Pynchonesque [undecided]
Xi looking kinda cute :soviet-bashful:
Lenin!
The option to filter out “some” or “most” of the misogyny or LGBTQ+ hate instead of all of it lol. Gotta have an option for the moderate G*mers who just want a bit of bigotry.
Just skip a few billion bar visits/pumpkin spice lattes/avocado toasts/whatever and you’ll be as rich as Jeff Bezos!
:reddit-logo: living up to its name
Here’s some bits I remember seeing here before:
Vasily Gromadsky, an officer of the 60th Army, offered the description: “I realized that they were prisoners and not workers so I called out, ‘You are free, come out!’… They began rushing towards us, in a big crowd. They were weeping, embracing us, and kissing us. I felt a grievance on behalf of mankind that these fascists had made such a mockery of us. It roused me and all the soldiers to go and quickly destroy them and send them to hell.”
Georgii Elisavetskii, another of the first Soviet soldiers to enter the camp, admitted in 1980 that ‘My blood runs cold when I mention Auschwitz even now’. He described the liberation in dramatic detail: “When I entered the barrack, I saw living skeletons lying on three tiered bunks. As in fog, I hear my soldiers saying: ‘You are free, comrades!’ I sense that they do not understand us and begin speaking to them in Russian, Polish, German, Ukrainian dialects; unbuttoning my leather jacket, I show them my medals… Then I use Yiddish. Their reaction is unpredictable. They think that I am provoking them. They begin to hide. And only when I said to them: ‘Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of Soviet Army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you’… Finally, as if the barrier collapsed… they rushed towards us shouting, fell on their knees, kissed the flaps of our overcoats, and threw their arms around our legs.”
:sankara-salute: to the anti-imperialists of City 17 fighting the combine empire
Also the ferengi if Gene got his way:
One influence on the Ferengi was what Herb Wright described as Gene Roddenberry’s “sex fetish.” In early first season discussions between them about developing the Ferengi, Roddenberry let Wright know it was his intention to make the species well-endowed. “He wanted to put a gigantic codpiece on the Ferengi,” Wright stated. “He spent 25 minutes explaining to me all the sexual positions the Ferengi could go through. I finally said, 'Gene, this is a family show, on at 7:00 on Saturdays. He finally said, ‘Okay, you’re right.’”
:gui-trans: :ukkk: