Oh no @FreshParsnip,
you’ll have to wait until you’re a little older.
It’s past bedtime for you.
Have you brushed your teeth?

She got you there @FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca

What good are eagles in space if the enemy can shoot them down from the ground?

I played anti-monopoly. It was less fun.
It had nothing to do with marxism or glorious revolutions.

Then I’l controversially state that this won’t happen.
The universe is static. We’re seeing mature galaxies no matter how far we look.
Large distance redshift happens due to light being the interactions of ‘ropes’ between atoms that get stretched over large distances.

Freshparsnip’s singing ability

I live where

The Netherlands.

They mean something, just not in Usonia.

During the HTML 4 days.

Then there was no bigger enemy.

No it’s not.
This is correct:

3. Excuses by people who don’t know what actually happened or what the actual critique given is. For example counting millions of killed nazis and taking life expectancy and compare it to a nation completely untarnished by world wars with an abundance of fossil fuels taken from the indigenous people.

One can calculate this way too. I’ll show you.
Since Usonia is capitalist and the population is around 350 million of which the indigenous people is maybe 2 million,
Usonia alone has killed therefore at least 345 million people, since all those people could have been indigenous.

Because you live in Usonia.

This certainly isn’t the case with my country,
the Netherlands, where the problem is considered one of regulation
or with China, where the problem is considered one of national security and imperialism.

Capitalism

No, they were wrong.

The liberal socialist wave of China 1980-2015
should be seen as the inverse
of the social democratic wave of the US 1930-1975.

Both ditched it once it became unnecessary to preserve their socio-economic structure.

I advocate for a socialist revolution instead.

RIP left wave USA 1930-1975
RIP right wave China 1980-2015

No, what I think is weird was the time I was told to go into the women’s bathroom with my nephew by my sister-in-law.
“Weird request” I thought “but alright” so I just announced in the bathroom ‘Man with young nephew coming through! I have no idea why we’re doing this. It’s been requested by his mom. Nephew, why does your mom ask us to do this!?’
Then I came back and she asked about it and then said “No, I said don’t go in there! He keeps thinking it’s allowed”.

Short version: The blackmailing of oil rich Saudi Arabia and other nations by the US

I’m going to against the grain of popular theory here and
come up with my own and say the evolution of fossil fuels
did not bode well for the Soviet Union, so bad luck really.
You see, your system can be much better than the other,
but if don’t have the resources and by resources I mean energy resources,
because they provide production and transport, if you don’t have those,
you’re out of luck.

if you look at when the GDP in the Soviet Union started to stall,
it’s around 1975, five years after the 1970 US oil peak,
causing the US economy to crash and spiral out of control,
while the Soviet Union and the Middle East was thriving.

The USSR had an enormous amount of oil like the US did before,
but the problem with oil is that it competes with coal and oil is more
easy to transport, so it’s more likely for oil to flow to
the country producing the most coal than the other way around.

Prior to the 1970s, the US was the largest oil producer in the world by
far and was thus exporting oil to the rest of the world.
Since they were also producing the most coal in the world,
oil was not a curse to them as electricity provides
the basis for working factories and thus industrialization.
Saudi Arabia, a nation with almost no resources whatsoever and zero coal,
had a very long way to develop itself.

The US then used Israel to start the Yom Kippur war, which it won.
And the US then sent a diplomat to Saudi Arabia and told them that
if they don’t want more trouble, they would do exactly as the US tells
them what to do which was:

• Sell all your oil in US dollars only, no exceptions
• Invest all your profits in the US only, no exceptions
• If you make profits from those investments keep. You can do what you want with it.
• In exchange, we will give you military protection from other nations.

This is the petrodollar scheme and it worked.
And it didn’t just work for Saudi Arabia,
but other middle eastern countries.
On top of that SWIFT was introduced around the same time.

This allowed the US to go into massive debt,
receiving enormous amounts of money for investment,
while the Soviet Union, whose growth was dependent on selling oil,
saw it’s currency rate fall.

And we’re seeing the same playbook happening right now again,
with different factors and therefore different effects.
This time China is the target, but it is producing the most coal in the world,
the most solar power in the world, the most wind power in the world,
and the most hydro power in the world.
A low currency rate for a country that mostly sells
manufactured goods instead profoundly different effect
compared to a nation that mostly relied on
the production and export of oil.

And even the situation in Russia and Iran are different from last century
as natural gas has strengthened both nations.

If she looks good, she look good.
In a few years we can restore youth anyway.

Needs more people.
Also, some of us aren’t from the US.