Not a lot of info there from what I scrolled though - just a lot of unsourced incredulity at the 14 million people in gulags figure. I assumed I’d get that from you, honestly.
I’m yet to see them do it, but feel free to change that.
That’s correct debate pervert to you.
You compared the USSR to Tsarist Russia rather than the US - why? You can’t have run out of pixels… You only used about 12.
Center-right, and you failed to address the relevant, significant difference I pointed to.
Apologies - I forgot I was in tankieland, where American diabolism takes precedence over even worker enfranchisement.
Back to the point, I’ve given a pretty straightforward, relevant difference you’ve failed to address.
We’re incapable of mounting a defence of our objectively moronic positions, so we’ll just smugly insist you’ll understand when you grow up.
Brought to you by the entitled removed that robbed the global economy and destroyed the environment, dooming the entire species.
With inflating house prices contributing to GDP figures, how much interest do you think the government will have in tanking the market to take from the haves and give it to the have nots?
As with any essential good/service (looking at you, US healthcare) commodiying housing was a catastrophic mistake. The essential nature of it inevitably creates market failure - the consequences of which are plain to see in that graph.
It’s a useful (though non-essential) service that leans toward a natural monopoly. Nationalisation or heavy regulation are the solutions to this.
Under regulation, profits flow to shareholders. Under nationalisation, they flow to treasury. Practicality of nationalisation in the current climate aside, I know which I’d prefer.
I personally think it’s more about manufacturing an ‘other’ to blame everything on and unite people in hate.
There’s little benefit to targeting women for oppression in the modern economy - they’re just more undifferentiated labour to be exploited (though it remains possible to pay them less). I think this was meaningfully different when living off a single income was a realistic proposition.
Pick one.
Sadly, it fell apart over time for me - revanced picked right up where they left off though.
No books, no data, no point?
Your average tankie tends to go on a long, ahistorical rant, but you’re seemingly incapable of even that. You’re even worse than the average tankie.
What an embarrassment.
I’m happy to take you at your word on that, but don’t think angered parts of Africa and Syria are going to pose a meaningful threat to Putin.
On energy policy alone, the Republican policy remains based on fossil fuels while the Democrat policy is focused on a transition to renewables.
This enlightened centrism shtick is dopey. You get to be all smug without giving so much as a few seconds thought to understand that while 2 things can be bad, one can be far worse, and we should do what we can to avoid that.
I bet it’s nice there in fantasy land - you seem real insistent on staying at the cost your integrity.
Nice of you to inaccurately reappropriate the term for soviet labour camp to a US prison. The rate of death in the gulags was 32-36x higher than the rate in US prison.
The US prison system is a fucking disgrace that urgently needs to be fixed, but comparing it to the gulags is disgustingly dishonest tankie apologia.
What a spectacularly stupid, ironic take. Where are you getting your history from, champ?
Some numbers (fuck me, it’s insane I need to provide these). Between 1930 and 1953, roughly 14 million people were sent to the gulags - 1. 5 million - 1.7 million of those people died in the gulag or shortly thereafter - 10.7% - 12.1%
The rate of death in US prison? 0.33% - that’s 32-36 times worse. You assume the US stats are an order of magnitude off because tankie magic science, and you’re still spectacularly wrong.
Fuck you and your dumb authoritarian apologia.
Nice job telling me incorrectly what I believe.
I believe we need to take the less bad choice to buy time to advocate and transition to a good one. I’m not so naiive as to think that the Democrats’ current path will suddenly make a dramatic pivot and fix the problem - we need to push them to do far, far better.
As has already been said, it’s likely just an update issue - depending on your root status and whatnot, auto-updates unfortunately aren’t much of a thing these days as far as I can tell.
Still, I rarely need to update, and only do so when something breaks (like when YouTube started killing playback when it detects adblocking recently).