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"Most people thought Antifa were losers and openly ridiculed them."
The people who support antifa are losers and should be openly ridiculed.
Stupid people who use the fascist label are usually quite limited in their intellectual abilities except in those few cases where they are applying the label to actual fascist which is not the case in the context where it was used on this forum.
Geez, Vlad I thought you were talking about yourself as in this forum you have called Democrats ""communists."
Stupid people who use the communist label are usually quite limited in their intellectual abilities except in those few cases where they are applying the label to actual communist which is not the case in the context where it was used on this forum.
"Most people thought Antifa were losers and openly ridiculed them."
The people who support antifa are losers and should be openly ridiculed.
Stupid people who use the fascist label are usually quite limited in their intellectual abilities except in those few cases where they are applying the label to actual fascist which is not the case in the context where it was used on this forum.
The funny part are that these are the left wing radical anarchists, at least in part, which the Democrats have been using. The people who are most in danger in a Marxist revolution are the Marxists as those in charge are paranoid and always wanting to make an example of their rivals or perceived rivals.
Today, I picked up this book on kindle which details the experience of a person who was in the communist party in the Soviet Union and fell into disfavour and was shipped off to a camp as punishment:
Journey into the Whirlwind: The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror Kindle Edition
by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
A woman’s true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: “Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it.”—The New York Times Book Review
In the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin’s reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison.
With sharp detail and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts her arrest and the eighteen harrowing years she endured in Soviet prisons and labor camps, including two in solitary confinement. Her memoir is “a compelling personal narrative of survival” (The New York Times Book Review)—and one of the most important documents of Stalin’s brutal regime.
“Deeply significant…intensely personal and passionately felt.”—Time
“Probably the best account that has ever been published of…the prison and camp empire of the Stalin era.”—Book World
Only 99 cents today.
This is a recurring theme in these socialist systems.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Friday, 9th October, 2020, 04:23 PM.
Don't celebrate to early, Bob. Biden indeed is a favorite right now, but it's far from over. Usually, I like betting on underdogs. Importantly, underdog should be "alive" and not "dead". Trump is not dead yet.
4 years ago, in October 2016 Trump had even longer odds, between 4 and 5.5, which reflected the probability of 15% to 22%. I betted 500 USD on him at 5... it wasn't so bad.
Polls updated today show Biden with a lead in Pennsylvania of 7 points,
so I am adding it to Biden win column.
Thanks Erik for the voting history for Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Since they are historically Democrat, it gives us greater confidence in the poll results.
Thanks Lucas for the approval rating links for Governor Whitmer.
She took action to combat the virus, no doubt getting under Trump's skin.
I don't think any action in Michigan to overturn the vote would succeed.
So, that gives Biden a minimum of 279 votes.
Thus I am calling it for Joe Biden.
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