Who’s the one telling you that the USSR, Cuba, China, Venezuela or Vietnam are/were autocracies?

If you actually investigate countries that have substantive / economic democracy, which goes far beyond the liberal equality before the law, you’ll find them to be far more democratic than the countries accusing them of being autocracies.

USonians used to be more community-focused. In the 1950s polio was eradicated due to massive community efforts, showing that they were willing to do things to benefit their community.

Nowadays they won’t even do the same to benefit their extended families.

During covid, going to a rural area in the US really got to me. The population is so individualistic / freedom-brained / “i do whatever I want all the time”, that their grandmothers all dying meant nothing to them. I got mine keeps meaning smaller and smaller groups of people.

Or even better, reading books. With respect to a small minority, podcasts are not a great source to learn about anything.

It’s such a long book(> 20 hours), but very good. I only finished it ~ a year ago, and I remember the person who recorded the audiobook said it’s been a journey.

I like this version better, thx.

Anytime anyone whines about “commies / tankies”, they’re entirely complicit with these mass killings.

Good article from forward on the existing Nazi collaborator monuments in Latvia, and their participation in the Holocaust.

Stalin offered the western powers a million men to field against nazi germany, and they refused.

It’s the most anti-communist country on the planet, so there’s not much hope. Talk of raising wages or organizing collectively, or not agreeing with US imperialist foreign policy gets you labelled a commie / tankie by its witch-hunting, McCarthyite majority.

If there’s a list of countries to next take the communist road, the US would be dead last.

This has never done anything in countries that use it, like SK, Japan, Australia, etc. It might make the candidate stacking a little more expensive, but that’s it.

If capital stands above the political system, the method of voting doesn’t matter.

Kamala was VP under Biden, who like Obama gave billions to Israel to murder Palestinians. Even tho the majority of people oppose the war, they get this anyway.

The US is not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.

This is the correct answer. So many US’isms are bourgeois / aristocratic imitation.

Cars / wasteful transportation, lawns, sprawled out cities, high amounts of meat consumption, vacation homes / timeshares / exotic vacations, having servants, etc. These are things that are only possible for countries with huge amounts of land and resources, and not sustainable or doable for most of the world.