There’s been a brain drain here for a while. Turns out those with the means to go to a place that treats workers better will do that.

Seems like a nice feature to be able to get a new government if the current government refuses to work together.

In the US, we just end up with years of political deadlock.

I feel like collapse is a really severe term for what happened? Like if someone said the government collapsed, I’d assume that means it’s disbanded completely, not that some alliances fell through.

Maybe someone with better knowledge of Europe could explain this?

He’s even starting to look like a strung out addict…

Anyone whose ever made dandelion wine knows that they WILL fuck you.

Damn he really didn’t do what they told him.

Which psychologists are those? A lot of the people I know that have only gone to apsychologist as an adult have been told, “wow did you know you’ve had ADHD you’re whole life,” and they’re like “omg no but that makes so much sense.”

Like I think it’s more common to be an adult who doesn’t know they have ADHD because they don’t go to a psychologist, rather than having been a kid who was told they’d grow out of it by a psychologist, yah know?

I guess my point is this meme creates unnecessary stigma around seeing a psychologist, and you should see one if you think you should.

He looks like he knows what’s in that embarrassing picture of SpongeBob at the Christmas party.

Citizens United is the most ideologically capitalist thing ever tho.

Can’t wait for the day history books day something like “…and in their fervour to defeat communism and Russia, they failed to notice Russia sneaking in their back door.”

Well they’re Nazis so that makes sense.

Legacy media has also never defeated fascism.

Ooo now do the same but with people in the government!!

Hey, just a few thoughts I wanted to share in response to this:

First, citing the CIA to praise Stalin is… an odd move. Second, it’s important to recognize that liberals and neoliberals aren’t the same thing. The terms get conflated a lot, but they refer to different ideological frameworks, especially in terms of economics and state intervention. Neoliberalism is basically a rebranding of laissez-faire capitalism whereas liberalism favors more of a welfare-state capitalist system.

Third, I’d encourage reading the full context of the document in question. Here are a few excerpts that stood out:

There will not be a dramatic purge.

This might seem like a neutral observation, but it’s actually referring to a change after Stalin’s death. The implication is that dramatic purges did happen under him, and they’re noting that the new leadership wouldn’t continue that pattern.

Inasmuch as the MVD has already been cleaned up.

Again, this is post-Stalin. The MVD (Interior Ministry, which ran the secret police) being “cleaned up” suggests reform following abuses that were, again, tied to Stalin’s regime.

There is now no organized opposition inside the Party in the Soviet Union.

This kind of political consolidation didn’t happen in a vacuum. It reflects the legacy of Stalin’s crackdowns on dissent and internal opposition.

Since the death of Stalin and the blow which was given to the power of the secret police…

That’s a pretty direct reference to Stalin’s reliance on the secret police to maintain control. Again, the document frames the aftermath of his death as a shift away from that.

No improvement in the food situation can be expected.

This points to long-standing issues in agricultural production and distribution under the USSR, including during Stalin’s time. Whether or not the shortages were intentional, they’re part of the broader legacy of how poorly the Soviet agricultural system was managed. They were pretty much just experimenting with ways to grow food while failing to produce enough for their own population. I’m all for agricultural research, but only after the people are fed.

In short, this isn’t a glowing report of Stalin’s achievements. It’s describing a system trying to recover from the kind of authoritarian control he enforced.

If you’re interested in more critical perspectives from the time, I really recommend My Disillusionment in Russia and My Further Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman. They were written in the early 1920s (just as Stalin was rising to power) and they offer a fascinating, firsthand account of someone who initially supported the revolution (Emma Goldman was an American anarchist exiled to Russia for her beliefs) but became deeply disillusioned with how it played out.

We really don’t need to dig up dead guys to give them accolades. We can think of a better system that the USSR or USA.

Could always be a leftist and experience splintering without victory.

Fluorine ain’t nothin to fuck with. Shit will set asbestos on fire. Shit will set water on fire. Shit will set anything on fire.

Lol eat shit loser. Should have thought of that before you got in bed with a fascist.

If you keep returning to this argument rather than uniting to fight fascism, aren’t you doing the same thing as people that didn’t vote/voted for a 3rd party?

You’re intentionally shifting the argument back to blaming leftists to justify your own morality rather than addressing the current situation, which is dealing with the immediate threat of full blown fascism.

Oooooo so we’re just going to act like millennials were mad for no reason all these years?

Were the oligarchs not a concern during occupy Wall Street? Or did everyone just fall for the propaganda?

Lol ass-dogs

On a serious note, does anyone else get some serious Dunning-Kruger vibes from this? Like serious scientists and experts in the field are very specificly saying that these are not dire wolves. The only people saying they are dire wolves are the owners of the private company that made them. A company with an invested economic interest in people believing them. I’m not an expert geneticist, but I hope you’ll excuse me if I believe the scienctists over the people saying, “you can tell it’s a direwolf by the way that it is!” so that they can make money.