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Rather than us exporting liberal democracy to these countries instead we're importing Chinese-style authoritarianism.

— Konstantin Kisin

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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

George Carlin, probably the world’s greatest-ever comedian, once said that the comedian’s job is to find the line and then cross it.

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Here’s an idea: why don’t we all stop telling other people how they should refer to themselves and mind our own damn business?

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West (2022)

Put simply, suppression of free speech is a symptom of tyranny.

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West (2022)

Spaces, we are told, must now be made more inclusive in order for them to be healthy. However, on entering such a space, you’ll soon discover that some people are more included than others.

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West (2022)

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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