OK, I’ll bite one last time:
For starters, you don’t even know what my position is, as evident my you attacking US history, as if I have any interest in defending it.
Secondly, if the USSR population weren’t de facto serfs, why was travel so restricted? Why was the wall built? Why are there so few accounts of people fleeing to the soviet union? Are you really claiming that some dairy farmer in Turkmenistan could decide one day that he instead would like to serve borscht in Moscow for a living, and then just get up and do so?

Sound advice outside of 3dprinting too

I think OP pointed out Stalin because there’s a disturbing amount of Stalinism coming from there. I think you’d have to search very long to find someone on Lemmy as a whole who actually disagrees broadly with the philosophy of Marx. However, when it comes to turning this philosophy into an actual political system, that’s when things get a lot more iffy.

Most of those are fair points in a vacuum, but they all collapse when looking at the rest of the world: These weren’t Stalins improvements. Said improvements happened in many (most?) other countries too, as the industrialization of early 1900s improved life for basically everyone. The only real difference is the repression involved.

Anyway, we’re not going to change each other’s mind, so I see no point in continuing this conversation. Live long and prosper, provided that the state apparatus approves of you doing so.

Why is it only western imperialism that is bad, though? I hate to indulge in whataboutism, but it’s frankly naive and highly revisionist to believe that imperialism is all of the west and only in the west.

So, since you claim to study history, how well do those quotes align with his actual actions? Or are you simply glossing over how the USSR leadership lived in luxury while the population were little more than mere serfs?

As for starvation, I’m sure you have an interesting take on the Holodomor and how the definition of “Kulak” meant basically anyone with a potato patch, and how the quotas that caused a genocide were totally reasonable.

Extracting big words from famous speeches is easy. Squaring propaganda with actual events and behaviors not so much.

Yes, Stalin, famous believer in justice and human dignity.

EDIT: You do understand that it’s possible to be a believer in those principles without becoming a revisionist who starts brown nosing autocrats?

Way back when I had fixed working hours, it was usually 0800 to 1600

Tankies gonna tank. And those two instances constitute two thirds of the tankie triad.

“US bad, so every enemy of US must be good”

Basically it’s a lot of that, plus a bunch of authoritarian and contrarian bootlickers who think they’re leftists.

Yes. Especially if they’re dating with age gaps; That often leads to them ending up on death row.

The brick coloring looks more vivid than I’m used to, that might be why my uncanny valley of construction is triggered.

Also, the smoke results in something that might seem like details are blurred, the latter of which is a common aigen artifact.

I’m not picky, really. I just stumbled across the Denizen line after a work trip took a lot longer than planned, and I was in dire need of clean clothes.

Loose fitting, somewhat stretchy, and very light weight fabric.

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You wanna take this outside?

your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries

For a moment was wondering how the hell you’re pulling off somethingthat big… I thought I was reading from the 3dprinting community.

I don’t follow football, so I’ll have to go by who I remember hearing about the most:
John Carew
Erling Håland
Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Jeans: Anywhere, really. When it’s time to get a new pair, I go to the nearest store that sells them. The only exception is whenever I’m in the US, I get some from Target, as I find the Denizen line really comfy and I haven’t found them in Europe.

T-shirts: Usually gifted to me. Plus I accumulate t-shirts from work that I often wear privately.

Socks: My local grocery store. They carry the Caterpillar brand which I really like.

Underwear: wherever.

Anything else: I rarely wear anything else

Not so sure about that. I think Europe was already on the road to war, and he was just an excuse.

At the time, war was still seen as something romantic that could be ended relatively easily with few consequences for the ones in charge. Nobody making the decisions anticipated the industrial scale slaughter that modern tech enabled.

My dad. Fuck cancer.