Nice! Congrats!!

I love dating so much :)

I get where you're coming from, I think you're just taking things too far. Like a lot of how good you are at something has to do with the education you got, opportunities you've received, and all that. But do you really think everyone starts with the exact same aptitude for everything? Like if you took a thousand children and gave them all the exact same training in basketball as LeBron James got. Do you really think they'd all be exactly as good at basketball as him????

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I have an inner monologue, but it isn't active when reading (besides, perhaps, to critique). I just see symbols and know what they mean, I don't have to say the word in my head.

Land Bridge? Someone call LaRouche

Thank you! I talked to some profs today and am feeling somewhat better about things. Idk, I'm still not really sure what's going to happen.

I should further point out that Stalin was pro democracy, and often in the later years worked through the state apparatus and not the party apparatus because of this. Ironically, because of this, he was than slandered as being undemocratic by the party revisionists.

hey look at this giant pile of false convictions we found in the purges

But who is it who was saying these convictions were false? Khrushchev and a bunch of other revisionists decades after the fact? Why should I believe any of that.

Obviously just killing more people wouldn't have fixed things, that's kinda just a meme. Basically, IMO, although the Soviet Union was far more democratic than liberal "democracies" ever have been, even at the USSR's worst, It wasn't democratic enough. The great purges were, in many ways, a struggle of the lower level party members against the entrenched party bureaucracy, and not something personally directed by Stalin. Unfortunately, the bureaucrats ultimately won, the party became disconnected from the masses, and several decades later, the party elite dissolved the USSR against the will of the people. So what I wish had happened was that the people had won, not that more people were killed per se.

psylium husk is so good, tbh.

being stoned is like all the good parts of being drunk

Must hit different for different people; weed, for me, has none of the good parts of alcohol, just anxiety

Communism is when everyone shits together and shares one poop stick