If you want to learn about Stalin, I would start by reading Stephen Kotkin's two books which cover his life up to WWII in detail. Kotkin is a liberal, so he is no fan of Stalin, but he does very thorough research.
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny gives a more sympathetic account of Stalin's early life, his extreme suffering caused by the Czarist regime, and his dedication to making the world a better place. This book goes in depth into the Menshevik-Bolshevik split, and why Stalin chose to side with Lenin and internationalist socialism instead of the more nationalist Georgian Mensheviks.
Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend does not go in-depth in biographical details, but it is definitely the best "defense" of Stalin's various actions. The main rhetorical technique is comparing Stalin to other leaders at the time - Hitler, FDR, Churchill, etc.. To the point: Stalin never attacked a city with a nuclear bomb (like the USA), Stalin never caused famine and starvation for profit (like Britain), and Stalin never tried to exterminate an entire ethno-religious group (like Hitler). Nobody is saying Stalin was perfect, but compared to other world leaders he was a much more moral leader than them, and ultimately did much more good for the world overall, such as almost single-handedly defeating Nazi Germany.
Yes, the real smart people know that Stalin was evil like Darth Vader right?
Please read a book before you post. No investigation, no right to speak.
I am not unconvinced that, at some point, Trump was the victim of an "Inception" heist that placed the idea of tariffs at the center of his mind-palace.
I'm not a Christian, but I love the colors and use of light and shadow here - very powerful. Also love that Jesus looks like he has been wandering the streets for months (accurate).
More info: https://comemeetjesus.art/what-is-truth-nikolai-ge-1831-1894/
According to the news, Americans are only going to be paying $1,000 more per person for their basic goods this year. It's a good thing most people aren't working paycheck to paycheck, have been receiving cost-of-living wages, and are not already in debt, right?
This is from Astro Boy: Fortress of the Centaurs (Volume 14, Capter 57 from the Dark Horse Omnibus).
The Pentagon doing the Larry David gif going back and forth between "we hate Muslims" and "but these specific Muslims hate China" while trying to figure out how long to fund this proxy group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi
"In 2018, Bondi joined with 19 other Republican-led states in a lawsuit to overturn the ACA's bans on health insurance companies charging people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums or denying them coverage outright."
Things are not looking good folks. By the way, Pam graduated from Stetson University College of Law, which is located in possibly the worst part of Florida, a state full of bad parts. There is only one bright spot to Pam being chosen:
"In 2016, Bondi gave a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which she led "Lock her up" chants directed at the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton."
The walls are closing in. 
Get ready to learn blowback-ese, buddy 
A quote: “I think the Ukrainians have been incredibly brave and strong when standing up to Russia. But at the end of the day, what we’re funding here is a stalemate war, and it needs to be brought to a conclusion because that country is going to be set back 100 years,” Rubio said. Gotta love the 
. Also, setting less developed countries back 100 years is exactly the plan of neoliberalism.
So what is Rubio going to do in the Levant? Another quote: “Israel’s enemies are also our enemies. The Iranian regime and its proxies . . . seek Israel’s destruction as part of a multi-stage plan to dominate the Middle East and destabilize the West. The Jewish state is on the front lines of this conflict, fighting with many shared American-Israeli lives,” he wrote back in May for National Review. What? He's claiming Iran wants to expand its territorial boundaries? Holy 
President-elect Trump has also called Marco Rubio a “virtual secretary of state for Latin America,” which... I guess means he's one of the only rich guys Trump knows who knows how to speak Spanish.
On China? Rubio was one of the main people behind the "Tiktok ban" attempt. He also tried to block all Huawei imports.
This is how the Reuters article ends:
Rubio, whose grandfather fled Cuba in 1962, is also an outspoken opponent of normalizing relations with the Cuban government, a position Trump shares.
The head of the House subcommittee overseeing Latin American affairs, he is also a frequent and fierce critic of Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela.
Why did your grandfather flee Cuba in 1962, Marco? Huh? Why did he flee? 
Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-taps-us-senator-marco-rubio-secretary-state-2024-11-12/
Nah, objectively and logically it was when she said 
must go.
The thing is, he DID waste it.
And then Kamala hired Hillary's campaign advisers, got rid of her 2 most popular slogans (We're not going back + They are weird) and started hugging Dick Cheney's right-wing daughter. Kamala's campaign is somehow more embarrassing and incompetent than Hillary's, and that's saying something.
Yes this is an unaltered panel from "Once Upon A Time" Astro Boy Tales, Part 3
Yes, I am still Astro Boy posting. No, I will not stop until I finish reading the Dark Horse translated compendium.
Also, it will be interesting to see if Jimmy Carter outlives Biden.
Context: this guy was an artisan who carved art into grains of rice, but he was put out of business when a machine was invented who could defeat him in carving competitions.
Astro really is a zoomer, exploring his identity to find something that fits.
Also, not that it matters, but a "DNA test" is not how you find out if someone has XX, XY, or XXY chromosomes. The word Rowling is looking for is "Karyotype." But hey, if she knew how gender science worked, she probably would not be a TERF.
I now feel bad for finding this stuff funny because of course someone going through grief
Her husband had a twitter profile where he told the Palestinians to "get over it," among other horrible right-wing things. So don't feel too bad.
He also played a violent new video game that has just recently been discovered, called "Fortnite," and described himself as having "skibidi rizz" but not being a "sussy baka." These slang terms are gang lingo used by only the most dangerous terrorists.
Markets have brought more people out of poverty than anything.
Yes, just like the Irish people who were "helped" by the free market in the 1840s. Or the Indian people who were "helped" by the free market in the late 1800s. You might be interested in this book by the late, great Mike Davis which completely refutes your ideas with hard evidence that the free market can be used (and has been used) as a tool of genocide: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7859
Voting solves nothing. If the Republicans are pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse and the Democrats are also pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse, voting is not the solution to our problem. You might as well criticize me for which type of shoes I wear, it has the same influence on Politics, which is zero.