Hungary was never an SSR, Kruschev sent the tanks into the Hungarian People’s Republic at the behest of their elected government to put down an uprising that had been coopted by fascists.
But yes they literally did secede, that was the legal mechanism which the SSRs broke off of the USSR in the 90s. It was enshrined in the soviet constitution.
It’s been a wealthy country for centuries because it has invested in its people.
OK, but mostly it’s the imperialism.
The Soviet space program only got mostly privatized and destroyed. It’s not easy to run a space program when your entire industrial base just had the copper stripped out of the walls.
It’s actually a major accomplishment that they were able to contribute modules to the ISS in the 2000s.
If that was the relationship, the USSR’s constitution wouldn’t have permitted SSRs to leave with a simple referendum, nor would they have suffered so much after breakup of the USSR. Instead we see their housing and public infrastructure has been left to rot without the cooperation and relative effectiveness of the USSR’s economic system.
We know what imperialism looks like. When the UK built infrastructure in India and Africa, it consisted of railways from the mines to the ports. The literacy rate in India under Britain never got above 12%. The USSR built trains connecting even remote villages and subway systems in any city >1 million. Most of the former USSR countries still have some of the highest rates of educational attainment in the world.
Russia has the highest rate of college attainment in the world, free college is one of the few legacies of the USSR that didn’t get privatized and destroyed during liberalization.
Last time Russia was a formidable power, it was part of the USSR.
Modern Russia is a capitalist state. The interests of the capitalist class and the interests of the working class are opposed. The capitalists wouldn’t permit Putin to remain in power if he made Russia a better place for people, by supporting the people instead of his fellow billionaires.
You see, the shape of the asiatic brainpan predisposes the slav to authoritarianism. Russians just have an authoritarian culture. They’re taught to hate freedom and democracy from 2 years old.
Help them to understand what happened, why it happened, and what will happen. After 2016, I had to explain to my lib family members that no, black people didn’t cause Hillary to lose, the dems gave us trump by failing to even promise to improve people’s material conditions, and to my conservative acquaintances “no, trump is not draining the swamp, he is a billionaire, he IS the swamp.”
In 2020, it was “no, Biden isn’t going to stop covid, empty the migrant camps, or abolish the police, he’s going to continue 95% of Trump’s policies, we’ve seen this all before under Clinton and Obama.”
Yes, there’s a monochrome display in the middle. It’s kinda like a TI-86 calculator aimed at children.
Not really important, but a capitalist is someone who has a significant amount of capital.
Someone who supports the existence of capitalism is called a liberal.
Lemmy just can’t handle someone who’s anti-genocide
They can’t when that stance conflicts with their party. Hence why “The dems need to stop the genocide, people are not going to vote for genocide” gets you downvoted.
“fuck Biden for arming Israel” meme that has 1,500 upvotes
Those exist on .world? I see too many “You have to vote for genocide because trump would do genocide and also other bad things” type posts, it’d be weird if they coexisted.
can do some version, though, if you’re interested
Sure if it’s trivial I’d be interested, but don’t put too much work into it.
Maybe, but conservatism is considered much more acceptable among Americans than anything left of liberalism. Particularly now when the dems are trying to reach out to conservatives with policies such as closing the border, “tough on crime” rhetoric, unlimited support for Israel, etc. You can check by whether you’ve been banned from PleasentPolitics
legally” and “Illegal
Adding “this should be done according to the law” doesn’t divorce an action from its morality.
Rounding up millions of immigrants, some whom have been here for decades, and nearly all of whom are here because they’re fleeing the effects of the US constantly couping their governments and training/funding terrorists is an immoral action, whether they’re legal or illegal.
At one point I tried to illustrate with data just how big a jerk you have to be before it starts banning you. If you’re interested, I can start doing that again.
Would you?
My understanding is that downvotes reflect whether or not someone agrees with a post or comment much more than whether the user is making a constructive comment or not so they can only be used to infer how agreeable the comment is.
I’ve also offered to delve, for any user who feels that this has happened to them, into the breakdown of why they’re being ranked down, which almost always is because they’re being a jerk about their “dissenting” opinion, and not the opinion itself.
Use me as an example, I regularly get dozens of downvotes for such hot takes as “facilitating genocide hurts the dems chances of getting elected, we need them to stop that if we want them to win.”.
So it would delete people’s posts if they get downvoted a lot or if the poster tends to upvote heavily downvoted posts?
You’ve automated the suppression of dissenting voices.
Cooking. 5 people working together can cook for 100 people easier, cheaper, and less wastefully than 100 people can cook for themselves/their families.
Unfortunately the current restaurant system in the US is incredibly wasteful, expensive, and pays fuckall.
be critical of information coming in
The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis. Most propaganda doesn’t take the form of false information, but true facts spun in a certain way to build/reinforce a specific worldview in the viewer.
Tencent owns 11% of Reddit. Reddit is primarily a US propaganda operation.
Tiktok is wholly owned by a Chinese company, but unlike the rest of the world, the US version is hosted and managed entirely within the US, this (along with hiring a bunch of spooks and killing controversial things in the algo like BLM) was done in response to the Trump administration trying to come up with excuses to ban it.
I don’t see why China catching CIA agents would concern Americans. Most Americans are not CIA agents inside China.
Apparently they demodded 2 of the cops, and 2 of them are still there.
BadLegalAdvice ironically has good legal advice.
I wish I could link you the AI-translated hitler speeches, but they seem to have been removed from youtube.
Apparently a bunch of libs were going “Hey wait he was right” instead of “Holy shit I literally speak of immigrants and trans people the same way hitler spoke of jews”
The random meandering into completely unrelated topics is also fitting.