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Reminder we are living in the greatest change in history due to the internet and telecommunications. We can find the info of the greatest minds in a specific field and communicate with them. We can form communities with people in other countries.

@FabianBreitling @DelusionPosting I'm mostly talking about the fact the US has had the petrodollar, and can decide 10kg of coffee from Columbia costs $10 and Columbia can do jack shit about it. If they tried to raise the price to $100 and refused to trade in USD they get bombed. USSR had no such thing

@Runix25 @DelusionPosting Maybe your argument: that it's not as simple as communism bad/capitalism good, goes both ways?

@arkephi @FabianBreitling @DelusionPosting What does ownership/possession even mean? You can own everything and it doesn't have to be centrally planned. If it was, then by definition the US is a planned economy because the government owns all the land(having to pay property tax)

come on my guy, it's literally in the manifesto in all but name. there's no way these points lead to anything but a planned economy controlled by the state. "The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State" "Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes." "Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly." "Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State." "Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan." "Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries;" -- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Proletarians and Communists China is a different story and has a lot more in common with Germany than Russia this thread is about Soviet Communism though so I won't get into that

@arkephi @FabianBreitling @DelusionPosting and a planned economy was the biggest mistake of the ussr. china learned from it and hasn't had it since the 80s. communism isn't a planned economy. and socialism isn't communism or a planned economy either.

the USSR was the world's largest artificial fertilizer producer by the 1970s, they even became a major exporter of fertilizer although it was mostly poor quality. they also imported a lot of agricultural machinery and technology from the US especially during the 1930s while they were modernizing their agricultural production. Henry Ford personally played a major role in this and sent not only tens of thousands of tractors but also Ford engineers to help build the factories to produce them. even with massive investment in agriculture, collectivized Soviet production was only 25% as much as the US per farmer by the 1980s in 2016, 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian agricultural production recovered and surpassed the output of the Soviet Union in grain crops and became the world's largest exporter of wheat. the food shortages experienced during the Soviet era were almost entirely due to inefficiency and mismanagement of production and distribution through centralized planning and rampant corruption and fraud that thrived within their overly bureaucratic system where officials were more concerned with protecting their own positions than serving the needs of common people that's how incentives in a centrally planned economy work, you have to meet your quota to please the higher ups and when people fell short they resorted to misreporting, cutting quality or outright faking production to avoid getting dismissed from their positions. in a capitalist system, the producer is beholden to their customers directly. they can only earn more by producing more and if what they produce is low quality or overpriced then customers will choose another brand.

@FabianBreitling @DelusionPosting Your agricultural practices don't happen to use tonnes of hydrocarbon based fertilizers, pesticides, machinery and cheap materials? Or were Europeans growing food with stone tools 50 years ago? USSR made mistakes, but this isn't a communism vs capitalism issue.

@Runix25 @DelusionPosting Lol, you know European agriculture had an overproduction so big in the 70s and 80s that we basically destroyed African agriculture by accident for two centuries. But sure soviet agricultural production was bad because of the goodness of their hearts

@brian_eno_69 It's ok. Stalaggh is still better youtube.com/watch?v=o0Xx3R…

@MikeDForThree @DelusionPosting Canada got enough slaves from poor countries working for below minimum wage that the media refuses to cover. We will be fine.

@Runix25 @DelusionPosting Good news, Canadian, communist suffering will be coming to you very soon!

@RGW90 @DelusionPosting And every country that doesn't have nukes either gets bombed or millions are pumped into fomenting color revolutions by the US if they aren't willing to play by the "international rules based order"(currency manipulation by the IMF)

@Runix25 @DelusionPosting USSR didn’t enslave the world, just its neighbours, and threatened people with imprisonment and death if they wanted to leave

@pattypancakezz Gotta wear it like a bandana. They will never suspect a thing

are my classmates going to chant that they know i’m not a real head band wearer

@FrankGrimes_Jr Canada stopped giving out benefits and free money to them so the go back to Germany for free gibs.

A Ukranian family moved to the home beside my sister in the suburbs of Toronto when the war started. They have literally decided they would rather live in a war zone than live in Canada and have gone back to Ukraine.

@VladEkimtcov @kosa12m Imagine not having a basic front end that exposes all the options available and making them easily understandable in a fraction of the time reading docs. It's like trying to make music in a cli daw. You have to be a special type of autism to actually prefer that.

@Runix25 @kosa12m llms exist to remember all that on your behalf

oldheads really spent 3 hours clicking checkboxes and dropdowns just to get absolutely demolished by a grep/sed one liner in 0.067 seconds

@yacineMTB @pitdesi Software engineers should be paid 40k CAD max from my experience. People who google shit and don't know anything about computers making CRUD apps are the equivalent to cashiers.

@pitdesi the average software engineer in the US makes 1m $ a year. in Canada, 500k a year

The average physician in the US makes $458k. In Canada, $195k. In Sweden, $115k! These are PPP adjusted nber.org/system/files/w…

@Mericamemed We need to lift the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing just to do 1 more big 20-50MT explosion and have like 1000 different angles filming it in 16k. youtube.com/watch?v=T2I66d…

Not the hero we deserve, the hero we need.

It's my very last chance to get a whole cake by myself to break my fast SHOULD I DO IT??? I have to go to the bakery anyway idkjj

Lying to the public for personal gain should be a capital punishment offense

@AlyssaLogic Now do one ages 55-90

I find this graph pretty nihilistic tbh The effect isn’t that large and when you factor in that women who are selecting to get married are likely less neurotic and depressed to begin with, the benefit of getting married seems pretty minor and offset by the risk of divorce

@chubbyemu A gamer bought an RTX 6090. This is what happened to his brain

16x the emergency room

@STANISKRAPIVNIK "In the Baltic States, we'll be able to accept as colonists some Dutch, some Norwegians—and even, by individual arrangement, some Swedes." Latvia would not exist if those people are they remember were on the winning side.

Still think they don't need a lesson ? They glorify Hitler's executioners & accomplices. A march commemorating the SS Legion took place in Latvia & this event was protected by police special services. Today, those who massacred civilians are hailed as ‘national heroes' in the West.

@KevinSzabo14 Pain

Alright gym bros, I need to know. Why'd you start? • Heartbroken Or •Bullied?