It's not "us"
It's the BLatting OG!
(He gets all riled up when folks pimp for hits.)
Posted on 10/15/2013 10:31:59 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
“In 1934 a high-ranking member of the Communist Party, Sergei Kirov, was assassinated,” Cornell historian Holly Case wrote in The Chronicle Review. “His death, likely orchestrated by Stalin himself, was used to initiate a mass persecution that would result in over a million imprisoned and hundreds of thousands killed.”
“Actually, she’s a bit off on the casualty count,” we observed. ...
“The late Alexander Yakovlev, the lifelong Soviet apparatchik who in the 1980s became the chief reformer and close aide to Mikhail Gorbachev, and who, in the post-Soviet 1990s, was tasked with the grisly assignment of trying to total the victims of Soviet repression, estimated that Stalin alone was responsible for the deaths of 60 to 70 million, a stunning number two to three times higher than estimates in The Black Book of Communism,” Grove City College historian Paul Kengor has noted.
...Case wrote in a letter to us. “Many of Stalin’s victims came before that due to collectivization and dekulakization, which was likely why he initiated the Purge in the first place (to create scapegoats for those atrocities). I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge your mistake and withdraw your post, otherwise I will simply conclude that you are ideologically motivated rather than interested in the truth…not unlike Stalin, in fact. “
... the UN, never a virulently anti-Soviet source, has noted that during the Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), “It was estimated that about 25,000 Ukrainians were dying every day during the Famine. ..." & from the Russian Archives themselves, by way of the Library of Congress: “...During the ensuing Great Terror, which included the notorious show trials of Stalin’s former Bolshevik opponents in 1936-1938 and reached its peak in 1937 and 1938, millions of innocent Soviet citizens were sent off to labor camps or killed in prison.”
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722423/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2776537/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
Perhaps you need to read official policy yourself.
It exists for a reason.
Don’t like the reason, take it up with the site owner instead of complaining to us!
It is HIGHLY annoying to go to a site and be assaulted with popups [Examiner blog] virii [Examiner blog] and have people use FR for a “Pay for site clicks” scheme.
No I did not miss the point.
Good day, Gentlemen.
I will leave you to your obsessions which you seem to enjoy greatly.
Because I’m limited to 300 words and the article is 485
I read your links... it doesn’t say what you say it says. It does state a strong preference not to excerpt. The name calling, confrontational enforcement and general jerk behavior by the blog-police is not endorsed anywhere in those links.
If you repeatedly find yourself assaulted by popups then perhaps you should actually look at the link before you click it. I find it highly annoying to select a topic based on the title, and find the discussion of that topic diluted by self-righteous pimp-police spamming rude remarks.
If you REALLY wanted to discourage blog-pimping, the simple answer would be to let people post the entire content in response to a blog-pimp post. That would remove any incentive to click the link, not ruin the FR conversation and result in a far less confrontational atmosphere here at FR.
Only if you diddle the excerpt button.
Lay off that and try it.
No impediment exists to anyone posting the entirety of their own content.
But I was stopped before I got it down to 300.
Yes you did miss the point.
Both of you did.
Tell me, what is SO hard about posting one’s own material in full?
That is the policy.
Is it really so hard?
Will they die if they do it?
Is it some handicap requiring special placards for?
Please, enlighten us as to why it is that you want to drive traffic away from FR for site clicks?
And csivils?
Yes, Jim’s post 552 from that thread and both mod threads do indeed state to post your material in full.
If you can’t read it and understand it that is hardly my fault.
I’ll put it here, so you can actually read the paragraph... including the first two sentences and take the entire thing in context.
And once again, I’m not defending the OP not excerpting. I’m calling out the rude behavior of the pimp-police. Your spam derails the follow up thread discussion and hurts the very community conversation that you claim to defend.
It has been determined that giving the pimps dollar bills and kisses
has very little effect regarding the curbing of their behavior.
On the off chance, you actually didn’t understand what I wrote... I was referring to the possibility that the response to an excerpted blog could be to post the entire content. This approach would remove the incentive to provide the blog with multiple pagehits, and not disrupt the FR conversation on the topic of the post.
I did not state there was an impediment, I’m not sure where you got that from.
I’ll defer to your experience on kissing pimps...
Have a nice day
I thought the boomers were the ones defeating the Communists on the battle field while the "greatest generations" congressmen, Journalists, news anchors, presidents, and Senators and Generals were finding ways to submit to them?
A lot went to fight...a lot didn't. And a lot would not have fought if it weren't for the Draft.
And a lot said stupid crap like "they're just agrarian reformers. There won't be a blood bath afterwards, that's just Right Wing BS".
Uh, no it wasn't.
As for the GG folks, well...who went to war in Korea and Vietnam, if not the same guys who fought WWII? By that I mean they were the commanders who reacted to Soviet internationalism and agitation.
The Boomers bought the Leftist BS in the late 60's about how we were just beating up on poor people trying to free themselves from Evil Imperialist Colonialism. That's simply being credulous morons.
The history of every Communist rebellion always ends in wholesale massacres: it's the basis of the philosophy - murder the Bourgeosie and anyone else who doesn't agree with you.
You don’t get it like most reasonable people.
Stalin and Lenin used terror as a management technique.It didn’t matter if you agreed with them or not, if it was time to reinforce terror in the populace, you died, frozen in the Gulag.
The large majority of people who went to the Gulag were guilty of nothing.
Communists always do this. They brook no opposition and make no apologies for totalitarian power.
And we have the very same people now in power in Washington.
Imagine what they really have in mind for us.”
Explains why our Progressives (Communists) are working so hard to get rid of the Bill of Rights especially the 1st and 2nd ones.
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