The man is almost begging for his life. He's confessing his 'sins' in public and pleading for mercy.
I wonder if this would have worked in Khmer Rogue Kampuchea.
You got your parallels right - to me it read like the “confessions” of one of the many victims of Stalin’s show trials - extorted under threat of harm to family members - which were then used as evidence of guilt before they were sent to the firing squads.
Marxism has literally taken over the Left in America. Its insane. This type of thing does not end well for nations.
It didn’t for Nazi Germany which was swept with a similar kind of “hateful group-think” leading it to overreach against foreign “enemies”.
Soviet Russia was a bit more restrained in its direct external adventures so the virus incubated and survived for an entire lifetime, leaving in its wake a destroyed, poverty-stricken nation robbed of its soul. (And the requisite millions of innocent victims.)
Funny you would say that. That was the first thing that popped into my mind as well.
Duplass is very likely headed to a re-education camp.
Just another Cultural Revolution. The mass slaughter part is scheduled for later.
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