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Just remembered that some guy held the president of (the) Ukraine hostage until he tweeted an endorsement of some joaquin phoenix movie about veganism https://twitter.com/JonahFisherBBC/status/1285652616664489984 and also when lula finally got sprung and released a vid of him lifting weights to eye of the tiger. i wish the video was still on here but the vid got owned on copyright grounds, rip https://twitter.com/LulaOficial/status/1192888341584322562
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:Just remembered that some guy held the president of (the) Ukraine hostage until he tweeted an endorsement of some joaquin phoenix movie about veganism lol just downloaded that movie. I will post a watch report later.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't Kruschev see a bog-standard US grocery store and refuse to believe it wasn't an elaborate potemkin village style set-up? Was that just propaganda i was fed, or was the USSR just badly managed enough that basic American prosperity was unbelievable? Milo and POTUS posted:It was a defector I think Viktor Belenko.
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mitch mcconnell specifically referenced the Diamond Joe Biden onion articles during joe biden's goodbye speech to the senate
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Pick posted:mitch mcconnell specifically referenced the Diamond Joe Biden onion articles during joe biden's goodbye speech to the senate diamond joe biden was described as lusting after highschool girls
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't Kruschev see a bog-standard US grocery store and refuse to believe it wasn't an elaborate potemkin village style set-up? Was that just propaganda i was fed, or was the USSR just badly managed enough that basic American prosperity was unbelievable? This is some propoganda poo poo, as far as I can tell, from talking to people who lived under communism. It's kind of like that dumbasses tweet from Cuba, where he takes a picture in front of a wall of cans labeled "beans" and "tomatoes" in a fully stocked grocery store as some proof of how horrible communism is. Not having 20 different brands produced by two conglomerates is horrifying somehow. According to my Balkan father in law there were sometimes shortages but the overall the quality of the products was much higher than what you find in stores now - and this dude is super picky about the best quality local food, so I believe him. So you only had a choice to get "butter" wrapped in white paper, but it was some local grass fed poo poo. This might not be as true in other countries, I don't know, after all Russian salad exists. Another friend (again from a Balkan country) told me that when he visited Hungary on a school trip in the 80s they were all blown away - like Kruschev or the defector in your story or whoever - because there were actually different brands of things available which made it feel hugely prosperous. When he told me that story, he made it clear that he was a teenager outside of his home country for the first time. So there might be some truth to it, after all, but when it's presented without any context it really comes across like pure propoganda. People in communist countries had grocery stores full of food available to them. The fact you can go buy frozen shrimp caught by slaves in Thailand for pennies is, I guess, a triumph of capitalism in some ways but gently caress that poo poo. Pictured below: mismanagement of food distribution under Communism (also extremely on topic thread material lol) https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1174871396855382016?s=20 IAMKOREA has issued a correction as of 07:00 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Mantis42 posted:Osama Bin Laden's total smokeshow of a niece endorsed Trump. Hahaha no way. Link?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Hahaha no way. Link? https://torontosun.com/news/world/osama-bin-ladens-niece-backs-trump-in-u-s-election
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IAMKOREA posted:Not having 20 different brands produced by two conglomerates is horrifying somehow. This is kinda true on a psychological level. Everybody agrees that the quality of goods was better in the USSR (no planned obsolescence, home appliances meant to last for decades), but the Western storefronts just get under your skin. Letting global advertisers in was like a splash of color in a socrealist-dominated media landscape.
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The Kruschev in a grocer moment is probably just a misremembering of another incident where Yeltsin went to a grocery store in 89 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6kh3dw/ive_heard_that_yeltsin_was_famously_shocked_by/
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Spergin Morlock posted:lol just downloaded that movie. I will post a watch report later. I liked earthlings so I'm giving the guy who held the president hostage over a solid 5 stars
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Ruffian Price posted:This is kinda true on a psychological level. Everybody agrees that the quality of goods was better in the USSR (no planned obsolescence, home appliances meant to last for decades), but the Western storefronts just get under your skin. Letting global advertisers in was like a splash of color in a socrealist-dominated media landscape. western products being utter poo poo made to break is a newish thing, you’d have to be a special kinda of weird to prefer a soviet washing machine from the 60s over a west German one
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Soviet citizens on average got the same amount of calories as Americans in the 80s.
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also it's not like we have radically more food manufacturers on the shelves today a shitload of "different brands" in fact aren't, including the generic store brands
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This was supposed to be the red wedding moment when hooded assassins revealed themselves and slaughtered every pigdog in the room
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Planned obsolescence was invented in the 50s but mostly manifested in people buying new things because they wanted to (new stuff is coming out every year and being marketed as being fresh and in style) and were able to with greater disposable income. In the last few decades it's because things are designed to break before the end of their lifetime and people are compelled to buy new things whether the money is there or not.
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Planned obsolescence was invented in the 50s but mostly manifested in people buying new things because they wanted to (new stuff is coming out every year and being marketed as being fresh and in style) and were able to with greater disposable income. In the last few decades it's because things are designed to break before the end of their lifetime and people are compelled to buy new things whether the money is there or not. Wasn't Orwell critiquing planned obsolescence in the 30s?
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Famously listened to often Orwell
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Ruffian Price posted:Everybody agrees that the quality of goods was better in the USSR Have you ever driven a Lada?
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Benny Johnson, fired from buzzfeed for plagiarism, went to a restaurant supply store in Cuba and posted a fully stocked shelf as an own on socialism because there weren't 50 different brands of an identical product Also his shoes were like 6 sizes too big https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1174871396855382016?s=19
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Not really political but 10 points to whoever can name the owner of these feet 
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paul_soccer12 posted:Not really political but 10 points to whoever can name the owner of these feet Arthur Chu.
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Tiler Kiwi posted:The Kruschev in a grocer moment is probably just a misremembering of another incident where Yeltsin went to a grocery store in 89 IIRC Nixon (as VP) did show Kruschev some stuff but Kruschev played it cool, even saying 'you think color TV impresses me well, I'm sorry to tell you we have color TV in the soviet union.' even though I think he didn't get how ubiquitous color TV was rather than simply having it except about corn, corn blew his mind and he went back and had the planners draw up a huge corn strategy to get lots of corn into every home something like that edit: oh that reddit link talks about it, the kitchen debate Antonymous has issued a correction as of 21:09 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:Arthur Chu. 
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the time that donald trump called a kid stupid for believing in santa during his christmas calls to american children
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Antonymous posted:IIRC Nixon (as VP) did show Kruschev some stuff but Kruschev played it cool, even saying 'you think color TV impresses me well, I'm sorry to tell you we have color TV in the soviet union.' even though I think he didn't get how ubiquitous color TV was rather than simply having it Ive got a matryoshka doll of all the soviet leaders + nicholas and yeltsin, and the kruschrev doll is depicted holding a big husk of corn
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