thirdform

pass the sick bucket
He told me his top two were Ash Sarkar and John Eden.

Eden's alright, we're cool, though maybe a little too intoxicated on the wine of love for mankind. But we are allowed a few rational excesses. Sarkar is often the subconscious fantasy of white men — you all want to be like her. So I'll leave you to it.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Have you heard of Karl Marx?
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mixed_biscuits

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this is actually untrue, you need to read a lot, but only in the right way. Not in the big mac way popular on this forum.
You have to read a lot but on no account ever move to a Communist country, talk to people who have experienced Communism or take five seconds to think about whether what you're reading actually makes sense - in these respects being a Communist nowadays strongly signals cloistered wealthy academic.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
You have to read a lot but on no account ever move to a Communist country, talk to people who have experienced Communism or take five seconds to think about whether what you're reading actually makes sense - in these respects being a Communist nowadays strongly signals cloistered wealthy academic.

Actually once spoke to an attractive Polish stalinist at Corsica studios, which is probably more flirting than you have done in your entire lifetime.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
also Galileo was from a wealthy clerical background, tut tut biscuits, your anti-intellectualism is landing you in very hot waters, ever considered upgrading to biscuits 2.0?

I mean given you want to run back in time and make sure we're all adherents of the geocentric model, you also have to condemn the wealthy scientists of yesterday who laid the foundations for the death of Christianity.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
You have to read a lot but on no account ever move to a Communist country, talk to people who have experienced Communism or take five seconds to think about whether what you're reading actually makes sense - in these respects being a Communist nowadays strongly signals cloistered wealthy academic.


Dan Falcan, also from Historia, claims that Ceausescu’s positive perception is in fact a condemnation of Romania’s post-communist political leadership, unable to secure the country’s progress, jobs and decent living standards for the population.
The post-communist era has also experienced an expanding gap between Romania’s poor and the rich, previously not visible, because most people, regardless of profession, struggled for the same rationed food and products, while the nomenklatura mostly kept their affairs away from the public eyes. Romania is currently one of Europe’s poorest countries, with 21 percent of the population living below the poverty line, while the average salary is around $500.
Meanwhile, Romania’s rich and their children are ostentatiously extolling their wealth through the media. Many of the wealthiest people in Romania, such as Iosif Constantin Dragan and Ion Niculae, were part of the communist elite and, soon after the Revolution, secured advantageous political and economic positions in the nascent democracy. Through nepotism, many of them are now facilitating their children’s entry in politics and business, ensuring not only the perpetuation of their own wealth, but also a similar future elite for Romania.
According to Plaiasu, communist nostalgia is also motivated by the fact that, for a considerable period in Ceausescu’s rule, he created a positive international image for Romania. His reputation was first established when he condemned the 1968 Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia. The following year, Ceausescu further defied Soviet Russia, by establishing diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Thus, Ceausescu won western leaders’ support and became one of the most appreciated communist leaders, treated as their equal. In 1969, French President Charles de Gaulle visited Romania and granted Ceausescu the Legion of Honor, making him the first communist leader to receive the distinction. US President Nixon came on an official visit to Romania in 1969. This was a historic moment, as it was the first visit of a US President to Romania, to a socialist country and to Eastern Europe. In 1975, Romania was granted most-favoured-nation trading status by the US, while, in 1978, Queen Elizabeth II knighted Ceausescu. Through his reputation, Ceausescu also ensured that Romania had some weight on the international scene.

you have to pick one, biccies, Liz Mountbatten or Liz Trussy.

Do you want me to ask grok?
 
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