and financial sector.
--The unlimited expansion of sectors open to private investment, both domestic >and foreign.
--Indefinite usufruct of land by private actors.
--The abolition of universal subsidies, which will be replaced by targeted >support for vulnerable people.
--The relaxation of dismissal rules and the introduction of an unemployment >benefit lasting between three and six months.
--Carry out successive devaluations of the national currency to reduce >exchange rate differentials. Companies unable to withstand the devaluation >will be wound up.
--Allow private companies to employ more than 100 workers.
--Allow real estate firms to carry out sales and purchases of residential >properties.
--Allow foreign investors to have full access to their foreign currency >earnings, operate flexibly within an environment of partial dollarisation of >the economy, and grant them access to the foreign exchange market.
--Allow all forms of business to operate in the Cayos, the heritage areas of >Old Havana and Trinidad.
--Allow property development in all the country's tourist areas.
--Invite fast-food franchises to invest in the country.
Wow. They must be really scared they'll end up next-door neighbors with >Maduro.--- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
Hasan Piker is in mourning. Right after he made a highly-publicized trip to >Havana to shill for the communist party, a trip that triggered a DOJ >investigation and which might land him in the pokey, they go capitalist, so he >put himself on the line for nothing.
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they
are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the >>> Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll
likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no
countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no
other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely
since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming
into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very
long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is >>>>> making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they >>>>> are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the >>>> Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll
likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going >>>> capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised >>> that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no >>> countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is
untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no
other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a
thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely
since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming
into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very
long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and
fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with
horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to Congress, while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed you out of the room.
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is >>>>>> making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they >>>>>> are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the >>>>> Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll
likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going >>>>> capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised >>>> that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no >>>> countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is
untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no
other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a
thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely
since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming
into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very >>> long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and >>> fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with
horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a
Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to Congress, >> while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed you >> out of the room.
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths
proving the exact opposite.
On Jun 24, 2026 at 7:25:45 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and
wrote:
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is >>>>>>> making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they >>>>>>> are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the
Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll >>>>>> likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no
countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is
untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no >>>> other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a >>>> thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely >>>> since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming >>>> into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very >>>> long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and >>>> fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with >>>> horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a
Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to Congress,
while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed you
out of the room.
starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament
finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that
idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths
proving the exact opposite.
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the newly-elected Mamdani-endorsed DSA member of Congress:
https://ibb.co/QsW0DPD
A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican immigrants, she converted to Islam and says that Palestine is the most important issue in her life.
She uses the American flag as a rag to clean dirt off her hands.
She attended a rally one day after October 7, celebrating the slaughter of Israeli civilians.
She's called white women 'ugly colonizers'. One assumes she has no higher opinion of white men, either.
She wants the police and prisons abolished. Not defunded. She's made it clear that when she says abolished, that's exactly what she means. She wrote, "No, it means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all, ever," followed by "ALL PIGS ARE HARAM".
She believes that no deportations, including of convicted criminals, are justified. (A position that she would, of course, immediately abandon if the majority of immigrants were white people.) In fact, she's gone on to claim that convicted criminals have *greater* constitutional protections against deportation than run-of-the-mill illegal aliens because deporting them after they serve time for their crimes violates double jeopardy.
She hates the police and has repeatedly referred to them as pigs. She calls U.S. military service members war criminals and says the United States is a disgrace of a country.
During the Wuhan Flu period, she called for a sweeping government takeover of large parts of the national economy. She advocated for the nationalization of utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent and
mortgage payments; the dissolution of all private health insurance; and the seizure of all rental properties from landlords nationwide. "Seize the means of production," she wrote, quoting the foundational principle of Marxism.
When she was at Colombia University, she posted the following on the law school's internal chat app:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of
Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every
movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada
is an internationalist one-- we are fighting for nothing less
than the liberation of all people.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness
becomes every more explicit and irrefutable, we seek
community and instruction from militants in the Global South
who have been on the frontlines in the fight against the
tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist
world order.
Did you notice the bit about seeking instruction from militants? She doesn't want a political revolution. She wants one of violence, soaked in blood. Gone are the days when New York politicians campaigned on safe parks and clean streets. Now New York's leaders are soliciting lessons from warlords in Africa
and Latin America and other renowned experts in killing white people.
She only ran in New York because she knows she wouldn't stand a chance in Florida.
When she takes her seat in Congress, does anyone really think she will prioritize (or even care about) the interests of the American people? Or will she work to undermine the country from within?
. . .
Where the hell were the sane people in her district when they had the >primary? This woman is the complete antithesis of sanity.
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
. . .
Where the hell were the sane people in her district when they had the
primary? This woman is the complete antithesis of sanity.
No. She appeals to voters who went to similar colleges.
Modern socialists are not trying to appeal to the working class, but college-educated voters.
When I was a yout', a liberal arts degree
taught an appreciation of arts and letters. Students were taught
critical thinking skills and 0hilosophy and how to express a
well-reasoned idea. I don't understand how modern liberal arts turned
into socialism studies without exploring any other ideas.
A political analysis pointed out that to the extent New York still has working class neighborhoods, they aren't voting for Democrats who are anti-Semitic and socialist.
The insanity is what younger college-educated types want.
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
[snip]
repeating five fucking screensfull of text just to add two
lines of stupidity.
Yawnt
On Jun 24, 2026 at 7:25:45 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and
wrote:
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is >>>>>>> making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they >>>>>>> are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the
Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll >>>>>> likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no
countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is
untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no >>>> other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a >>>> thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely >>>> since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming >>>> into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very >>>> long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and >>>> fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with >>>> horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a
Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to Congress,
while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed you
out of the room.
starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament
finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that
idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths
proving the exact opposite.
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the newly-elected Mamdani-endorsed DSA member of Congress:
https://ibb.co/QsW0DPD
A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican immigrants, she converted to Islam and says that Palestine is the most important issue in her life.
She uses the American flag as a rag to clean dirt off her hands.
She attended a rally one day after October 7, celebrating the slaughter of Israeli civilians.
She's called white women 'ugly colonizers'. One assumes she has no higher opinion of white men, either.
She wants the police and prisons abolished. Not defunded. She's made it clear that when she says abolished, that's exactly what she means. She wrote, "No, it means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all, ever," followed by "ALL PIGS ARE HARAM".
She believes that no deportations, including of convicted criminals, are justified. (A position that she would, of course, immediately abandon if the majority of immigrants were white people.) In fact, she's gone on to claim that convicted criminals have *greater* constitutional protections against deportation than run-of-the-mill illegal aliens because deporting them after they serve time for their crimes violates double jeopardy.
She hates the police and has repeatedly referred to them as pigs. She calls U.S. military service members war criminals and says the United States is a disgrace of a country.
During the Wuhan Flu period, she called for a sweeping government takeover of large parts of the national economy. She advocated for the nationalization of utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent and
mortgage payments; the dissolution of all private health insurance; and the seizure of all rental properties from landlords nationwide. "Seize the means of production," she wrote, quoting the foundational principle of Marxism.
When she was at Colombia University, she posted the following on the law school's internal chat app:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of
Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every
movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada
is an internationalist one-- we are fighting for nothing less
than the liberation of all people.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness
becomes every more explicit and irrefutable, we seek
community and instruction from militants in the Global South
who have been on the frontlines in the fight against the
tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist
world order.
Did you notice the bit about seeking instruction from militants? She doesn't want a political revolution. She wants one of violence, soaked in blood. Gone are the days when New York politicians campaigned on safe parks and clean streets. Now New York's leaders are soliciting lessons from warlords in Africa
and Latin America and other renowned experts in killing white people.
She only ran in New York because she knows she wouldn't stand a chance in Florida.
When she takes her seat in Congress, does anyone really think she will prioritize (or even care about) the interests of the American people? Or will she work to undermine the country from within?
On 2026-06-27 2:29 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 24, 2026 at 7:25:45 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:This is the kind of "activist" that was highly prized - by Stalin -
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino"It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and >>> starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament >>> finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they
are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the
Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll >>>>>>> likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no
countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is >>>>> untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its >>>>> knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no >>>>> other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but >>>>> collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a >>>>> thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely >>>>> since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming >>>>> into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very
long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and
fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with >>>>> horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a
Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to
Congress,
while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed >>>> you
out of the room.
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that >>> idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths
proving the exact opposite.
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the newly-elected Mamdani-endorsed DSA
member
of Congress:
https://ibb.co/QsW0DPD
A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican immigrants, she
converted to Islam and says that Palestine is the most important issue in >> her
life.
She uses the American flag as a rag to clean dirt off her hands.
She attended a rally one day after October 7, celebrating the slaughter of >> Israeli civilians.
She's called white women 'ugly colonizers'. One assumes she has no higher >> opinion of white men, either.
She wants the police and prisons abolished. Not defunded. She's made it
clear
that when she says abolished, that's exactly what she means. She wrote, "No,
it means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all, ever," >> followed by "ALL PIGS ARE HARAM".
She believes that no deportations, including of convicted criminals, are
justified. (A position that she would, of course, immediately abandon if the
majority of immigrants were white people.) In fact, she's gone on to claim >> that convicted criminals have *greater* constitutional protections against >> deportation than run-of-the-mill illegal aliens because deporting them after
they serve time for their crimes violates double jeopardy.
She hates the police and has repeatedly referred to them as pigs. She calls >> U.S. military service members war criminals and says the United States is a >> disgrace of a country.
During the Wuhan Flu period, she called for a sweeping government takeover >> of
large parts of the national economy. She advocated for the nationalization >> of
utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent >> and
mortgage payments; the dissolution of all private health insurance; and the >> seizure of all rental properties from landlords nationwide. "Seize the means
of production," she wrote, quoting the foundational principle of Marxism. >>
When she was at Colombia University, she posted the following on the law
school's internal chat app:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of
Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every
movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada
is an internationalist one-- we are fighting for nothing less
than the liberation of all people.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness
becomes every more explicit and irrefutable, we seek
community and instruction from militants in the Global South
who have been on the frontlines in the fight against the
tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist
world order.
Did you notice the bit about seeking instruction from militants? She doesn't
want a political revolution. She wants one of violence, soaked in blood.
Gone
are the days when New York politicians campaigned on safe parks and clean >> streets. Now New York's leaders are soliciting lessons from warlords in
Africa
and Latin America and other renowned experts in killing white people.
She only ran in New York because she knows she wouldn't stand a chance in >> Florida.
When she takes her seat in Congress, does anyone really think she will
prioritize (or even care about) the interests of the American people? Or
will
she work to undermine the country from within?
during the collectivization campaign that forced the peasants, who
comprised 90% of the Soviet population, into so-called collective farms where the land belonged to the state, not the peasant, and they became employees and producers of food rather than owners of their land. The distinction is critical because a land owner can help himself to some of what he produces because he needs to eat and feed his family too; an employee has no say on what is grown or what is done with it. Then
Stalin ordered everything grown on the collective farms seized by
brigades of armed "militants" and taken to the cities to feed the proletariat (properly-speaking the Proletariat was ONLY the industrial workers) after siphoning off the best of the food for members of the
Party. And when I say everything, I do mean everything.
I'm just re-reading one of the very best short books on the Soviet collectivization campaign at just 347 pages, excluding end notes. Here
is an excerpt illustrating the attitude of the activists as they expropriated everything edible by force from peasants.
=========================================================================
An activist recalls,
I heard the children... choking, coughing with screams. And I saw the
looks of the men: frightened, pleading, hateful, dully impassive, extinguished with despair or flaring up with half-mad, daring ferocity.
'Take it. Take everything away. There's still a pot of borscht on the
stove. It's plain, got no meat. But still it's got beets, taters 'n' cabbage. And it's salted! Better take it, comrade citizens! Here, hang
on. I'll take off my shoes. They're patched and re-patched but maybe
they'll have some use for the proletariat for our dear Soviet power'.
It was excruciating to see and hear all this. And even worse to take
part in it... And I persuaded myself, explained it to myself. I mustn't
give in to debilitating pity. We were realizing historical necessity. We were performing our revolutionary duty. We were obtaining grain for the socialist fatherland. For the Five Year Plan.
With the rest of my generation, I firmly believed that the ends
justified the means. Our great goal was the universal triumph of
Communism and for the sake of that goal, everything was permissible - to lie, to steal, to destroy hundreds of thousands and even millions of
people, all those who were hindering our work or could hinder it,
everyone who stood in the way. And to hesitate or doubt about all this
was to give in to 'intellectual squeamishness' and 'stupid liberalism',
the attribute of people who 'could not see the forest for the trees'.
That was how I had reasoned, and everyone like me, even when...I saw
what 'total collectivization' meant - how they 'kulakized' and 'dekulakized',
[People who had even a tiny bit more than others or who didn't want to
go along with the Communist program were deemed "kulaks", class enemies
of the Communists who were essentially proto-capitalists. The people
deemed kulaks could then be 'dekulakized', which involved stripping them
of ALL of their belongings and either shooting them outright or sending
them to some remote spot of exile on a "sink or swim" basis where most
sank because they were put on barren land and deprived of any resources
to build housing or feed themselves.]
how they mercilessly stripped the peasants in the winter of 1932-1933. I took part in this myself, scouring the countryside, searching for hidden grain, testing the earth with an iron rod for loose spots that might
lead to buried grain. With the others, I emptied out the old folks'
storage chests, stopping my ears to the childrens' crying and the
women's wails. For I was convinced that I was accomplishing the great
and necessary transformation of the countryside; that in the days to
come the people who lived there would be better off for it; that their distress and suffering were a result of their own ignorance or the machinations of the class enemy; that those who sent me - and I myself - knew better that the peasants how they should live, what they should
sow, and when they should plough.
In the terrible spring of 1933 I saw people dying from hunger. I saw
women and children with distended bellies, turning blue, still breathing
but with vacant, lifeless eyes. And corpses - corpses in ragged
sheepskin coats and cheap felt boots; corpses in peasant huts, in the melting snow of the old Vologda, under the bridges of Kharkov...I saw
all this and did not go out of my mind or commit suicide. Nor did I
curse those who had sent me out to take away the peasants grain in the winter, and in the spring to persuade the barely walking, skeleton-thin
or sickly-swollen people to go into the fields in order to 'fulfil the bolshevik sowing plan in shock-worker style'.
Nor did I lose my faith. As before, I believed because I wanted to believe. =========================================================================
THAT is the sort of person this Chevalier woman is. THAT is who her constituents have decided should represent them. THAT sort of program is what they want for America.
On Jun 28, 2026 at 7:45:29 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-27 2:29 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 24, 2026 at 7:25:45 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>This is the kind of "activist" that was highly prized - by Stalin -
wrote:
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino"It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and >>>> starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament >>>> finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is
making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they
are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the
Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll >>>>>>>> likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going
capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised
that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no
countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is >>>>>> untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its >>>>>> knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no >>>>>> other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but >>>>>> collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a
thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely >>>>>> since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming
into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very
long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and
fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with >>>>>> horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a >>>>> Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to >>>>> Congress,
while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed
you
out of the room.
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that >>>> idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths >>>> proving the exact opposite.
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the newly-elected Mamdani-endorsed DSA >>> member
of Congress:
https://ibb.co/QsW0DPD
A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican immigrants, she >>> converted to Islam and says that Palestine is the most important issue in >>> her
life.
She uses the American flag as a rag to clean dirt off her hands.
She attended a rally one day after October 7, celebrating the slaughter of
Israeli civilians.
She's called white women 'ugly colonizers'. One assumes she has no higher >>> opinion of white men, either.
She wants the police and prisons abolished. Not defunded. She's made it >>> clear
that when she says abolished, that's exactly what she means. She wrote, "No,
it means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all, ever," >>> followed by "ALL PIGS ARE HARAM".
She believes that no deportations, including of convicted criminals, are >>> justified. (A position that she would, of course, immediately abandon if the
majority of immigrants were white people.) In fact, she's gone on to claim
that convicted criminals have *greater* constitutional protections against
deportation than run-of-the-mill illegal aliens because deporting them after
they serve time for their crimes violates double jeopardy.
She hates the police and has repeatedly referred to them as pigs. She calls
U.S. military service members war criminals and says the United States is a
disgrace of a country.
During the Wuhan Flu period, she called for a sweeping government takeover
of
large parts of the national economy. She advocated for the nationalization
of
utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent
and
mortgage payments; the dissolution of all private health insurance; and the
seizure of all rental properties from landlords nationwide. "Seize the means
of production," she wrote, quoting the foundational principle of Marxism. >>>
When she was at Colombia University, she posted the following on the law >>> school's internal chat app:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of
Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every
movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada
is an internationalist one-- we are fighting for nothing less
than the liberation of all people.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness
becomes every more explicit and irrefutable, we seek
community and instruction from militants in the Global South
who have been on the frontlines in the fight against the
tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist
world order.
Did you notice the bit about seeking instruction from militants? She doesn't
want a political revolution. She wants one of violence, soaked in blood. >>> Gone
are the days when New York politicians campaigned on safe parks and clean >>> streets. Now New York's leaders are soliciting lessons from warlords in >>> Africa
and Latin America and other renowned experts in killing white people.
She only ran in New York because she knows she wouldn't stand a chance in >>> Florida.
When she takes her seat in Congress, does anyone really think she will >>> prioritize (or even care about) the interests of the American people? Or >>> will
she work to undermine the country from within?
during the collectivization campaign that forced the peasants, who
comprised 90% of the Soviet population, into so-called collective farms
where the land belonged to the state, not the peasant, and they became
employees and producers of food rather than owners of their land. The
distinction is critical because a land owner can help himself to some of
what he produces because he needs to eat and feed his family too; an
employee has no say on what is grown or what is done with it. Then
Stalin ordered everything grown on the collective farms seized by
brigades of armed "militants" and taken to the cities to feed the
proletariat (properly-speaking the Proletariat was ONLY the industrial
workers) after siphoning off the best of the food for members of the
Party. And when I say everything, I do mean everything.
I'm just re-reading one of the very best short books on the Soviet
collectivization campaign at just 347 pages, excluding end notes. Here
is an excerpt illustrating the attitude of the activists as they
expropriated everything edible by force from peasants.
=========================================================================
An activist recalls,
I heard the children... choking, coughing with screams. And I saw the
looks of the men: frightened, pleading, hateful, dully impassive,
extinguished with despair or flaring up with half-mad, daring ferocity.
'Take it. Take everything away. There's still a pot of borscht on the
stove. It's plain, got no meat. But still it's got beets, taters 'n'
cabbage. And it's salted! Better take it, comrade citizens! Here, hang
on. I'll take off my shoes. They're patched and re-patched but maybe
they'll have some use for the proletariat for our dear Soviet power'.
It was excruciating to see and hear all this. And even worse to take
part in it... And I persuaded myself, explained it to myself. I mustn't
give in to debilitating pity. We were realizing historical necessity. We
were performing our revolutionary duty. We were obtaining grain for the
socialist fatherland. For the Five Year Plan.
With the rest of my generation, I firmly believed that the ends
justified the means. Our great goal was the universal triumph of
Communism and for the sake of that goal, everything was permissible - to
lie, to steal, to destroy hundreds of thousands and even millions of
people, all those who were hindering our work or could hinder it,
everyone who stood in the way. And to hesitate or doubt about all this
was to give in to 'intellectual squeamishness' and 'stupid liberalism',
the attribute of people who 'could not see the forest for the trees'.
That was how I had reasoned, and everyone like me, even when...I saw
what 'total collectivization' meant - how they 'kulakized' and
'dekulakized',
[People who had even a tiny bit more than others or who didn't want to
go along with the Communist program were deemed "kulaks", class enemies
of the Communists who were essentially proto-capitalists. The people
deemed kulaks could then be 'dekulakized', which involved stripping them
of ALL of their belongings and either shooting them outright or sending
them to some remote spot of exile on a "sink or swim" basis where most
sank because they were put on barren land and deprived of any resources
to build housing or feed themselves.]
how they mercilessly stripped the peasants in the winter of 1932-1933. I
took part in this myself, scouring the countryside, searching for hidden
grain, testing the earth with an iron rod for loose spots that might
lead to buried grain. With the others, I emptied out the old folks'
storage chests, stopping my ears to the childrens' crying and the
women's wails. For I was convinced that I was accomplishing the great
and necessary transformation of the countryside; that in the days to
come the people who lived there would be better off for it; that their
distress and suffering were a result of their own ignorance or the
machinations of the class enemy; that those who sent me - and I myself -
knew better that the peasants how they should live, what they should
sow, and when they should plough.
In the terrible spring of 1933 I saw people dying from hunger. I saw
women and children with distended bellies, turning blue, still breathing
but with vacant, lifeless eyes. And corpses - corpses in ragged
sheepskin coats and cheap felt boots; corpses in peasant huts, in the
melting snow of the old Vologda, under the bridges of Kharkov...I saw
all this and did not go out of my mind or commit suicide. Nor did I
curse those who had sent me out to take away the peasants grain in the
winter, and in the spring to persuade the barely walking, skeleton-thin
or sickly-swollen people to go into the fields in order to 'fulfil the
bolshevik sowing plan in shock-worker style'.
Nor did I lose my faith. As before, I believed because I wanted to believe. >> =========================================================================
THAT is the sort of person this Chevalier woman is. THAT is who her
constituents have decided should represent them. THAT sort of program is
what they want for America.
Communism: an idea so good it has to be implemented at gunpoint.
On 2026-06-28 1:44 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Precisely. A good idea would be one that had been tried on a small scale
Communism: an idea so good it has to be implemented at gunpoint.
and proven to work. People would WANT to try it on a larger scale and
would participate voluntarily. They'd try to make it even better. No one would need to force them. And if the idea worked at increasing scales, enthusiasm would multiply automatically and everyone would want to do it.
The very act of having to send armed "activists" to expropriate
foodstuffs is proof positive that the "good idea" of collective farming
is actually a really bad idea. EVERYONE right up to the top should have realized it and put on the brakes. But what actually happened is that
the fanatics at the top, especially Stalin, declared that it was a
brilliant idea because the Marxist theorists said it was on purely ideological grounds so he decreed that the peasants were hiding their
output and were enemies that needed to be destroyed.
And that's what today's Marxists will do if they ever get into power.
That's when you'll be extremely glad that your founders gave you the
Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment.
On Jun 28, 2026 at 11:44:43 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-28 1:44 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Precisely. A good idea would be one that had been tried on a small scale
Communism: an idea so good it has to be implemented at gunpoint.
and proven to work. People would WANT to try it on a larger scale and
would participate voluntarily. They'd try to make it even better. No one
would need to force them. And if the idea worked at increasing scales,
enthusiasm would multiply automatically and everyone would want to do it.
The very act of having to send armed "activists" to expropriate
foodstuffs is proof positive that the "good idea" of collective farming
is actually a really bad idea. EVERYONE right up to the top should have
realized it and put on the brakes. But what actually happened is that
the fanatics at the top, especially Stalin, declared that it was a
brilliant idea because the Marxist theorists said it was on purely
ideological grounds so he decreed that the peasants were hiding their
output and were enemies that needed to be destroyed.
And that's what today's Marxists will do if they ever get into power.
That's when you'll be extremely glad that your founders gave you the
Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment.
They complain about the hierarchies in capitalism, but look at this comparison
and tell me which one is objectively worse:
https://ibb.co/Fb4NVg61
On 2026-06-29 3:11 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 28, 2026 at 11:44:43 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>There's really just one guy who does well on an on-going basis in a communist system and that's the guy at the very top. Lenin, while he was still alive, warned that Stalin was a great danger and wrote what has
wrote:
On 2026-06-28 1:44 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Precisely. A good idea would be one that had been tried on a small scale >>> and proven to work. People would WANT to try it on a larger scale and
Communism: an idea so good it has to be implemented at gunpoint.
would participate voluntarily. They'd try to make it even better. No one >>> would need to force them. And if the idea worked at increasing scales,
enthusiasm would multiply automatically and everyone would want to do it. >>>
The very act of having to send armed "activists" to expropriate
foodstuffs is proof positive that the "good idea" of collective farming >>> is actually a really bad idea. EVERYONE right up to the top should have >>> realized it and put on the brakes. But what actually happened is that
the fanatics at the top, especially Stalin, declared that it was a
brilliant idea because the Marxist theorists said it was on purely
ideological grounds so he decreed that the peasants were hiding their
output and were enemies that needed to be destroyed.
And that's what today's Marxists will do if they ever get into power.
That's when you'll be extremely glad that your founders gave you the
Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment.
They complain about the hierarchies in capitalism, but look at this
comparison
and tell me which one is objectively worse:
https://ibb.co/Fb4NVg61
been called "Lenin's Testament" urging that Stalin be moved from his
role of General Secretary to a lesser role. But one of Lenin's
secretaries was Stalin's wife and she suppressed the document so that
the rest of the Politburo never saw it in time. With Lenin on medical
leave due to a series of strokes, Stalin allied with first one faction
then the other to remove everyone that stood in the way of him having supreme power. As General Secretary, a job viewed as boring and bureaucratic, he had the power to make appointments throughout the
hierarchy and used it to put people loyal to him in posts throughout the country. He gradually replaced the Old Bolsheviks with his own loyalists until no one could challenge him.
He was both powerful and extremely paranoid, having once told Beria that
he (Stalin) was afraid that he (Stalin) was plotting against HIMSELF. He reacted to those suspicions by having his secret police arrest those he thought were plotting and then torturing them until they admitted to
these non-existent plots and implicated dozens more. Those people in
turn were arrested and tortured into admitting further conspiracies that eventually implicated literally hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of people who all found themselves shot or sent to the Gulag
where the odds of surviving were not great. No one was safe and even
Stalin wasn't really comfortable because he constantly imagined plots against himself.
On Jun 29, 2026 at 5:53:49 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-29 3:11 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 28, 2026 at 11:44:43 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>There's really just one guy who does well on an on-going basis in a
wrote:
On 2026-06-28 1:44 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Precisely. A good idea would be one that had been tried on a small scale >>>> and proven to work. People would WANT to try it on a larger scale and >>>> would participate voluntarily. They'd try to make it even better. No one >>>> would need to force them. And if the idea worked at increasing scales, >>>> enthusiasm would multiply automatically and everyone would want to do it.
Communism: an idea so good it has to be implemented at gunpoint. >>>>>
The very act of having to send armed "activists" to expropriate
foodstuffs is proof positive that the "good idea" of collective farming >>>> is actually a really bad idea. EVERYONE right up to the top should have >>>> realized it and put on the brakes. But what actually happened is that >>>> the fanatics at the top, especially Stalin, declared that it was a
brilliant idea because the Marxist theorists said it was on purely
ideological grounds so he decreed that the peasants were hiding their >>>> output and were enemies that needed to be destroyed.
And that's what today's Marxists will do if they ever get into power. >>>> That's when you'll be extremely glad that your founders gave you the >>>> Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment.
They complain about the hierarchies in capitalism, but look at this
comparison
and tell me which one is objectively worse:
https://ibb.co/Fb4NVg61
communist system and that's the guy at the very top. Lenin, while he was
still alive, warned that Stalin was a great danger and wrote what has
been called "Lenin's Testament" urging that Stalin be moved from his
role of General Secretary to a lesser role. But one of Lenin's
secretaries was Stalin's wife and she suppressed the document so that
the rest of the Politburo never saw it in time. With Lenin on medical
leave due to a series of strokes, Stalin allied with first one faction
then the other to remove everyone that stood in the way of him having
supreme power. As General Secretary, a job viewed as boring and
bureaucratic, he had the power to make appointments throughout the
hierarchy and used it to put people loyal to him in posts throughout the
country. He gradually replaced the Old Bolsheviks with his own loyalists
until no one could challenge him.
He was both powerful and extremely paranoid, having once told Beria that
he (Stalin) was afraid that he (Stalin) was plotting against HIMSELF. He
reacted to those suspicions by having his secret police arrest those he
thought were plotting and then torturing them until they admitted to
these non-existent plots and implicated dozens more. Those people in
turn were arrested and tortured into admitting further conspiracies that
eventually implicated literally hundreds of thousands and eventually
millions of people who all found themselves shot or sent to the Gulag
where the odds of surviving were not great. No one was safe and even
Stalin wasn't really comfortable because he constantly imagined plots
against himself.
And even though the plots he suspected were imaginary, there likely *were* people plotting against him. There always are in systems where brutality and force are baked into the cake.
This is why I never understood why anyone would want to be a mafia don or the head of Hamas or any other job like that. All you are is a target for every *other* person who either wants your job or wants to destroy your organization. You never even get a good night's sleep.
And even though the plots he suspected were imaginary, there likely *were* >people plotting against him. There always are in systems where brutality and >force are baked into the cake.
This is why I never understood why anyone would want to be a mafia don or the >head of Hamas or any other job like that. All you are is a target for every >*other* person who either wants your job or wants to destroy your >organization. You never even get a good night's sleep.
On Jun 29, 2026 at 5:53:49 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-29 3:11 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 28, 2026 at 11:44:43 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>There's really just one guy who does well on an on-going basis in a
wrote:
On 2026-06-28 1:44 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Precisely. A good idea would be one that had been tried on a small scale >>>> and proven to work. People would WANT to try it on a larger scale and >>>> would participate voluntarily. They'd try to make it even better. No one >>>> would need to force them. And if the idea worked at increasing scales, >>>> enthusiasm would multiply automatically and everyone would want to do it.
Communism: an idea so good it has to be implemented at gunpoint. >>>>>
The very act of having to send armed "activists" to expropriate
foodstuffs is proof positive that the "good idea" of collective farming >>>> is actually a really bad idea. EVERYONE right up to the top should have >>>> realized it and put on the brakes. But what actually happened is that >>>> the fanatics at the top, especially Stalin, declared that it was a
brilliant idea because the Marxist theorists said it was on purely
ideological grounds so he decreed that the peasants were hiding their >>>> output and were enemies that needed to be destroyed.
And that's what today's Marxists will do if they ever get into power. >>>> That's when you'll be extremely glad that your founders gave you the >>>> Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment.
They complain about the hierarchies in capitalism, but look at this
comparison
and tell me which one is objectively worse:
https://ibb.co/Fb4NVg61
communist system and that's the guy at the very top. Lenin, while he was
still alive, warned that Stalin was a great danger and wrote what has
been called "Lenin's Testament" urging that Stalin be moved from his
role of General Secretary to a lesser role. But one of Lenin's
secretaries was Stalin's wife and she suppressed the document so that
the rest of the Politburo never saw it in time. With Lenin on medical
leave due to a series of strokes, Stalin allied with first one faction
then the other to remove everyone that stood in the way of him having
supreme power. As General Secretary, a job viewed as boring and
bureaucratic, he had the power to make appointments throughout the
hierarchy and used it to put people loyal to him in posts throughout the
country. He gradually replaced the Old Bolsheviks with his own loyalists
until no one could challenge him.
He was both powerful and extremely paranoid, having once told Beria that
he (Stalin) was afraid that he (Stalin) was plotting against HIMSELF. He
reacted to those suspicions by having his secret police arrest those he
thought were plotting and then torturing them until they admitted to
these non-existent plots and implicated dozens more. Those people in
turn were arrested and tortured into admitting further conspiracies that
eventually implicated literally hundreds of thousands and eventually
millions of people who all found themselves shot or sent to the Gulag
where the odds of surviving were not great. No one was safe and even
Stalin wasn't really comfortable because he constantly imagined plots
against himself.
And even though the plots he suspected were imaginary, there likely *were* people plotting against him. There always are in systems where brutality and force are baked into the cake.
This is why I never understood why anyone would want to be a mafia don or the head of Hamas or any other job like that. All you are is a target for every *other* person who either wants your job or wants to destroy your organization. You never even get a good night's sleep.
On Jun 24, 2026 at 7:25:45 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >>> wrote:It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is >>>>>>> making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they >>>>>>> are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the >>>>>> Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll
likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going >>>>>> capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised >>>>> that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no >>>>> countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is
untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no
other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but
collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a >>>> thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely
since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming
into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very >>>> long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and >>>> fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with
horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a
Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to Congress, >>> while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed you >>> out of the room.
starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament
finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that
idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths
proving the exact opposite.
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the newly-elected Mamdani-endorsed DSA member of Congress:
https://ibb.co/QsW0DPD
A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican immigrants, she converted to Islam and says that Palestine is the most important issue in her life.
She uses the American flag as a rag to clean dirt off her hands.
She attended a rally one day after October 7, celebrating the slaughter of Israeli civilians.
She's called white women 'ugly colonizers'. One assumes she has no higher opinion of white men, either.
She wants the police and prisons abolished. Not defunded. She's made it clear that when she says abolished, that's exactly what she means. She wrote, "No, it means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all, ever," followed by "ALL PIGS ARE HARAM".
She believes that no deportations, including of convicted criminals, are justified. (A position that she would, of course, immediately abandon if the majority of immigrants were white people.) In fact, she's gone on to claim that convicted criminals have *greater* constitutional protections against deportation than run-of-the-mill illegal aliens because deporting them after they serve time for their crimes violates double jeopardy.
She hates the police and has repeatedly referred to them as pigs. She calls U.S. military service members war criminals and says the United States is a disgrace of a country.
During the Wuhan Flu period, she called for a sweeping government takeover of large parts of the national economy. She advocated for the nationalization of utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent and
mortgage payments; the dissolution of all private health insurance; and the seizure of all rental properties from landlords nationwide. "Seize the means of production," she wrote, quoting the foundational principle of Marxism.
When she was at Colombia University, she posted the following on the law school's internal chat app:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of
Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every
movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada
is an internationalist one-- we are fighting for nothing less
than the liberation of all people.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness
becomes every more explicit and irrefutable, we seek
community and instruction from militants in the Global South
who have been on the frontlines in the fight against the
tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist
world order.
Did you notice the bit about seeking instruction from militants? She doesn't want a political revolution. She wants one of violence, soaked in blood. Gone are the days when New York politicians campaigned on safe parks and clean streets. Now New York's leaders are soliciting lessons from warlords in Africa
and Latin America and other renowned experts in killing white people.
She only ran in New York because she knows she wouldn't stand a chance in Florida.
When she takes her seat in Congress, does anyone really think she will prioritize (or even care about) the interests of the American people? Or will she work to undermine the country from within?
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Jun 24, 2026 at 7:25:45 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:Did she say the word Trump
On 2026-06-24 7:34 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 3:42:05 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>It seems like a lot of the world is finally waking from its slumber and >>> starting to turn against the status quo, whether it is the EU Parliament >>> finally taking steps to stop uncontrolled immigration or the Cuban
wrote:
On 2026-06-20 5:36 p.m., Capricorne wrote:
On Jun 20, 2026 at 1:47:43 PM PDT, "Rhino"
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
I just saw this article and am truly shocked: it looks like Cuba is >>>>>>>> making the biggest economic reforms since Fidel took over and they >>>>>>>> are all in the direction of free enterprise!
They're scared to death now that the Iran war is winding down that the >>>>>>> Eye of
Trump will turn toward them. They know if Trump invades, they'll >>>>>>> likely spend
their remaining years in a Colorado supermax prison, so they're going >>>>>>> capitalist in the hopes that will appease him.
In 1962, to settle the nuclear missile crisis, John F. Kennedy promised >>>>>> that USA will never invade Cuba. USA has to keep his word. Otherwise no >>>>>> countries will never trust USA again.
It seems to me like a lot of people on the left would say the US is >>>>> untrustworthy DESPITE keeping its promise to not invade Cuba.
That aside, Trump would not have to invade Cuba to bring it to its
knees: it's already there. If he keeps blocking gas and oil - and no >>>>> other country decides to risk America's wrath - Cuba can't help but >>>>> collapse in very short order. Their electrical grid is hanging on by a >>>>> thread when it's working at all. Tourism has stopped almost entirely >>>>> since there's no fuel for the return flights. There's no money coming >>>>> into the Cuban government's treasury. How long can that go on? Not very >>>>> long at all in my opinion unless perhaps they give up on electricity and >>>>> fossil fuels altogether and try to plough fields and move goods with >>>>> horses/donkeys/oxen instead of motor vehicles.
If you'd told me in 2005 that in 2026, New York City would have a
Islamo-communist Ugandan mayor and be electing open communists to Congress,
while at the same time, Cuba was embracing capitalism, I'd have laughed you
out of the room.
people finally shaking off the chains of "socialism", yet the young
people in the West are embracing nonsense like trans-genderism and that >>> idea that communism is a really good idea despite millions of deaths
proving the exact opposite.
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the newly-elected Mamdani-endorsed DSA
member
of Congress:
https://ibb.co/QsW0DPD
A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican immigrants, she
converted to Islam and says that Palestine is the most important issue in >> her
life.
She uses the American flag as a rag to clean dirt off her hands.
She attended a rally one day after October 7, celebrating the slaughter of >> Israeli civilians.
She's called white women 'ugly colonizers'. One assumes she has no higher >> opinion of white men, either.
She wants the police and prisons abolished. Not defunded. She's made it
clear
that when she says abolished, that's exactly what she means. She wrote, "No,
it means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all, ever," >> followed by "ALL PIGS ARE HARAM".
She believes that no deportations, including of convicted criminals, are
justified. (A position that she would, of course, immediately abandon if the
majority of immigrants were white people.) In fact, she's gone on to claim >> that convicted criminals have *greater* constitutional protections against >> deportation than run-of-the-mill illegal aliens because deporting them after
they serve time for their crimes violates double jeopardy.
She hates the police and has repeatedly referred to them as pigs. She calls >> U.S. military service members war criminals and says the United States is a >> disgrace of a country.
During the Wuhan Flu period, she called for a sweeping government takeover >> of
large parts of the national economy. She advocated for the nationalization >> of
utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent >> and
mortgage payments; the dissolution of all private health insurance; and the >> seizure of all rental properties from landlords nationwide. "Seize the means
of production," she wrote, quoting the foundational principle of Marxism. >>
When she was at Colombia University, she posted the following on the law
school's internal chat app:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of
Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every
movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada
is an internationalist one-- we are fighting for nothing less
than the liberation of all people.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness
becomes every more explicit and irrefutable, we seek
community and instruction from militants in the Global South
who have been on the frontlines in the fight against the
tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist
world order.
Did you notice the bit about seeking instruction from militants? She doesn't
want a political revolution. She wants one of violence, soaked in blood.
Gone
are the days when New York politicians campaigned on safe parks and clean >> streets. Now New York's leaders are soliciting lessons from warlords in
Africa
and Latin America and other renowned experts in killing white people.
She only ran in New York because she knows she wouldn't stand a chance in >> Florida.
When she takes her seat in Congress, does anyone really think she will
prioritize (or even care about) the interests of the American people? Or
will
she work to undermine the country from within?
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