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by yks 9mo ago
Nah, Stalin didn’t anticipate the attack. And also deposing capitalist regimes, in what would become Allies, was famously the long-standing goal of the USSR
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by yks 9mo ago
Looks like we’re forgetting that Soviet Union was pretty buddy buddy with Hitler until surprised pikachu face happened in 1941.
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by yks 9mo ago
Authoritarians can legitimately win elections, as in receiving the majority of the cast votes, there is no “joke” or contradiction here.
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by yks 9mo ago
When I think about this, I often come back to thinking that the societies that underwent some conflict or difficult times, absolutely cannot have a member of an older generation in charge, because the only thing they do is to continue that
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by yks 10mo ago
No one is surprised about that guy, those comments usually point out how "the 2010 tea party", and everyone else from the decades, if not centuries, of the conservative milieu, are suddenly all in on this.
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by yks 10mo ago
> How would they keep everyone under control? You won't find that many people eager to participate in satellite regimes or new social experiments, like you had in post-WWII. Through cynicism and propaganda, just like they've be
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by yks 10mo ago
Why wouldn't it happen? America's new direction is that Europe is the enemy, and massive resources will be poured into propelling the already popular right wing parties, which are Russian puppets, into power. They don't need
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by yks 10mo ago
I believe if Americans want to abandon their allies because of the culture war propaganda, they should be also shown how much of the labor force in their new, alleged white savior friend, Russia, is made up of non-white people.
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by yks 10mo ago
1. It's not like America didn't benefit from the arrangement. 2. While it's fun to kill geese laying golden eggs, the question Americans should really ask is what awaits them on the other side of their actions, and whether th
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by yks 10mo ago
AI assistance is a gold rush — promotions are to be made and huge complex system to be over-engineered in Big Tech. The race to stake out the future empires is underway, and there is no time to think about the quality control, UX etc. But w
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by yks 10mo ago
Every time I see post-DOGE kvetching about foreign governments' hacking attempts, I'm quite bewildered. Guys, it's done, we're fully and thoroughly hacked already. Obviously I don't know if Elon or Big Balls have al
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by yks 11mo ago
I am surprised that rent increases aren't banned everywhere, and that things like Prop 13 haven't been voted in elsewhere outside of California. Because the fundamental proposition of "I reap handsome benefits, but some unnam
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by yks 11mo ago
Ah yes, those famous warmongering Europeans, attacking Gleiwitz all over again
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by yks 1y ago
> military leadership actually do have a pretty solid loyalty to the constitution Even if so, the tricky part of course is the SCOTUS that declares anything that Trump wants "constitutional".
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by yks 1y ago
the government doesn't need to be opened for a budget to pass though, "clean CR" is not a prerequisite for anything
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by yks 1y ago
That's why the future looks so bleak. Republicans support absolutely any amount of crime and corruption, because "some" crime and corruption has happened under Democrats. Meanwhile half of the rest of Americans wouldn't
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by yks 1y ago
Blame “secular reaction” all you want, but with the New Apostolic Reformation the temporal loyalty becomes a pre-requisite to the loyalty to God
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by yks 1y ago
You might as well imagine that in the US it’s going to be forbidden to develop the AI that’s not holding fascist views. See Grok’s owner struggles with it. So American firms might not reap this advantage.
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by yks 1y ago
Yeah, "those others are less ethical than us Americans" doesn't pass muster in 2025. Reminds me of the anti-immigration arguments from the days bygone, that the immigrants coming from the corrupt authoritarian countries will
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by yks 1y ago
"Immigration question" doesn't have a solution because without the immigrants the economy collapses. And, besides, not having it solved allows Republicans to run on the platform of solving it, as you said. But if there is a s
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by yks 1y ago
I mean, you can ask this question about literally every war. It ends with a heavily armed border, and uneasy peace until Russia gets a leader that realizes that wars of attrition destroy attacker's nation wealth just as much as defende
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by yks 1y ago
There will be no "reaction" to Trump, because all such policies would be struck down by the SCOTUS. This version of America is the one we're going to live in for a while.
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by yks 1y ago
In practice the tier 1 has the tech and know-how to convince the tier 2 to remain cooperative against their own interests. See the contemporary US where the inequality is rather high, and yet the tier 2 population is impressively protective
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by yks 1y ago
Russia perfected the ethics of "you don't need to be good, you just need everyone else to be bad", Americans are just bringing the state of the art home.
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by yks 1y ago
Well, early supporters of fascism do tend to end up in prison, because fascism needs purges. So in a monkey paw way, I wouldn't bet against the current crop of CEOs falling from graces very hard.
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by yks 1y ago
Eating the tariffs to avoid punishment from the government is just price controls with the dash of lawlessness. Something will give and it will be either profits or prices.
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by yks 1y ago
Random individuals without clearance and sometimes with ties to Russia (talking about DOGE here) have access to all government IT systems, including databases of the military personnel, and the military leaders are now aghast at Zuck? I don
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by yks 1y ago
If you want to sell a few year old used car, the paper trail of the professionally done service is a bonus.
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by yks 1y ago
It is obvious that the "suburb-to-downtown commute" lifestyle arrangement of America is not scalable, wasteful and a massive quality of life drain. Yet we're committing to it, why? Because the employers don't want to pay
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by yks 1y ago
> Human contact is more important than efficiency gains, hence mandating return-to-office. First, citation needed. Second, in this day and age companies try whatever they can to ruin in-office employees' morale as well, which goes c

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