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One I like is "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." If one of the parties involved is much more powerful than the other it may pay lip service to this all while violating the principle with enthusiasm. US foreign policy, especially in the 1960s-1980s an example... instigating c...

Admin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:59 pm The quail would already be getting served up. They are fucking delicious!

Gila monster thinks quail eggs are too. But it was headed the other way, two pics taken maybe fifty yards apart today. Springtime in the Sonoran desert.

It reminds me of something my father once said to me. He was 70 at the time. "All my life I called myself a socialist. It was only recently that I realized that if socialism could ever work, we wouldn't need socialism." He wasn't wrong. I dunno, sounds like maybe a good bumper sticker to ...

<snipped Truman image>. Keep in mind that Harry wasn't defending socialism in that quote. Only pointed out that some demonize the word to scare people. ETA: List of socialist members of the United States Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_members_of_the_United_States_Congress

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:59 pm

President Bush wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:24 pm A mural I saw in Guangzhou. Commie countries tend to be fascinating.

Was it next to one that said

War is peace.
freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

No, didn´t see that one there.

I'm pretty confident I know what it means, and it is a very bad, evil thing that must be stopped. It's not, it's just profoundly unrealistic and relies on humans choosing to behave in ways that they have never behaved in their history. If humans could suddenly stop being human and become communist ...

Communism has been a handy boogie-man for the U.S.'s need to flex its military might. I doubt that most americans know what it means, but they surely know it's a very bad, evil thing that must be stopped. I'm pretty confident I know what it means, and it is a very bad, evil thing that must be stopp...

You neglected to mention the most striking difference: Hitler´s side lost, Kissinger´s side didn´t. Last time I checked, Vietnam was a communist country. I think Kissinger's side lost, although the degree of defeat was not so bad as Hitler's. The Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese didn't have an o...

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. -Anthony Bourdain https://twitter.com/Bourdain/status/960322190993477632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E960322190993477632%7Ctwgr%5E0e03372d30493ab0009b74d75ebcbbf67a...