I just discovered that our local bookstore carries a magazine called International Socialist Review. You have to go to the “Hobbies” section of the magazine stand and dig behind magazines on how to make your own bullets, and it is right there.
I’m not joking about the make-your-own-bullets journal. It does exist. It seems to be quite a popular hobby in the area.
I’m quite curious how can one have a whole journal, with multiple issues and everything, about bullet-making. Surely once you’ve made one bullet you can make all the other similar bullets of different calibres, and there aren’t that many different types of ammo around.
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There are HUGE pictures of different guns, stories about people who own them, ads for bullet-making machines. It’s like a lifestyle of sorts.
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You’d be surprised, but this sort of thing pops up everywhere. I know a socialist bookstore in Tower Hamlets, of all places. Last time I was there, they displayed a book about police brutality right next to a bust of Lenin. Evidently, socialists are big fans of irony. 😛
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All the irony in the world will not help socialists deal with the trauma of seeing Obama branded as the most famous socialist in the world.
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One popular slogan among the John Birch types is “keep your powder dry.”
Also, you might recall that ammunition shortage that was engineered on the occasion of Obama’s 2008 election victory.
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The ammunition shortage was not engineered. The people who were irrationally terrified about having an African American President bought so much ammunition that the manufacturers and distributors were merely caught unprepared. The manufacturers of ammunition would not have stood for an engineered shortage; it would have hurt their bottom line.
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“The people who were irrationally terrified about having an African American President bought so much ammunition that the manufacturers and distributors were merely caught unprepared.”
– Were they afraid he would declare a war on them or something?
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I don’t know what they were afraid of, Clarissa, but the fear was, and is, pervasive.
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Being a socialist in the West is like being a radical communist in Switzerland. You are edgy and cool and don’t get to suffer in the system you praise.
Walter Duranty about state controlled starving of Ukrainians: “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs”. He attributed all the blame for the hunger to the privileged class, kulaks.
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