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.

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

And his brother Bret. Pompous ass. I can’t believe I have college credits from his ivermectin ass.

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

We are living in space. On a giant spaceship.

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.

I have to remind him plenty of people are just comparing multiple restaurants. I do also wonder how many are just bots as well

Good, I would wonder the same.

I can see the cart abandonment rate.

I don’t know if this is a common practice but when we order we often fill a cart a few times with a few different combinations and a few different locations just to compare options. I don’t know how much info you get but I wouldn’t scrutinize that metric too harshly.

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

This is exactly it. So much of it was improvised. And that’s largely by design when you account for how most American schools are funded: unevenly through local levies.

The variation is extensive across the incredibly uneven landscape of school districts for sure.

‘That much’ is a sliding scale. A kid can be removed from class for a few hours a week, or per day, or altogether and put in programs at special schools.

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.

It can kinda be loss. Just count and separate the downward trends for the first three panels, and the prominent ‘L’ at the end for the 4th.

Oh I can attest to that. I used to have to convince people to not live in the sewage surfacing from their septic systems, or draining directly out of their RVs.

I can say from that experience: financial incentives were overwhelmingly the most effective and responsive tool. More than appeals to personal or public health, even.

It’s what we were bred, raised, taught, and enforced to care about. Even the church goers because those adapted to the culture as well.

Trying to break that mold is… full of resistance. There’s a class of people that have become aware of this, prefer it, and act to maintain this system.

By being vague with ‘communist dictator’ the listener fills in the blanks. It could mean anything from Ceausescu in 1988 to Stalin in 1925 or Tito in 1948. For someone like Harris I think that lack of context is the point.

‘Fascist dictator’ is a little too focused and direct. You can’t pivot across a contradictory landscape of history for exceptions as easily.

He could be entirely cropped out and I’d know it was him from the feet and camera alone.

Antifa LLC stonks plummeting.