I ' ve had a 12 or 13 game winstreak . Each win just feels better and better , until you finally get a loss and you just sit there for a moment not wanting to believe it . <| sep |> I ' m curious what are you doing that requires bringing a bunch of spare CR 123 As ? I ' m wondering if your scenario can be better handled with rechargeable batteries . <| sep |> Here ' s the thingThe US purged itself of communists and leftism . That is what saved free speech . It then spread those values through the Marshall aid and NATO to Western Europe . Everywhere else in the world for the last couple of generations there was moderate or large number of leftists liberals in the US sense who supported a totalitarian planned economy , and microcontrol of every part of human life . They literally in large numbers wanted to enact armed revolutions with mass executions of capitalists , destroy the concept of marriage , destroy the concept of gender , forge humanity like a metal ant in the giant hive model of their minds . They want to incinerate the West with their hateUSORHBUmN 4 k . They killed all the dissenters and intellectuals in a totalitarian c l e a n t h eslateandpurifythethought great mindcleansing , where you scrubbed away thoughts by killing those who had them . This was pretty much psychopathic . And psychopathy describes their approach and personality . Check out the Rules for Radicals , it ' s a hand book tailored to that , which only makes sense for psychopaths leftists outside of the US went into education and the media . In the US they still existed just in smaller numbers . They are now resurging . The EU is now starting to clamor for heavy staterun propaganda . Free speech is NOT a liberal leftist value . You should have tried to exercise you free speech in any part of the communist world during the Cold War . Sure , there were things that you couldn ' t say in the capitalist part either , but only a fraction as much and penalties only a fraction of the death penalty . Free speech is based on the acceptance of the absence of control , and leftism is all about control . Have you ever wondered about the term fascist , how it ' s so commonly used amongst leftists ? insultAfter 1941 fascist was used in the Soviet Union to describe virtually any antiSoviet activity or opinion . According to MarxismLeninism , fascism was the final phase of crisis of bourgeoisie , which in fascism sought refuge from inherent contradictions of capitalism . As result of this approach , it was almost every Western capitalist country that was fascist , with the Third Reich being just the most reactionary one . As result , after 1941 fascist was used in Soviet Union to describe virtually any antiSoviet activity for example , the international investigation on Katyn massacre was described as fascist libel . , the Warsaw Uprising as illegal and organised by fascists . Communist Suba Bezpieczestwa described trotskyism , titoism and imperialism as variants of fascism . Totalitarian , allencompassing , humanmolding leftism is the global trend . The brief aberration in the US just after the communist cleanout was a rare and nonrepeating event in history .