The alternative still exists in peoples labour and, I suppose not too uncommon for the tech cycle, the alternative can still be superior. Plus the cycle here happened fast enough that all the compsci people can still do their software engineering coding stuff, its the same people.

Gorbachev wrote his own memoirs about it, which is nice as a primary source. But I dont exactly trust his own reasoning lol

I do genuinely want to read a Marxist analysis of how the Soviet Union fell and the Soviet project ended up fizzling out. Im open to “well the CIA did it” but its a little trite and I suspect there’s much more to it than the evil Americans merely tricked everyone. Or Gorbachev was uniquely evil, cause maybe he was or wasnt but no one person can destroy a system.

Ive read a bunch of partial analysis, but never like a book just about the 80s to 90s USSR - and not some imperialist bourgeois criticism either, like an honest Marxist analysis.

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If I remember his deep lore, he got on an all meat diet and attributes that to panic attacks for which he was prescribed or found someone to get him on, presumably, Ativan. He says he had severe autoimmune response to all meat and drinking cider (he said if he drank cider hed be insomnic for days and days). Anyway, he only started the carnivore only diet thing because his daughter told him to. The same daughter that told him not to listen to his Canadian doctors recommending a benzo taper when he was interested and ready to come off of them, and to instead seek a medically induced coma to skip the frankly shitty feelings of withdrawing and have the taper done I guess without his conscious awareness. So they went to Serbia or Russia and of course its not without risks to do that, so his coma was very long.

His wife did have kidney cancer diagnosis in 2019 and this all happened around that time. But hes Peterson, and I guess he cant just accept he was not coping well with his spouses diagnosis and attributed what he was feeling as reactions to food…

Nothing about the all meat diet or medically induced coma to attempt to skip benzo withdrawals huh

Dont worry Im sure trump will send a crack team of his son in law to figure out how to blockade an inland sea

I would probably still be a nurse after a revolution lol

People say this but clean their own toilets and take out their own trash literally every day. We could go on an talk about capitalist overproduction and production for profit over production for need creates too much garbage, but I doubt its necessary.

Personally, Id rather they be spending money on manned space stuff and moon stuff than on weapons and bombs

Congress moved at the speed of light for that huh

No, it’s even worse - you’re thinking the bulk of Americans have even noticed they are nominally de facto in a war. To the degree they know at all what’s happening, its because gas prices are higher. A lot are too distracted by work, drudgery, TV, just entertainment.

Not if she has to run in an actual primary

I kinda thought Fidsz was doing stuff like ballot stuffing, but I guess being in the EU they do have limits on electoral fuckery even if youre right wing

I know I saw that, cant believe they have people walking around with the last name Magyar lol. Captain John American, are you out there? We need you to lead the American carnation revolution

They brokered some agreement recently too - cant recall the details it was 2 years ago? And Iran-Saudu. It is interesting to see China taking more of an active role in the middle east

Maybe ram prices can drift back down to earth.

Yeah good point, they did bomb the shit out of North Korea. I guess just the unipolar moment and liberal hegemony with precision weapons made it act differently for a short while.

Heard it described as a total Israelification of US warfare. Because they didnt really do this during Iraq, hitting universities and hospitals and schools (to this degree and intentionality)

JDPON is like a third worldist, internet maoist thing and its said tongue in cheek and ironically. Joint dictatorship of the proletariat of oppressed nations. On hexbear, youll see it a lot applied to Trump - the joke is these guys are damaging the American empire or otherwise hastening the end of American imperialist looting (entirely unintentionally). Really, it’s a joking way to remark on the inevitable heightening of the contradictions of a liberal capitalist empire