I keep thinking of bad things and then say "wow I bet Hexbear would like this thing" and then I smugly smile while shit leaks out of my pants. Both ends.

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[–] Jerrimu2@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Counter point, Russia does capitalism just as bad as they did communism. If we did it in Murrica, we’d kick ass at it and be a shining beacon of socialism.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I want to congratulate you on the dumbest shit I've read all day before I ban you.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is it serious or not? The "Murrrica" makes me think it's deliberately ambiguous. We need to get more response to ascertain whether this kind of thing is a clever bit or not.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seemed it was serious

[–] DroneRights@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

There's no way that's serious, it's too funny

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Murrica is usually used in a joking way with exaggerated patriotism so I think it's a joke. No one who would say that in a serious way would consider communism as an option

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

made me think of this

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

[–] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i promise its information and not a meme, idk how to unblur it

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought it dipped tremendously when the Soviet Union was officially dismantled

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

It dipped significantly but this graph is at a scale that includes Tsarist Russia where people were serfs with no access to medicine in a pre-industrial society. Having some extremely basic stuff like food and vaccines makes it virtually impossible to get that low again (unless you're being invaded by Nazis).

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Have you seen the scale? There's a 5 year drop starting in 1991. It's not as massive as the gains made under communism, but it's a very significant reduction in life expectancy.

[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

The fall of the Soviet Union was one of the greatest crimes in human history.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

this is a bit, right? anakin-padme-2

this is a bit, right? anakin-padme-4

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Even as a bit, this is cringe. cringe

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

you're a stupid asshole, shut the fuck up liberal

Death to America

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

cringe
What is materialism?

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Counter point, Russia does capitalism just as bad as they did communism. If we did it in Murrica, we’d kick ass at it and be a shining beacon of socialism.

yes all your socialists have so much work to show

until your daddies killed the good ones.

Unlimited genocide to america

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

www.readsettlers.org

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly I'm a little ashamed at how many people on this website took the bait on this one. This is a good post.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

If this is a joke it's phrased in such a way that it's totally ambiguous and I find that really funny in and of itself.

If this isn't a joke, please read Settlers.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Holy fucking shit the perfect bait, if you had a set of pronouns you'd be celebrated but because you don't the hogs got feral and ate you alive :data-laughing:

Some good fucking shit.