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Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. Warning signs about the woke left's radical agenda.

There was no escape from ideological indoctrination – anywhere. A job in the bureaucracy or a military assignment hinged not so much on merit, expertise, or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.
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Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always, and still is, a systemically racist country -- without ever producing proof or a sustained argument. (And what is This System?)

The Soviets fused their press with the government.
Pravda, or "Truth," was the official megaphone of state-sanctioned lies. Journalists simply regurgitated the talking points of their Communist Party partners. In 2017, a Harvard study found that over 90% of the major TV news networks’ coverage of the Trump administration’s first 100 days was negative.

The Soviet surveillance state enlisted apparatchiks and lackeys to ferret out ideological dissidents. Recently, we learned that the Department of Defense is reviewing its rosters to spot extremist sentiments. The U.S. Postal Service recently admitted it uses tracking programs to monitor the social media postings of Americans. CNN recently alleged that the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security is considering partnering with private surveillance firms to get around government prohibitions on scrutinizing Americans’ online activity.

The Soviet educational system sought not to enlighten but to indoctrinate young minds in proper government-approved thought.
Currently, cash-strapped universities nationwide are hiring thousands of diversity, equity, and inclusion staffers and administrators. Their chief task is to scan the admissions, hiring, curriculum, and administration at universities. Like good commissars, our diversity czars oversee compliance with the official narrative that a flawed America must confess, apologize for, and renounce its evil foundations.

In America, where and for what reason you riot determines whether you face any legal consequences.

The Soviet Union was run by a pampered elite, exempt from the ramifications of their own radical ideologies. Woke Silicon Valley billionaires talk socialistically but live royally. Coke and Delta Airlines CEOs who hector Americans about their illiberality make millions of dollars a year. What unites current woke activists such as Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Obamas are their huge estates and their multimillion-dollar wealth. Just as the select few of the old Soviet nomenklatura had their Black Sea dachas, America’s loudest top-down revolutionaries prefer living in Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Montecito, and Malibu.

The Soviets mastered Trotskyization, or the rewriting and airbrushing away of history to fabricate present reality. Are Americans any different when they indulge in a frenzy of name-changing, statue-toppling, monument-defacing, book-banning, and cancel-culturing?

The Soviets created a climate of fear and rewarded stool pigeons for rooting out all potential enemies of the people. Since when did Americans encourage co-workers to turn in others for an ill-considered word in a private conversation? Why do thousands now scour the internet to find any past incorrect expression of a rival? Why are there now new thought-criminals supposedly guilty of climate racism, immigration racism, or vaccination racism?

Soviet prosecutors and courts were weaponized according to ideology. Politically correct sanctuary cities defy the law with impunity. Jury members are terrified of being doxxed and hunted down for an incorrect verdict. The CIA and FBI are becoming as ideological as the old KGB.

The Soviets doled out prizes on the basis of correct Soviet thought.
In modern America Pulitzer Prizes and the Emmys, Grammys, Tonys, and Oscars don’t necessarily reflect the year’s best work, but often the most politically correct work from the most woke.

The Soviets offered no apologies for extinguishing freedom.
Instead, they boasted that they were advocates for equity, champions of the underclass, enemies of privilege and therefore could terminate anyone or anything they pleased. Our wokists are similarly defending their thought-control efforts, forced re-education sessions, scripted confessionals, mandatory apologies, and cancel culture on the pretense that we need long-overdue "fundamental transformation."

What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system?
Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?

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So, watched a bunch of making Bangers and Mash (a British dish) videos, sent away for the Marmite (a brown thick paste like thing for adding deeper flavoring and color to dishes) like 8 bucks USD for a small jar, and bought really good sausage.

I don't even know what kind of flavor doing this was going to make but was really happy that this turned out so good, just potatoes, scallions, sausage, onions, Marmite, corn starch (for thickening) and water (I kept two cups of the water from the potatoes when draining and used that in the pan) that is it and this is going to be a common dish now in my house, the flavor is a combo of a rich onion brown gravy with your favorite sausage, with a hint of fennel, the texture compliment each other perfectly.I used red potatoes but use any you have, this is the video I followed, the water from potatoes I got from another video and added to this one. I find that corn starch is easier to work with than flour.
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This is an inexpensive dish and you can always add a side veggie to it. Thank you Britain for this wonderful dish, what next, Bubble and Squeak!? Have a whole new respect for British food, who knew it was this filling and delectable.

This is an easy dish and is so good and that is why my Brit friends call it comfort food and I agree. You know that if you think about last nights dinner when you wake up the next day then it is a hit and a keeper to add to your menus and I am sure the more you make it auto pilot will do it up in no time. It was a complicated taste to describe rich savory gravy is made that you will want a nice fresh bread and butter to dredge through it all to the very end, this is and instant love-ability that does not need to be acquired over time. Thank you so much Britain, this is really grand and love it. No fightin now over the last sausage.

I will be looking for other recipes that use Marmite because it is that good. In any event, Marmite and Bangers and Mash is a hit, just wish there were some leftovers, but there is not, see, it's that good! Trust on this one.

next maybe this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=we5ZnZQ8...
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One constitutional workaround leads to another constitutional obstacle.

This is for Don M.D. I know he is going to love it

The conservative picture of "critical race theory" bears no resemblance whatsoever to reality. Much like "cancel culture," which is now just a mindless catchphrase conservatives use to deflect blame for anything from trying to overthrow the government to stuffing a racehorse full of steroids, their version of "critical race theory" is a made-up bogeyman being used to whip up a screeching panic among the conservative base so as to suppress honest discussion about American history and racism.

A progressive Democrat in the House wants to censure the Republican members who have recently downplayed the Capitol attack on Jan. 6.

Jackson Palmer said Musk "is and will always be a self-absorbed grifter" after the Tesla CEO said bitcoin's energy use was "insane."