It’s also really hard for those MILLIONS of people to complain about the deadly piece of the peace that they got.
I like ‘mentioning’ these deaths to crazy leftists. Invariably I get the
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“…well it wasn’t Communism that killed them, it was men, evil men looking for power who were in charge…”.
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Then I ask how many evil men in the U.S. have orders for killed millions or hundreds of thousands or even single digits of our citizens. That’s when I get them stuttering and spitting on their own shoes,
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“…well, if the thought they could get away with it, they’d be killing people too…”
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I usually drive them over the edge then about gun rights, guns in homes, ammunition at WalMart and online being easy to get and it being a HUGE reason why our leaders don’t just start a pogrom.
I’ve got a darling cousin who grew up in NYC and she’s a screaming liberal. I’ve made her change her shoes more than once I’ll tell you!
“…well, if the thought they could get away with it, they’d be killing people too…”
Under the US government, with separation of powers and limited government power, corrupt men in office can’t arbitrarily order murders or do anything they please, as a certain would be despot is discovering. Communist governments, with arbitrary power to act “for the common good”, are easily subverted when corrupt men gain power.
“A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.”
– Joseph Stalin
Old Joe knew a lot about statistics.
The elimination of empathy is a big part of Marxist-Leninist social engineering.
There are those on the Left who deny that there is any connection between Marxism and the atrocities that occurred under Communist regimes. At the very least, Marxism creates incentives for such skullduggery, whether Marx prescribed it or not. Marx did prescribe armed robbery**, a class-warfare-based utopian system, and dictatorship of the proletariat. History tells us what happens when you combine the three.
(**Of course, Marx didn’t call it robbery. He was delusional – he thought free trade was theft and theft from capitalists by the proletariat was restitution.)
On another note, while doing some reading prompted by a Volokh post I discovered that the phrase enemy of the people was a concept shared by both Lenin ad Robespierre. (The Romans used the phrase, but in the the context of the FBI designation “Public Enemy Number One” – which was Nero, in the Romans’ case.)
It’s also really hard for those MILLIONS of people to complain about the deadly piece of the peace that they got.
I like ‘mentioning’ these deaths to crazy leftists. Invariably I get the
.
.
“…well it wasn’t Communism that killed them, it was men, evil men looking for power who were in charge…”.
.
.
Then I ask how many evil men in the U.S. have orders for killed millions or hundreds of thousands or even single digits of our citizens. That’s when I get them stuttering and spitting on their own shoes,
.
.
“…well, if the thought they could get away with it, they’d be killing people too…”
.
.
I usually drive them over the edge then about gun rights, guns in homes, ammunition at WalMart and online being easy to get and it being a HUGE reason why our leaders don’t just start a pogrom.
I’ve got a darling cousin who grew up in NYC and she’s a screaming liberal. I’ve made her change her shoes more than once I’ll tell you!
Under the US government, with separation of powers and limited government power, corrupt men in office can’t arbitrarily order murders or do anything they please, as a certain would be despot is discovering. Communist governments, with arbitrary power to act “for the common good”, are easily subverted when corrupt men gain power.
“A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.”
– Joseph Stalin
Old Joe knew a lot about statistics.
The elimination of empathy is a big part of Marxist-Leninist social engineering.
There are those on the Left who deny that there is any connection between Marxism and the atrocities that occurred under Communist regimes. At the very least, Marxism creates incentives for such skullduggery, whether Marx prescribed it or not. Marx did prescribe armed robbery**, a class-warfare-based utopian system, and dictatorship of the proletariat. History tells us what happens when you combine the three.
(**Of course, Marx didn’t call it robbery. He was delusional – he thought free trade was theft and theft from capitalists by the proletariat was restitution.)
On another note, while doing some reading prompted by a Volokh post I discovered that the phrase enemy of the people was a concept shared by both Lenin ad Robespierre. (The Romans used the phrase, but in the the context of the FBI designation “Public Enemy Number One” – which was Nero, in the Romans’ case.)