Lol I’m plenty aware Ukraine is Nazi infested, but the downvote stays.

This is a meme comm, not necessarily a political debate comm. The meme isn’t really that high of quality.

200% true, if he dies in office he becomes immortal

soviets often try to steal all the achievements of the country

Thing is that the workers in those countries were Soviet as well. Credit goes to the labor regardless of nationality. The softening of national divisions was a great achievement of both the USSR and Yugoslavian socialist governments. It has been disastrous that those institutions weren’t able to prevail until the current day (they should have evolved instead of been abolished, but I don’t know enough to comment much further).

I don’t agree with the depiction of the USSR as an outside force that developed these countries “for them”. It was an opportunity to come together under one republic and develop.

I think the meme is attempting to disparage the “ungratefulness” of present day liberals in these FSU countries, but I think it lacks nuance to say the least.

Those movies from asylum productions are so funny to riff on with friends like mst3k style

• snakes on a train
• transmorphers
• Titanic 2
• etc

I’m so disappointed with the state of tech and the way the “FOSS movement” as flawed as it can be at times is so weak.

Not surprised though, it was just a matter of time (about a decade) after the capital started really flowing that everything was required to go to shit.

The you for respecting Democracy ^TM

I think the meme is low quality and needlessly provocative (no offense OP I guess), but the answer is likely complex. Once the republics are under the purview of the USSR, the resources and engineerong may well have come from elsewhere in the country, even if the construction crews were primarily local people.

I don’t know enough about Soviet construction to provide an actual answer, though.

I think downloading one today is fine as well. It’s possible that it’s going byo get worse in the future, but it’s not like Wikipedia was perfectly “clean” and without its flaws/bias before January 2025. Wikimedia looks like they’re going to offer so e nominal resistance to whatever tf this is, but we will see how it plays out.

Question (that I’m not going to look up), but does wiki have a way to download everything with the change history? Cause in that case you could have an offline copy that you could roll back as far as you’d like.

Anarchist thought is applying criticism to hiearchy and abolishing those that fail tonl justify themselves. Unfortunately people online don’t read their theory and just say whatever they’re thinking.

For me it was that it said “forcing this upgrade may break your system, do you want to force the upgrade?”

And I was like “yeah, fuck it”, then installed mint after my system didn’t come back up (it was time for my annual re-install anyway)

If I’m making a mistake, I don’t think that would be it. I’ve been observing Bitcoin and its community since 2011.

Key difference is that Bitcoin people want/need their numbers to go up,up,up as a measure of success.

Here, we are hoping to cultivate a healthy community (at either/both the instance and fediverse level). From my experience on various subreddits, focusing on growth is not a good way to do this.

Communities are defined more by who is not allowed in than by who is in the community. Lemmy phase 2 kicked off back in June, and it still needs some time to find its footing at a sustainable rate of growth.

You think that all of them do it out of knowledge? Remember that if they weren’t born before 1980, they’ve really only experienced the effects of capitalism on their countries. I’ve heard it happen before, that some 20-25 year old who immigrated with their parents in the mid-2000s is going off about how “communism ruined my country and that’s why we had to leave”, or something.

In 1991 the referendum to dissolve the USSR was voted against by the population (of course it happened anyway).

I don’t mean to suggest that the political or economic systems implemented under communist governments were perfect, or even that great, but in the English-speaking world there is a tendency to assume that everyone (or even a majority of people) who lived there were against their own government, when it’s much more complex than that.

A modern example I noticed recently was in this video, where the people living in the warzone in Eastern Ukraine are generally supportive of Russia, and miss the USSR (I mean, if anything, the current conflict never would have happened). Of course these two people don’t represent their whole community, but it’s more complex than is commonly portrayed (all I’m trying to say).

Watch from around 3:15 till about 20 minutes in when the old guy in the shirt is done talking (or just watch the whole thing idc): https://youtu.be/drhgjxSJG6M?t=197

Everyone else just lived in pretty poor, if stable, conditions.

That’s the thing, they lived in a poor country. Not strictly because of their political system (as many flaws as it had), but because of global economics, and trade hostility from the USA that intentionally hampered growth. It’s not like they were purposely kept poor for funsies or cause the government were big meanies (sure, they were meanies in other ways). The wealth inequality between modern political leaders and funding sources (where the real power comes from) and the average citizen (particularly in the USA) is far greater than it ever was in the USSR.

Things are better for some and worse for many since then in Russia, but in other places like Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova everyone lost except for the rich guys who pillaged all the private infrastructure.

People might not like it, but you can watch a couple of people who are living in Eastern Ukraine (yes, the literal warzone) in this video talk about how shit was better until 1991. Cause, you know, they wouldn’t be living in a warzone for one thing. Watch from 03:15 till about 20 minutes in, if you’d like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drhgjxSJG6M

Not in the US there isn’t

Fuck Google

So some people really not grasp that?

Actually, yes, the original FOSS movement had more right-libertarian roots than anything to the left, although nowadays some might see it as “common ground”.