Anarcho-Bolshevik
‘Lemmygrad’s resident expert on fascism’ — GrainEater, 2024
‘The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970
Am I acting paranoid for suspecting that somebody deliberately tampers with these statistics?
I read somewhere that everybody except for white men voted in greater proportions for Trump four years ago than they did eight years ago, and I found that very hard to believe; I never saw anybody explain that, unless maybe the general turnout was smaller.
Despite its evidently restricted character, the [Soviet] elections in 1937 were perceived by many ordinary people as an opportunity to participate in framing a new constitutional order. The turnout reached 96.8 per cent of the electorate. Some ballots were spoilt. In one district 97 per cent of votes cast were valid, the remainder defaced in some way, or the candidate’s name erased. In Novosibirsk region the name ‘Trotsky’ was written in on one ballot, ‘I am voting for the heavenly Tsar’ on another, and ‘We are not voting’ on a third.⁹
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Unfortunately, it is not the only example. While some Jews (especially Herzlians) do internalize harmful stereotypes, it is rare for them to arrive at the extreme end of the spectrum. Andrew Auernheimer, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, and Patrol 36 are a few instances representing this extreme: they willingly promoted hatred of (other) Jews in spite of their genealogic links to them.
It is easy to laugh at these types for their obvious hypocrisy, but they should not be underestimated. Anton Arco‐Valley, for byspel, gained the respect of antisemitic gentiles (including Joseph Goebbels) by murdering a Jewish politician. The NYT quoted Hans Priwin, a member of the executive committee of the Association of German National Jews, to downplay antisemitism in the Third Reich. Reinhard Heydrich had some Jewish ancestry. I could go on. Pro‐Axis Jews are rare, but they can be no less dangerous than pro‐Axis gentiles.
By the way, it is interesting to compare how the Herzlian régime treated Patrol 36 to how it treats, say, Palestinian children. The Herzlians treated Patrol 36 with far more dignity than they treat even the youngest Palestinians.
Even though it’s been a long time, I still have this memory from the ’90s (possibly early ’00s) of going to McDonald’s with a parent and seeing a young uniformed woman at a table, looking sad and hopeless. She was dressed like she was supposed to be working in the back but she was just sitting there with her arms on the table, looking depressed. I stared at her for so long that she noticed me.
I always wondered… did she just lose her job?
Since I was only a shy little kid, I said nothing to her, but it is an old memory that’s always haunted me.
I have a feeling that I would have forgotten if she were dressed casually, because seeing a fast‐food worker actually sitting alone at one of the tables (and not eating anything either) looks very unusual. If she lost her job then that would raise the question of why she was still wearing her uniform; my guess is that former workers are supposed to turn those in rather than keep them, but I have no clue.
Another important finding concerned the number of passport Moldovans who named Romanian as their ethnic identity when they were given a choice. As already mentioned, this number was very low—in fact no more than twelve individuals of a total sample of 762 claimed to be Romanian (and Romanian only). These figures seem to undermine the claim of Popular Front activists (as well as many Moldova experts in the West) that the Moldovans are “really” Romanians.
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