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  • There were still people that lived in the streets in the USSR. Also, the housing the USSR provided wasn’t really that… great… I watch a Russian YouTuber (NFKRZ) who has talked about Soviet architecture in not just Russia, but other former USSR countries and shows that yes it’s good they were built, they weren’t very well built.

    The USSR had many problems, and bureaucracy was a big problem. I never understood why tankies love the USSR so much when the USSR didn’t truly get rid of class. Those in the government lived like kings compared to the common man, who yes lived better than they had before but still not that well due to the bloated and mismanagement of the government.

    Idk, the fact that they even had a centralized government like that seems like… the opposite of communism to me.



  • xerazal@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlSend help.
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    1 year ago

    Avoid, no.

    Cut down, yes. We overeat carbohydrates, especially empty carbohydrates. It’s a cheap source of energy sure, but if we are inputting more than we are outputting, the excess is stored as fat, which can lead to inflammation and other health issues.

    I did keto for a couple years and yes, cutting out most carbs that weren’t nutrient dense did wonders. Only reason I’ve been moving off of it is because it’s honestly difficult to eat that way in a world of excess carbohydrates. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, has added sugars or fillers added in that increase the carb count for cheap. I did it for like 5 years, but it cost a lot of money and time. Money because it’s all about eating whole, nutritious, and organic. Time because It takes time to cook and do meal prep, and sometimes I don’t have that time or energy mentally.



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    Bruh I had neglectful parents and never once did I do stupid shit like this. Mostly because I knew if I did I’d get an ass whooping and it’d make my life 10x worse.

    A cry for help? Maybe. But doing this is just making it worse, not better.






  • I’m apparently more of a leftist than you if you’re willing to throw the working class under the bus purely because the wins we are getting are smaller than you’d like… hell, they’re smaller than I’d like too. But it’s something, which is better than nothing or worse, outright reversals.

    All your online posturing is doing absolutely nothing for the working class. Stop throwing around leftist ideals as if you actually give a damn. I wish we were in a better spot, but we aren’t. We are here, this is the hand we’ve been dealt, we have to make the most of it. The alternative is fascism winning, and you and I being lined up and shot like dogs.

    And bringing up the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Oh boy, let me guess. You’d rather we stop supporting Ukraine and if it just happens to fall to Russia, so be it? Please…




  • Because 1 party does everything their donors say, the other does most of the stuff their donors say but still shows it’s able to be pushed by their voters to do good.

    Do you really think that the donor class wanted the recent NLRB rule change that helps unions against union busting? No, but it happened because unlike the Republican party, the Democratic party can be swayed to fight for the working class. Is it perfect? No, but it’s something.




  • Dude ik shit is bad. I would have much preferred someone else be president rn, but we are stuck with Biden so we have to make due.

    And 2024 is going to be Biden v trump again. A shitty matchup, ik, but again we have to make due.

    Bring a leftist also means trying to make the most of a bad situation. This isn’t about what you or I want, it’s about what’s right for the working class given our current situation. And between Biden and trump, Biden is far better for the working class than trump could ever be.



  • Bruh Republicans are open about backing trump even if he goes to jail. Trump has openly talked about how he wants to get rid of the constitution. They could have prevented him from running again after his failed coup attempt and they let him off the hook.

    At least some good has come from the Biden presidency, which tbh I didn’t expect at all. Some progress is better than no progress. 15 min wage for federal contract workers, an NLRB that is more pro-union than ever in my lifetime, an actual attempt at student loan debt reduction (which he should just nix via executive order but I digress), a 15% minimum corporate tax rate, bring back microchip manufacturing, and there’s more that I can’t list off the top of my head.

    Babysteps sure, but it’s better than nothing and way better than the backwards trajectory we got during the trump presidency and beyond the trump presidency due to his SC appointments.

    Perfect? Hell no. But something. We need to take the wins we can get while still hammering him from the left to do more.