Pol Pot

That's what Lenin did.

It's what Pol Pot did in Cambodia.

And weirdly, it's what the Americans did when they overthrew Saddam Hussein.

They got rid of all the government, all the police, all the army.

You're Kevin Hart.

You're Pol Pot.

You're Stalin.

You're Adolf Hitler.

I mean, history will judge it that way, but like, Even

take Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot, you know, like any of these individuals, they had justifiable reasons in their own minds for why they were doing the atrocious things they were doing.

And part of that had to had to do with belief that other people weren't actually worthy of peoplehood, of being persons.

There are the people who are the us and the thems.

To do that, the CCP has rolled out an array of methods that are, to put it lightly, quite intense.

Relational repression, also referred to as the Pol Pot-esque thought work, involves local officials, party workers, or even employers contacting family members, friends, or colleagues of somebody who has stepped out of line.

Those people then encourage the individual to comply with state expectations, all while the vague threat of further escalation hangs over them.

Grid management and grassroots control involves cities and towns being divided into tiny zones sometimes just a few blocks or a single building cluster each zone has designated personnel responsible for monitoring residents and these grid workers collect data report unusual activity and maintain close contact with households campaigns like operation fox hunt focus on bringing back individuals accused of corruption or financial crimes who have fled abroad and this essentially involves the threat of dragging your entire extended family into a re-education camp for the next 10 years unless said individual complies.

The cannibal.

Or Pol Pot.

Or, you know, Mao Zedong.

Hey, Thomas.

He ain't ready for Pol Pot.

He ain't ready for that story.

Oh, a nigga can read? Kill him.

How did this happen? What happened? As you know, my friend, Judas Iscariot was the traitor, and he is the worst sinner in the history of the entire planet Earth.

Before he showed up, Nimrod had him beat, and a lot of people think it should be Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot, because they had...

Millions and millions of people killed.

But actually, Judas moved ahead of him.

Hitler.

They've endured Pol Pot.

They've endured Mao Zedong.

They've endured Nebuchadnezzar.

He's like the worst.

He's like Pol Pot and Hitler and Mao and Stalin and all the tyrants of history rolled up to the infinite degree.

And he's just rivers of blood.

I mean, come on.