re: #634 Salamantis
So the millions systematically murdered aren’t the catch; it’s the sincerity of one mass murder’s last-second repentance?

Yep.

That shit just ain’t right. Or decent. Or moral. In the fucking least.

If sin can’t be forgiven,then why stop sinning? I should suspect that even if Stalin thought he repented enough St Peter would be going over his record with a fine-tooth comb before letting him in - and do you really think he’d have thought all of his crimes were unjustified?

Gandhi was nonviolent from the beginning to the end

Fortunately for him, quite a few other Indians were not. I’m sure the Japanese would have been intrigued by his views and would have wanted to subscribe to his newsletter. I don’t see the virtue in permitting others to be enslaved, raped, tortured, and murdered because one is too good to fight or support others who do. There’s also more than a little doubt about how saintly Gandhi ‘s personal life really was.

- which is why he failed in South Africa, and was deported from there,

He wasn’t deported from South Africa, nor did he fail there. In fact, when he left he was in reasonably good standing with the authorities, having negotiated an agreement with the Union government on the repeal of a discriminatory tax.

but as it happens, most of them DID go peacefully, and shaming didn’t work.

Gee, who would have thought Nazis wouldn’t be shamed, ya know, besides everyone? What a sanctimonious little prick.