Someone was just talking about this on Hexbear earlier. I think I might give it a shot
Drewfro66
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You've been posting "The Russian Economy will collapse any day now!" posts every week for like two years at this point. Doesn't it eventually feel silly to keep making these predictions that never come true?
I never said that the demographic consequences were unpredictable, just that they were unintentional - the policy was put in place to control population growth. It had unfortunate secondary consequences which should have been mitigated, but they were not intentional.
Other than that I think your comment shows a strong and fair understanding of the issues. Every state, especially Socialist ones, has had their missteps - and the One-Child Policy was one of those.
Boiling an issue like this down to "China Bad" is a brainless understanding of the issues.
The same thing happened (and still does happen) in America with the "Mail-Order Bride" services.
As an economy advances and provides greater opportunities for women, many of them will choose education and careers over marriage and motherhood. But, for better or worse, men still want wives. This gender imbalance (exacerbated in China's case by the now-revoked One-Child Policy's unintentional demographic consequences).
Most of these women aren't being "kidnapped". They are women who knowingly travel to China because they believe the opposite of what you claim - that China is an opportunity for a better life than what they live with in Burma or Thailand or the Philippines. But this hope is taken advantage of by human traffickers and desperate men and they end up living not a free and equal life but one of domestic servitude.
A completely worthless statement as long as they are still prosecuting pro-Palestine protestors as "antisemites".
This is a perfect example of how article headlines are used as propaganda to influence opinions even when the article content is relatively unbiased.
Some small number - only two are mentioned in the article - of women in one small town were given meat grinders because they specifically asked for them and were happy to receive them. This is literally what the article says.
This is not news. It's an attempt to portray "The Russians" as Disney-esque villains mocking the family of deceased soldiers when even the article content itself opposes this narrative.
The last three I think are especially important - many people don't really understand how political national flags can be and that they never really just represent a people/region/language in a completely unbiased way.
If the Democrats wanted me to vote for their candidate they should have picked one that didn't suck balls
The dissolution of the state is the final stage of Communism. The material conditions of Stalin's time did not call for it; and if anything, the greatest critique of Stalin among modern Leninists is that his economic policy of mass collectivization was Ultra-Leftist.
That's functionally the difference between Anarchism, a fundamentally Individualist and Idealist ideology, and Marxism, which is fundamentally Collectivist and Scientific.
A Marxist political society will also tend towards Classlessness and Statelessness, though in the case of Marxism both of these are not goals but an inevitable result of a society dominated by the Proletariat according to Marxist theory.
Stovetop strip steak, roasted veggies and steak fries, mushroom and onion topping, and the best garlic bread I've had in my life.
Measuring is for nerds. I just vibe.
Marinade (24/hr):
Mostly soy sauce
Olive oil
Worcester sauce
Lemon juice
Red wine vinegar
Garlic powder
Dried rosemary
Steak:
New York Strip. Boneless, because I don't like the hassle (and the boneless was on sale for $7.99/lb!)
McCormick Montreal steak seasoning
Fried in butter. I put some more on it at some point. Butter.
After cooking, put some garlic spread on
4 min. on each side in the pan, 15 minutes in the oven
Let it rest!
Topping:
Half a sweet onion
Two 4 oz cans of mushrooms
Two jalapeno peppers
A garlic bulb (chopped)
A lil bit of sweet red wine
A spoonful of sugar, added near the end
Fried in olive oil, like 10 minutes? Until the wine is reduced.
Veggies:
The other half of the onion
Another garlic bulb (just thrown in there)
Another jalapeno pepper
A big ole' carrot
A bag of frozen steak fries, forgotten about and added 5 minutes after the other veggies
Cook for half an hour at 450 F.
Garlic Bread:
Two loaves of Italian bread
The majority of a tin of garlic spread
Seasoned salt
A whole lot of Parmesan cheese, freshly grated.
Italian seasoning
15 minutes at 450 F.
Here's the recipe:
3 sticks of celery
One large carrot
A bulb of garlic
2 Lbs. of chicken breast
8 cups of wide egg noodles
8 cups of chicken broth (+2 cups of water)
Fried the chicken in olive oil, then the carrot and celery in butter. Added the chopped garlic then the broth, brought to a boil then added the noodles. After about 15 minutes of cooking added the chicken back in. Haven't tasted it yet, but I burned my tongue on the broth lol.
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Not surprising from the same group of people who supported the Nazis in WWII