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[-] bagend@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Have faith in the internet continuing to exist.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Thermostats are bourgeois American imperialist decadence.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The USSR wasn't a paradise (communism isn't magic) but it was better than anything in Russia before or since. It's not like turning to capitalism in the 90s made the country a utopia.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Nah people just lie about us.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I like the flexibility too, I just wish I could have it without giving some leech half my paycheck.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least WeChat is firmly under the state's thumb. It's basically a public service at this point. They should just nationalize it.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

I'm paying some guy's mortgage but he gets to keep the house at the end.

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Can you give an example of a 'non-authoritarian government'?

[-] bagend@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Because Sankara (sadly) lost. Baizuos can only accept communists when they lose.

bagend

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