MushuChupacabra
@MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
Carbon based. Not overly precocious.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 19 hours ago:
Nope, you asked the question and I gave a decent answer.
I’ve identified the source of your consternation. You were under the impression that you gave a decent answer.
yuh buh nuh capitalism bla bla-
You can find zero cases of a political leader from the Capitalist west that had gulags and mass executions and mass graves for the state sanctioned mass executions.
I am uninterested in body count comparables due to capitalism, due to cancer, due to car accidents, due to tobacco, sunspots, whatever.
Name the heads of state from the west who have been executing citizens, and dumping them in mass graves. See if you can find an executioner who was striving for one execution every three minutes, like i did for Joseph Stalin.
Ya but capitalism yip yip yip
Sit the fuck down.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
Yep, bad dude. Bad, bad dude. His boss was too. You didn’t, and won’t, get any argument on that from me… blah blah blah …othes they wear.
I’ll explain for you (everyone else is able to pick up what you evidently can’t) why your equivocation attempt sucks ass, and why you should therefore, sit the fuck down, as was suggested previously:
My initial question was, Why do lemmy.ml users get hysterical when Joseph Stalin gets described accurately? Note that there is zero reference here to economic policy.
The entirety of your response has been Argle bargle whaddabout capitalism yip yip yip you capitalist bootlick blah blah blah whaddabout whaddabout whaddabout.
Joseph Stalin was a fucking awful man is a stand alone, easily defended premise.
Meanwhile, you want to pivot so hard to hurr durr capitalism bad, that you’re going to snap your own ankles.
Sit the fuck down.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
Prolonged systematic suffering and death, huh? If you hate that sort of thing, you’re really gonna hate that Joseph Stalin guy.
But here’s some more gruesome details about Stalin’s favorite executioner:
Blokhin initially decided on an ambitious quota of 300 executions per night, and engineered an efficient system in which the prisoners were individually led to a small antechamber — which had been painted red and was known as the “Leninist room” — for a brief and cursory positive identification, before being handcuffed and led into the execution room next door. The room was specially designed with padded walls for soundproofing, a sloping concrete floor with a drain and hose, and a log wall for the prisoners to stand against. Blokhin would stand waiting behind the door in his executioner garb: a leather butcher’s apron, leather hat, and shoulder-length leather gloves. Then, without a hearing, the reading of a sentence or any other formalities, each prisoner was brought in and restrained by guards while Blokhin shot him once in the base of the skull with a German Walther Model 2 .25 ACP pistol.[13][14][15] He had brought a briefcase full of his own Walther pistols, since he did not trust the reliability of the standard-issue Soviet TT-30 for the frequent, heavy use he intended. The use of a German pocket pistol, which was commonly carried by German police and intelligence agents, also provided plausible deniability of the executions if the bodies were discovered later.[16]
I bolded the part where Blokhin is literally dressed like Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Like I said, sit the fuck down.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
An estimated 30 local NKVD agents, guards and drivers were pressed into service to escort prisoners to the basement, confirm identification, then remove the bodies and hose down the blood after each execution. Although some of the executions were carried out by Senior Lieutenant of State Security Andrei Rubanov, Blokhin was the primary executioner and, true to his reputation, liked to work continuously and rapidly without interruption.[14] In keeping with NKVD policy and the overall “wet” nature of the operation, the executions were conducted at night, starting at dark and continuing until just prior to dawn. The bodies were continuously loaded onto covered flat-bed trucks through a back door in the execution chamber and trucked, twice a night, to the nearby village of Mednoye. Blokhin had arranged for a bulldozer and two NKVD drivers to dispose of bodies at an unfenced site. Each night, 24–25 trenches were dug, measuring 8 to 10 metres (26 to 33 ft) in length, to hold that night’s corpses, and each trench was covered over before dawn.[17]
Blokhin and his team worked without pause for 10 hours each night, with Blokhin himself executing an average of one prisoner every three minutes.[2] At the end of the night, he provided vodka to all his men.[18] On 27 April 1940, Blokhin secretly received the Order of the Red Banner and a modest monthly pay premium as a reward from Stalin for his “skill and organization in the effective carrying out of special tasks”.[19][20] His tally of 7,000 shot in 28 days remains the most organised and protracted mass murder by a single individual on record, and caused him being named the Guinness World Record holder for “Most Prolific Executioner” in 2010.[2][3]
Ya, totally equivalent.
Sit the fuck down.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
I honestly have no issue there. My issue is the claim that such atrocities don’t happen in democratic institutions.
I can’t recall any democratic countries, fragile or not, that can hold a candle to the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin.
Can you point out the equivalent that we should look at in this case of whataboutism? Since we’re talking about millions being killed by Joseph Stalin, what are the comparables?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
Looks around.Is that what you gotta tell yourself?
Why do lemmy.ml users get hysterical when Joseph Stalin is described accurately?
- Comment on What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? 1 week ago:
Like in a giant ball?
- Comment on Dr. Fisher is at risk of head crabs 1 week ago:
I don’t care how often this gets reposted, I upvote.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 2 weeks ago:
I’m pleased to report that in reality, I did work with a guy named Gurpreet many years ago, and yes, he was a pretty cool dude.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 2 weeks ago:
I enjoyed working with Gurp.
- Comment on Stephen Miller directing state department bureaus like ‘fiefdom’ as he shifts its focus to immigration 2 weeks ago:
Keep close track of this fucker.
When the regime falls, he’s going to try to flee.
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 2 weeks ago:
Imagine being a cop, doing your best To Serve and Protect impression, only to have your car lock you inside and incinerate you, at a time of its choosing.
- Comment on Fictional 3 weeks ago:
Most people on earth don’t care much about Paris. If you ask 1000 people on earth to do this measurement you’d probably get 1000 different answers. Picking the line that goes through Paris is just a random choice that got enough agreement.
It must be so exhilarating for you, asserting your opinions on weights and measures.
- Comment on Fictional 3 weeks ago:
There’s no reason to pick those specific things to base your system on.
If you’re not a human, and not living on earth, and are unconcerned with the day to day activities of humans as they go about their lives on earth, I tend to agree.
- Comment on Fictional 3 weeks ago:
Anyone come up with a good measure of distance that makes the speed of light a nice round number? I like the metric system, but the meter feels pretty arbitrary. We could do better!
Originally, the meter was defined as one ten millionth the distance from the north pole to the equator, as it runs through Paris. The unit and system were picked for ease of use for day to day activities. It is also tied to the attributes of our planet, which is also how we derived the time units that we use.
That’s the opposite of arbitrary, no?
- Comment on CEOs of Wells Fargo and Pfizer caution the U.S. could lose its edge to China without innovation 4 weeks ago:
The CEOs of Wells Fargo and Pfizer should be funding the collapse of this anti education, anti science regime.
- Comment on Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut 4 weeks ago:
Sam is testing the pull-out game of his investors.
- Comment on Israeli settlers attack AFP journalist and olive farmers 5 weeks ago:
Lebensraum enjoyers.
Settler is the soft sounding name they give themselves.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 weeks ago:
not only that, but then your pet attack dog comes along and somehow twists that into me defending pedophiles
I should actually pop back in and look at the thread, instead of just replying to my inbox. I have a pet attack dog? That’s kinda neat. I wasn’t aware, but neat nonetheless.
My point stands: when called upon to boycott Tesla, no resistance. When called upon to boycott Apple, blow up the conversation into anything but generating momentum for an Apple boycott.
It really is that reductionistic.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 weeks ago:
Why did you assume I was “nullifying action”?
Mostly your action nullifying attitude.
I shit on Tesla on a routine basis, and get zero pushback. No bitching about other vehicle producers who also are Trumpdy Dumptys…, zero.
I say don’t buy naziPhones, and people come out of the woodwork with every conceivable devil’s advocate angle, and basically maximize tangentiality.
Anything other than reinforcing the message of not buying apple:
Be mad at everyone, such that you apply pressure to no one.
You know, nullifying action.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 weeks ago:
You’re made of spare parts, aren’t ya, bud? No, therefore you should punish both, and get a phone with GrapheneOS or Linux.
So why didn’t you just say something like Look into Graphene OS or Linux in the first place?
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 weeks ago:
FYI, Google is also going after ICE-spotting apps.
And therefore, ill punish neither.
Can you add anything else to nullify action, and foster an attitude of placid obedience?
Please, share more ideas to help entrench the status quo.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 weeks ago:
Thus solidifying my scorched earth policy with apple.
I don’t want your naziPhone.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s as though there’s been an unbroken pact from regime to regime, whether through inheritance or war, from old to new, from the vanquished to the victor:
Under no circumstances must our citizens experience freedom. Authoritarian then, now, and forever.
We don’t need to, but we’re gonna do it anyway.
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 1 month ago:
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It’s pointing out the obvious all the way down.
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 1 month ago:
LEGOloss
- Comment on Humanity has to change how we solve disputes every so often to avoid people gaming it 1 month ago:
That’s how you get “general secretaries” and “chairmen of military commission” who are totally not Supreme Leaders.
President, king, politburo, commission, magnets, general secretary, whatever.
Forget naming conventions, and limit the scope of power. When someone gets delusions of grandeur and tries to consolidate more power, remove them.
- Comment on Humanity has to change how we solve disputes every so often to avoid people gaming it 1 month ago:
None of us are particularly talented at ruling, and when given power we tend to impose it on others.
Limit personal wealth/power, make it difficult to entrenched, and make it easy for society to strip it from those who want to hoard it.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 month ago:
Every one of us is utterly replaceable, including the billionaires and multi-billionaires.
For all the status quo that they push for, they don’t actually do anything special.
You could take the average billionaire, strip them of all their worth and hand it over to some millionaire, and basically nothing would change as far as the planet is concerned.
This is not a scenario where we are all NPCs to their game. We are all players, but more to the point, they are as expendable and interchangeable as we are.
- Comment on #freepenisman 1 month ago:
It’s that damn smile