"Russia’s economy minister admits ‘reserves have largely been used up’ while communist lawmaker warns of 1917-style revolution as #GDP shrinks"
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"Russia’s economy minister admits ‘reserves have largely been used up’ while communist lawmaker warns of 1917-style revolution as #GDP shrinks"
Endless gloom and #doom stories about #Russia's #economy means you can forgive people for being jaded on the topic
They are correct that people saying #collapse is imminent are wrong
But
It's also wrong to conclude that Russia won't collapse
The truth:
It won't be tomorrow
But it also won't be never
Russia is in deep shit
Russia's economy minister admits 'reserves have largely been used up' while communist lawmaker warns of 1917-style revolution as GDP shrinks | Fortune
"If you (the government) do not urgently adopt financial, economic and other measures, by autumn a repeat of what happened in 1917 awaits us."
Fortune (fortune.com)
Honestly i feel Russia has never been *not* in deep shit. Kinda why they have had the market of cynicism cornered for literally -ever-.
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@crcollins @spreadthetruth @retech
so we push for the most left of the centrist assholes
or we run someone more left. maybe even run ourself
AND we vote against MAGA. even if the dem is a piece of shit
that people don't understand that drives me bonkers
the game is not "i want perfect, waah"
*it never is*
it's sustain
iterate
move left
*there is no better deal*
that people think "magic perfect candidate appeared then everyone lived happily ever after" is insane delusional entitlement
Very much a "white savior will come to rescue us" flavor in there.
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@benroyce @spreadthetruth @retech 100%. 25% show up for primaries. Even if your far left choice doesn't win the primary, their relative success informs the platform, cabinet nominations, and policies of the winner.
@farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it's SO FUCKING OBVIOUS
but instead these fake, weak willed cosplaying so-called "leftists" go "waah, not fair", don't vote, and of course they lose
who the fuck are these loser assholes?
if you play the game, you can lose
if you don't play the game you WILL lose
all i see in people who don't vote is massive disgusting entitlement
they are NOT real leftists!
they do not have an ideological agenda
they are people with a self-serving psychological agenda
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@mikelovesbikes @benroyce @retech If you're unaffiliated are you allowed to vote in the Primaries?
@roknrol @benroyce @retech In Colorado, yes. You're allowed to vote in any *one* party's Primary if you're unaffiliated. If you try to vote in more than one, none of your votes will be counted. Also, if you want to vote in the Primary for a party other than the main two (Libertarian or Unity, in Colorado), you have to specifically ask to be mailed that party's ballot (if you vote by mail, which I do).
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@roknrol @benroyce @retech In Colorado, yes. You're allowed to vote in any *one* party's Primary if you're unaffiliated. If you try to vote in more than one, none of your votes will be counted. Also, if you want to vote in the Primary for a party other than the main two (Libertarian or Unity, in Colorado), you have to specifically ask to be mailed that party's ballot (if you vote by mail, which I do).
@mikelovesbikes @benroyce @retech Oh excellent...that's a fab setup.
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@farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it's SO FUCKING OBVIOUS
but instead these fake, weak willed cosplaying so-called "leftists" go "waah, not fair", don't vote, and of course they lose
who the fuck are these loser assholes?
if you play the game, you can lose
if you don't play the game you WILL lose
all i see in people who don't vote is massive disgusting entitlement
they are NOT real leftists!
they do not have an ideological agenda
they are people with a self-serving psychological agenda
@benroyce @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it's a social/moral/psychological laziness
too lazy to oppose nazis.. ffs -
@benroyce @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it's a social/moral/psychological laziness
too lazy to oppose nazis.. ffs@DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it really is
these fucking fake leftists
they whine and whine
they don't fucking #vote
in their immature minds they think magic perfect #candidate descends from the clouds, *then* they vote, and everyone lives happily ever after
fucking idiocy
1. you pick better or worse
2. you sustain
3. you iterate to better
but!
this takes effort and time
useless whiny entitled pieces of shit don't like that
so they don't vote and help give us #fascism
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@DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it really is
these fucking fake leftists
they whine and whine
they don't fucking #vote
in their immature minds they think magic perfect #candidate descends from the clouds, *then* they vote, and everyone lives happily ever after
fucking idiocy
1. you pick better or worse
2. you sustain
3. you iterate to better
but!
this takes effort and time
useless whiny entitled pieces of shit don't like that
so they don't vote and help give us #fascism
@benroyce @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
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@roknrol @mikelovesbikes @retech
every state has different rules about who can #vote in the #primary
you got closed, partially closed, partially open, open to unaffiliated voters, open, multi-party, etc
it's fucking complicated, and part of our problem with voting in general in the #USA because people are never educated about it and never figure it out
it still doesn't mean they are free of blame IF THEY DON'T FUCKING VOTE IN THE #PRIMARIES
educate yourself AND VOTE
@benroyce i'm lucky to live in an open primary state
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@benroyce @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
it makes me literally spitting mad...@DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth @retech
sometimes i really think these fake leftists are worse than MAGA
MAGA is malice. they are intentioned and exert effort
so they are an enemy
an enemy is something you can coherently define
fight
and defeat
but what do we do with these entitled inert lumps farting up the room with their endless endless whining?
they just sit there in their spineless cynicism going "it's not fair waaah" and they never do a fucking thing to improve the world
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that americans complain about their #candidates, but don't fucking show up and vote in the #primaries, is nothing but a massive indictment of average americans
you need to fucking show up in the fucking primaries people!
that is where you get real #left candidates
if you don't do NOT fucking complain about the candidates in the general #election!
YOU failed to show up in the primaries so that is on YOU
@benroyce @spreadthetruth @retech I will go a step further.
Vote in every election. Your school board is crucial otherwise Moms for Liberty wouldn’t send agitators and funding to push candidates with extreme right wing agendas. My tiny town of 4,000 has had to deal with this. It’s like this with every public office, they’re all important.
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@Sfwmson @benroyce @crcollins @spreadthetruth @retech my current response to those people is “thank you for the current SCOTUS. I am certain that as a cishet white male ( because for fucks sake they are cishet white males 99.9% of the time ) it will be quite some time before they impact you. Bravo.”
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Joe you need to to remove socialism from your list
Democrats think Sweden, Denmark and Norway are socialist
Republicans think China, Venezuela and Russia are socialist
so i want to sidestep the inevitable argument about what socialism means and simply note that the term is just a lightning rod in the USA for endless pointless bickering over word definitions
international observers: you may laugh, the USA is a land of morons dealing with decades of propaganda hangover
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@retech @DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth
"That women didn't know about primaries"
what?
why are you gendering this topic?
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@retech @benroyce @DonChacale @spreadthetruth Performative cynicism will get us nowhere. Generalization will get us nowhere. There are no pure socialist societies. There are no pure capitalist ones either. They are all blends. Intelligent participation adjusts the blend for the better. There is nothing more privileged than calling for revolution, to burn it all down. Because you know you will survive. Want people to vote? Stop telling them their vote doesn't matter.
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@benroyce @DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth The part I referenced: "...so out did canvassing the other day, a lady said I don't need your literature and we replied with its for the primaries she said I always vote... "
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@benroyce @DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth The part I referenced: "...so out did canvassing the other day, a lady said I don't need your literature and we replied with its for the primaries she said I always vote... "
@benroyce @DonChacale @farbel @spreadthetruth I just deleted what I said. It will only muddy the waters.
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@retech @benroyce @DonChacale @spreadthetruth Performative cynicism will get us nowhere. Generalization will get us nowhere. There are no pure socialist societies. There are no pure capitalist ones either. They are all blends. Intelligent participation adjusts the blend for the better. There is nothing more privileged than calling for revolution, to burn it all down. Because you know you will survive. Want people to vote? Stop telling them their vote doesn't matter.
@farbel @retech @benroyce @DonChacale @spreadthetruth
And just because a country calls itself, socialist, or democratic, or even a republic, does not mean it is one.
(and beware f those that think that being a republic and a democracy are mutually exclusive)
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@retech @benroyce @DonChacale @spreadthetruth Performative cynicism will get us nowhere. Generalization will get us nowhere. There are no pure socialist societies. There are no pure capitalist ones either. They are all blends. Intelligent participation adjusts the blend for the better. There is nothing more privileged than calling for revolution, to burn it all down. Because you know you will survive. Want people to vote? Stop telling them their vote doesn't matter.
@farbel @retech @DonChacale @spreadthetruth
"Because you know you will survive"
most of those cosplaying revolutionary will not survive a real revolution
furthermore, revolutions are not bastions of ideological purity. whoever wins could be worse. even if by some miracle something better does win, the new regime will still deal with impotent purists whining "but i want perfect, waah"
toxic idealists who bizarrely defer to revolution are excuse making for their own uselessness
