Don’t forget Mao also purged “Ultra-Leftists” who were against the bureaucratic elite and wanted more decentralised communism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shengwulian

The president revealed: “Vladimir Putin said something – one of the most interesting things. He said: ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting … No country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’

“And he said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said: ‘You won that election by so much and that’s how we got here.’ He said: ‘And if you would have won, we wouldn’t have had a war. You’d have all these millions of people alive now instead of dead. And he said: ‘You lost it because of mail-in voting. It was a rigged election.’”

Can someone volunteer to give that website a mobile compatible viewing mode. It would make it far more accessible.

(I’d theoretically love to join your reading but the extent of my chronic illness means it’s very unlikely I’d be able to keep up fully. I’d love to jump in and out if that’s possible tho :))

A North Sydney, N.S., man who spent more than 300 days searching for his own son helped find another young man who went missing in the woods over the weekend.

Ken MacDonald, whose son Justin MacDonald disappeared in July 2024, searched 180 places, including shorelines, swamps, forests and gravel pits. MacDonald found his son’s remains in May in a wooded area near Sydney, N.S., after coming across a familiar-looking shirt and sandal.

After attending church on Sunday, Ken MacDonald spotted a social media post that tugged at his heart strings. A 22-year-old man was missing after heading out to a Glace Bay, N.S., bar the night before.

“I had to help because I know what it feels like,” said Ken MacDonald.

“I know the feelings and emotions that they’re probably experiencing and I just felt like maybe I could help them and find a better outcome.”

Absolute legend.