A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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Timothy Snyder
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Things are moving at some speed, I think you need a General Strike sooner rather than later.
https://users.livejournal.com/-niece/1888998.html
Americans are leaving the US in Drove
Q: Why are you leaving the US?
Americans: Because congress passed a law to arrest any would be communists in the country
Q: but you aren't communists!
Americans: No but *you* try to convince Senator McCarthy of this
https://bsky.app/profile/benjamingeer.name/post/3llfhx723uk2a
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1499930?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
"Magna Carta, it was argued, recognised and protected the liberty of individual Englishmen, made the King subject to the common law of the land, formed the origin of the trial by jury system"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
It is the oldest document that ensured Human Rights as a law.
Zum Thema Amtsermittlungsgrundsatz?
American tourist to Russian on Moscow street
"America is great because we all can criticize our President"
Russian responds
Soviet Union is great because we all can also criticize your president
Seems kind of quaint now, doesn't it...
Russian: That's nothing! I can walk right into the Kremlin and say "President Putin! I think you should change how you're running America!"
(Come to think of it, neither will change Trump how he's running America into the ground)
Trumpism is setting a horrific example for basic human rights and civil liberties. It will have ramifications.
As funny and memorable an old Soviet joke as:
"They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work."
Rabbits from Germany are trying to cross the boder to the Netherlands.
- Why, asks the customs officer
- The Gestapo is persecuting all giraffes as enemies of the state.
- But you are rabbits.
- You tell the Gestapo
some self called humans don’t want to convince you. They just want to end your life if you don’t repeat their lies.
- I just heard best political joke ever in my life!
- Oh, it must be exceptionally good one, if it makes you laugh. what kind of joke it is?
- sorry, can’t tell it, otherwise I would be sentencing 15 years for myself!
Couple of hours in the CIA and MI5 guys are all back with some game - deer, boar ... and begin to enjoy a beer.
KGB still missing.
🔽
They finally find them in an opening in the woods, one agent holding a rabbit up by the ears, another one beating it with a stick shouting "will you finally admit you are a boar?"
“Who’s there?”
“DEATH”
“Oh thank God for that. I thought it was the NKVD.”
[I grew up in USSR]
Every day, man scans the front pages at the newsstand.
Q: Why do you do that? You don't even bother to read the rest!
Man: I'm looking for the obituaries.
Q: But why there, they're not published on the front page of the newspaper!
Man: Oh, trust me, the one I'm waiting for will be.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh, I just heard the best joke."
"Can I hear it?"
"Nah, I just gave someone 20 years for it."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4i6e7h/the_cia_fbi_and_the_kgb_are_tasked_with_finding_a/?rdt=51058
Q: The Trump administration says it guarantees freedom of speech. How is it different from the Biden administration?
A: Biden also guaranteed freedom after speech.
But yes I do totally agree with you that it's Sinophobia at the least and white supremacist or adjacent to it at the most.
https://gofund.me/c640f09b
- How long your sentence?
- Ten years, and I didn't nothing.
- You're a liar, nothing is five years.
- How do you know she's a camel?
- She looks like one!
- I am not a camel!
- But you look like one.
- They dressed me up like this.
- We didn't!
- And these aren't my humps, they're fake!
- Well?
- Well, we did do the humps
- And the toes, and the beard.
https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/jokes-in-the-third-reich-1933-1945
'If you had two farms, would you give one to the State?'
'Yes'
'If you had two houses ...?'
'I'd give one to the State!'
'If you had two cars ...?'
'Likewise!'
'And, if you had two horses?'
'No!'
'Why?'
'I HAVE two horses!'
Q: But you're a rabbit?
Rabbit: Yes but by the time the believe me my balls will be gone
A man stops at the newstand every day, scans the front page of the papers & leaves
One day the vendor asks him what he's looking for
The Man replies "An obituary"
The vendor says "Those aren't on the front page"
The man replies "The one I'm looking for will be"
"Pity the poor Soviet people -- they don't know whether or not their politicians are lying to them. In our country -- we know!"
Mario Savo
Me: What do your findings at Chernobyl tell us about the chances of surviving a nuclear war?
Nikolai: In Russia we have a saying: "In the event of a nuclear war, please collect your shroud and report to the cemetery."
You: "You can't do this! I'm a citizen!"
Fascist Thug: "We don't believe you."
You: "I'll prove it!"
Fascist Thug: "Where? And to whom? You think your cellmates in El Salvador will care?"
Elon is a symptom Trump is the disease
Christian Nationalism = Fascists for Jesus
Border guard 2: I think exactly the same as you.
Border guard 1: You are under arrest!!!!!!
Well damn.
As Adam and Eve fled the garden, they were asked...
Why do Polish policemen always walk around in threes?
The first to read the map, the second to read the roadsigns, & the third to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals.
"Is it true that conditions in our labor camps are excellent?"
"In principle, yes. 5 years ago one of our listeners was not convinced of this, so he was sent to investigate. He seems to have liked it so much that he hasn't returned yet."
https://bsky.app/profile/laryatflint.bsky.social/post/3ll4xtd3o7k2y
-Comrade, why are you walking with only one shoe at snowy winter?
- Because I found only this and not another one on the road