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Time gained

Hector Drummond Posted on Saturday 14th December 2019 by Hector DrummondSaturday 14th December 2019

I’m going to have more time in my diary now that I don’t have to do those re-education sessions with Lily Allen. … Continue reading →

Posted in 2019 general election, Commies, Hard left, Labour Party | Leave a reply

Quote of the Day

Hector Drummond Posted on Monday 9th December 2019 by Hector DrummondMonday 9th December 2019

From Wood Elf in the comments: I actually did that ! Well, not as much seize the means of production, but rather, through work and thrift over 25 years I bought the means of production. And now this little person … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Hard left, Quote of the Day | 1 Reply

Funny how they always leave the important bit out…

Hector Drummond Posted on Thursday 18th July 2019 by Hector DrummondWednesday 17th July 2019

From a Telegraph article about the moon landing: In 1966, 20,000 different companies were working on Apollo. Different companies handled different parts of the job, which all had to operate in concert …   Kevin Fong points out one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Politics | 3 Replies

Quote of the Day

Hector Drummond Posted on Thursday 11th July 2019 by Hector DrummondThursday 11th July 2019

Aaron Lake Smith: The Soviet Union, it must be remembered, was a regime founded by freelance writers and editors. In other words, a nightmare. Nice. And there’s more: Pamphleteers, autodidactic theoreticians, critics, publishers of small journals, hot-­take artists, takedown artists, … Continue reading →

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At least she wouldn’t mix up the photos of Karl and Groucho

Hector Drummond Posted on Monday 8th July 2019 by Hector DrummondMonday 8th July 2019

The people you used to meet working at The Independent: Ironically, Mrs von der Leyen’s year in the UK coincided with the arrest in London of Astrid Proll, one of the Red Army Faction’s most prominent members who had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Media | Leave a reply

Does fine talk win political street fights?

Hector Drummond Posted on Saturday 15th June 2019 by Hector DrummondSaturday 15th June 2019

The great Natalie Solent at Samizdata says this: We don’t want to make the enemy live up to their own book of rules, we want them to see the necessity of adopting ours. So we take the high road, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Hard left, Politics | 1 Reply

The Tiananmen massacre

Hector Drummond Posted on Wednesday 5th June 2019 by Hector DrummondTuesday 4th June 2019

Communists are great people, aren’t they? Here’s a declassified cable from a British diplomat describing what happened (at least according to his sources) in Tiananmen Square in 1989: 5. FACT. ON ARRIVAL AT TIANANMEN TROOPS FROM SMR [Shenyang Military Region] … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Hard left, Politics | 3 Replies

The restaurant at the end of society

Hector Drummond Posted on Sunday 14th April 2019 by Hector DrummondSunday 14th April 2019

Here’s the idiot millenial view of communism in a nutshell: Communism is everyone being able to go to nice restaurants with no class, race or gender barriers and nothing fucking else. — The One Who Wishes To Live Deliciously (@evan_welch) … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Politics | 3 Replies

The definition of a Communist

Hector Drummond Posted on Saturday 13th April 2019 by Hector DrummondSaturday 13th April 2019

Communistdef: an idealistic person who helps install a regime built on a gangster structure, and is then surprised when it ends up run by actual gangsters. … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Politics | 1 Reply

Another revolutionary who was a great family guy (not)

Hector Drummond Posted on Wednesday 6th February 2019 by Hector DrummondWednesday 6th February 2019

In 1902 Lev Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky, was in exile in Siberia, with his wife Alexandra and two young daughters. Upon learning of a bit of mild revolutionary intellectual activity in Europe (a new radical newspaper, and a book by … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies | 4 Replies

Quote of the Day

Hector Drummond Posted on Friday 1st February 2019 by Hector DrummondFriday 1st February 2019

Jim again, from the comments: I’m convinced that the fall of the Eastern Bloc is responsible for a lot of this. I think a lot of the people who like controlling other people, who don’t really care what the ideology … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, EU, Politics, Quote of the Day | 4 Replies

Possibly the worst supporting reference of all time

Hector Drummond Posted on Thursday 31st January 2019 by Hector DrummondThursday 31st January 2019

I attack the left a lot on this blog for being evil and thick, but sometimes the right are just as thick, even if not evil. Take this guy I argued with on Twitter today.  I tweeted this: Indeed, Stalin … Continue reading →

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Drummond’s Law and the evil of the left

Hector Drummond Posted on Monday 21st January 2019 by Hector DrummondMonday 21st January 2019

Drummond’s Law says that whatever the left accuse the right of doing  is something they’re up to themselves. Now, the left is always accusing the right of being evil, whereas, so the story goes, the right accuses the left of … Continue reading →

Posted in Commies, Media, Politics, Social media | 6 Replies

One club to rule them all

Hector Drummond Posted on Wednesday 7th November 2018 by Hector DrummondWednesday 7th November 2018

There was a discussion a while ago on Orphans of Liberty — can’t find the exact post any more — about thinking up a new name for the left. Personally I quite like ‘clubmen’, because basically leftists want their little … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day

Hector Drummond Posted on Monday 5th November 2018 by Hector DrummondSunday 18th November 2018

From Sam in the comments: In addition to what you’ve mentioned I think the reason for a lot of the downplay is that Communism is on the “other” side, and that the Left reflexively defends and gravitates towards anything Anti-Western/American/Conservative. … Continue reading →

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