SeventyTwoTrillion

this is where the reeducation centers will go

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without the USSR, Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals would still be a fascist empire under the reign of Hitler's moronic children and most minorities would have been exterminated. in 2021 63% of Russians, and 84% of those under 55 (that is, those who actually lived under it) regretted the dissolution of the USSR. the USSR was a counterbalancing force for global imperialism and colonialism and helped many countries on the road to independence from the inbred monarchies of Europe, and when the USSR declined in the 1980s and fell soon after, the pressure on the global bourgeoisie mostly evaporated, meaning they could worsen conditions for the working class mostly without consequence as they had no major alternative to look on to, leading to the current desperate conditions for many workers in the imperial core - not to mention the record debt levels of peripheral countries as they are exploited by the United States. the fall of the USSR was an utter disaster for eastern Europe and Russia, leading to a massive decline in conditions for workers, massive amounts of poverty, a reduction in the life expectancy, and child prostitution as people struggled to survive - thus proving that the shift from socialism to capitalism was a huge mistake for the working class.

so shut the fuck up, you demented fucking weasel. if your grand uncles were murdered in Siberia, then I will Fortnite dance over their graves because they were probably reactionary dipshits. it's statistically unlikely that they were though, as the gulags have been propagandized by the West to appear worse by several orders of magnitude than they actually were according to the real historical data we possess (and not works of fiction by dipshits) it wasn't a "fake socialist state", you're a fake fucking leftist. go join your jack-booted, swastika-tattoo'd buddies in eastern Europe that you love so much who are destroying their countries with nationalistic fascism, and get the fuck out of the Left.

There's a lot of videos of Resistance hits on Israeli soldiers coming out every day if you follow the right people

None of this made any inherent economic sense according to the market rules that liberals love to tout so much and so this was extremely predictable unless the US government actually meaningfully stepped in. Which it doesn't really want to do, despite the flashy slogans and impressive amounts of money that is allegedly going into it - one wonders how much is actually reaching the things that need to be built and fixed and how much is just being skimmed off the top by contractors and subcontractors and subsubcontractors etc.

Kind of an issue to give up neoliberalism for a more state-involved project that is a little less based on profitability and a little more based on self-sufficiency when your entire economic project for at least since Reagan and really since like, the end of WW2, has been to spread the holy word of neoclassical economics and globalization, and every economist and politician in the state is a firm believer in those things. There might be a few people in the deep state who realize that the financialization parasite must be exorcized for the empire to continue, but it feels like there's just way too much inertia to overcome, especially in an environment where you're competing with China and climate change and don't have decades upon decades to transition. Obviously people like @Kaplya@hexbear.net are of the doomer tendency in this regard but I am optimistic that industrialization can beat financialization when under the auspices of a communist party. And Desai, whose books I am currently getting through, seems mostly optimistic about this too.

we're going to go through the whole post-presidency Trump saga where every other day a Democrat has said something like "Utterly demolished. Order and the rule of law stands again. I don't see how Trump can come back from this. The mango mussolini might be out of our (non-toupee'd!) hair for good now!" while literally nothing of any significance happens

but this time it'll be with Biden, dealing with none of his actual crimes but instead like, failing to put his signature in the correct place on the form authorizing Israel to receive a prototype missile which is simultaneously thermobaric, ejects gigantic razor-sharp blades, a cluster bomb, and leaves landmines that look like child's toys, and his misplaced signature delayed the transport of those missiles by 6 hours, and Biden will therefore be called an antisemitic pro-Hamas Hitlerian monster by the Republicans and it's his fault that Israel collapsed

Biggest loser of 2024 will be Israel because it will no longer exist inshallah

US rhetoric at home: "we need to obliterate Iran. completely destroy it. no people or buildings left. millions dead at minimum"

US rhetoric in the region: "h-hey, Iran? c-can you please, uh... no, stop laughing, I-I'm just calling you because w-we need Yemen to stop what they're d-doing... please can you ask them i-instead? we just get ignored, and our o-operation isn't really w-working out..."

They were reporting sites like the Washington Post which is a newspaper of record with a high credibility rating. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/

When the links they posted which were removed were from the South China Morning Post. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-china-morning-post/

Basically they wanted to post Chinese propaganda and got butthurt that they weren’t allowed to.

No! Mediafactbias has told me my sources are untrustworthy! My entire communist ideology is falling apart around me!

These people were not given enough swirlies and shoved in enough lockers in high school

Would you say the government response has been adequate? Is the money sufficient? Does the aid come from the local, regional, or national government/organizations in the case of natural disasters?

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Very similar to Libya under Gaddafi. Actually quite interesting because the sanctions on Libya in the 1990s caused the country to decline, and the social programs broke down a fair amount and the social breakdown, plus Gaddafi's support of anti-imperialist foreign groups, ultimately led to its depiction as an authoritarian terrorist state in time for Obama and Hillary to deal the finishing blow in 2011. Whereas Iran is coping much better with the sanctions regime on them. Far from perfectly of course, but they haven't collapsed yet and don't seem to be particularly close to doing so, no matter how many protests and color revolutions the US and Israel try to incite.

Of course, Libya was extremely dependent on oil revenues to fuel its public programs so it had that critical weakness of "if the oil markets go to shit, then you're fucked no matter whether you have good or bad intentions as a party/leader" whereas Iran is much more diversified in its economy, and also of course has greater proximity to China and so can't be as easily isolated.