# We're all going to the Gulag Archipeligo. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292 "2015-08-19T22:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/1 "2015-08-19T22:17:34Z")
The American people were duped by a socialist who fantasized about rape and doesn’t own a comb or an Armani suit. Now he will confiscate all their houses, boats and their daughters and send everyone else to the Gulag. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/2 "2015-08-19T22:32:29Z")
Counterrevolutionary thread reported to People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/3 "2015-08-19T22:44:36Z")
> [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](#): > > The American people were duped by a socialist who fantasized about rape and doesn’t own a comb or an Armani suit. Now he will confiscate all their houses, boats and their daughters and send everyone else to the Gulag. :eek: That could be practically anybody. Could you give us a hint; initials, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/4 "2015-08-19T22:49:19Z")
Hm. Sanders I am pretty sure doesn’t own a comb or an Armani suit. What was that about rape? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/5 "2015-08-20T00:32:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That could be practically anybody. Could you give us a hint; initials, maybe? Wait. I don’t own an Armani suit and I don’t need a comb. My initials are EM. But I’m not a socialist but a real double-dyed Communist! Everybody knows that EM=C[sup]2[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/6 "2015-08-20T01:00:30Z")
> [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](#): > > The American people were duped by a socialist who fantasized about rape and doesn’t own a comb or an Armani suit. Why would a man want to [wear a suit?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=763090) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/7 "2015-08-20T01:50:45Z")
We do not have a forum for incoherence, but rants go in The BBQ Pit. Off with you. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/8 "2015-08-20T02:06:29Z")
This is the second time today I saw the word “gulag” in the midst of a bizarre and incoherent rant, but from a different poster. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18615524&postcount=99](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18615524&postcount=99) What kind of weird zeitgeist is this? Or is this a basic sock situation? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/9 "2015-08-20T02:12:09Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Hm. Sanders I am pretty sure doesn’t own a comb or an Armani suit. What was that about rape? He makes some [great chicken](https://arcturusproject.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/col-sanders.jpg), though. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/10 "2015-08-20T02:18:18Z")
Maybe he won his race to the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/11 "2015-08-20T02:24:38Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > **We do not have a forum for incoherence** , but rants go in The BBQ Pit. > > Off with you. I thought that was Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/12 "2015-08-20T02:28:26Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > This is the second time today I saw the word “gulag” in the midst of a bizarre and incoherent rant, but from a different poster. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18615524&postcount=99](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18615524&postcount=99) > > What kind of weird zeitgeist is this? Or is this a basic sock situation? It’s National Gulag Day. Obama’s latest thing. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/13 "2015-08-20T04:31:06Z")
Mmmm, I could go for some gulag right now. Pasta and beef dishes are so comforting, yanno? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/14 "2015-08-20T04:47:14Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Mmmm, I could go for some gulag right now. Pasta and beef dishes are so comforting, yanno? As long as they are made of grass and tree bark, knock yourself out. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/15 "2015-08-20T04:54:36Z")
_Let’s all go to the gulag, Let’s all go to the gulag, Let’s all go to the gulag, And get ourselves oppressed!_ ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/16 "2015-08-20T05:57:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _Let’s all go to the gulag, > Let’s all go to the gulag, > Let’s all go to the gulag, > And get ourselves oppressed!_ Accompanied by dancing blini, piroshki and bowls of borscht, of course. ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/17 "2015-08-20T10:00:53Z")
There’s a Gulag Archipelago? Is that a reference to something I’m just not getting? (Edited to cure an auto-correct) ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/18 "2015-08-20T10:18:12Z")
> [@orangeapples](#): > > There’s a Gulag Archipelago? Is that a reference to something I’m just not getting? > > (Edited to cure an auto-correct) [It’s a book.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/19 "2015-08-20T12:35:49Z")
“It’s a book.” Say what you will, in any other Internet forum that response would have read… “Crack a book, you uncultured heathen!” Just sayin’, **Malden Capell** , you do us all proud! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/20 "2015-08-20T12:42:54Z")
The political/literary references are flying… move over, Dennis Miller! (No, seriously, Dennis— move over. Come back to us.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292.md?page=2)