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by mantas 1y ago
Seems to line up well with self-hate tendencies in many parts of West.
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by mantas 1y ago
What negotiations when Russians were asking for surrender and no other options were on the table?
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by mantas 1y ago
He said Ukraine should surrender. To Russia which wants to exterminate Ukraine as a nation, culture and language. Feel free to google for more details. There were multiple occurrences when he doubled-down on his words after backlash.
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by mantas 1y ago
JPII was also elected in a very different world. And he played a big moral role in taking down iron curtain and getting Eastern Europe back Europe. Meanwhile Francis was quite the opposite. Especially as seen in the light of Russian aggress
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by mantas 1y ago
I didn’t hear from him any call-to-arms to defend Christianity from those who keep making fun of it left and right. Be it other religious faiths or quasi-religious political movements. His actions seemed the opposite tbh.
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by mantas 1y ago
Changing road design is not necessarily a cultural change from driving. My country had very bad traffic deaths record. few decades later, traffic is much more intense and there're many more cars, but traffic deaths are waaaaaay down. T
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by mantas 1y ago
A lot of „martial“ skills are needed in daily life. Discipline, planning, ability to operate both on your own and in a team both as a leader and a member. Even physical strength does help, even in modern world. A good CEO and good military
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by mantas 1y ago
TBH all the time I saw this phrase was about strong people in the broadest possible way. And always as a positive. It’s very strange to see people defining strong in very narrow bigot way and then trying to spin the whole phrase into a nega
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by mantas 1y ago
> famines are caused by conflict And conflicts are frequently caused by the victim getting weak. > historically by dumb central government That's what I pointing at. > overly strong tyrants They're not strong. Unless you
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by mantas 1y ago
It was caused by the previous generation.
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by mantas 1y ago
When famine hits or you get attacked by another country, it’s not about weak being protected from the strong. It’s about one society getting into trouble.
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by mantas 1y ago
Good times is not a property of political system. It’s overall life property. Including politics and whatnot. Producing a quality political regime needs strong men too.
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by mantas 1y ago
Ability to band together is a strength.
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by mantas 1y ago
Then those men you're calling „weak“ are actually strong...
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by mantas 2y ago
Don't want to make hypothetical shoes? Fine. One day soldiers may end up marching barefooted and loosing a battle though. IMO the global economy eventually self-levels. Either you go up the chain so far that you eventually go off the r
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by mantas 2y ago
You? That people did self censor indeed. And one example of one author not self-censoring and being made an example does not deny that.
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by mantas 2y ago
As long as you have whole supply chain locally, you don't need to store too much. The problem with agriculture is you can't really „ramp up“ it on a whim. That's why you need to keep it going and you can't just kick star
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by mantas 2y ago
Security needs taxes which lower profits and salaries (= jobs people want). On top of that, security needs a lot of not-so-profitable capabilities. High profits and jobs people want also don't exactly go hand-in-hand.
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by mantas 2y ago
More like common man does not think long term (and I'd say rightfully so). While democratic regime embraces populist hedonistic solutions. Who cares about defense capabilities 10 or 50 years down the line? Lots of people in West had a
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by mantas 2y ago
Depends on how evaluate what is valuable. E.g. here in europe a lot of people think subsidising local agriculture is not valuable and we should just import cheaper food. On the other hand, a lot of people agree that food security is kinda v
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by mantas 2y ago
So, one dude did not censor himself, during a cultural warm up era, ended up being kicked out to exile. Which was a fortunate outcome due to his previous fame. Hmmm, is that an example how people were free to do whatever in USSR? :) Is that
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by mantas 2y ago
That book was published during Kruschiov era. Which was definitely not representative of the rest of Soviet era. Let alone that the book was peanuts compared to Gulag archipelago. Eventually Solzhenytsin was kicked out from USSR and had to
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by mantas 2y ago
Better education or propaganda to brainwash people to keep producing? :) Funnily enough, USSR loved all sort of propaganda of the worker of the month, stachanovists and all that jazz :) Yet it didn't work. Maybe the real better educati
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by mantas 2y ago
Well, that book was not officially published in USSR till the fall of the iron curtain. So in official sense your snarky comment is sort of correct :)
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by mantas 2y ago
I agree. It was OP up the thread who brought up USSR artists funding as an example. USSR and UBI is an interesting combination though. Being unemployed was illegal. And for common man it was very hard to get laid off. Just show up, even if
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by mantas 2y ago
Born in USSR and growing up in then ex-USSR I’ve pretty good experience of arts created during USSR period and both official and underground artists. But yes, maybe some delusional USSR loving academics in west wrote some BS study how aweso
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by mantas 2y ago
> Or arts funding in the USSR and other soviet bloc countries. This is pretty good example why UBI is dangerous. Those funded artists were very happy to suck it up and go along with the regime. The censorship was in place, but self-censo
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by mantas 2y ago
I'm euro and runner/cyclist so I doubt that was a factor. I also had my bicycle with me for some rides on off days, but it wasn't beyond my usual mileage. Maybe even less, because riding road bike in Tokyo was an experience t
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by mantas 2y ago
It was a business trip matching my typical routine. I'd say I was even less active because apparently running in Tokyo sucks.
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by mantas 2y ago
Just an anecdata but on my last stay in Japan I lost a couple kilos in a good month. Even though I did abuse kitkats.

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