Idk if it’s just me, but it’s insane to bring up Uhygur genocide, which has not been in the news or mentioned at all for years, while we watch US funded Israel blowing up starving children on a daily basis.

That’s exactly what a glorified auto complete would want you the think.

Statistically speaking, wouldn’t any action that reduces the number of cars on the road be good for public safety?

They’ve been reclaiming land from the sea for centuries. That’s what all the dykes and windmills are for.

I can’t even begin to imagine what an American tech company was doing 1 hr away from Gaza.

The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It’s really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.

I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you’d consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.

So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It’d be impressive if it weren’t so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.

Oh dude the CIA has their fingers in soooooooooo much shit in the era between WWII and… now? It’s all published on their web site.

Shhhh they still don’t know radio free Asia is a CIA project.

We cannot choose the period of history we reside in, but we can rise to meet the occasion.

Exactly. This should be framed as a failed coup that will result in social reform/revolution. These clowns are poorly organized, on drugs most of the time, and have no clues how the social organism works.

It’s pretty shitty that they’ll cause a lot of unnecessary pain tho.

Seems like a nice feature to be able to get a new government if the current government refuses to work together.

In the US, we just end up with years of political deadlock.

I feel like collapse is a really severe term for what happened? Like if someone said the government collapsed, I’d assume that means it’s disbanded completely, not that some alliances fell through.

Maybe someone with better knowledge of Europe could explain this?

Can’t wait for the day history books day something like “…and in their fervour to defeat communism and Russia, they failed to notice Russia sneaking in their back door.”

Hey, just a few thoughts I wanted to share in response to this:

First, citing the CIA to praise Stalin is… an odd move. Second, it’s important to recognize that liberals and neoliberals aren’t the same thing. The terms get conflated a lot, but they refer to different ideological frameworks, especially in terms of economics and state intervention. Neoliberalism is basically a rebranding of laissez-faire capitalism whereas liberalism favors more of a welfare-state capitalist system.

Third, I’d encourage reading the full context of the document in question. Here are a few excerpts that stood out:

There will not be a dramatic purge.

This might seem like a neutral observation, but it’s actually referring to a change after Stalin’s death. The implication is that dramatic purges did happen under him, and they’re noting that the new leadership wouldn’t continue that pattern.

Inasmuch as the MVD has already been cleaned up.

Again, this is post-Stalin. The MVD (Interior Ministry, which ran the secret police) being “cleaned up” suggests reform following abuses that were, again, tied to Stalin’s regime.

There is now no organized opposition inside the Party in the Soviet Union.

This kind of political consolidation didn’t happen in a vacuum. It reflects the legacy of Stalin’s crackdowns on dissent and internal opposition.

Since the death of Stalin and the blow which was given to the power of the secret police…

That’s a pretty direct reference to Stalin’s reliance on the secret police to maintain control. Again, the document frames the aftermath of his death as a shift away from that.

No improvement in the food situation can be expected.

This points to long-standing issues in agricultural production and distribution under the USSR, including during Stalin’s time. Whether or not the shortages were intentional, they’re part of the broader legacy of how poorly the Soviet agricultural system was managed. They were pretty much just experimenting with ways to grow food while failing to produce enough for their own population. I’m all for agricultural research, but only after the people are fed.

In short, this isn’t a glowing report of Stalin’s achievements. It’s describing a system trying to recover from the kind of authoritarian control he enforced.

If you’re interested in more critical perspectives from the time, I really recommend My Disillusionment in Russia and My Further Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman. They were written in the early 1920s (just as Stalin was rising to power) and they offer a fascinating, firsthand account of someone who initially supported the revolution (Emma Goldman was an American anarchist exiled to Russia for her beliefs) but became deeply disillusioned with how it played out.

We really don’t need to dig up dead guys to give them accolades. We can think of a better system that the USSR or USA.

You gotta drink water from the far side of the glass.

You mean the National Guard? They’re just another branch of of the military now.

If you mean the white nationalist militias, they’re pretty content with what going on. I think they’re getting ready to bring lynching back.

If you are talking about leftwing militias, I got some bad news…

Tolerance is a social contract. OP broke that contract by writing a ridiculously calous, mean spirited comment, and is no longer entitled to tolerance.

Tolerance the way you’re describing is how Nazi’s gain a platform. We don’t have to be tolerant of intolerant people. Just think about all the ways that could break society.

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50? Oh this’ll hit in your late 20s or early 30s

If nothing else, one silver lining is he is SIGNIFICANTLY reducing the influence America and the West has on the world.