uralsolo [he/him] @ uralsolo @hexbear.net

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Cuba did not have values above the very low threshold for undernourishment or child mortality at any point since 2000 and is therefore not included in the 2022 Global Hunger Index.

In the 2022 Global Hunger Index, Jamaica ranks 35th out of the 121 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2022 GHI scores. With a score of 7.0, Jamaica has a level of hunger that is low.

Undernourishment in Cuba has been under 5%, and child mortality under 1%, every year since the year 2000. For Jamaica undernourishment currently hovers at 6.9%, and child mortality 1.3%.

Anecdotes are useless in a discussion like this. I don't care what you think you saw, I care about the facts.

I've worked hard for what I have too. That doesn't stop me from looking around, seeing that there are billions of people on this planet who work way harder than I do for way less than I have, and saying "this system should be changed."

idk what communist countries you've been to, but if you compare for example the average Cuban's quality of life to that of the average person on any other Caribbean island, capitalism doesn't come out looking too hot. Most post Soviet countries are still poorer today than they were in 1989, almost everyone who has been lifted out of poverty in the past generation is Chinese, and there are literally hundreds of capitalist countries that have been doing capitalism for a hundred years or more that have remained the poorest countries in the world regardless.

The objective reality is that communism is leaps and bounds better at organizing society than capitalism can ever be, full stop.

We were talking about worker-owned companies, none of those are worker-owned companies and therefore don't actually refute anything.

That is how capitalism works.

Yes. And it is deeply unfair in how it rewards entrenched wealth rather than giving everyone equal opportunities. That's why socialists are opposed to it.

Indoor plumbing is pretty cool. Used to be you had to shit in a bucket and then go pour it into a sewer drain - but because this was slightly inconvenient people got into the habit of dumping it out their windows.

I like how every single new car model is an almost-identical Crossover.

give an example

an example

you people and your excuses

Well the main thing is the concentration of capital. Guys like Jeff Bezos aren't interested in founding cooperatively-owned companies, and they have all of the money. Add in the fact that average people are very strongly atomized and prevented from forming stable social bonds, and the likelihood that you'll get a cadre of people together who want to start a cooperative business and can also afford to do so is very, very low.

That said, the few coops that manage to exist are often the best places in their industry to work, precisely because the profits are shared more equally than in the more common private or publicly traded corporations.

Market forces on their own produce many if not all of the perverse incentives of capitalism. Only a centrally planned economy, built on a foundation of grassroots democracy, can hope to overcome those incentives by doing economic planning with an eye towards future sustainability and quality of life, rather than towards profitability.

It makes sense narratively and tactically that he timed his charge with the sun creeping over the hill so that the orcs were blinded by it though.

Writing. I've written a lot of fiction under a lot of pen names, have had a few stories printed (which I won't link to for opsec reasons), and I have multiple unfinished books in-progress (and/or abandoned) on my google drive.

As a kid I had to choose between FFXI and Star Wars Galaxies - and then Planetside came out!

I had a lot of good times in those games but switching between them month to month because I could only afford one at a time gave me a pretty healthy aversion to subscriptions before I got out of middle school. The only subscription service I've ever had was YouTube Red when it first came out because I was interested in a couple of the shows, but they all sucked so now I'm back down to just one subscription (FF14) unless you count car payments and my cell phone plan.

edit: oh wait I've also subbed to Disco+ for battlebots, but that was only because whoever was uploading them to 1337x stopped doing it which was a shame.

Khodakovsky is already in his home country, which he has been defending from Azov since 2014.

My reaction to the news was to follow uBlock Origin discussions more closely so I can always have the latest workarounds pasted into my custom filters. $0 /mo to one of the wealthiest monopolies in tech? Easy decision.

The black book of communism is one of the most hokey and widely debunked pieces of sloppy anticommunist propaganda ever made. You would know this if you had ever interrogated your sources even a minuscule amount.

lmao you're a black book guy? To think I felt bad and deleted my comment.

Landlords, kulaks, Nazis collaborators etc are not ethnic groups, they are groups of people who have explicitly chosen to do something that is incredibly harmful to others, often thousands or millions of others. Saying that they deserve to die is no different than saying that someone who commits a murder does, it's just that our society has conditioned you into thinking that the terrible things wrought by capitalists are "normal".

This is why the international symbol for getting someone who actually deserves is it

You're right but you should watch out I posted a similar sentiment in this thread and people got all weird about it.