Posted on 09/01/2026 4:36:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What is communism? asks Krzysztof Szczawinski on X. No, it’s not the “bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union.” No, it’s not “a discredited economic theory”.
[Instead, it’s] a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper -- a civilizational war against truth itself[.]
Then he goes on to give us two words that the Poles invented to describe life under communism:
Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] -- a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood[.]
And
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] -- a deep, performative hypocrisy[.]
I’m sure he’s right. Only I believe that all politics amounts to a Big Lie, and utterly irradiated with hypocrisy.
But wait. Here is Hussein Aboubakr Mansour telling us “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis” or “How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought.”
I discussed it at length on my Substack.
Mansour tells the story about how Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, a Sunni cleric, [was] sent to Paris in 1826 as chaplain to the first Egyptian student mission. Five years later he published An Overview of Paris. Then he opened a school “where generations of Egyptian officials learned to turn French administrative and legal prose into Arabic.”
At the beginning, the Arabs didn’t have narrative fiction, didn’t have sentences, didn’t have punctuation and paragraphs, didn’t have a bunch of words that you need to describe life in post-industrial revolution Europe. So the first generation of western-educated Arabs learned it all in the culture of post-revolutionary France under the influence of left-wing radicalism.
No wonder Arabs are all total radicals committed to revolution and fundamental transformation, just like our leftie friends.
And no wonder that radical Islam is today joined at the hip with radical European leftism.
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Many Arabs think Hitler was a truly great leader.
Yes, he led alright, & I guess in the end he got just about what he deserved.
Maybe they understand the female mind.
There have always been two types of people - those who can provide for their own livelihoods and those who need to take from others. Abel and Cain.
Another characteristic of a persistent Socialist/Communist regime is the presence of a common enemy. (Note I said persistent, not successful.) Having or creating a common enemy gives the regime a scapegoat for the difficult living and economic conditions that usually exist. The absence of that external enemy leaves the regime in the position of having to explain why economic conditions in the homeland are in the toilet.
They both hate Christianity
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” - John 8:44 ESV
I was with him until he collapsed all religion including Christianity and all politics into his cauldron of simpletons seeking certainty. Basically he’s an agnostic.
Spot on. We all have a God-shaped hole, and since the Left are 99.9% Godless, they try to fill that hole with anything and everything. When the cause du jour leaves them empty, they fill that hole with the next one - and the next - and the next...
There's only one thing that'll fill that hole and bring true and lasting peace. Be vigilant against the Left's schemes, but also continue to pray they'll come to know the truth.
The Four “D”s of AbnormalityPsychologists use four main criteria, known as the 4 Ds, to identify when a behavior or mental state crosses the line into an abnormality or potential Abnormality in Behavior on Deviance.
Behavior that breaks cultural, social, or statistical norms.Distress: Emotional suffering, such as intense fear, sadness, or anxiety.Dysfunction: Trouble handling daily tasks, keeping a job, or maintaining relationships.Danger: Behaviors that put the person or others at risk of harm.Context and DiagnosisNot Just “Different”.
Being unusual or eccentric does not mean a person has a mental abnormality. The pattern must interfere with life or cause suffering.Clinical Standards: Professionals evaluate these conditions using guides like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
“And no wonder that radical Islam is today joined at the hip with radical European leftism.”
I believe they both believe they can use to other to seize absolute power and then just discard the other. I also believe Radical European leftism is tied at the hip to the Democratic Party/DSA in the USA and both will be destroyed by radical Islam which has declared war on the world and have made serious inroads into their goal of a world controlled by Sharia Law.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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Funny that.
You would think that profession would have reduced the amount of mental illness if what they spewed had any validity at all.
And I will add, that if you look at the past editions up today,,they keep inventing brand new mental labels .
Almost as if it’s all just a grift to make academics and drug companies richer and richer.
That’s pretty much the crux of it.
I think it is human nature to strive to improve one’s situation - which usually involves dealing with others and convincing them that it is in their best interest to make the deal.
But what if it’s not in their best interest to make the deal? What if it would be a mistake to hire you? Do you admit your shortcomings in the job interview, or admit the product you are trading is worthless?
No, people with nothing to offer need to survive too, so they lie.
This is why the Democrats, the Communists, the criminals tell nothing but lies. They can’t tell the truth because the truth is that they are selling is worthless - or even poisonous. They need the deal to go through - and telling the truth would kill the deal - so they lie.
They reject truth and God, and all the rest of the mess is the natural consequence.
Sad but true. Lots of love between Nazis and islamics in the 1930s.
https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/275320
https://www.sajr.co.za/historical-proof-of-palestinian-admiration-for-hitler/
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html
Lewis, B. (1999). Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice. United States: W. W. Norton, p. 147.
Black, E. (2010). The Farhud: Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press. Ch. 12 ‘The Arabs Reach for the Reich.’
True enough about communism, but unclear and unconvincing concerning Islam. Latecomers to modernity often adopt radical ideologies. Throw religion, and especially fundamentalist Islam, into the mix and you get what we have now. But blaming it on 1820s France seems like a big, big stretch.
They keep inventing brand new mental labels.
Not inventing them finding them no limit to the amount of crazy things humans come up with.
It’s why the cure is so hard to do.
Yes
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