Is this the historic.ly Esha?

This and other recent posts/struggle sessions here are just reminding me that even the best of the worst online left spaces are pretty dogshit and alienating/atomized and hopelessly discourse-brained and that we should all log off but also it’s impossible to really log off because this ugly fucking machinery is so deeply incorporated into every single aspect of our lives. Mad of the online left are more concerned with performative sanctimoniousness & showing off the rightness of their takes & purity of their souls than they are with genuine concern for humanity or other people. Or at least that’s what their public personas seem to indicate, internet figures are fundamentally strangers.

Think I need a chapobear break or ideally an internet break but that second one will never realistically happen so yeah

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He did defeat fascism and for that will always rank higher than any imperialist ghoul, but his postwar international policies were ATROCIOUS. Coming out of WW2, 70% of liberated Europe enthusiastically supported Communist parties (France and Italy especially), he told them to back down and accept social democracies, while he worked to kill actual communists who resisted nazis in the East, alienateing Yugoslavia, ect . The sentence ringing in my head anytime Stalin is mentioned “In the Postwar period, although many forces were aligned in fighting communists taking power in Eastern Europe, no force was as persistent, deadly, and effective at undermining, weakening, and killing communists than Stalin’s”. After that, communism was pretty much defeated in Europe as an ideal and would remain for the following half century. Stalin was either a monster or an idiot

Podcast mommies are fighting :scared: