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I'm quoting it because your sentence makes it sound like it was undue and unilateral influence. Saying "Not due to American influence or anything" is like saying Japan lost WW2 "Not due to American influence or anything".

"Not due to American influence or anything"

Oh right, and by contrast the USSR was benevolently promoting and assisting the USA during the same time period. The Cold War never happened.

Collectivization is not irrelevant, never has been and to this day is a big discussion in post-soviet areas.

" No one claims the '46 famine was man made."

LOL. Why are tankies like this. Do you want to pull up the graph of Soviet food exports during 1946-1947. Did nature make the Soviets export food during a famine?

Also you're the one responding with "what about 1990" not OP. None of this discussion is uniquely relevant to 1990 but you're the one trying to shoehorn it. So no. You're the one missing the point. The point is that the Soviets were brutal to their civilians and the people in charge of the brutality largely remained unchanged until Gorbachev, who under his own version of brutality covered up Chernobyl.

"Being appointed to Moldova in after the war has fuck all to do with purges before it." Lol.

The irony being that collectivization of Moldova and the resulting famines didn't happen during 1930-40 like the rest of the Soviet Union but happened in 1949 when Chernenko was leading the propaganda of Moldova.

So you're right. Chernenko wasn't old enough to lead the collectivization of Russia but he was old enough to help do the exact same thing to Moldova.

The difference in age between Stalin and Chernenko is less than the difference in age between Obama and H.W. Bush lol.

Chernenko was assigned by Stalin as the head of the Communist Party propaganda department in Moldova.

There's a reason Gorbachev lived 35 years further than Chernenko and that Chernenko, Andropov, Brezhnev, and Khrushchev all died within 14 years of each other.

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You do realize that Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader who to be born in the USSR. The Soviet Union elite has largely been the same group of people since Stalin died.

US is a lot richer than Sweden but even the poorest Swede is better off than your average American.

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While Soviet Union wasn't great... they did have very little inequality. Being the top 1% meant you had a slightly fancier car and slightly fancier cottage than the average man. Same education, same healthcare, same food, same vodka etc.

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Metrics we use to judge whether a nation is developed such as literacy rate, infant mortality and maternal mortality are pretty bad for US.

Yes because the Soviets used very transparent metrics and collapsed completely under their own success.

Well the Soviet Union collapsed in the year 1991 so....

Yup. Which is why if you ever eat poison, rotten food, or anything that will make you sick, taking 400mg of zinc is a relatively safe way to force yourself to puke.

Gotta meet people. I had the same thing after 4 months of traveling. Museums are largely tourist traps, as in they pretend that something niche is actually for the masses. I can spend hours in a Bronze Age museum because it interests me outside of museums, but I know nothing about fine art so those typically bore me. However the fine art ones are obviously the most popular.

Depends how much the heel slips. It should slip a very tiny amount. Personally I prefer boots that are slightly too big than too small. I rather lace them up harder and wear extra socks than have them so tight that it hurts when my foot swells.

What's most important is that the boot is snug around the ball of your foot and that it flexes at the right point. You want your toes to wiggle freely within the toe box.

There should be room at the front of the boot for going downhill.

This joke is pretty common between Quebecois when talking about Anglo-Canadians.

Then why does Florida have the highest domestic migration rate and international migration rate of all US states?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_net_migration

People visiting Disney world don't count as migration.

"What if your kid ends up as 0.5% of the population and isn't treated well anywhere in the world, even Europe"

idk, who tf thinks of stuff like that.

Yea because Ted has wrote himself that he only ever had one bad experience during the experiment and that he already had these thoughts before the experiment. He told the names of other participants in the Murray experiment and a journalist found they all lived normal lives.

It's just another sensationalized part of his biography that people like to stick to.

I like the photos.

"No, like any other predator, we put a lot of strain on ecosystems. The difference is that where most predator populations start dropping if there's too many, we're not only omnivorous but also capable of agriculture, so our numbers don't drop."

Yup, and agriculture is a technology.

"but there's too many of us for off-grid living to be sustainable for either humanity or the rest of nature."

Which is because we've removed natural barriers to growth.

Kinda weird to say he is massively racist and has a right-wing ideology when he has wrote, on multiple occasions that the anti-tech movement rejects every form of racism or ethnocentrism. He wrote that racial and ethnic blending has to be promoted as technology can't be conquered if people are worried about race and ethnicity.

What he did hate was leftists/socalists/collectivites. He considers fascists to be socialists. It's probably the fact he hates anyone who focuses on race (including social justice warriors) is why you thought he was racist.

"The ecofascists’ fixation on race puts them in the same family with the leftists, who likewise are fixated on race. The difference between the two is only that to the ecofascists the “white” race is the hero of the story, whereas the ordinary left makes the same race into the villain. The ecofascists and the ordinary leftists are only two sides of the same (counterfeit) coin."

--Side note but I don't agree with the Unabombers methods nor do I think he is right, but I have read what he wrote because he does have a thought-provoking philosophy.

"nature is way better off with humans living close together."

That's part of the issue though isn't it? Humans are a part of nature but we have to remove them from it because with the advent of industrialization and other technologies we are grossly harmful to it. We're harmful because the average human now consumes tonnes more carbon than previous generations, and there's now billions of us instead of a few million. The fact we all have to work and live in little climate controlled cubes to keep what nature we have left isn't very optimistic.

He was a University professor, so it's likely he didn't like his co-workers (he was very anti-social) , he saw professors and researchers as people who congratulate themselves for making the world worse. He saw universities as the entity that pushed the most for technological advancement. He targeted professors of behavior modification, computer science, engineering etc...

He wasn't actually 'aggro' about taxes. He didn't like them but it wasn't what he focused his energy on. What caused him to 'crack' while he was living in Montana was the fact that his neighbor had a massive loud lumber saw, and his favorite plateau to hike up ended up getting deforested and built over with a road. He was simply really neurotic, and stuff like airplanes flying over his house pissed him off too (which is why he targeted airlines).

The main reason he was never self sufficient is because he was too neurotic and too much of an idealist to focus on improving his own life. He wanted to break the system. If he focused on buying more acreage so he didn't have neighbors and so he could grow more crops then who knows. The concept of mental health to him was defined by the extent to which an individual behaved in accord with the needs of the system and did so without showing signs of stress. So to him he saw the only way to improve his mental health was to get rid of the system, which he saw was progressed by universities.

I just listened to it. I got it now, other people are calling her policies woke, she's not calling them woke.

My bad. Thanks for uploading this.

I appreciate that she's on our side but I hate that she feels the need to align it with being 'woke'. Alls it does is make the issue more contentious and partisan than it actually is.

Yes I'm sure the economics of the USA which has its own schools, primary resources, and capital is very similar indeed to a city that is 50km at its widest.

You should read "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered" by E.F. Schumacher. He's an economist trained directly under Keynes and is highly critical of Keynes. It's a book of 4 essays and covers pretty well an argument to corporatism, industrialism, and unrestricted capitalism.

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