FARMING DISASTER DONE ON PURPOSE

So much of the awful results of the farming disaster in the old Soviet Union came from bad policy decisions.

In the early 1930’s their main guy Stalin decided he knew more about science and farming than anyone.

He also had advisers explaining it to him in a way he agreed with.

Who doesn’t love the unconditional, “You are right, comrade.”

There was no room for disagreement.

The death toll from the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine has been estimated between six million and seven million.

According to a Soviet author, “Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings.”

Yet one of Stalin’s lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success.

It showed the peasants “who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay.”

 

When a zealot gets their hands on the levers of power they attract other kookie fucks who’ve been waiting for a chance to air their crackpot bullshit.

In essence they say, “I believe this is the best solution to the problem no matter what.”

 

Stalin focused particular hostility on the wealthier peasants, or kulaks. About one million kulak households (some five million people) were deported and never heard from again.

 

I’ll do the math: five million kulaks + another six to seven million = eleven to twelve million give or take.

When a national leader condemns their citizens to a slow starvation death, are they serving the people?

 

Any man, woman, or child caught taking even a handful of grain from a collective farm could be, and often was, executed or deported. Those who did not appear to be starving were often suspected of hoarding grain.

 

The American Lysenko

Imagine a leader so backward that they believe one ‘scientist’ can grow wheat in the winter.

Lysenko had a persuasive argument, Stalin agreed, and ignorance ruled.

 

Lysenko claimed that he changed a species of spring wheat into a winter wheat in just a few years.

Of course, this was impossible—particularly since the spring wheat species had two sets of chromosomes and the winter wheat had three—and more likely his experiment had been contaminated.

But Lysenko held great power and his claims were rarely challenged.

Scientists who disagreed with Lysenko’s theories were purged—some were sent to the gulags while others simply disappeared.

The lesson here? We need to remember that just because a dictator issues a decree or legislators pass a law, they have not changed reality.

Ignoring science in favor of a preferred outlook on the world can have devastating consequences.

 

Imagine a man with a heroin history of spiking it and liking it in charge of anything health related.

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science agenda has been “a wrecking ball” for U.S. public health that endangers American lives, according to a new review of his first year in federal office. 

Public health policy decisions, firings, funding cuts and misinformation under Kennedy’s tenure as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have endangered the nation, according to the report from Protect Our Care, which labeled him “public health enemy No. 1.”

“In one year, RFK Jr. has made America sicker,” Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care, said during a Feb. 10 news conference with members of Congress and health leaders. “He’s undermined public trust…he’s wreaked havoc on our nation’s public health system.”

One of the key areas where Kennedy has eroded confidence is vaccinations. Despite pledging not to dismantle U.S. vaccine policy during his 2025 Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy has repeatedly taken action against the life-saving public heath tool, the report notes.

Even before slashing the federal childhood immunization schedule by a third last month, Kennedy gutted a science-based advisory committee, halted vaccine research, rehashed discredited theories on autism and undermined guidance on COVID-19 and hepatitis B vaccines. 

 

Who is he serving?

 

Science in 2026

Who embraces a nutty fuck wholeheartedly as a ‘hail fellow well met?’

Another nutty fuck, that’s who.

Then you have two fuck-nuts surrounded by like minded people.

They say the right things to get confirmed for their jobs, but their main goal is serving the person who plucked them off the shit pile.

Call me old fashioned but listening to eastern dandies explain the facts of life has never sat well with me.

I’ve seen the sludge piles and waste puddles of people living in densely packed urban environments and thought, ‘who’s helping these people?’

If your life is drifting off the rails you might need a nudge for course correction.

Millions of Americans were slipping off the rails in the Great Depression, which occurred at the same time as Stalin’s starvation plans.

 

“First of all,” he said, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

 

Over here we planted hope; over there they planted other things.

 

PS:

Be your best around people who know you outside of social media.

 

PSS:

Be your best around people who don’t know you and they’ll wish they did.

How much better do you want to know RFK Jr.?