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meet me in st louis
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why not?

who was it that did the awesome OP on polyglot farming?
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Hell,
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Q: What did the Russians use for illumination before candles?









A: Electricity.
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getfiscal posted:

only an american could complain about capitalism being inefficient because it produces too much food.


and yet... you're fat

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Mike Nelson here.
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girdles_gone_wild posted:

and yet... you're fat

so what. i'm not training for the olympics.

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youre training to

be poured into a bag which is then shipped to Africa and dropped from a plane.

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Kurdt
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getfiscal posted:

commodiusvicus posted:

why do people in capitalist regimes starve then

capitalism does not guarantee economic success, it simply makes it possible.

capitalism works, in theory

#207
tardy on these heaters
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economic systems do not produce things
#208
Kurdt
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they produce posts
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Happy Victory Day!!

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С Днем Победы !!!!!!

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tardy on these heaters
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congratulations to communism for your victory
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do not forget indomitable spirit of great Soviet peoples
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tardy on these heaters
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congratulations to the ex-soviet peoples for their liberation from the russian colonial yoke
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hahah thanks you weird freak, go crawl under your own shame you strange, hateful dude
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Where is the French, the English, the Italian revolution ? Where is the world revolution ? Messrs. Ebert, Scheidemann, Erzberger, Eisner, Hoffman and whatever all their names are have kept none of their promises, none whatsoever . Why ? Because no new idea of state guides them, because they think the new form of government should be, at best, class rule, or worse : a system of parliamentary compromises ; because they are so far from the true socialist state that they cannot summon the courage to lay a hand on the capitalist system; because they have not yet understood what the World War was really all about, namely, that it was the final battle of the international monetary powers for ultimate world domination .
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babyfinland posted:

congratulations to the ex-soviet peoples for their liberation from the russian colonial yoke



what makes you say that the USSR satellite states were russian colonies, compared to colonies of western imperial powers?

sincere question, just want to know your reasoning 'cuz u mention this often

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because bolshevism is synonymous with chains and every communist is the ideological colonial subject of a foreign master
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noavbazzer posted:

because bolshevism is synonymous with chains and every communist is the ideological colonial subject of a foreign master



haha that's a cool, mentally ill person's opinion! hope you feel better soon! ya freaky dude

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Beat the squares with the tramp of rebels!
Higher, rangers of haughty heads!
We'll wash the world with a second deluge,
Now’s the hour whose coming it dreads.
Too slow, the wagon of years,
The oxen of days — too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart — our battle drum.
Is there a gold diviner than ours/
What wasp of a bullet us can sting?
Songs are our weapons, our power of powers,
Our gold — our voices — just hear us sing!
Meadow, lie green on the earth!
With silk our days for us line!
Rainbow, give color and girth
To the fleet-foot steeds of time.
The heavens grudge us their starry glamour.
Bah! Without it our songs can thrive.
Hey there, Ursus Major, clamour
For us to be taken to heaven alive!
Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals.

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there was another poll of former soviet states last december, similar to the 2009 poll but only covering russia, ukraine and lithuania. while explicit nostalgia for the soviet union has decreased, (though still in the majority), dissatisfaction with capitalism and parliamentary democracy are at an all-time high, with more russians now disapproving of the change to a market economy than approving.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/12/05/confidence-in-democracy-and-capitalism-wanes-in-former-soviet-union/
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Crow posted:

haha that's a cool, mentally ill person's opinion! hope you feel better soon! ya freaky dude



thanks i do too but life is fucked up and all we have is Blood and Honor

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raped_our_way_across_europe.jpeg

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Kurdt
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weren't soviet rapes mainly an American propaganda thing? thought I heard that from mccaine or impper or someone
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yes. much like the holocaust, it is a complete myth.
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gyrofry posted:

weren't soviet rapes mainly an American propaganda thing? thought I heard that from mccaine or impper or someone



Raping and senseless killings by the troops were cracked down upon harshly, but due to how Soldiers are, its not like you can totally and utterly eliminate all instances of rape occuring if you have your military occupy a country (conducted by forces of the Churchill-Hitlerite coalition attempting to undermine the Red Army's advance ((So Yankees can exeggerate it))

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Ronnski posted:

gyrofry posted:

weren't soviet rapes mainly an American propaganda thing? thought I heard that from mccaine or impper or someone

Raping and senseless killings by the troops were cracked down upon harshly, but due to how Soldiers are, its not like you can totally and utterly eliminate all instances of rape occuring if you have your military occupy a country (conducted by forces of the Churchill-Hitlerite coalition attempting to undermine the Red Army's advance ((So Yankees can exeggerate it))

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gyrofry posted:

weren't soviet rapes mainly an American propaganda thing? thought I heard that from mccaine or impper or someone


No.

read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Revenge-Edition-Revised-Updated/dp/1403973083/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336567782&sr=8-1

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girdles_gone_wild posted:

gyrofry posted:

weren't soviet rapes mainly an American propaganda thing? thought I heard that from mccaine or impper or someone

No.

read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Revenge-Edition-Revised-Updated/dp/1403973083/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336567782&sr=8-1



just because we launched repeated wars of aggression against you then slaughtered you in the millions doesn't give you the right to steal our eastern territories!!!!

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http://bit.ly/1Jzhh7M
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"a secret intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese."
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Kurdt
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does the fact that getfiscal changed his av back to brezhnev mean the anti-commie gimmick has run its course
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WillieTomg posted:

Q: What did the Russians use for illumination before candles?








A: Electricity.

theres a really funny part in a pelevin book (omon ra) about the lenin quote about electrification and says something like "because Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, soviet power is communism minus electrification."

the entire plot premise of the book, that the soviet space program was actually premised on sticking people inside probes and landers instead of figuring out how to automate the process (and that the program was also conducted in the moscow underground on sound stages even though the people that were 'sent up' were still supposed to die with their equipment, lol) is even funnier if you've just finished reading something like the soviet century that discusses bolshevik industrialization, because there's an entire theory about how the process was done using "a labor intensive variant of capital-intensive production," which is more or less exactly what Pelevin's fake space program is. basically he rules.

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stegosaurus posted:

WillieTomg posted:

Q: What did the Russians use for illumination before candles?








A: Electricity.

theres a really funny part in a pelevin book (omon ra) about the lenin quote about electrification and says something like "because Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, soviet power is communism minus electrification."

the entire plot premise of the book, that the soviet space program was actually premised on sticking people inside probes and landers instead of figuring out how to automate the process (and that the program was also conducted in the moscow underground on sound stages even though the people that were 'sent up' were still supposed to die with their equipment, lol) is even funnier if you've just finished reading something like the soviet century that discusses bolshevik industrialization, because there's an entire theory about how the process was done using "a labor intensive variant of capital-intensive production," which is more or less exactly what Pelevin's fake space program is. basically he rules.


agreed
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Mike Nelson here.
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gyrofry posted:

does the fact that getfiscal changed his av back to brezhnev mean the anti-commie gimmick has run its course

actually the woman in my avatar is audrey hepburn, not leonid brezhnev

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gyrofry posted:

weren't soviet rapes mainly an American propaganda thing? thought I heard that from mccaine or impper or someone



lmao

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the soviet rapes, much like julian assange's so-called "crimes," were actually a coordinated smear campaign by hysterical frumpy prussian woman working to undermine the people's revolution for a chance at earning some sympathy. r/mensrights
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Kool Keef Olberman sez that "in sweden it's apparently rape to have sex without a condom"