Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
The average value of the goods which were confiscated from the kulaks during the policy of dekulakization (раскулачивание) at the beginning of the 1930s was only 170–400 rubles (US$90–210) per household.
Assuming that’s not adjusted for inflation, that would be about ~4000$ today (using the high estimate of 210$). And 4000$ of farm equipment is a paltry amount.
Goverbmenr regulation to protect the working class ans promote unions is the remedy for this which the US is sorely lacking.
Definite agree here.
If it’s any consolation, I wasn’t the one who censored it. I just share what I find, generally as I’ve found it.
… but we’re far from the most unequal nation on earth?
Inequality is a feature of capitalism, but it’s not as simple as a linear relationship between the development of capitalism and inequality.
Ah yes, the two choices, genocide or Nazis.
Unfortunately, I only have a very shallow understanding of Edo period Japan! A lot of these things I share because I find them interesting on a surface level, but have no deeper insight into the history of them, sadly!
There is a difference, tbf. Starting primarily in the 19th century, when material science was better understood, it became possible to engineer things with much smaller safe margins than previously. This is, entirely unironically, a good thing - pre-modern buildings, when they are not shoddily made, are typically severely ‘overengineered’ by modern standards - that is to say, they use far more material than is needed for what they are used for and for how long they are intended to be in service.
tbf, the Roman engineering marvels that have survived are largely the prestigious “Some rich elite is funding this and gods help you if you make the rich elite look bad”, or “The military needs this and someone is going to get FLOGGED if it isn’t up to snuff”.
There are a lot of accounts of private construction - particularly of apartments, and especially of apartments in the city of Rome before the establishment of building codes during the early Empire - wherein they were shoddy buildings that collapsed at the slightest (or no) pressure.
Anytime before the 1980s was a very different time for US-Israel relations.
Works fine on my end, but it’s just a wiki article, so I’ll quote it:
The groma (as standardized in the imperial Latin, sometimes croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times)[1] was a surveying instrument used in the Roman Empire.[2] The groma allowed projecting right angles and straight lines and thus enabling the centuriation (setting up of a rectangular grid). It is the only Roman surveying tool with examples that survive to the present day.[3]
Or you make Dwarf Fortress
Surveying instrument to make heterosexual lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114
On 21 February 1973, the Boeing 727–200 left Tripoli and flew to Benghazi, for its scheduled stopover. After taking off from Benghazi, it became lost because of a combination of bad weather and equipment failure over Northern Egypt. The aircraft entered Israeli controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs,[1] it was shot down by the Israeli fighter pilots with the authorisation of David Elazar, the Israeli chief of staff.
The downing of the plane earned unanimous international criticism: both the Soviet Union and the United States condemned the incident, not accepting the reasoning given by Israel;[2]: 290 all member-nations of the International Civil Aviation Organization voted to censure Israel for the attack. Israel’s Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, called it an “error of judgment”, and Israel paid compensation to the victims’ families.[3][1]
That doesn’t contradict the meme. You may find Israel’s victory distasteful, but that’s different from misinformation.
And then, after all else fails, saying that criticizing China’s persecution of LGBT communities is “Pinkwashing” for the “Imperial Core”.
Are you saying NATO in order to stop a genocide, they killed the side who started the genocide? Well that sounds exactly like a genocide to me!
Jesus Christ.
“What about that time NATO attacked genocidaires in the process of committing genocide on another country and stopped as soon as the genocidaires withdrew?”
Yeah, I guess that was pretty horrific.
Ah, the PEOPLE’S bootlicker!
Secret self-hating Nazis, willing to commit suicide just to spite the Glorious Workers’ Paradise of the USSR. Insidious!