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I figured out how to turn on comments! Speaking of the Stasi, I'm hearing that Woekus Dei witchfinder in chief Aiden Comerford has deleted his entire Twitter history. How very innocent and above-board of him!

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He has! Very odd for someone who’s so proud of everything he says

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Remind me, Graham, how can I view your squeaky clean twitter history?

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I'm not sure. I can email you the zip file of the archive? I might just see if I can attach it to a post.

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Too bad he can't do that to his bigoted tranny song, haha!

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Seriously, no. They didn’t all “like telling on people.” Many were given an almost impossible choice: “We think your daughter belongs in a psychiatric / correctional facility. For how long? We don’t know. But there may be another way...” Have you Anita Funder’s Stasiland? Excellent book.

I admit, that photo is something else, though.

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sure. but in the book she also describes people who enjoyed doing it because they enjoyed being part of things/in the know etc. I guess I wanted to make the point that there is something in human nature that enjoys being on the side of the people in power. I think some trans rights activists fall into that category.

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Those guys in that particular photo fall into that category too.

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Ok, fair point. Thanks for replying btw - I’m now kinda starstruck.

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haha you think stasi informants did it cos they enjoyed cliping on folk, you fucking dimwitted cunt! you sad lonely fucking bell-end graham. fuck off.

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keeping this one. Beautiful.

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also keeping this one, just to show what this website would look like if commenting was free.

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I recommend a wee visit to the Stasi Museum in Leipzig - free of course, and a real eye opener! I've been a few times now and just cannae believe the shit people got up to...

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Have you read Stasiland? It's v good.

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not yet! next on the list (actually too many books are next on the list)

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You can visit the former Hohenschönhausen prison in Berlin. My old boss took our team there on an away day. Wonder if he was trying to tell us something...

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