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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But the way in which he did it was very costly. Stalin is comparable to Musk in that sense. In love with technology and factories, but too focussed on advancement no matter the human cost. Everything was about efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stalin is comparable to Musk in that sense.

Christ. Musk is, if anything, more comparable to Henry Ford.

Billionaire car magnet with whole municipal governments in his pocket who wrecked public transit and spread antisemitism all over Europe? That's not the editor and chief at Pravda.

If you were to put Stalin anywhere in contemporary US politics, I'd say he's comparable to Shyam Sankar - the Palantir CTO who was recently granted the rank of Lt. Colonel in the US military. Or, perhaps, just straight up comparing him to Peter Thiel minus all the buggery.

In love with technology and factories, but too focussed on advancement no matter the human cost. Everything was about efficiency.

Silicon Valley has swarms of these guys. Most of them aren't constantly pissing themselves from too much Ketamine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If he hadn't been, would the USSR survived? That focus on technology, factories, and efficiency, no matter the cost, seems like the right approach when there's Nazis at your doorstep, conquering all of Europe and conducting mass exterminations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing says "preparing for war against the Nazis and capitalists" like murdering your entire officer corps of true believers that won the Revolution that you didn't actually fight in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I probably will, reality is extremely fucked up in entirely fixable ways but there's no indication they'll be fixed in my lifetime because they're all profitable for someone, if you're not mad you're either stupid or evil

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ussr survived thanks to allied aid and got to go on conquering all of europe and conducting mass extermination while putting other mass murderers in power who went on to cause some of the largest and most sadisic mass murders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When did the USSR conduct "mass exterminations?"

The largest and most sadistic mass murders were by the Nazis, obviously. Are you trying to downplay the Holocaust?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's about what I expected lmao.