Straight_Depth

I don't even care when he stops talking about the games he reviews -- I just get completely stuck in listening to his endless anecdotes

Like most taglines, it's just finessed from a dril tweet

As much as I want to hate the guy, I reserve most of my loathing for Yeltsin. Gorbachev was just a fucking moron who wanted to have it both ways.

Foreigners aren't human so it's ok to napalm them

Despite being dead

I've got some bad news regarding Gorbachev

I think that even with GW literally spelling it out for them most of the cryptofascists who idolize it will carry on carrying on unperturbed.

"The German brainpan is simply incapable of understanding any form of democracy"

Gonna be real hard to do when they don't understand what a working class person is. In their view, the blue-haired Starbuck's barista taking home minimum wage, or the kid at Wholefoods packing groceries, or public school teachers are not working class. Only blue-collar types can be working class, because only those forms of labor count as "work". Dehumanizing yourself for 12 hours a day, six days a week isn't work unless you get a callous on your hands from working outside. Ironically, it's those blue-collar physical labor jobs that tend to be the most unionized and thus have less to demand. Of course, the validity of all the backbreaking physical labor in the world gets instantly thrown out the window if it's perormed by an illegal immigrant under near-slavery to pay off transport debts to be smuggled into the US.

What's that? Contradictions? Nawww

Speaking of P**er C*ffin, what happened to Ashley?

It's like an offensive fictional depiction of a Latino stereotype in a poorly written novel.

"How do I let the reader understand this character is Cuban? I know, I'll have them randomly interject in Spanish when speaking English, a totally real thing people do"

Just join the cops and make them less bad :thumb-cop:

Up until the fall of the USSR it was Trotsky = GOOD communism (not like the BAD communism of the USSR) particularly in European nations building up a veneer of political and ideological distancing from the USSR. It was characterized by constant critique of the USSR, China, and basically any AES nation as "not being REAL socialism/communism/whateverism" and sustaining a nominal love of human rights and anti-authoritarianism (free Tibet, free Afghanistan, free Czechoslovakia, free Hungary, etc). In practice it turned a sort of blind eye to all but the most overt forms of military imperialism from the NATO powers, which is why to this day you'll still have Western socialist leaders like Corbyn take the occasional pro-western stance in the name of human rights. But as Fakename_Bill said these distinctions are now irrelevant in the fall of the COMINTERN, the USSR, and the 4th International. Communism today is mostly led by China, Cuba and Vietnam, all whom have detoured significantly from the dogmatic lines drawn by the USSR back in the day. Any newly resurged movement will either borrow from these AES nations, of will have to forge a new path by necessity. It's not 20th century Russia anymore. Perhaps one day there may be a Fifth International to establish how we should build socialism in the future, and we can (and should) invite the ancoms, syndies, communalists, and so on, but we'll need to build it first.