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  • Zarathustra@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlGorbachev............
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure whether this is just trolling or whether you sincerely believe what’s in the meme, so I’m going to push back on it.

    I think pretty much everyone is in agreement that the USSR’s economic model had fallen to shit by the 1980s. Why on earth do you think they would even entertain switching to anything approaching capitalism?

    Ever heard the phrase “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us” joke? It wasn’t for nothing. Centrally directed economies don’t tend to work very well.










  • Zarathustra@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzErasure
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    1 year ago

    I find this opposition to DEI somewhat perverse since to my mind it has mostly been a tool to add some limited legitimacy to a cruel system devoid of humanity; it was there to wash away the more obvious biases of an unjust system.

    To my mind to remove DEI is to accelerate the collapse of the West. It seems counterintuitive to me that the people who are pushing for this seem to be the ones with the most to lose from it.