SMFH
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You canât really extrapolate from your experience as a person with a fixed address and a persistent set of neighbors. The only rule is you have to find someplace to sleep where nobody is going to hassle you and you have to keep moving if you guess wrong.
Hey, just imagine how bad it would be if L.A. had a Republican mayor.
This, this, this.
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So are these ones
Itâs a shame they didnât kill more Stalinists too.
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canât argue with that!!
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While the world could certainly use a reduction in Stalinists, itâs still worth keeping in mind that the #1 Nazi-killing machine in history was either this:
Or this:
While Iâm sure that most of yâall here already know this, itâs still distressingly common to come across Americans who think that the USA defeated Hitler.
The Red Army beat Hitler; the western front was a late-war diversionary sideshow.
Which does nothing to change the fact that Stalin was a mass-murdering bastard who shouldâve been strangled at birth.
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Largely through Stalinâs trademark âkeep sending wave after wave of starving peasants at them until they run out of bulletsâ strategy.
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I was meaning during the May Days
Would the Spanish Republic have beaten Franco if they hadnât started fighting each other, or if the Stalinist had been beaten? I donât know, there were other problems too, but it didnât help matters.
Yup. As I said, mass-murdering bastard who shouldâve been strangled at birth.
(although, for accuracyâs sake: it was also wave after wave of T-34s, Katyushas, Yaks and Sturmoviks)
Note that I didnât say that Stalin stopped Hitler; I said that the Red Army did. Different things.
I know; I noticed the Spanish flag.
I wasnât disagreeing with your sentiment, or assuming that you were ignorant of the history. Just preaching to the lurkers about a personal historical-accuracy twitch.
This is a good example of the reason I read the BBS: on a thread about a new homeless law in one city in the U.S., we get a mini history lesson that encompasses two other continents!
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Of course, by âkillsâ Guthrie meant something more like âpreĂ«mpts.â If it gets to the point where you have to actually kill Fascists then youâve let things go too far.
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I donât know when Woody wrote that phrase on his guitar. Any time after 1937 would have been in the âtoo late for preemptionâ era.
Wikipedia claims 1941, although I expect that Woody felt that he was preempting fascism all through the 1930s.
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That dates it at June 23, 1941 or laterâŠ
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