MarxMadness

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Russia can only keep up this pace of operations for 6 months to 1 year at most and that’s it.

That’s it, then the manpower runs out. Russia is already arriving with tanks coming from the year 1955.

I remember the warmongerers trotting these lines out at the start of fighting. 3+ years later, Russia has a big chunk of Ukraine and is steadily gaining more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

So effective that Russia is winning the war three years later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

selling lumber and steel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s

Every future member of the Allies did this.

What really separated the Soviets from other future Allies is it approaching Britain and France on the eve of the war with an offer of an anti-Nazi pact. imagine if those countries were not so rabidly anti-communist that they agreed to this.

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

As far as civil rights that women do not have (or are being taken away), all three articles only speak of abortions. Men already can’t have abortions.

You really thought you were cooking here, didn't you?

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

that’s still an excessive number of tanks per person to haul

Could have used a cart for the people, the oxygen, or both.

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

I like the comparison to measuring physical attributes, but I think a better analogy for IQ testing would be "trying to measure athleticism by trying to measure who's best at playing basketball."

Defining "athleticism" itself is hard. It might include reaction time, coordination, strength, speed, flexibility, etc. There are some naturally occurring differences in those attributes, but to a degree they are also changeable. Any bottom-line, all-in measure is going to include some arbitrary decisions about the relative value of each attribute.

Trying to measure athleticism by who's best at basketball adds another layer of problems. Basketball (analogous to test taking, cultural context, etc.) involves skills that are separate from whatever you're calling athleticism. It's also a game where a big factor in success -- height -- is also probably something a lot of people would consider separate from athleticism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Eh, a lot of school dress codes are (partly) intended to keep rich kids from wearing all the newest shit, which causes everyone else to try and keep up or feel shabby. All-black dress codes in bars or kitchens don't make things any harder for poor people, either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The "saving face" is am especially weird one, because no one anywhere likes to be embarrassed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh shit you're right, no one can do this and still parrot stereotypes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I give Democrats zero credit for "not playing by the rules" when that means petty corruption like this instead of anything meaningful

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