keep telling yourself anarchists hate stalin because of his virtues and not because of his other characteristics.

To be clear, those weren’t the folks I was referring to in my comment. But:

if I may ask you a question - if marxism and anarchism are fundamentally enemies, as stalin himself argued, why would any anarchist support the modern day ML penchant for rehabilitating stalin’s reputation?

Absolutely welcome to ask, and I’ll give it a shot nonetheless.

I would ask the anarchist (and the modern day ML too) if they agree with this part of Stalin’s theory.

I don’t, and would venture to say a modern day ML may also disagree with Stalin in this but even also have a penchant for his rehabilitation, for other reasons.

More tangentally I think anarchism and marxism are not fundamentally enemies, (so, in disagreement with Stalin here), and would suggest they primarily diverge on the role a state plays in mediating conflicts of private and public interests.

But if I were to try and find common ground with the bit from Stalin you’re citing, just for argument’s sake, it would be that this divergence is a fundamental relationship between the two, but I’d still maintain the differences are not incompatible or irreconcileable.

But again, for the record, I was being more snarky about people who pivot from talking about how Hitler could’ve won to how Stalin could’ve lost.

There was an episode I remember where they explored Mexican cuisine and a contestant said ‘Gacky-molo’ for ‘Guacamole’ and that has stuck with me since.

Regardless I don’t think they’re lamenting Germany’s defeat.

I wonder how much is just a definitional conversion of ‘through friends’ to ‘online’ because friends are now online as well.

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

Or like the Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada that was mostly Nazis and collaborators on it.

They need to report when it’s not Massie. He’s the ideological libertarian that’s less shit than Rand. It’s expected to see our Junkyard Wars star break from ranks when there’s no threat or risk to the policy.

.:|::.

Agh they just need to pick a fuckin’ name and get on with it.

So you hate the world then, I see.

It’s crazy reading reports about how some of these hostages were ‘kidnapped from their tanks’ with ‘other soldiers’.

Nowhere? That’s right and why we’re together.

Fedposting, obviously.

Hot butter rum.

He went with the military into opiod overdose route.

Well if they followed their leader…

“Gun4anArm” also fits, incidentally.

Naming Robo R66-Y was funny though for the scene.

“R66-Y? That’s no good for a name! How about… R66-Y!”

Ah yes. The most critical of positions for New York City Mayor.

I wonder how long he’s been pressured to publicly express a stance on foreign governments as a candidate.

I think the cross-post functionality is/was the most fruitful effort towards that end.