Honestly, we love a fellow messy binch on this site. What is this post, if not being messy binches ourselves? We all love slop and gossip so much because we are all messy binches.
Steal nothing, but they'll think it was me every time they misplace something.
Great comment!
The self-crit comm is not intended to be a space for self-flagellation or verbal punishment from other users.
The space was proposed with pretty much the exact intention you expressed, to be a space for site users to share the process they took to learn and grow from on-site and off-site mistakes or reactionary beliefs, and to help start dialogues for other users to follow along with that learning and growing.
Right now, we're a little concerned about post removals from the comm potentially worsening things if users are spiraling and self-flagellating. Site moderation is also trying to be extra forgiving across the whole site for the next bit given the often stressful nature of the holiday season, the recent struggle session, and the general reaction to recent attempts to more tightly control content on the site.
BIDEN, JUST LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS!
This is why trains would never work in America. These Iron Horses are simply too hungry to do the job!
Fighting and dying to feed the bourgeoisie's thirst for proletarian blood, when we should be fighting and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] 
Waow, no way, the right wing propaganda outlet doing cover for a justifiably criticized right wing media personality by demanding that his critics be silenced has failed to provide the full context? Say it isn't so!
People keep asking for account verification on here, but so far none of them have come to my house to get verified!
If anyone wants to get verified, come visit me. My address is 1000 Colonial Farm Road, Langley, VA.
Paul Reitter's recent translation is really good! I think it's a much more approachable translation for modern readers, and it's the only translation in English that's based on that last (4th) German edition of the book.
Having said that, my personal copy of Capital is from 1906 with some beautifully penciled marginalia from the comrade who originally owned it, and I can't bring myself to replace it or justify buying yet another copy just to loan out or reference corrections that were already penciled in to my copy in the margins.
The whole class has been ignoring the homework? It was all in the syllabus, and I kept reminding you to do the reading!
You all know the final isn't being graded on a curve, right? It's covering all of the material from the whole year.
Satellites, airplanes, and balloons can have flashing lights on them to indicate position, but they can also reflect light from way beyond the horizon, resulting in seemingly impossibly bright flashes. The Iridium satellites used to do this reliably and often before they were deorbited, but now OneWeb and Starlink have taken up that mantle with far greater prevalence and annoyancem
Space debris can do this too, like failed Iridium satellites, ALOS, or rocket bodies tumble throughspace and their flares are basically unpredictable.
You're totally correct and I apologize for the lack of clarity in my statement. Beria was absolutely a more measured and sensible man than the others, there's no denying that and you're absolutely correct that the numbers do corroborate the facts. He absolutely was smeared and was largely held responsible for Yezhov's crimes, rather than any he himself committed. The supposed evidence of his personal misdeeds was largely fabricated.
I still believe he was given far too much latitude to operate in his role without sufficient oversight. That he was far more restrained in his actions than his predecessors is a testament to his own more judicious nature, rather than an example of sufficient oversight of his role.
Basically, I mean to say that while he wasn't personally excessive in his actions, someone else in his position and with the same freedom to act indiscriminately may have continued to act as his predecessors did. A bullet dodged, rather than an example of appropriate harm reduction. Hopefully this makes more sense!