Declaring war on Japan in August 1945? The USSR "participated" by showing up for the yearbook photo. Typical Stalinist land grab. And quite frankly, it's hard to celebrate the Soviet contribution to the European front when Russia was originally so happy to indulge and assist Hitler. You let a wild dog off the chain, you deserve to get bitten.

Hi, I'm from a country currently called the United States of America, and I'd like to remind yet another citizen of the former Soviet Union that WWII wasn't fought only in Europe.

Hate speech laws.

I'm making a note here: "huge success."

Clever. So unless I conclusively show that the current era has absolutely no similarities to your vaguely-defined "past," I'm wrong. That's a lot easier for you than having to support your use of the term "fascism"... but then, you've already admitted that you're using it imprecisely, to say the least.

At this point, the people who railed at me for supporting Nader, for daring to call Obama an opportunist tool of the status quo, can now officially kiss my ass. Those who simply couldn't be bothered to check his Senate voting record but who insisted on wearing that Maoist "Hope" portrait at all times, I say to you today: I told you so.

And as for the EFF, please use well the money I just sent you, and keep up the good fight.

If you're going to sling the word "fascist" around, you should first be able to (a) spell it, and (b) understand its meaning.

Generally speaking, this kind of objection to capital punishment is circular - essentially, "the death penalty is wrong because it's barbaric, and barbaric things are wrong." It's begging the question and adds nothing to the debate.

Reading TFA, it looks like a scalable servlet container. No J2EE as far as I can tell.

Of course I did. Even attended protests. And by the way, I voted for Nader.

Understood - and incidentally, I would like fries with that, Grandpa.

Wow, Demi Moore? Really? Now that's an influential user!

Warrantless wiretapping isn't a "conservative" thing to do. We should bash Obama because what he's doing is un-American.

Holy crap. You are now formally and officially my hero. I hope I'm that resilient when I'm 48.

If people modded your post as a troll simply because they disagreed with you, I sympathize with you - that would make Slashdot no better than (shudder) Digg.

However, if people modded you down because the quality of your post was poor, which it was, then more power to them.