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Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name] @ Gosplan14_the_Third @hexbear.net
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  • Resist the politics of privatization and decay.

    Too late. Railways have been converted to a public-private partnership in the 90s, and are trying to get broken up into a competitive market these days anyway, and local public transportation is also run by public-private companies. In the countryside, it's usually managed by a private company in the first place, often organized in local organizations of several firms that offer the same fares - which usually has hard borders and can for example lead to villages next to each other having a 5 h connection time through railways, which don't follow these area bounds.

  • The Nürnberg zones

    The VGN has the benefit of being yuge at least.

    I think Brandenburg's is the whole state + Berlin. So that's even better.

    Not like the Deutschlandticket has any real future unfortunately. Gotta see if it at least survives the Merz government.

    As for DB - the ICE are horrible when it comes to reliability, but I found the regional trains actually mostly pretty good. Even if they have the tendency to be kinda dirty and always have broken toilets.

  • Israel has hit bourgeois internationalism with a sledgehammer, it's actually interesting to see. Even in the war of Ukraine, the libs using that as an argument to oppose Russia with, have basically dropped that talking point in late 2023.

  • So you're rich because others also bought into the completely unproductive ponzi scheme. Go brag somewhere else, loser.

  • On the floor of a Turkish community center. Alternatively, over the North Pole.

  • Without the Republican New York, it looks like a late 80s map with stronger democrats.

  • Slayers is great, especially the first two seasons, before it went anime original.

  • Oh hey, my family did this back in early 2010s Italy. The local gold and silver dealership proudly displayed a copy of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics near the counter, that was fun.

  • Iowa man hauls grain, becomes involved in a minor diplomatic incident. Meanwhile, someone else on the ship wonders if he's fated to become his own ancestor.

  • Compare that with Ukraine's 90% approval of independence in 1991.

    71,5% for staying in the USSR in the March '91 referendum (83,5% turnout) - 92% against in the December 1991 one (84% turnout)

    The public opinion turned around very fast in one year. Then the Communist Party and other left wing parties were the strongest in the late 90s. It's like Lenin's quote about there being weeks where decades happen. There's no reason why it could not happen again or elsewhere.

  • Yeah, it's a decent site. Their reviews are a good way to find out what seasonals are interesting, which are horny nonsense... and sometimes praise is given to shows that are both.

  • It's just gonna happen, without resistance.

    Fascists like it, because of nationalism and the prospect of having a huge army to "defend" ourselves. The liberals will be very easy to convince to toe the line. Leftists are a small group, and half are basically liberals anyway.

  • Or it could be the result of electing right-wing nationalists that do nothing but saber rattle

    The libs are just as good at it

  • A country like Argentina, beyond its meat industry, isn't really a country with a significant impact on the environment - but this will hurt the local population.

    By design even, considering what the aim of the current government is.

  • Venezuela's economic crisis really began after oil prices fell drastically in 2014 and the west used Chavez's death/Maduro's election to increase pressure on the country via sanctions which for example made buying parts to maintain oil refineries difficult. Before that, it was doing about as well, or better (of course, failing to become independent from oil exports) compared to the other countries in Latin America.

    Argentina was already in a crisis for the last ...20 years-ish, but this acceleration of the crisis happened in a week even as Milei backpedaled on some potentially damaging promises like cutting trade with China.

  • They will probably lose territory to Poland as well if this keeps up

    Sigh

    No they won't. It was a fringe position in the Polish far-right before the election and now that the libs have won it's even less likely to happen.