• nforminvasion@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    God not tankie shit on .world. Here’s this really cool idea: you don’t need to look up to Stalin to be critical of the US. You don’t need to support any superpowers actually… No one is making you

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    6 hours ago

    The millions of Ukrainians who starved during the Holodomor would beg to differ. Also, when exactly are they talking about? The USSR was around for 70~ years, that’s a long time for them to improve things

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah. But I think it’s important to understand both, much in the same way that the American government and capitalism lead to both the modern age of plenty and the dust bowl.

  • u_die_for_elmer@lemm.eeB
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    5 hours ago

    These folks don’t understand that compairing Stalin’s policies to US policies is not the flex they think it is.

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    5 hours ago

    3520 calories

    I’m a postal worker that used to bike 150 miles a pop and trained for a 50k and thought it was absolutely bonkers for me to be eating 4000 calories a day on the basis that the generic recommended value was 2000 so I guess I stand corrected

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    6 hours ago

    Basic food in America is stuffed full of sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Their “bread” is often as sweet as cake batter.