Straight_Depth

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Gorbachev is dead. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As much as I want to hate the guy, I reserve most of my loathing for Yeltsin. Gorbachev was just a fucking moron who wanted to have it both ways.

Holy shit Roger Waters stanning China on national TV in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Foreigners aren't human so it's ok to napalm them

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How to gain a few hundred bucks via casual labor, etc? (hexbear.net)
 

So, after counting up my dwinding bank account due to a series of unexpected expenditures, I have barely enough to get by on rent and utilities and so on. I also need to shore up just a few hundo (maybe $200 and change) in the next 30 days or less. Just for food and general existence. Work will probably not grant me enough overtime to get that and I can't really put it off until next month's payday anyhow, so I'm thinking about the dreaded Second Job option. I have the pathfinding skills of an army officer so delivery gig work is out. Beyond looking for more fixed labor such as part-time work at shops on weekends/evenings I'm kind of out of ideas (and I'd be in much the same boat as simply working overtime at my current job and with less hassle).

Any ideas appreciated

Dirt_Owls official 2024 US election predictions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Despite being dead

I've got some bad news regarding Gorbachev

Reddit Chud demolished after claiming "Americans singlehandedly brough freedom, democracy, peace and prosperity to Germany" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

"The German brainpan is simply incapable of understanding any form of democracy"

What the Fuck is a Trotskyist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Up until the fall of the USSR it was Trotsky = GOOD communism (not like the BAD communism of the USSR) particularly in European nations building up a veneer of political and ideological distancing from the USSR. It was characterized by constant critique of the USSR, China, and basically any AES nation as "not being REAL socialism/communism/whateverism" and sustaining a nominal love of human rights and anti-authoritarianism (free Tibet, free Afghanistan, free Czechoslovakia, free Hungary, etc). In practice it turned a sort of blind eye to all but the most overt forms of military imperialism from the NATO powers, which is why to this day you'll still have Western socialist leaders like Corbyn take the occasional pro-western stance in the name of human rights. But as Fakename_Bill said these distinctions are now irrelevant in the fall of the COMINTERN, the USSR, and the 4th International. Communism today is mostly led by China, Cuba and Vietnam, all whom have detoured significantly from the dogmatic lines drawn by the USSR back in the day. Any newly resurged movement will either borrow from these AES nations, of will have to forge a new path by necessity. It's not 20th century Russia anymore. Perhaps one day there may be a Fifth International to establish how we should build socialism in the future, and we can (and should) invite the ancoms, syndies, communalists, and so on, but we'll need to build it first.