[ SECRET POST #2572 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2572 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. http://i.imgur.com/LZFAavB.jpg?2
[link for sort of porny]


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11. [SPOILERS for sherlock series 3]



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12. [SPOILERS for Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell]



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13. [SPOILERS for Attack on Titan]
[WARNING for rape]



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14. [SPOILERS for Revolution]
[WARNING for incest]



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15. [WARNING for pedophilia]



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17. [WARNING for suicide]



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18. [WARNING for suicide]

[Whale Rider]


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19. [WARNING for self-mutilation]

[Dexter (books)]


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Comments

Re: Ta-Nehisi Coates/Modern European History

[(Anonymous)]

I made a comment yesterday comparing the Holomodor to colonial famines in the British Empire, and I mostly stand by that comparison - the Ukrainian famine was worse but I don't think the difference is as large as you might think. That said, if we're talking in general, then yes, the Soviet Union under Stalin was totally fucking awful (as was Mao's China). That's not really a question. They were inhumane societies.

Hannah Arendt argued that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were basically similar in terms of their form of government, both having fundamentally totalitarian regimes built around opposite ideologies in the same basic way, and acting in a lot of basically similar ways, and I agree with a lot of that argument, in general and in specific (and I would strongly recommend reading Origins of Totalitarianism if you're interested in this subject, along with Eichmann in Jerusalem, because they're both really interesting, insightful analyses of the subject). I do think that the mainstream tends not to really depict those things accurately - for a lot of reasons, really. Partly because we naturally tend not to want to think about these things, partly because as time passes the memory recedes, and partly because it gets caught up in other things - for instance I think a lot of times, talking about the Soviet Union gets caught up in your political beliefs one way or another, and if you're deeply committed to liberal capitalism all these things become just a stick to bash Communism with, and if you want to defend Marxist thought then you're going to make excuses. It's unfortunate.

Re: Ta-Nehisi Coates/Modern European History

[agentcthulhu]

Hello again! I spent quite a bit of time yesterday reading about the Irish Potato Famine in particular. The British government's policies and famine relief efforts were absolutely appalling. I can see why you made the comparison and found similarities between them.

Thank you for the resources. I will look into them later, especially Origins of Totalitarianism.

I agree current political beliefs and emotional attachments to idologies hinder unbiased discussions on this subject. Reading about Nazi actions in concentration camps and their recordkeeping practices yesterday brought up another reason as to why there are a lot of inaccuracies regarding this time period - the relevant records are lost, destroyed or sealed by current governments. It may require time for records to unseal and for the emotional pain to lessen more before mainstream depictions change to something more than just the one or two facets of what happened. It is unfortunate indeed.