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highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in The memes leftists don't want you to see

I get the sentiment, but those are some low quality memes. Coal.

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

Keeping my answer limited to quality of life under socialism, I’m stealing an info dump from comrade @yogthos

shit ton of textThat’s fascinating given that communism has worked literally every time it’s been tried. The quality of life, food security, education, employment in communist countries all improved drastically after revolutions. Let’s take a look at USSR as an example. Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world: * wid.world/…/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property…* wid.world/…/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequality…USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%: * www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/…/PubEdUSSR.htm* www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/…/anglosov.htm* unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/…/001300eo.pdf* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LikbezUSSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960’s, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA: * en.wikipedia.org/…/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni…Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 period while having better nutrition: * scribd.com/…/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdfUSSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960: * books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ* b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497fUSSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996: * www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/…/94B09_66_englp2.pdf* www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htmIn 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67 and the average (not median) retiree household in the USA could expect $48k/yr which comes out to 65% of the 74k average (not median) household income in 2016: * www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/…/94B09_66_englp2.pdf* cbsnews.com/…/could-you-get-by-on-the-average-ame…GDP took off after socialism was established and then collapsed with the reintroduction of capitalism: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_GDP_per_capita.gifThe Soviet Union had the highest physician/patient ratio in the world. USSR had 42 doctors per 10,000 population compared to 24 in Denmark and Sweden, and 19 in US: * www.sciencedirect.com/science/…/0735675784900482 (sci-hub for access) * USSR defeated a smallpox epidemic in a matter of 19 days rbth.com/…/331857-how-ussr-defeated-black-smallpo…* The Social Consequences of Soviet Immunization Policies www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1997-812-03g-Hoch.pdfProfessor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possilbe: * citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1…Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time: * www.jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life: * www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/…/amjph00269-0055.pdfThis study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development. * pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2430906/Finally, let’s take a look at how people who lived under communism feel now that they got a taste of capitalism? * >A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same. In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era. This is the result of almost universal displeasure with the economy. Fully 94% describe the country’s economy as bad, the highest level of economic discontent in the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country’s switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy; 42% disapprove of the move away from communism. The public is even more negative toward Hungary’s integration into Europe; 71% say their country has been weakened by the process.* >The most incredible result was registered in a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy) poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism, while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68% declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been poorly applied.* >Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an “illegitimate state.” In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.* >A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -“during the time of socialism”. The survey focused on the respondents’ views on the transition “from socialism to capitalism”, and a clear majority said they trusted social institutions the most during the rule of Yugoslav communist president Josip Broz Tito. The standard of living during Tito’s rule from the Second World War to the 1980s was also assessed as best, whereas the Milosevic decade of the 1990s, and the subsequent decade since the fall of his regime are seen as “more or less the same”. 45 percent said they trusted social institutions most under communism with 23 percent choosing the 2001-2003 period when Zoran Djinđic was prime minister. Only 19 per cent selected present-day institutions. * >75% of Russians have expressed increasingly positive opinions about the Soviet Union over the years. Only a small portion of those surveyed said they had negative associations with the Soviet Union. The economic deficit, long lines and coupons were named by 4% of respondents each, while the Iron Curtain, economic stagnation and political repressions were named by 1% each, the Levada Center said.The Free market paradise goes East chapters in Blackshirts and Reds details some more results of the transition to capitalism.

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

Raised impoverished feudal nations into places with the highest standards of living to exist on Earth and is currently outcompeting the global hegemon. So yeah, it’s worked excellently.

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

Sounds like a jihad I can get behind, considering “Jews” refers to the zionist entity and not Jews in general.

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/ca945b01-b9e4-4352-8993-c3ae296e0922.png

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

Damn straight.

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

Decolonization is not genocide. Full stop.

highalectical, 7 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

People like you are proof that free speech is a terrible idea.

highalectical, 8 days ago to worldnews in Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died by suicide, police investigation concludes

Found the fed.

highalectical, 8 days ago to worldnews in Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died by suicide, police investigation concludes

That’s because it always is deep state trickery. Wake up, sheep!

highalectical, 8 days ago to the_dunk_tank in Anti-China posters are having a normal one...

Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered.

If this was true, the entire world would have been communist by 1850.

highalectical, 8 days ago to politicalhumor in Very nuanced issue

My brother in Christ, our president is literally Joedolf “if there wasn’t an Israel, we would have to invent an Israel to secure our interests in the region” Bidler.

highalectical, 9 days ago to worldnews in China is burning all its bridges with Israel

Inb4 ruzzia

highalectical, 9 days ago to worldnews in China is burning all its bridges with Israel

There is an ancient Chinese saying: “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.”

TIL Jesus was Chinese.

highalectical, 9 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to asklemmy in Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?

Yes. There’s nothing more authoritarian than a revolution. Slavers, colonizers, capitalists, landlords, and other such parasites can only be dealt with effectively using extreme violence and state oppression.