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Mensheviks 

The Mensheviks were more focused on changing Russia peacefully through an evolutionary process, while the Bolsheviks wanted revolutionary, violent change.
On July 30, 1903, the second congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was held in Brussels, Belgium. While the meeting was supposed to unite the party, instead it split in two. Lenin headed the Bolsheviks, who believed that violence was necessary for the revolution to succeed. The Bolsheviks thought that only a violent uprising in the proletariat can truly create a communist state, with the rebellion to be headed by a small number of intelligent revolutionaries. The Mensheviks, on the other hand, believed that reform and democracy would gradually bring Russia into communism. They thought that the formulation of a parliament and organization into different parties would allow Russia's working class to gain more power. Lenin gave his group the name "Bolshevik", which means majority-class. His opponents were called "Mensheviks", which means minority-class, although, at the congress in Brussels, there were more Mensheviks than Bolsheviks. During the civil war following the overthrow of Czar the Bolsheviks represented the red army and the Mensheviks represented the white army. The Mensheviks wanted to later establish a monarchy, which was not supported by the Mensheviks.
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METSheimers

A disease that afflicts only Mets fans. It is the only means of survival for many fans as it wipes their memory clean from the disastrous past season.
In order to Avoid mental anguish, a loyal fan of the NY Mets must employ METSheimers.

John: Hey, remember when the Mets lost 10-2 last year?
Mike: No i think my METSheimers kicked in.
John: Your so lucky, i haven't been diagnosed yet.
METSheimers by Jayzee123 September 30, 2012

mentholly disabled 

you've run out of menthol ciggies.
i'm mentholly disabled. i've run out of menthol ciggies.

semi-menshevik 

Rosa Luxemburg (also @TheAcherons)
What was the attitude of the German Left Social-Democrats, of Parvus and Rosa Luxemburg, to this controversy? They invented a utopian and semi-Menshevik scheme of permanent revolution…
semi-menshevik by KulakHater1918 April 10, 2021

Menshevik 

A member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party.
The Mensheviks and Bolsheviks were both Communists, but they disagreed on how the revolution could be achieved. The Mensheviks believed in mobilizing the Russian masses (workers and peasants) against the existing establishment and in using the parliamentry system to achieve it, whereas the more radical Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should come about through the works of a small group of intellectual elites such as Lenin. The reason this confuses a lot of people is because Menshevik means "minority", and Bolshevik means "majority", when actually it was the Mensheviks who believed in a revolution of the majority, and the Bolsheviks in one of the minority. The reason for these paradoxies is that the names actually represent the size of their respective parties rather than their viewpoints-- the 1905 split between the two factions revealed that the MAJORITY of Communists were Bolsheviks, and the minority were Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks went on to carry out the revolution successfully.
Menshevik by Dancing with Fire April 8, 2013

meatshield

1. An individual possessing high stamina and strength, often sought by weaker individuals to "Tank" or absorb large amounts of incoming damage and aggression.
Group seeking Meatshield, have priest. Please send tells.
meatshield by Kens April 13, 2006
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Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
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Person 3: O no u got aired!
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Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
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