MrPiss

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[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not a book nerd but Hakim on youtube has many videos on the fall of the European communist states along with book recommendations.

Also, I'm partially confused by the question since you mention Warsaw Pact countries and then want a focus on the western USSR. Regardless one of the most visible things in statistics is that on basically any graph of population you can see once capitalist infection starts those countries immediately had a population decline because people left the economic chaos of shock therapy, people stopped having kids, and others just fucking died. Ukraine is the worst in that regard where it turns on a dime from strong population growth to strong decline.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Just had a limited conversation like that with my mom. She's something like a generic Democrat at this point but she hates Trump and realizes that our extended family members are racist assholes and didn't push back when I showed my hatred for this shithole country. Tomorrow I think I might break the be normal rule with one of my cousins and say our politicians should be taken out back and shot like old yeller.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

Very thankful I saw a chapo.chat link on a different subreddit within a week of the ban and got to lurk here for a few years. I definitely would not have found this place since I'm always online but in a different way than a lot of you guys.

Anyway, happy anniversary.

congratulations

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago

Exporting garbage to other countries is such a weird and sickening thing. It's also adds more waste and pollution to this consumerist society because we can't throw away our own trash and need to ship it half way around the world for it to be someone else's problem.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We all know that the US constitution is essentially toilet paper and what matters is state power but I'm shocked that they'd do this. Birthright citizenship is a big deal and a foundational right for this shithole country. It's one of the few good things that helps sell the American dream and they're trying to throw it out. The Supreme Court can really just ignore things written in plain English if they want. Like they shouldn't even have to hear a case to rule it unconstitutional and instead they're allowing it to partially go ahead in this weird bureaucratic way.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Will you create a separate containment thread for those who want to deep-nesting about Zohran if things get bad enough? A posting thunderdome for electoralism debates.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you scroll down you'll see the colors buildup in the replies as people respond to each other. Basically that is an indication of a struggle session as the lines on the left hand side build up showing how deep the conversation has gotten. Right now my response should be on the green layer so we aren't deep-nesting yet.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

in 1992 in the first democratic election 42 percent of the population just couldnt vote.

Democracy manifest. If you followed along with the democracy index made by the freedom burger institute you'd know that Estonia (somehow) has a better democracy than both France and the Great Satan.

Democracy index (bullshit):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

This'll probably result in more programs like the f35. Internationally too big to fail and requiring years to fix things that should have been managed properly from the beginning.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

The union state is basically an attempt to bring together former soviet republics after the ussr collapsed as some kind of political continuation. It would be weird for Iran to join. Iran joining the CSTO would make more sense but that has been losing members because of American imperialism and Russia's foreign policy in reaction to that.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

Given the mood of the Iranian people, even if the government wanted a ceasefire I don't think they can. The time for talk is long past. Israel finally bit off something they can't chew up.

Public opinion was probably the major reason the IRGC wasn't able to properly respond to Israeli aggression until now. The Iranian people now properly understand the position of the hardliners and IRGC. The zionists chose war and it's what they are going to get.

I don't know how long this war will last but my guess is this has at least another month. This reasonably gives Iran enough time to punish Israel and deplete weapon stocks.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly not a bad idea, and they can also let him organize or host the award shows too. He would love deciding all the decorations, pageantry, and the possibilities for celebrity gossip.

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