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A Parody of History

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I’m weeping with laughter. You’ve got to be a clinical choo-choo to believe something so clearly stupid. Tucker keeps mocking white working class people (“the fat, tattooed Walmart customers” he calls them) but who’s supposed to hear these pearls of wisdom and not die of laughter?

By the way, Tucker killed any possibility that his third party will be a success. He declared that he’s against SSRIs and benzos. There’s no constituency for that, so it’s over for his political project.

A statue of Judas in Moscow. I work in education and even I never heard anything equally stupid.

16 responses to “A Parody of History”

  1. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “A statue of Judas in Moscow”

    More engagement farming, cooper, a real pos, is framing those with some connection to the truth (one unconfirmed report about something in a different city) as “defending” the bolsheviks…

    He and cucker deserve each other…

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    Anonymous

    Sorry but thats not that far fetched. There were contemporary reports of this around the world but it wasn’t in Moscow as far as I know and reports varied. Its not unprecedented at all. After the French revolution Notre Dame was sacked, the altars and statues torn down and the church converted into the temple of Reason. The bolsheviks were great admirers of the French revolutionist even naming one of their battleships the Marat. If you don’t know that the opposite of communism is not capitalism but Christianity than you don’t know what communism is.

    Walnut

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      Anonymous

      It is far fetched because setting up a statue of Judas would still be operating within a Christian worldview. No communist would ever do that. Your own example from the French Revolution is about a church being turned into a temple. Still a place of worship then.

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        Clarissa

        That’s one reason, absolutely. Another is that until the late 1920s, the Bolshevik regime was perishing from starvation. Until Stalin found a way to use slave labor of political prisoners for large projects, there was no building of statues, especially of such clearly religious nature, in the Bolshevik regime the first several years of the regime were that of a brutal Civil War that was unfolding on several different fronts. Plus, World War I was still happening, with Bolsheviks having to seek a peace agreement with the invading and fast-advancing Germans. It was a terrible time of people getting executed by the thousand on the spot. There was starvation. People were freezing to death. If anybody used the extremely scarce funds that the Bolsheviks had to erect statues of Biblical characters, that person would not survive until the next morning.

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          Clarissa

          I also want to add that when you’re interested in a historical era and you read a lot about it, you start getting a feel for those times. You know what is and isn’t possible. You know what sounds extremely off. This guy clearly has zero understanding of the Bolshevik Revolution. This is fine. I don’t insist that everybody should care or have any interest at all, but if you are going to speak about it to an audience of hundreds of thousands of people, then either learn your stuff or choose another era with which you are a little bit more comfortable.

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      Clarissa

      Yes, please teach me about communism. I only grew up in a country ruled by a communist party.

      And yes, it is extremely far-fetched for anybody who knows anything about that historical time period. I explained that in earlier comments.

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        Anonymous

        What year were you born?

        Walnut

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          Clarissa

          A lady is never a day over 27. 😁😁😁

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    Anonymous

    Happy feast of the Transfiguration!

    ethyl

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      Clarissa

      What a wonderful day! God’s glory is immense.

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    PaulS

    In London, there are three statues to major SA figures, Mandela, Smuts, and Ghandi. It would be great if people knew more about them.

    https://www.theheritageportal.co.za/article/south-african-footprint-parliament-square-london

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    v07

    One more thing – despite the anti-religious policies of the USSR, “Judas” was still synonymous with the “traitor”. Even if one was not supposed to explain or even to know why. Thus, erecting a statue of Judas would cause too many questions, while offering no obvious benefits. For communist-style nation-building one can erect the statues of various dead revolutionaries.

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      Clarissa

      Great point about Judas. His name was used consistently and often in the Stalinist mass media during the purges of the 1930s. It was used to refer to the traitors of the homeland who supposedly opposed the Stalinist regime. At no point did the Soviet authorities try to imbue the name of Judas with a positive meaning. Words fail me to describe how ludicrous that idea is. If you say that Judas is good, this means that the Bible is true and Jesus was real. The Soviet authorities could not have possibly made that argument.

      As I said, one has to have zero understanding of the Soviet regime to come up with something so ridiculous. If one wanted to talk about the persecution of Christianity by the Soviets, one can speak about the destruction of so many beautiful historical cathedrals around the country. One can speak about the murders of priests. Or the appropriation of the Christian symbolism for the holy remains of Lenin or the Holy Trinity of Marx, Engels, and Lenin. I could go on and on because there is really a whole lot to say about the subject. But “communists for judas” is just not it.

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        Clarissa

        And no, I’m not picking on small details. That is not an insignificant detail. This is a sign of a complete lack of understanding of this entire era.

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    v07

    It seems that some Christians in the US cannot imagine how anti-religious policies may actually look like. Perhaps “Anti-Christ” comes to mind too automatically and obscures things. The Communists did not celebrate the Anti-Christ (even though one could claim something like that as a figure of speech, based on the outcomes of their activities). It was not about deliberately doing the exact opposite of what the Christianity would suggest. The religion was “the opium for the masses”, ancient fairytales, superstitions, etc. Nobody erects monuments to the absence of opium, or absence of fairytales. There might be an occasional Godless street here or there, going back to the 1920…

    And by my time the communists did not take the religion as any kind of a serious adversary. I was never asked to denounce religion. There simply was no need, nobody was thinking anything about it. (I was asked to denounce the “nationalism” aka independence movement of my country of birth… Why? Because I was the president of our high school’s political club. Somehow I did nothing and got away with it.) So, anyway, “nationalism” was seen as much larger threat to the system than religion.

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      Clarissa

      Yes, it’s true. For nationalism, you would end up going to jail if somebody found out. For going to church, you would be humiliated and publicly harangued, but it would take a lot more to get you incarcerated.

      When I was in fifth grade, our teacher, whose dad was in the KGB, found out that one of my classmates went to church with her parents. The poor classmate was screamed at for forty minutes in front of the whole school.

      I also want to mention, because some people might not know, that during WWII Stalin “forgave” the church and reached an agreement with the church leadership to collaborate with the government. Priests would knock out parishioners to the KGB, and in return the authorities would let churches conduct service.

      The priest who baptized me here in America originally tried to join the Russian Orthodox Church and went to Russia to get training. This was in the 1990s, and it became clear to him that the church there was still entirely owned by the secret police. As a result, he switched to the Bulgarian diocese.

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