Cuba can’t retaliate the same way that China can.

Simply put, China has a formidable navy, long-range airforce and most importantly, nukes. Cuba doesn’t.

Merz also has Nazi roots

And Annaleena Baerbock of course, who tried to hide it for years

Communication satellites - soviet invention

Cell phones - soviet invention

Unbreakable glass used in touch screens - east german invention

Yeah… Capitalism made iPhones

In 2021, when Italy was suffering hundreds of deaths per day from Covid, it wasn’t any capitalist nation that helped Italy. It’s EU co-members wanted money and austerity to give even meager support.

No, rather it was tiny socialist Cuba who deployed the doctor brigades in the worst-hit European country, putting themselves at risk selflessly, and helped save thousands of Italian lives, without ever asking anything in return.

Try uploading through a web browser instead of an app. Usually it works better.

Seems like George Orwell got something right at least.

Look for the user comrade-ki.m1950. They will hook you up

And there seems to be a sort of monopoly trust going on for the past 30 years, with companies agreeing with each other on what game prices will be across the board. They are even openly admitting that they are waiting for a big release like GTA 6, to raise the standard release price of games.

Not just any industrial powerhouse. Germany is an industrial powerhouse. Italy is an industrial powerhouse.

Socialism produces industrial powerhouses that are putting people into space, building nuclear reactors and inventing revolutionary technologies.

Winter was dedicated to all the maintenance stuff mostly, and there was mostly no other field work during that time. They had way more holidays as you say, and they also had a lot more breaks during the day. Historians have done studies on this. An average 8-hour labourer today works about 1800 hours per year, accounting for breaks and holidays. An average medieval peasant would work significantly less so. English peasants had it worse at 1600 hours. French and Germans would fluctuate at 1300-1400 hours. Italian and French would also fluctuate at 1200-1300. Byzantine peasants (whose majority were not serfs and worked on their own land) would work much less at 1000-1200 hours per year!

The point of the meme is that a modern-day wage labourer is exploited way more than a medieval wage labourer. There’s nothing there about famines, plagues and wars (which by the way only went away from Europe to an extend for the past 80 years, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be staying away).

Also don’t forget:

Medieval peasants worked on average (depending on the area and era you are looking at) 30-60% less hours per year than present-day wage-workers

Medieval peasants who worked on someone else’s land could elect not to go to work on any particular day and just not get paid for it (that’s how weekends were created)

Medieval bosses (i.e. land-owners) were responsible for feeding their workers for the day with breakfast and lunch.

Usually lunch during field work was followed by a customary 2-3 hours nap.

Crackers be jealous that they can’t figure out how to get paid multiple wages, while ALSO getting paid multiple benefits, while ALSO getting paid mad money by peddling drugs and doing all the crime and somehow getting away with it, while ALSO somehow having the time to sit around all day on the street doing nothing and making passerbyes “scared”.

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And why is China looking angry? The US basically just pushed the entirety of Asia towards BRICS and stronger economic relations with China.

Oh, you are right, I read that wrong. Apparently it started out at 100 000 rubles, and doubles every week. So yeah, we are getting there.

It might get there eventually. The fine increases by 100 000 rubles every day that Google keeps Russian media blocked. So in about 40-50 universe lifetimes, if Google doesn’t reverse its decision, the fine will be approaching a googol dollars. Depending on inflation :P

The reason I liked Andor was that it portrays the revolutionaries (Luthen, his assistant, and later Andor himself) as understanding that they need to do the “bad stuff” to achieve results. They are not burdened by idealistic notions of a utopian and pure fight of good vs evil. There’s a scene where Luthen monologues that he sacrificed his soul to the cause. That he is trying to bring about a sunrise he will never be able to enjoy.

Liberal media usually use the arc of the gruff vengeful revolutionary softening towards the end, as they are faced with fateful choices, and not having the courage to go through with it. Andor reverses this arc and I think it’s better for it.

If you like sci-fi read Red Rising.

“But I don’t want to!”

“That’s OK son, you can die for Ukraine”