for god's sake can we please primary biden, please

[jimmy jazz]

If that were real and those were his four choices he'd probably still answer with 'Ireland' the sad twat.

[Psy-Fi]

DEMS PANIC Over Michigan Voter Israel REVOLT

[DJChameleon]

DEMS PANIC Over Michigan Voter Israel REVOLT

I talked about that awhile ago. Main reason Trump is just gonna slide into office so easily. The only way to have stopped Trump was to make sure he couldn't have been on the ballot and since they fumbled that. Oh well.

[Psy-Fi]

Hey, kids! Watch me pull Joe Biden out of my ass... abracadabra, Presto chango!

Magician says Dean Phillips operative hired him to create AI deepfake Biden robocalls ahead of NH primary

[Psy-Fi]

Joe Biden's new 'boat anchor' shoes meant for maximum 'stability' as president's falls spark concern

[SGR]

Joe Biden's new 'boat anchor' shoes meant for maximum 'stability' as president's falls spark concern

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1769156743525757032

Gotta get me a fresh pair of 'Air(head) Bidens' 

[Lisnaholic]

^ Good one, guys!

Here's another ridiculous US President - the guy's in a wheelchair !!

[SGR]

^ Good one, guys!

Here's another ridiculous US President - the guy's in a wheelchair !!

You have to admit though, if we're being straight, he had a lot more energy than Biden does. Despite being crippled, getting four terms as President, and leading us through the deadliest war in human history, he still had enough time and energy to cheat on his wife with around 5 other women! I'm fully healthy, almost 30, and I can't imagine handling more than one!  

[Lisnaholic]

You have to admit though, if we're being straight, he had a lot more energy than Biden does. Despite being crippled, getting four terms as President, and leading us through the deadliest war in human history, he still had enough time and energy to cheat on his wife with around 5 other women! I'm fully healthy, almost 30, and I can't imagine handling more than one!  

^ I had no idea about those extra-marital details SGR! Yeah, pretty impressive in terms of energy. Actually, I don't really know anything about Roosevelt, but he turns up in our history books, of course. I remember learning about the Yalta conference and wondering about this photo: the 3 most powerful men in the world, looking like they've gone to the park together to feed the pigeons:

[Guybrush]

Joseph Stalin has a very friendly smile 😅

[Trollheart]

You can trust the BBC's "Timeline" docus..

Also worth checking out the History Channel's 3-part one

[Lisnaholic]

^ Thanks Trollheart! I said it somewhere else, but welcome back, my friend.
I may look at that Timeline documentary because they're usually very good quality programs.

Joseph Stalin has a very friendly smile 😅

I like the way he is leaning in so that he can catch the joke that FDR is laughing at.

[SGR]

^ I had no idea about those extra-marital details SGR! Yeah, pretty impressive in terms of energy. Actually, I don't really know anything about Roosevelt, but he turns up in our history books, of course. I remember learning about the Yalta conference and wondering about this photo: the 3 most powerful men in the world, looking like they've gone to the park together to feed the pigeons:

Here's another pic from the Yalta Conference that's been colorized:



Another of Churchill and Stalin having bilateral talks in Moscow (1942, I think):



Stalin was a brutal despot, but to Guy's point, he could be photogenic when he wanted to be.

[Lisnaholic]

Stalin was a brutal despot, but to Guy's point, he could be photogenic when he wanted to be.

^ That's an interesting photo, SGR, as both leaders appear to be really enjoying each other's company. None the less, I have some advice for you, Guybrush and Winston Churchill:

"Never smile at a crocodile, Don't be taken in by his friendly grin." 

After taking power in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin killed at least 9 million people through mass murder, forced labor, and famine, but the true figure may be as high as 60 million.

The total figures vary according to the source, but estimates are consistently higher than the 6 million victims of the Holocaust: a horrifying number that many people will be familiar with. The message I take from these two massive tragedies: the European Jews were fatally abandoned during the years of Hitler's regime - but no-one has been more abandoned, more forgotten, than the Russian peasant farmers, or anyone unlucky enough to be labelled "dissident" by Smiling Joe Stalin.

[SGR]

^ That's an interesting photo, SGR, as both leaders appear to be really enjoying each other's company. None the less, I have some advice for you, Guybrush and Winston Churchill:

"Never smile at a crocodile, Don't be taken in by his friendly grin." 

The total figures vary according to the source, but estimates are consistently higher than the 6 million victims of the Holocaust: a horrifying number that many people will be familiar with. The message I take from these two massive tragedies: the European Jews were fatally abandoned during the years of Hitler's regime - but no-one has been more abandoned, more forgotten, than the Russian peasant farmers, or anyone unlucky enough to be labelled "dissident" by Smiling Joe Stalin.

Oh believe me, I know all too well about the crimes of Stalin and the USSR. When I was in college, I was rather obsessed with Soviet history (and the morbid terror of communism in general). From the great purges, to the gulags, to the Holodomor, to dekulakization, Stalin placed no value on the human life he was eviscerating in an attempt to fast-track industrialization. The Ukraine famine was so bad, residents were resorting to cannibalism. Here's a picture to give you an idea of what was going on - a couple selling human flesh (this picture is from the Povolzhye famine of 1921-1922, but gives you an idea).

'Gore, disturbing'

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Despite the insane cost of human life, Stalin and the Soviets still weren't industrialized enough to handle the war effort against the nazis on their own. In American schools and popular American media, we often overstate how important our direct military involvement was in WW2 - while in Russian schools, they tend to downplay the contributions from America in terms of how important we were to winning the war. In reality, one of the most important US contributions came through the Lend-Lease act, in which we provided the Soviets with a boatload of military equipment and raw materials:

Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper.

Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft.

The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks.

In addition, the Lend-Lease program propped up the Soviet railway system, which played a fundamental role in moving and supplying troops. The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease.

The link I provided also contains some quotes from Stalin and Khrushchev confirming their belief that without US aid, they wouldn't have been able to win the war. Put morbidly, America provided the Soviets the machines, and the Soviets provided the meat to use them.

If anyone is interested, this is probably the most extensive and detailed book I've read if you're just interested in morbidly awful things that happened in many Communist regimes: