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It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.

In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.

They tried (and failed) before the war too. Telegram has no privacy, poor security, but they are really good at evading blocks.

Ok, so this makes the most sense to me. This would indeed need to be handled, I think the best solution is for EU to come up with a set of dispute resolution procedures and pass it as a law for everyone to follow. That way, disputes would be resolved the same way regardless of what network or bank you are using, which sounds the most reasonable to me.

Marxism is the objective truth. It's not some random cult, it's a well-established and studied economic theory that predicted many developments of capitalism when it was still in its early stages.

USSR had a lot of issues, but was a lot better (for the working class) than what was before and what came after. The reason for red scare was to prevent the western working class from overthrowing the oligarchy.

Right now, China is surpassing western neoliberal nations by carefully mixing socialist and capitalist modes of production, guided by Marxism-Leninism with further theoretical developments.

You gotta go out and read some books dude.

Aha, interesting. I never had a credit card because it would be too stressful for me to take out micro-loans for stuff. Still weird that it's visa/MC money and not your bank's though.

Zurab Mikeladze is a Georgian name/surname, not Russian. Given both are fairly popular names in Georgia, I'm assuming there are way more than one person with such a name combo.

Here are some more people with the same name:

• https://enmedic.com/ka/doctors/91d92037-574e-4371-8c4a-5ad86c80eca5
• http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00013666/

If anything, I suspect that "Leonic Leonov" is a typo or misreading of "Leonid Leonov", a common Russian name/surname, but there would also be hundreds/thousands of people with that exact name.

What the fuck, how is this the first time I'm hearing about this... I was thinking of deleting my account (with no phone or ID tied to it), I guess I'm keeping it for now.

Does Visa/Mastercard actually offer any protection themselves? When I've had to reverse debit card transactions due to fraud or otherwise, I always just called/reached out to my bank and they did it. I never communicated with Visa/MC. Since this system is pretty much SEPA in a trench coat, I'm pretty sure the same would work here.

in the aftermath of the US the question was how could this happen?

In the US the pattern is blindingly obvious and has been repeating for more than 50 years. One party makes life worse for the working class while making the rich richer, people get angry and vote for the other party, which then does the same thing but under different guises and with different policies. The exact policies in question (neoliberalism vs. neoconservatism) were not that relevant to these mechanics, except everything kept naturally shifting to the right (which is the ideology most convenient for the billionaires).

Now neocons are straight up fascists, and it's not clear there will be another election.

Shifting your ideology to the right to appease nazis literally never works, it is a death spiral for any political structure, leading either to irrelevance or nazism.

Ignoring the voices in the community comes at a peril.

So, what you're saying is literally "let's listen to nazis and compromise with them"?

Setting the moral repercussions aside, this never works out well politically. Nazis will not stop from voting for the nazi party just because you implemented a couple of their policies, and the rest will be disenfranchised because there's less incentive to vote when all parties are doing pretty much the same stuff.

Far right is not gaining votes due to immigration! This is just a scapegoat that they themselves designated to keep people's attention away from the worsening living conditions and deteriorating safety nets, and capitalize on anger stemming from that.

The only way to resolve this for good is to improve the lives of working class people through economic policies which benefit them. But that would require stepping on the toes of the oligarchy, so it's not going to happen without workers organizing and fighting for their rights.