fart simpson posted:

indigi posted:

this sounds terrible

fart simpson posted:

the normal insurance here is like a subsidized health savings account and generally you have to pay up front or they won’t treat you.

indigi posted:

this sounds terrible

Throatwarbler posted:

"Paying up front" usually means a very modest (i.e. less than 10RMB/USD$2) "registration" fee.

Happy Thread posted:

A 17 year old streamer kid recently died in China, of malnutrition and from complications from diabetes type 1. They were super poor and abandoned by their family in early childhood after the parents divorced. The streamer kid tried to raise crowd funding on shuidichou.com to pay for their diabetes treatment. But in order to qualify they would have had to provide paperwork up front documenting their condition, which required a doctor visit, which they could not afford in the first place. A whole bunch of people were sad when they died.

Chomskyan posted:

isn't Hong Kong hermit a goon?

Ferrinus posted:

i'm always torn between blaming the fall of the ussr barely/not at all on gorbachev because explaining history through the actions of important individuals is liberalism, and massively/entirely on gorbachev because he just sucks so bad

stephenthinkpad posted:

Is this the same Navalny protest or a separated protest happened at the same time?

https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1353036333388849152?s=20

The center must hold!

https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1352976547716747270?s=20

stephenthinkpad posted:

Is this the same Navalny protest or a separated protest happened at the same time?

stephenthinkpad posted:

Can Russian goon tell me what are they yelling in the video? That twitter guy has a lot of videos. I know one of them is "Putin's thief."

Beached Whale posted:

Russia appears to be entering what is known over here as the "Cool Zone"

ФСБ (State Police) car getting egged
https://2ch.hk/po/src/41636942/16114253002120.mp4

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Things getting very testy at the riot line with molotovs
https://2ch.hk/po/src/41636942/16114255654380.mp4

Vasukhani posted:

snow balled, would never waste egg


this is kyiv

Beached Whale posted:

Ah my mistake, thank you for clarifying!

Vasukhani posted:

Thanks for posting the other two though!


Unless we start seeing signs of the coercive apperatus joining the protestors, I'm afraid this will probably simple be supressed.

sincx posted:

let me just say again: ahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhaha

不出所料


edit: holy poo poo some loser actually bought me a avatar

I wonder who it is, and what they're hiding

Grapplejack posted:

are there even any communists left or is this entirely right-wing focused

Grapplejack posted:

are there even any communists left or is this entirely right-wing focused

Ardennes posted:

It is anecdotal, but a lot of people I know that are more sympathetic to the Soviet Union, also really don't like Navalny, and for good reason.

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In 2011, Navalny stated he considered himself a "nationalist democrat".[254] International media have often commented on his ambiguous but non-condemnatory stance toward ethnic Russian nationalism.[255][256] He also has been a co-organizer of the "Russian march",[257] which Radio Free Europe describes as "a parade uniting Russian nationalist groups of all stripes" and noted that Navalny had also endorsed a nationalist-led campaign called Stop Feeding the Caucasus to end federal subsidies to the Caucasian republics.[258] In 2011, Navalny defended his attendance at the march, where BBC News reported that racist slogans were chanted, saying to reporters that the rally was an outlet for anger at the government.[259][260] In a 2011 profile, The New York Times said that Navalny espoused Russian nationalist views and that he starred in a video that compared "dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches".[261] In 2011, Navalny defended riots by nationalists in a Moscow district on his blog which was sparked after a murder was blamed on a migrant.[262][263]

Early in 2012, Navalny stated on Ukrainian TV, "Russian foreign policy should be maximally directed at integration with Ukraine and Belarus… In fact, we are one nation. We should enhance integration."[264] During the same broadcast Navalny said that he did not intend "to prove that the Ukrainian nation does not exist. God willing, it does". He added, "No one wants to make an attempt to limit Ukraine's sovereignty".[264][265]

Vasukhani posted:

this is kyiv 2014

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Our program includes a wide range of measures to free entrepreneurs from the pressure of the bureaucracy, security officials and monopolies. We are implementing a program to demonopolize the economy and reduce monopoly prices. We will reduce the number of regulatory bodies, and we will liquidate some of them. We will prohibit business inspections - control of operations will be transferred to an electronic form, and inspections directly at enterprises will be carried out only by a court decision if there are serious suspicions of violations. We will abolish separate tax accounting and completely switch to accounting reporting in accordance with international standards. We will prohibit the initiation of criminal cases in the case of considering the same case in the framework of a commercial dispute, as well as placing entrepreneurs in custody for economic crimes pending a verdict.

The judicial system created by us, completely independent of the executive branch, will reliably protect private property from raiding and arbitrariness of state bodies.

In Russia now there is some kind of incomprehensible capitalism, in which the state controls more than half of the economy and commands businessmen. Such a system hinders the development of the country.

We will abolish taxes on small businesses - today they give only less than 0.5% of GDP to the consolidated budget, while a huge staff of bureaucracy is maintained to administer them. It is easier to offer small entrepreneurs to pay a patent fee to the budget annually, completely freeing them from further tax control. Small business is needed to create jobs, ensure self-employment of the population, and not for fiscal purposes. (No artificial tax evasion will happen in this case, since we will rebuild the tax system according to international standards applied in developed countries - in such conditions it will be impossible to portray a large enterprise or a trading network as a “chain of entrepreneurs”.)

We will reduce taxes on the payroll (insurance premiums) from 30% to 15%, which will remove barriers to raising wages in the private sector of the economy. This will be done by changing the mechanism for forming the Pension Fund according to the scenario described above.

We will make peace with the civilized world, stop the aggression against Ukraine and thus achieve the lifting of sanctions that prevent our entrepreneurs from trading with the outside world and taking out cheap loans on world financial markets.

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We will deeply demonopolize the strategic sectors of the economy, develop competition in them, which will sharply reduce not only the prices for services of energy, transport, utility monopolies and public procurement, but also the rates on loans. After all, the current sky-high rates against the background of record profits of banks with an economy “lying on the shoulder” is a direct consequence of the dominance of a narrow circle of state banks in the banking market (today they control two-thirds of the banking system's assets). To remedy the situation, we will radically change our attitude towards the banking sector - instead of a privileged sphere of the economy that collects all the "fat" and twists the hands of honest entrepreneurs, banks will become an ordinary infrastructure unit, a highly competitive sector,

We will abolish non-tax levies like "Plato", utilization fees, overhaul, etc. All these levies are intended only for one thing - the enrichment of the officials and those close to him. President Navalny will cancel them, everyone will make only those payments that are provided for by the Tax Code.

For ordinary citizens, the measures we propose for demonopolization will have a very simple and noticeable effect in everyday life: at last, the constant growth of utility tariffs will stop. Utility monopolies will be deprived of the right to raise tariffs in the absence of an independent public audit of their costs. People will very quickly feel the results of our policy on their wallets - in a positive sense.

In addition, the cost of housing will decrease. Today, officials are massively holding land for friendly developers who are building mostly luxury housing. It would have been possible to build up the country with cheap housing for a long time, but this is not happening due to the monopolization of control over land by officials and the monopolization of the construction market by companies associated with the government. We will unblock these markets, remove bureaucratic interests from them, ensure transparency in the distribution of land and construction contracts, as a result of which Russians will finally get affordable housing.

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There are enough resources in the country to ensure high rates of economic growth and the welfare of citizens. It's just that these resources are being eaten up and plundered, and the resulting gaps in the country's economy are plugged by ever-increasing extortions from the population.

We will put an end to this. The state will begin to carry out its direct functions - to provide people with a normal education, medical care, pensions, and transport infrastructure. The state machine will be reduced in size and placed under strict public control. Entrepreneurs will be free to invest and raise salaries. Major transformations will be implemented in the first one or two years - entrepreneurs and citizens will soon feel the change in the economic atmosphere. Russia will move quickly along the path of becoming a developed, prosperous country.