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YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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i’d like to point out that communism is an economic system whereas democracy is a social one, they are not incompatible concepts….

just because Stalin wasn’t a very communist regime but was brutally authoritarian and is widely criticized as “what communism is like”.

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there’s a lot more to what it means to be perceived as gay in this society than just that person, personally hating gay people.
i had someone say that to me and i’m just extremely self conscious so i was just trying to figure out why….
was it my tone of voice? mannerisms?
all these penises in my mouth?
Is that why women are seldom romantically interested in me? Do they all think i’m gay? is that the key to my loneliness? (probably just the ugly part).
if you tell someone, “oh i figured you like country music” and they don’t, they’re going to wonder why.
and i don’t know if they stopped, but kids used to be pretty mean calling people gay… it can be kind of a “touching on childhood trauma” thing.

my advice: don’t “trick” people with clever “tests” and try to be genuine with your friends. If you’re gay and you have straight friends, those friends probably aren’t the problem even if they have a problem with being misidentified as gay.

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White House Backs Off 'Hostile Takeover' of D.C. Police

luckily, thanks to the “checks and balances” of our three branch government, he will surely be immediately removed from office for this blatantly illegal move.
i mean, he knew it was illegal, everyone told him it was illegal, and he tried to do it anyways until a judge stopped him.
obviously there will be legal repercussions for such an action.

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Trump Proves He's Alive by Complaining About 'Stupid' White House Contractors

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typically only after they sue him, and then only 75% of the agreed price…
source: used to work with contractors in nyc, he was widely hated but people still took his jobs because they were big and eventually did pay.
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an especially horrible story was when he destroyed the business of a guy who made pianos… trump wanted pianos for all of his suites in atlantic city or something, got this piano maker to hand make a few dozen pianos… the guy had put all of his money into making them.
trump didn’t pay, they guy’s business went under… couldn’t even buy new wood… eventually after court, trump settled for 50%…. the guy took it because he had to, but his business was ruined….

i hated trump before it was cool….

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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

“including some with criminal records”
= a couple of them have old weed tickets or driving with an expired license tickets.
they keep saying “criminal records” over and over, because it sounds so bad… but most of the “criminal records” are petty, lower misdemeanors… NOT a criminal record, but in their life they’ve had one tiny “crime”…
went to court, got no jail time and paid the small fine….
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