I get the sentiment, but those are some low quality memes. Coal.
Kamala is the kind of person you laugh at, not with.
Keeping my answer limited to quality of life under socialism, I'm stealing an info dump from comrade @yogthos@lemmy.ml
shit ton of text
That's fascinating given that communism has worked literally every time it's been tried. The quality of life, food security, education, employment in communist countries all improved drastically after revolutions. Let's take a look at USSR as an example.
Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world:
- https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016/
- https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequality-property-russia-1905-2016-wid-world-working-paper-201710/
USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%:
- http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm
- http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez
USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:
Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 period while having better nutrition:
USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960:
USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996:
- https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf
- https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm
In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67 and the average (not median) retiree household in the USA could expect $48k/yr which comes out to 65% of the 74k average (not median) household income in 2016:
- https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.pdf
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-you-get-by-on-the-average-americans-retirement-income/
GDP took off after socialism was established and then collapsed with the reintroduction of capitalism:
The Soviet Union had the highest physician/patient ratio in the world. USSR had 42 doctors per 10,000 population compared to 24 in Denmark and Sweden, and 19 in US:
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735675784900482 (sci-hub for access)
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USSR defeated a smallpox epidemic in a matter of 19 days https://www.rbth.com/history/331857-how-ussr-defeated-black-smallpox
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The Social Consequences of Soviet Immunization Policies https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1997-812-03g-Hoch.pdf
Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possilbe:
Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time:
A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life:
This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.
Finally, let's take a look at how people who lived under communism feel now that they got a taste of capitalism?
The Free market paradise goes East chapters in Blackshirts and Reds details some more results of the transition to capitalism.
Someone posted this same image in !politicalhumor@lemmy.ml and the comments are full of libs like "acksually, this is a complex issue. Ham ass would be genociding Jews right now if they had the upper hand."
Raised impoverished feudal nations into places with the highest standards of living to exist on Earth and is currently outcompeting the global hegemon. So yeah, it's worked excellently.
Sounds like a jihad I can get behind, considering "Jews" refers to the zionist entity and not Jews in general.
People like you are proof that free speech is a terrible idea.
How the hell is Sarah Palin in the top 20?
The avatar of America.
Found the fed.
That's because it always is deep state trickery. Wake up, sheep!
Crackdown? More like kkkrakkka down!
Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered.
If this was true, the entire world would have been communist by 1850.
Written traditional Chinese looks like carpal tunnel syndrome: the language.
My brother in Christ, our president is literally Joedolf "if there wasn't an Israel, we would have to invent an Israel to secure our interests in the region" Bidler.
He seemed cool in the original, but his basedness really shines through with the full voice acting and cinematics that aren't horrific 90s FMV.
Crackdown on Chinese fintechs like Ant group(who might threaten against Xi's 3rd term)
UNLIMITED GENOCIDE ON FINTECH!
Crackdown on for profit afterschool cram schools, tutoring, and education (Guise of helping the middle class citizen but actually locks them out of the little social mobility they have. Reality this mobility lock is seen as a stabilizing factor which helps Xi after he gets his 3rd term)
How to say "at what cost?" without saying "at what cost?".
Crackdown on gaming industry. Insisting full block M-F and 1hr max on weekends. (No fun allowed. No studying allowed. Only CCP school teachings. Afterschool is for CCP homework and restudying Xi JinPing thought)
Gamers: the most oppressed minority.
Crackdown on inflation (a threat to Xi's 3rd term) by with authoritarian pricing controls and market manipulation which causes unnecessary monetary losses
Reducing inflation by reducing costs of seldom bought high price goods while the cost of neccessities skyrockets 😍 🥰 💖
Reducing inflation by implementing price controls 🤮 😡
Crackdown on foreign tech companies
Laughs in tick tock
The Justice Department says the conspiracy has affected more than 300 companies — including a high-end retail chain and “premier Silicon Valley technology company”
The Justice Department says the conspiracy has affected more than 300 companies — including a high-end retail chain and “premier Silicon Valley technology company”
Here’s what tankies are and why they must be opposed
Disclaimer: fuck Putler!
My favorite part is where he calls Noam Chomsky (controlled opposition and liberal) the "patron saint of tankies".
It's between polite Hitler and rude Hitler.
Somehow has worse UX than marxists.org.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4444676
> This is the shit you get shared when your social circle consists of petite bourgeois (or aspiring to be one) cishet kkkrakkermen. > > I'd use a nitter link, but the only surviving instance I know of (nitter.poast.org) is operated by chuds.
I wasn't really politically conscious the first time I played, so I didn't properly enjoy it then. This time around I think I'm truly appreciating it.
I'm taking Harry in a lolbert/ancap direction. I'm using the Indirect Modes of Taxation thought and it pays you for picking ultralib dialogue options and reduces your empathy. The gameplay mechanics are flat out saying free market bros are shills. Fucking A!
Truth Social is America’s “Big-Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology. After Evan Boehs got the freeze peach connosieurs of Truth Social to release their source code again, I was immeditately hooked....
People accusing you of saying something/someone is beyond criticism when you're pointing out why their criticism is wrong. It is an incredibly weaselly and intellectually dishonest tactic that I refuse to believe it is ever done on accident. This happens all the time regarding AES, but I've noticed it in many other contexts.
SES Elected Representative of Democracy for the win!
Two groups exchanged gunfire in a park during an event attended by about 1,000 people, according to Philadelphia police.
“I wish my parents never get sucked down the QAnon pipeline.”
monkey’s paw curls
“Hey son, I’m really into watching this non-biased news program called the Young Turks…”