The Soviet Union was, if not a traditional dictatorship, absolutely a totalitarian autocracy. Stalin was a brutal dictator and his successors were chosen by the communist party. Elections in the USSR were for show.

Life was miserable almost from the start of the Bolshevik revolution for most people. The USSR’s implementation of communism was so bad, it’s become cliche.

Is it possible the European mind can’t comprehend how big North America is?

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Oh, so now it’s “get the fuck over it”? Both sides are totally the same!

I don’t think so, bebe. You motherfuckers will NEVER be permitted to live this down. This is YOUR fault. We will make you choke on it.

Nothing you want needs to be done immediately. NOTHING.

It fits perfectly well. The placement changes the emphasis subtly.

“That’s a tall fucking building”

“That’s a fucking tall building”

The second calls the listener’s attention to the emphasized aspect whereas the first might reference the height in relation to other aspects… but would be more context dependent than the second form.

Easy there, Maude.

Not only was the use of the word actually contextually appropriate for literally producing emphasis, it was also fucking funny.

Maybe the problem here is the bizarre attempt at pedantry while consuming a meme. Not just a meme, but a meme about a meme. Unbelievable failure.

But she won’t. She’ll waste her money and end up with nothing.

Society would be so much better if people exercised their grievances with vigilante violence, amirite?

Mmmmm hot dogfood on a tortilla!

Here’s a wild thought: inequalities are not always written with the lower number on the left… or there wouldn’t be a need for two symbols.

Yup, this looks like the kind of trash that circulates on Facebook

Idiotic conspiracy theories are idiotic

An aircraft carrier costs almost nothing compared to the US budget. That’s not a useful metric.

Which is also why socialism will never work. Humans are piss poor at evaluating the common good and making decisions collectively (see also: the last US election.)

That take is rank fucking idiocy

He isn’t smart. He’s just a narcissist that lives deep in the warm embrace of Dunning-Kuger

The difference in speed is familiarity, not some inherent efficiency gain by typing commands into the cli.

Ah, the existential bliss of being in the bottom third of the food chain.

If you listen to the people on Lemmy, everything is incompatible with capitalism. So do we cower in the corner and hope the problems away?

The amount of death and destruction attributable to all nuclear accidents since we figured out fission is barely statistically significant when compared to fossil fuel consumption.

Regulatory agencies can and do keep accidents from happening. Not always, because people are both stupid and corrupt. But mostly.

Capitalism isn’t going away any time soon. Maybe in a post fusion world, we’ll cross the threshold of post-scarcity too. Until that happens, we do the best we can with the tools at our disposal.

You could make the same argument about literally anything. Capitalism caused the 737Max disasters. You want to give up planes?