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L boomer meme

Sounds like an ad

Jeez, I think i joined right when this was dying, or something similar

Why do you ragebait?

Leave me alone bro

Oh nice i see. Maybe i have to start learning German just to see whether what’s going on on your side is more to my flavour😅

Different platforms, same problems

Good for you

The what?

The average American has the weirdest, silliest of takes

Are you calling me American?

Maybe i do need to try that. I’ve only ever blocked specific users/belligerent communities. Any ideas on what filter out?

I think the biggest problem the fediverse has is a lack of diversity. This is the same problem platforms like Bluesky have. It’s chock full of Americans, so most of the content leans American. I’m not American and don’t really have too much of a problem with American content (it’s entertaining), so while I’ve gotten slightly used to Americentrism on the internet, at least on Reddit there were niches and local communities i could use to detox when it got too much. This is lacking here.

I’m not really sure what the solution is. Back when i first joined, the niche communities were burgeoning and quite active. Now it seems like they’ve mostly stagnated.

I care about politics, but not enough that it saturates my feed. I think these two can coexist👍

Case in point ☝️

I’ve been here almost 2 years…

Thanks for the thoughts. I’m well aware that there are a lot of good people making a genuine effort to build something and genuine props to them for that; really. I just feel like things have slowed down a lot since when i first joined, and I’ve grown tired of the “sameness”.

Stfu. USSR and China weren’t communist

Alright pal. This discussion is going in the usual discussion, which is nowhere. I don’t know why I came back to this platform

Back when we last discussed slurs, you had said that opposing their usage itself was idealist

That was not my argument. Revisit the thread

Although i haven’t read The tax in kind, I’ve read other literature about the NEP. I’ve also studied a fair bit on the history and politics of the USSR from the October revolution till Lenin’s death. I decided to postpone reading Capital until I finish university—even then, I’ll probably still delay further because it is very difficult.

Had famine been the goal, no aid would have been given at all, or perhaps token aid.

Ukraine was still a net exporter of grain despite the aid. They also had to meet quotas else they wouldn’t receive aid.

Additionally, if there WAS aid, why were there still peasants attempting to flee Ukraine? The CC directives ordered all departures from Ukraine to be prevented further corroborating the genocide point.

Even if we give the USSR all the benefit of the doubt, there were still calls within the party warning how dangerous forced collectivisation would be. War communism proved you couldn’t forcibly collectivise grain without major consequences. Bukharin, all too fervent in his warnings about the famine, was purged. He would later be proven correct. I’ll never understand die-hard Stalin defenders.