hipsters and their commie t-shirts
As further evidence of the eternal principle that "the enemy always changes but the stupidity remains the same," I've noticed a rash of nudge-nudge wink-wink ironic communist-themed T-shirts being sported by Portland's tiresome alternative crowd. There's a goofball CCCP shirt here, a wacky Lenin shirt there, all incorporating the color red, which communists ostensibly used to signify the Olympic-sized swimming pools their regimes filled with blood.
A book called Death By Government estimates that Marxist nations were responsible for 125 million murders in the 20th Century.
Another book, The Black Book of Communism, pegged the total at easily over 100 million.
Sorta makes Hitler's 6 million seem puny by comparison, eh?
"But dude, at least those dudes weren't killed because of their race!"
SO FUCKING WHAT? Tell that to the survivors of the 125 million! A dead body is a dead body, no matter WHY it was killed. What kind of sick mind would justify killing someone because they THOUGHT differently? A communist mind, that's what kind. In all its manifestations, socialism has been sociopathic.
I saw some ponytailed doofus downtown wearing a Stalin shirt. "You know that Stalin killed 40 million people, don't you?" I asked him.
"Whoa, didn't know it upset you so much," was his smirking answer, obviously thinking I was some sort of buttplugged right-winger.
"I'm not upset at all—the more dead, the better, so long as it isn't me. I just think it's ironic. I'll bet you wouldn't be caught dead wearing a Hitler T-shirt."
He had no answer. No one ever has an answer when they try to argue with me.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Idi Amin—all serial killers. You dummies get caught up in the fashion differences and are blind to what's underneath.
Power is brutal, no matter what color T-shirt it chooses to wear.
