[Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues]

She says things that make sense, whatever can be said about the rest of her. It is so refreshing to hear a leftard sounding rational

—not like a die-hard Marxist from outer space,

I think you and others (and at times, I myself) are feeling nostalgia for a time long ago when it seemed leftists were misguided, but (often) well meaning, as opposed to deranged or outright evil.

When this happens I usually mentally kick myself and remember that I was younger and more naive then, and in an environment where they felt they had to conceal their evil.

[Eleutheria5]

Good and evil are relative, man. That’s how come, like, man, Stalin starving millions of Ukrainians to death wasn’t evil, because they weren’t getting with the program. He sent Jewish officers to do the dirty work, because they’re used to being pogrommed by Ukrainian peasants, and can never get with the program ever. They just think they can. Useful idiots, a fair target for the backlash over the mass starvation. So, like, what’s evil about that, man./s