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With sitting members of Congress I always try to acknowledge many of their communications are to, and meant for, other members of Congress, some/many of whom are the most unhinged people imaginable.

I hear you, though I am more inclined to take a Gramscian view that cultural hegemony of capitalist/imperial core entities convert those anarchists to libertarians, or some form of compromised anarcho-syndicalism or libertarian socialism. So I wouldn’t call them anarchists.

But it’s not a True Scotsman thing for me, so I don’t fundamentally disagree with that perspective.

Anarchists usually don’t need the kind of deprogramming of capitalist, monarchist, colonial, or imperial systems that socialist and Marxist theories typically focus on.

It doesn’t, and it shouldn’t be taken as such. It’s just historicity.

Pretty much between 1914 and 1946/53 you have an impenetrable web of colonial empires colliding and crashing apart. There is very little purity to be found, so accuracy is about all you can rely on. Not knowing about Litvinov, (or Pilsudski, or the Phoney War, or whatever) is fine and normal.

Like, there are often counter/fingerpointing on this subject about Churchill being a pile of shit (and sure, super racist) but in this specific context we’re still in the Chamberlain era. Pointing that out is neither support for Chamberlain nor a judgement on Churchill.

And there’s plenty about Stalin-era USSR to complain about. Lysenkoism or Beria, for instance. It’s such a deeply complex subject that accuracy tends to be the most damning evidence.

The closest I have seen is ‘Are we to believe SS death squads that they found the evidence for it in 1943?’

So, not a good thing, and possibly just more Nazi shit, further not good.

It is okay to be categorically wrong about a historical time period. It wasn’t Molotov in that phase. Molotov replaced Litvinov, who was the foreign minister of the USSR until 1939. Litvinov was the proponent of allying with the West against Germany. (For what it is worth Litvinov likely would’ve signed the Pact with Germany anyway.) But Stalin supported him, and even after being dismissed wasn’t even disgraced.

The important subsequent development here is that Britain and France then actively tried to support Finland against the USSR during the Winter War while still technically at war with Germany, who was also supporting Finland. The Phoney War was a real thing that played out, after all.

Unless these are too minor of details.

For the most part Stalin is used to trigger the aggressive anti-communists.

Like, there are enough “How could Hitler have won the war?” types around for me to be overly concerned with memes that defend/don’t condemn Stalin.

Oops, all bad bombs.

Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn’t go as far.

Any point you might’ve had about land acquisition, separatism, or imperialism, is pretty hard invalidated by this comparison. Like, why add Bush as a qualifier?

Entering that space is risky. For politicians it means endless primary challenges from the right with bottomless campaign funding.

For individuals it means being fairgamed by right wing watchdogs. Online harassment campaigns, doxxing, swatting, squealing or falsifying info to ICE, etc.

Also a cautionary tale on adding and removing features without plan or controls. Every ‘hey could we add…? It’s what everyones talking about!’ is another step taken away from the design.

Not how March was in 1998 or 1999. Also the shadow leading from the firearm along the arm is also bogus.

On one hand it probably should just be fire damage, but I also like the idea that radiant damage type is just radiation.

Forgetting all about Thirteen Monkeys.

As well as one would expect.

The ones who come out of the woodwork when you agree with the Nuremburg Trial execution verdicts will write novels.

Oh no! The respect of someone who responds to the epstein files with jealousy and defense!

About half the American electorate already has. Judging from the last big American election most voters aren’t swayed into flipping levers ineffectually for a system of lashing people to tracks.

Yes… Ha ha ha… YES!