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Wild that using a source like this with a straight face doesn't cause you to pause and wonder if maybe there's anything to question about the US academy and their hegemonic representation of history.

Not sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that... in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

In order to have been a worker for at least 5 years in both systems and therefore have an informed opinion of the difference, you'd need to have been at least 25 by the collapse.

Tack 30 years into that and yeah, at youngest the people with the most informed opinion on which system they preferred are going to be old.

And if you think you had a better system that in the past and it got destroyed, feeling nostalgic isn't weird it's the most normal emotion possible.

How about that? in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IDK chief this sounds like whataboutism to me

What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (37 children)

Here? Bicycles. Super weird how weird people are about bikes and bike lanes here. Spreading the joy of a non-commodified fun-as-fuck method of transportation often provokes some truly reactionary energy here.

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Income inequality in Russia over the period of the USSR (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by MF_COOM@hexbear.net to c/communism@lemmygrad.ml

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/467394

My first time trying cross-posting, hope I did this right

Source: Piketty's World Inequality Report 2022

I shared this deep in a dunk thread earlier and figured there's probably many comrades who haven't seen this data. I think it's very good rhetorically because a lot of libs have an incredibly vibes-based impression that the Soviet Union was just an Animal Farm old-boss-same-as-the-new-boss situation.

Instead, this demonstrates that Russia underwent one of the most dramatic inversions of income inequality of any country in recorded history.

For comparison here is the US over the same time period:

China:

And the UK: