The Soviet Union was, if not a traditional dictatorship, absolutely a totalitarian autocracy. Stalin was a brutal dictator and his successors were chosen by the communist party. Elections in the USSR were for show.

Life was miserable almost from the start of the Bolshevik revolution for most people. The USSR’s implementation of communism was so bad, it’s become cliche.

The people complaining about the way Obama spoke were using dog whistles. That’s the point you seem to have missed.

Congrats on conclusively demonstrating you don’t understand how economies or governments work.

Our side lost because a plurality of people are too fucking stupid to know when someone is lying to their faces.

Congrats on getting exactly what you deserve.

That take is rank fucking idiocy

Life is not Factorio, brah. You can’t just plop a factory down and start production. It will take a decade and cost billions. At which point a new administration will be here and will repeal the tariffs.

Bye, Felicia

You could not have missed the point harder

It’s not blaming leftists. It’s blaming people too fucking stupid to vote.

It’s gratifying to know you don’t mind recognition for being literally too stupid to vote.

Trump can declare whatever he wants. No one is going to listen to him.

No one is buying the bullshit you have for sale.

That’s the naivete of the Internet talking. Of course landlords create value; they do so in exactly the same way lenders create value: they absorb risk by amortizing upfront costs and charge a premium to do so.

If you didn’t agree that it’s an ethical way to participate in the economy, say that. Don’t try to pass off a moral judgment as an objective truth.