Today, the National Day for the Victims of Communism, marks 100 years since the Bolshevik Revolution took place in Russia. The Bolshevik Revolution gave rise to the Soviet Union and its dark decades of oppressive communism, a political philosophy incompatible with liberty, prosperity, and the dignity of human life.

Over the past century, communist totalitarian regimes around the world have killed more than 100 million people and subjected countless more to exploitation, violence, and untold devastation. These movements, under the false pretense of liberation, systematically robbed innocent people of their God-given rights of free worship, freedom of association, and countless other rights we hold sacrosanct. Citizens yearning for freedom were subjugated by the state through the use of coercion, violence, and fear.

Today, we remember those who have died and all who continue to suffer under communism. In their memory and in honor of the indomitable spirit of those who have fought courageously to spread freedom and opportunity around the world, our Nation reaffirms its steadfast resolve to shine the light of liberty for all who yearn for a brighter, freer future.

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The measures undertaken by Peel's successor, Russell, proved comparatively inadequate as the crisis deepened. The new Whig administration, influenced by the doctrine of laissez-faire, believed that the market would provide the food needed, and they refused to intervene against food exports to England, then halted the previous government's food and relief works, leaving many hundreds of thousands of people without any work, money, or food. Russell's ministry introduced a new programme of public works that by the end of December 1846 employed some half million Irish and proved impossible to administer.

Are you afraid your traditional military formation will be slaughtered by a hand cranked machine gun that someone bought for tens of thousands of dollars?

I should be clear here: you might not be, but as far as I'm concerned, what you're saying is defending Trump using crackpot conspiracy theories, so it amounts to you being a Trump apologist, even if you don't know why.

So I only got up to here and this post interested me enough. This Trump/Russia thing actually is a conspiracy theory. Obviously Clinton would have been the preferred candidate to continue to "project" American weakness. I doubt Trump is going to reverse or enact policy in a way that is beneficial to Russia. Of course Clinton would have. This crap isn't worth saving the brain cells I kill on a quasi-daily basis.

This Trump/Russia thing actually is a conspiracy theory.

This crap isn't worth saving the brain cells I kill on a quasi-daily basis.

Coming to a red state near you: Russian propaganda in middle school history.

Teach the controversy.

Alcohol?

Like something out of Stranger Things. lefties worried about Russian propaganda in our schools. We must be in the upside down.

No alcohol is what I burn brain cells on.

JKJK I drink only safe limits.

Safe Limits saves your liver, not your brain cells. Oh, and the liver is quite resilient.

Who tf cares, it's impossible to fail grad school.

So, similar to other public sector jobs?

In Europe, I hear that instead of firing you, they just transfer you into a position that makes you want to quit. I imagine the same thing happens in academia.

To summarize: you've been given a huge endowment by black ancestors.

Pretty much. UVA has a 6-7 billion endowment, I get a sliver of that. And yes, the original campus was literally built by black slave labor.

I'm basically walking American privilege, being given a slice of the pie.

Oops. 8-9 billion. I mean, it's not Harvard, but hey.

Like something out of Stranger Things. Lefties worried about Russian propaganda in our schools. We must be in the upside down.

Yeah that's consistent with most of what I've observed on 4chan.

To be fair, a more accurate description would be Putin crime family propaganda. But the Putin syndicate runs Russia, so it's the same thing really.

The trade-off being it's a liberal hellhole, where everyone is a beta cuck and we're a blue county surrounded by hordes of red, and our economy is fine but the rest suck.

That's good though. You're surrounded by cucks and people that suck, but that's where your black ancestry comes in.

But **** man, I don't know what I'm talking about. What did George W. Bush's diplomats think?

Oh, they thought a lot of stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-russia-mafia-kleptocracy


So what are you doing here, Wookie06? Playing down the threat of Putin, a dyed-in-the-wool unimpeachable gangster who controls the world's largest stockpile of WMDs, who assassinates and brutalizes his opponents, holds democracy in absolute contempt, and is by many times over the richest person in history according to US intelligence, and uses his wealth to manipulate the governments and citizens of other countries? To make a dumb partisan joke? Really?

hurr durr durr, it's the Republicans' job to be scared of Russia, not the Democrats'. Don't you remember the Cold War, when that definitely happened? Libtard cucks, you're just jealous you wish you were a big strong man like Putin. Celebrating Putin is fine and totally American, someone on an internet forum with strangely poor grammar said so. The time for debate is over, get on board the Trump train and help Make America Great Again for laundering Putin's stolen tax money.

Take this with a grain of salt, but Democrats have to be loving the turnout reports they’re seeing in Northern Virginia right now. Turnout had already exceeded 2013 totals by 5 p.m. in Fairfax, Alexandria, Charlottesville and several neighboring localities. That’s a pretty extraordinary level of engagement in Democratic-leaning localities. Meanwhile, we haven’t seen similar surges in a sampling of GOP-leaning places, based on reports from Bedford and Tazewell in the Trump-leaning southwest. I know it’s hazardous to divine inferences from turnout reports, but, hey, I grew up in New Jersey and live in Virginia, so I’m feeling loose tonight.

To be fair, to get a grad school position where you're well-funded and treated as well as here, you have to basically work your ****ing ass off at a minimum wage job, working 40 hours a week and going to class full time to support yourself, and work your entire summer to get published to get even noticed by any grad depts that matter. I mean, sure, it's not manual labor, but the damage I've done to my body without healthcare on the system your party created is about worth it. At least I'm in my 20's so I can recover a bit from the hell of slave/wage labor.