My issue wasn’t the numbers, it was the concept.
The numbers are the placeholders in my statement for the concepts. Each of the concepts you’re calling out has a number attached to it in my citation. If you refuse to acknowledge the numbers, simply use them as placeholders for the concepts as they are 1:1.
A bit dishonest to point to the drops in life expectancy and the general 1940s and 1950s period without mentioning World War II, where the Nazis waged a war of extermination and genocide on those they considered genetically inferior, don’t you think?
No I don’t think so. For one reason part of the massive losses were Soviet Military tactics of meatwaves (which Russia still uses today) during WWII. For another, the Holomodor was an extra 10 million citizens of the USSR starved to death that occurred long before WWII when Stalin took all the grain from the people that grew it and let them starve to death. Starving your farmers to death is a monumentally stupid decision for a nation that struggles with food supply. This is the hypocrisy of Soviet Communism. Marx and Engels wrote about empowering the masses, equality in everything, and society without class or station. Yet the USSR was anything but that. History shows that the actions of the state saw massive numbers of dead citizens as a means to an end in both war and peace. Trotsky himself was a victim of the Stalin’s USSR. Famous and brilliant Soviet orbital rocket designer Sergei Korolev, was another victim dying from complications from living in gulag. Do you think Marx and Engels would have seen their ideas at work in the Soviet Union?
Same with comparing a highly developed country that saw no land fighting in World War II to the country devastated the most by it that was a feudal backwater only a couple decades prior when it comes to infant mortality.
The infant mortality was more than double the USA every year for the entire existence of the USSR. Or are you claiming WWII was still to blame for the higher infant mortality 45 years after Hitler ate a bullet ending war in the European theater?
No, most Marxists don’t want to go back in time to the first Socialist state, they would rather learn from what worked and what didn’t and be part of building a Communist future.
Is there consensus in the Marxist community about any nation today practicing this Communism 2.0 or is it all just political theory at this point?
So you’re making it quite a logical leap there.
Read my post again, please. I said: “from 45% to 69%”. I accounted for the 69% at the maximum, while recognizing the lower percentage.
I mean I’ll bet a billion dollars that those groups are alienated by Trump just by being Trump and that therefore had no political capital is going to be wasted here.
“On the issue of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, 55% of Cuban Americans in South Florida support its continuation, although they also show relatively high support for some engagement policies such as the selling of food (61% support) and medicine (69% support) to the island. Support for the continuation of the embargo drops to 43% among Cuban Americans not born on the island.” source
So if trump re-enables full bans he risks pissing off from 45% to 69% of Cuban Americans likely voters. See? This is politics. Biden gets to make one policy change with zero consequences to himself a few days before he leaves office that will torpedo trump support in a key group if trump puts it back to the way it was just a couple of weeks prior.
They don’t believe it was some perfect wonderland free from troubles, issues, problems, etc, rather, they acknowledge that the USSR was real Socialism with real victories, like free healthcare and education, an elimination of famine in a country where starvation was regular, doubled life expectancies, dramatically lowered wealth inequality while dramatically raising wages,
“doubling” the life expectancy? Life expectancy was 30 years old prior to the USSR forming in 1922, so yes “doubling” to 67 took until 1967, and before they doubled it, they dropped it to 23.6 years old. Tens of millions of Soviet citizens died early deaths to get there. Starvation didn’t end for many and rationing was commonplace. I suppose killing off a sizable portion of your population would mean less mouths to feed, but what a horrible approach to try to solve that problem.
Perhaps a better measure would be infant mortality. The USA, with its “worse” healthcare, has had consistently less than half infant mortality (or even lower) for every year the Soviet Union existed.
and over tripled literacy rates to near 100%.
…in Russian. If you spoke a different language, like Ukrainian, it was forbidden by USSR law from teaching it in schools. This happened to dozens of languages in other Oblasts.
dramatically lowered wealth inequality while dramatically raising wages,
On the surface this looks good, but that would be with a Western view of what earned wages could buy. Even with money there was limited food to buy for decades at a time during the Soviet Union. Further, you couldn’t just do something like go a buy a car. You had to get on a wait list for years to even have an option to buy one.
Hexbear aren’t unique in general support for the Soviet Union, the overwhelming majority of Marxists see it as far better than Tsarist Russia and the modern Russian Federation.
Better than the final Tsar or Putin, probably, but those are both really low bars to gauge a win by.
I’m not saying everything about the Soviet Union was bad, but holding it up as an example to aspire to would be rejected by most folks that would be forced to live that life (or die an early death under its heel as a consequence of actions of the state). Do the Marxists you’re referring to really pine to live in 1940s or 1950s Soviet Union?
Support for the USSR? Absolutely
Wait, really? The ones responsible for, among other things, the Holodomor? Those guys? Why?!
It would still be positive for new smokers that never had the old high octane stuff.
Further, for smokers smoking more means increased costs to the smokers acting as an economic disincentive to continuing to smoke.
As much as I celebrate the removal of Cuba from this terror list, and the possible positive implications it will have for the people of Cuba, I am very well aware that that isn’t what any of these actions are about by either Biden, or what trump will do afterward.
Trump is very likely to reverse this as well.
And Trump will spend political capital to do it alienating groups that supported the removal of Cuba from the list.
If it was actually something important, and it was something Biden could do kinda whenever, what is the point of doing it now?
Because it forces trump to put it back on, and if trump does it immediately, the two events (Biden removing, Trump adding) will be highlighted in the minds of the electorate (who care about this subject).
If Biden had at least done it when he took office, we could have had a few years fostering relations again.
And Biden would have had to spend political capital to do it, alienating those that support restrictions on Cuba like the large voting block in Florida.
Now, we’ll be lucky to have a month.
Which is also part of the point of the timing I think. The GOP and trump will be forced to carry the title of putting the restriction on Cuba again.
This is all just political gamesmanship, not active policy agenda items. I still support the removal either way (and for any amount of time).
Your #4 is the same as my #3. Play out your #4 and it ends up as my #3:
- Struggle to come to a conclusion on what to do with the EOL OS because of internal political factors and the reality of how enterprise works.
Security or Compliance teams raise the concern with continuing to run the EOL OS, they demand the App team power down the offending servers or upgrade. App team escalates to leadership advocating for the upgrade and they ask for the funding. Leadership asks for a business case justifying the large spend requiring the ROI numbers. App team mostly shrugs because the ROI are intangibles of security or support-ability. Leadership sees no immediate monetary benefit being realized in the next 2 quarters from a costly upgrade and instead chooses to accept the risk. They send an exception order to Security or Compliance teams that this EOL OS should continue running as is and the App team shouldn’t be bothered anymore.
…and we end up with my #3.
Also with the abandonment of DEI initiatives, there are no longer any protections for Lizard-Amercians.
just take credit for fixing the symptoms over and over and over again.
If the goal of the individual is a measurable delta of positive change, then it would be beneficial to the individual to cultivate problems now to solve and get recognized for future accomplishments? It would be much easier to solve a problem that you know intimately, because you were the original cause.
What you’re thinking about is one of the main plot points of the book fiction book “American Gods”. The premise being that gods cease to exist without followers. So the old gods need to attach themselves to new things/subjects to scoop up those worshipers and continue to exist.
An example Vulcan became the god of firearms and began manufacturing ammunition where each bullet fired was a “prayer” to him, empowering him.
GOP plans to ignore a court ruling and refuse to seat a Democrat
…and…
Republicans proceeded with their agenda, disputing the quorum requirement.
“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum
I understand the pentagram request. That pizza has pineapple on it, which is an unholy abomination and a crime against humanity.
Most of the time I’ve run into this its COTS software and the customer refuses to pay for the cost of the updated version or the company that wrote the original COTS application is long since out of business.
It is more like ‘involuntarily end up riding the risks of using unsupported old software’.
Involuntarily? An org choosing to use an EOL OS to keep running an application is a business choice that accepts the risk of compromise/lack of support of an EOL OS. Any org in this situation has 3 choices:
There’s nothing involuntary here.
That would suggest a logical construction to their hatred. They will hate the EV and love Maga-Elon simultaneously in complete willful cognitive dissonance bliss.
How about:
“Carrie Underwood goes Mask-Off as MAGA With Trump Inauguration Gig”
The GOP also cut funding to the IRS. Who is going to do that collecting?
That used to be universally true. Is it still? I think the last time I looked at the bag about 7 years ago it was just about on par with the price per oz of the name brand. The store brand in the box (as opposed to the name brand in the box) is still cheaper though.