yogthos

yogthos, 1 year ago

propagandists love to recycle washingtonpost.com/…/35b1e882-f796-4acb-a106-9280…

yogthos, 1 year ago

What people who lived in the Soviet union and other socialist states have to say:

• 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.

• Adult mortality increased enormously in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union when the Soviet system collapsed 30 years ago. archive.ph/9Z12u
• Former Soviet Countries See More Harm From Breakup news.gallup.com/…/former-soviet-countries-harm-br…

This study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.

• academic.oup.com/cje/advance-article/…/7081084?gu…

yogthos, 1 year ago

Exactly, most of the bloat on commercial sites isn’t there for the benefit of the user, but rather in order to monetize them. It’s ads, trackers, metrics, and all the other garbage that you don’t actually want.

yogthos, 1 year ago

You’d expose yourself as a victim of Dunning-Kruger.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Fuck off nszi.

yogthos, 1 year ago

No surprise, given that genocide is the foundation of the western civilization.

yogthos, 1 year ago

tankie is to libs is what woke is to nazis

yogthos, 1 year ago

No, they just do this to Palestinian civilians, but since they don’t have blue eyes and blond hair racists such as yourself don’t consider them to be people.

yogthos, 1 year ago

The CIA is literally the reason the Al Queda exists. has consistently been the biggest force funding and training terrorists groups around the world. Al Queda is just the modern iteration on the Mujahideen whom US was propping up in the 80s.

yogthos, 1 year ago

timesofisrael.com/ending-censorship-idf-admits-of…

yogthos, 1 year ago

That’s just one of countless examples from a two seconds of googling. It’s the height of intellectual dishonesty to try and frame it as an isolated incident.

yogthos, 1 year ago

so you’re saying you do a lot of projecting

yogthos, 1 year ago

Socialist phase where means of production are owned by the workers, and then communism.

yogthos, 1 year ago

It’s so adorable how many Americans think that the oligarchs they support are different.

yogthos, 1 year ago

capitalist realism

yogthos, 1 year ago

I find it funny how the only problem people see with Twitter is that the wrong oligarch owns it. The real issue is with reliance on privately owned social spaces. Corporations shouldn’t be in charge of how people communicate with each other.

yogthos, 1 year ago

Sure, that’s the real economy, but the way the west measures it is largely based on how the stock market is doing.

yogthos, 1 year ago

A lot of the mainstream economists in the west focus on the stock market, even of you don’t personally.

Meanwhile, GDP and inflation are not great measures either. GDP in particular is very problematic because it doesn’t measure productive labor. For example, health insurance industry is a large chunk of the GDP in US. It employs a lot of people while producing nothing for value for society

And the problem with inflation is with how it gets measured. For example, food and housing prices are growing far faster than the official inflation numbers.

yogthos, 1 year ago

it’s from an earthquake in Taiwan straitstimes.com/…/taiwan-earthquake-tilting-resi…

yogthos, 1 year ago

In the real world, American billionaires pay lower effective tax rate than many of its working people cp24.com/…/american-billionaires-pay-lower-effect…

yogthos, 1 year ago

It would be a weighty decision to be sure.