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You mean the reply where I’m asking for some context?
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You being from the US makes a lot of sense considering how absolutely clueless you are to what really is going on in the countries you’re talking about.
I lived through the tail end of the USSR’s “communism”, my parents lived IN that.
The reality of it is: USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship. There was nothing communist about it. Saying it was communist is just being extremely naive and ignorant. I mean, they themselves were always talking about how they’re “on the road to reaching communism”, they themselves didn’t think of the USSR as communist.
But even if we assume it was “not yet communist, but socialist” - it’s still bullshit, because, again, it was a totalitarian dictatorship.
And China? How can you see all the billionaires and CEOs of privately held companies and say “yeah, that’s socialism where the workers own the means of production”?
My God, you seem to actually believe all this stuff… It’s incredible to me!
Are you from the US?
LOL, excellent jokes all around!
Yes, both the USSR and PRC are typical examples of socialism
Both USSR and PRC are prime examples of bog-standard totalitarian dictatorships. I have no clue where you’re getting the “socialism” bits from. The fact that they said they are? Do you also believe that North Korea is a Democracy, because it’s in their name?
Public ownership is the principle aspect of both the former USSR’s economy and the PRC’s economy
There’s no public ownership in either. In USSR it was “friends of friends” (the people who we now call the Oligarchs) and in PRC you have a “dictator-approved capitalism” with companies being privately owned.
I’ll admit that I don’t know enough about Cuba or Vietnam to discuss them.
You’re calling USSR or PRC “socialist”? WTF is this? A joke? I thought we’re having a serious conversation here.
Historically, socialist states
Such as?
proletarian controlled states can do the same
This is as much a utopia as capitalist “trickle down economy”. It cannot exist because proletariat, in the vast majority, is dumb as a sack of bricks.
Don’t Sanders, Mamdani, and AOC call for socialist reforms in the US?
31·10 months agoI get the joke and it is funny, but since we’re explaining stuff to someone who has no clue:
- The US military budget is barely something like 3% of the federal budget, so - if the budget was $800 - with “a bunch of guns” it would be $832. Hilariously, the healthcare budget is around 20%, which just shows how insanely fucked up the healthcare system is in the US.
- “The guns” are still not being paid during a shutdown. Republicans are now struggling to find some financing for the military, and just recently a “mystery donor” gave $130 mil so that soldiers could be paid. I guess they remembered that when you’re building a nazi state, you need military standing firmly behind you.
In my example, the indefinite “you” is an orange doofus who arrived in January.
That’s my point - you veered off into an off-topic tangent when the guy asked about the mechanics of a government shutdown.
best we can hope for is a giant meteor.
Couldn’t agree more!
I mean, it probably wouldn’t be worse…
This is a horrible explanation, tbh. Or rather - it’s good up to the second to last paragraph when the whole thing just derails into off-topic.
Also: the $600 a month comes from both parents.
Also-also: it happened in October, not in January.
So, the fixed paragraph would be something like:
Now imagine that one month your parents can’t agree to who gives you what portion of the $600, or if the amount should be changed. This means that you’re not getting any money at all.
That’s our federal government since October.
If they took on a historical and cultural demolition without having the correct authority (which they didn’t because we know none of that demolition has been approved by relevant agencies.
I didn’t know they didn’t have the necessary paperwork. Still…
Donny’s say so is NOT enough, although I can see that it’d be hard to decline the POTUS)
That’s the problem right there. Normally, POTUS wouldn’t make that request without appropriate paperwork being done. Normally, they could say “no” when paperwork was missing. But right now, the US is so much beyond “normal”, that I don’t blame them for taking on the job. Who knows what went down there? It’s all insanity all the way to the top, so might as well they’ve been strong-armed into doing this, threatened with ICE raids and what not.
I agree with the rest of what you wrote in principle, but look at it this way: if a soldier disobeys an illegal order, the soldier is being put on trial and that’s that. If the demo company’s owner refuses a job, and the insane POTUS goes after them, it’s not just the owner whose livelihood is on the line - their family now loses their source of income. The families of those employed there lose their source of income, etc., etc.
If this was any civilised country, where people get social security and healthcare, I would agree with you 100%. But since it’s the US, these people losing their jobs might mean even full on bankruptcy and homelessness.
I agree that they shouldn’t have done the demo if the paperwork was not in place, but I fully understand why they did it.
And I still think that - unless we see something like that directly from the CEO of that company - calling them “fascist” or “supporters of fascists” is some fundamentalist insanity on par with the Taliban.
I mean… I hate what Trump is doing as much as the next guy, but review-bombing the demo company for doing proper demo? That’s just stupid. It’s the equivalent of a child throwing itself down on the floor of the supermarket, yelling, and stomping feet - it achieves nothing, but makes life harder for everybody.
If they’re a good demo company and someone needs demolition done, they won’t find them, because they took a job… Stupid.
And in this sense it’s good that Google is killing the obvious review-bombs.
If they don’t stop immediately the people will go for the ultimate weapon - Strongly Worded Tweets!
Smoking is much more a “social interaction” than eating, though.
Sure, people smoke when stressed, but they don’t go on “a bagel break”. If you shame them out of the cig breaks every hour, you’ll have a positive overall effect on them.
That’s how I’m interpreting the data, at least.