The hierarchies present in the USSR didn’t take the form of income inequality. You’re taking a metric that is very useful for analyzing capitalist countries and using it in a context where it doesn’t make much sense.
Anyway, the comparison with the west isn’t really relevant to the comparison I would make in that case, which would be between the initial revolutionary movement and where it ended up.
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Maybe I didn’t explain it very well. I wasn’t saying progress was impossible. But the individual organizations, nations, leaders, etc. often end up getting caught up in this trajectory. Once this happens, there will usually be a new movement to try to fight against the new dominant hegemony. Sometimes the old power wins, sometimes the new one does, but inevitably, whoever wins will keep regressing. But there can still be a big change as the old guard is replaced (or sometimes bullied into submission).
So, it’s probably not universally true, but it’s a pattern that I’ve started noticing again and again as I study history.
It’s not just tankies. Almost the entirety of human history can be boiled town to various more or less effective movements for liberation getting co-opted by selfish assholes and becoming the thing they swore to destroy.
So when is Pete Hegseth getting sent to CECOT?
Yeah this is brainless pro-Soviet propaganda. All too common here, sadly.
Mass murder committed brazenly in the public eye.
Fuck if I know. Thankfully he’s super old though so he can’t last forever.
Thank you. I think there is some slight nuance here but these numbers certainly refute the narrative that the locals wanted to join Russia. Assuming the poll was conducted fairly. I’m not familiar with the agency behind it.
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Source?
It doesn’t say it’s voluntary, it says there were voluntary pilot programs within the larger initiative, which, as far as I can tell, is not voluntary.
Also, there can be harsh penalties including being put on blacklists that prevent you from traveling or your children from receiving education.
Was this down to a single vote or something?
Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?
I would assume insects would be evolutionarily similar to other types or prey.
Although I’m not sure most bats have forward facing eyes anyway.
But will what replaces it be any better?
Doubtful.
Seems like something other states should get in on. Now that the program is established seems like it would not be as hard to pay into it and get a share of the product.
Don’t worry, they’ll soon find someone even worse to replace her with.
They’re afraid. Trump has more or less blacklisted every dissident from the party and its allies. It’s a career ending move and he’s even threatening some people with criminal charges.
I mean obviously they should do it anyway because it’s the right thing to do. But they didn’t get to where they are by pursuing public good over their own personal well-being.
What happened to the other two quadrants?