[thecodont]

... Babel’s arrest and shooting in the great purges have long been known, but what Brent has discovered is that, during the course of the horrible interrogations, Babel ceased to be Babel at all. They took his soul. The documents reveal how “the system attacked his essence—his consciousness and self-identity… . Isaac Babel no longer existed as Isaac Babel.” He loved Big Brother.

Babel’s fate illustrates a key tenet of Soviet ideology, perhaps the single most important one. I have in mind the doctrine that there is no such thing as human nature or individual selfhood.

What sort of people do these things?

[neverdem]

What sort of people do these things?

Our disloyal opposition, the tyrannical statists.

[GladesGuru]

“What sort of people do these things?”

Given time, and unchecked power, Democrats willo those things.

Remember the politics of personal destruction? Ruby Ridge, Waco, Texas and the Branch Davidians?

Culture is all that separates us from the Russians. And, as the Russians would say, the “nekulturney” are in the White House.

[pankot]

Answer: Godless atheists,