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Riverside

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  • "Hard economic and historical data" with no sources

    Can't provide you the exact pages right now, but my sources are:

    -Robert C. Allen's "Farm to Factory: a reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution"

    -Alec Nove's "An economic history of the Soviet Union"

    -Albert Szymanski's "Human Rights in the Soviet Union" and "Is the red flag flying"

    -A. Zveriev's "Lo que recibe el trabajador soviético además de su salario"

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  • I gave you hard economic and historical data, what part of what I said is bad faith?

    And what elections are you talking about, provisional government?

    I'm critical of many aspects of Soviet socialism, not sure what you're talking about

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  • The vast majority of housing in the country is that type of housing, meaning that the vast majority of people end up living in it, willingly or not.

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  • Soviet architecture is a byproduct of the material circumstances of the moment. The USSR industrialized at an unforeseen speed, took it less than 40 years to reach industrial maturity compared to 100-150 for Great Britain and Germany. They had to build housing for tens of millions of people in newly erected cities from scratch. They managed not only to do that, but to do it fairly, guaranteeing housing for everyone and eliminating homelessness, housing costing 3% of monthly income on average, and on top of that it was built in walkable neighborhoods with a wide variety of services nearby from stores to schools to medical care, and with top notch public transit and urban planning for the time, leaving space for green areas and playgrounds.

    Nothing of that is authoritarian, you've been brainwashed by capitalism to hate socialism.

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Huh?

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • What part of "US sanctions murder half a million people yearly" do you not understand or care about?

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • 18k news posts, most of them from genocide-complicit western Zionist media

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • I can't fathom how, after the disgrace that western media has proven to be during the "Israeli" genocide of Palestinians, posting unending links to western mass-media can be considered a positive and not a tool of brainwashing.

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • I find it hard to engage with these people without using ableist terms, I've settled on "purposefully obtuse" because it's clear and neutral enough I believe. Thanks for reading anyway

  • The meaning of life?

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  • You can disengage now. You may or may not reflect on to which degree you're actually thinking by yourself or just vomiting mass-media by the fact that I pinpointed your country of origin based on two comments on Lemmy, I won't keep listening to you because I could just as easily listen to the same bullshit by turning on any state Estonian TV station. Have a good and russophobic day

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  • Disengage.

  • The meaning of life?

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  • "Russophobic"? We're not afraid of them

    "Islamophobic"? We're not afraid of them

    Literally MAGA discourse. I can smell Baltic right wing nationalists from a mile away.

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • so the audience does not come to a rational conclusion but a fabricated one

    That's not how propaganda works, propaganda explicitly can be true information as explained to you before using the Wikipedia article. I literally quoted it to you, it can be factual information.

    Mentioning atrocities in every single paragraph is the biggest case of atrocity propaganda, and if you are purposefully obtuse enough not to see it, just drop this conversation.

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  • I updated my prior comment with a poll in Romania.

    The fact that you talk of "Russian occupation" tells me you're likely from the Baltics, where this conspiracy theory is most promoted. Smaller nations are influenced by geopoltical blocks, that's just how reality works, I don't see you talking about current "German occupation" due to belonging to the EU, or "US occupation" due to belonging to NATO. People in the Baltics are extremely russophobic, this is where this conspiracy theory stems from.

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  • russian occupation

    As I said, Balts or Poles don't count. Your far-right nationalist great replacement conspiracy theories aren't factual. You're indistinguishable from MAGA crying about being run over by Mexicans, French far right crying about being run over by black people, or Spaniards crying about being run over by Moroccans.

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  • Reporting ICE crimes is also atrocity propaganda. Propaganda doesn't mean it's bad, it just means you're swaying public opinion. I believe that spreading anti-ICE propaganda is good because ICE are a bunch of fascist pigs, I believe that propagating anti-Iran propaganda in the context of the military buildup against Iran is bad because it serves to justify the casus belli and the upcoming military invasion.

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  • From the text in the post, I've added emphasis:

    ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

    As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality

    More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.

    The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.

    “Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”

    There is literally not one paragraph in the post text without atrocity propaganda, some paragraphs with several cases. Are you being purposefully obtuse?

    They are spreading details about the crimes committed by the enemy, whether factual or not, and this can serve to justify a casus belli. It's literally the definition of atrocity propaganda.

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  • Iran has been under extreme sanctions for 45 years. Trump has intensified them prior to military invasion, yes, but the entire US government apparatus is complicit in the murder of hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians through economic deprivation.