I wish my country's government had the testacles to cap prices on food. I order food mostly online and I compared prices from 2 years ago and most things are at least 200% more expensive, cheese for example is like 600% though.
FluffyPotato
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Yea, no, elections were a joke in the soviet union. Pretty much everyone knew your vote counted for nothing and they started offering people food so they would show up to vote to give it some legitimacy. Unlike current Russia the soviet propaganda was mostly a laughing stock at the time.
Also the party members were basically picked by nepotism alone. Sure, you could have internal elections but the winner was always the one with most friends in the party. That's kinda like saying north Korea is democratic because there are some internal elections while in practise it's pretty much a monarchy.
Ancaps pretty much only exist in the US so elsewhere libertarian still means the original definition.
I'm not even talking about the famines soviet incompetence caused and deliberately worsened. Their death camps killed 1-8 million people, nobody knows exactly how many because, unlike the nazies, soviet records were absolute garbage and all accounts come from guards and prisoners. They also tried to destroy the culture and language of the occupied areas and replace the local population with Russians.
Not a meme considering exactly that happened, they agreed to divide Europe between themselves and not attack each other. Stalin absolutely wanted an alliance with Hitler and nothing indicates he was interested in fighting Hitler until he invaded. He got rid of Jewish diplomats to make Hitler happy. When Hitler invaded he refused to act since he did not want to believe that his ally betrayed him. I don't doubt Hitler intended to break their alliance. Also are you saying if no one else wants to ally with you then allying with nazies is a good idea?
The US is in a position were they have to choose between eating a turd or shooting themselves I the head every presidential election, this isn't new.
Also I heard the democrat party aren't even doing elections within the party. Like that sounded illegal to me until I found out your parties are also corporations which sounded very American. But even with that you don't have a good choice cuz the alternative is death, so gobble the turd.
Instead the soviet union genocide it's neighbours while allying with the nazies so that was not an improvement.
Also yea, the US is like the #1 killer of socialist governments, that's not really news. And I don't doubt that if it was between anarchists and authoritarians, the authoritarians would shoot the anarchist without hesitation to rule over the working class with an iron fist like it has happened every time so the choice is meaningless, actual socialists die in either case.
Considering the first thing Lenin did when getting to power was kill actual socialists that wanted democracy, I'll never side with MLs(or more like stalinists since that ideology has little to do with Marx or Lenin). And my family got to experience the soviet regime first hand, loosing many friends and family to their death camp thinly veiled as work camps. MLs are as useful as nazies when it comes to finding solutions to humanity's problems.
Authoritarians that like soviet iconography ain't going to fix that or even help.
Upgraded my PC and took 2 weeks off for BG3. I'm ready
Currently watching Dollhouse which I'm not sure if qualifies as scifi. Planning on watching Altered Carbon after this though.
I have always loved Stergate. I grew up watching this and I rewatch the whole thing every few years and I have been itching to rewatch it soon. Also just recently finished The Expanse. It was hands down the best scifi show in recent history, my favourite will always be Firefly though.
Most food here is locally produced, I don't see how that would create a shortage. Like people aren't going to sell their grocery stores cuz their margins are thin again and farming is so heavily subsidised that I don't see it effecting farmers.