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Double checked the number too lol
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Someone mentioned how homeless people are to americans what roma are to europeans and it stuck with me.
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Both groups elicit frothing hatred in bourgeois hateful anglos. 
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Sorry about the (whiskey-fueled) rant and all, but it's true. No more Soviet Union or Eastern Bloc, the Gulf War was held as a demonstration of how the US would take care of the bad guys as the world police...they had it all at this point. Whatever European leftist parties remained practically held a race to see who would turn succdem the fastest.
So how did they manage to fuck it all up? Socialism and communism were all but eradicated, but even if it's just a small internet space, there are people here from the imperial core who still think there's something to these theories, despite the fact that most of us were probably told from our childhoods that gommulism was something evil that used to exist, failed, and then ceased to exist in 1991.
My own theory is that capitalists got too greedy. In the 1990s there was this whole 
thing of saying "well, these factory jobs might disappear, but they can just get a better education and therefore better jobs" and a lot of people went along with that, accepting that the people who lost their jobs were a lower class of people, incapable of simply bootstrapping themselves into a better existence.
At the same time, anyone who thought there was something wrong with this system were treated with a mixture of amusement and mockery. How could there be anything wrong when we were doing so well? There was a token opposition to capitalism that was allowed to exist because they were amusing, like Rage Against the Machine was on a major label but most people probably didn't even listen to the lyrics.
There was unironically the foundation laid here for the End of History, not that everything was actually great in the world, but if the capitalists had allowed the people to just afford their treats, then nobody would've even noticed the exploitation of the global south that allowed them to have their treats in the first place. It was the perfect scheme, but of course the 
on top wanted more, so they started screwing with everyone's livelihoods.
Again, sorry for this terrible post which is barely structured at all. TL;DR: capitalists had it all after the USSR ceased to exist and we wouldn't even be here if they just could've refrained from ruining everything to make a slighty bigger profit.
edit: The tendency of the rate of profit to fall is something I should've considered when originally writing this post, because obviously that's a big one for why things couldn't just keep going like in the good days ~~after~~ before 9/11.
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Thousands of techbros and other insufferable people unable to escape from a 3 km radius in the middle of a desert, perfectly arranged in a circle
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Some few dozens, maybe a hundred, of exploited workers tho 
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After reading Blackshirts and Reds I am convinced that everything the West said about the USSR was pure projection
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What a depressing book. The chapters about life in Eastern Europe after the fall of the USSR were utterly heartbreaking. Even the little things like how free Summer camp for kids was abolished was just ... fuck dude. I don't even know what to say
This book actually made me weep. I honestly don't know why it took me so long to read Parenti. 
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Reporter discovers the hottest cth meme of 2019, writes 2500 words about it
“You have a generation of American men who found themselves incapable of continuing the tradition of engagement, success or whatever that they had been bequeathed,” says Matt Christman, one of the hosts of Chapo Trap House, the podcast leading the way on Hunter-loving-for-leftists. “If you don’t have money, that means you stay in your parents’ basement. If you do, it means you get corrupt fake jobs and do the most crack anyone has ever done. But the basic deficiency, the ill-suitedness for thriving is the same. So that’s where the recognition comes in.”
“Hunter proves the rot is at the heart,” Christman says. He might not mean to, but the president’s son is taking down shibboleths about propriety in Washington, confirming the disaffected leftist worldview that beyond the stump speeches and the glossy magazine profiles, politicians’ families are just as lost as the rest of us, if not more. To his fans, he is the id of American excess. What’s cooler than that?
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