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  • Calling the USSR Marxist is an insult to Marxism. Especially what Stalin made it into. Hearing how people claim that was Marxism would have Marx rotating in his grave so bad it could generate power for the whole world.

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  • Ah yes, you also said you need a central party control for socialism.

    You said they had socialism, I said they didn't. You didn't prove anything. If you wanna go into how elections were run and how candidates were chosen then we can but the picture you provided was accurate for just a brief period in the USSR. I can't remember if worker councils were dismantled during Lenin or Stalin but by the time they occupied Estonia they weren't a thing. In the USSR the higher ups in the party controlled the means of production, they also controlled who people can vote for while making sure that vote didn't change anything.

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  • I did, you claimed that you only need to fight the bourgeoisie and practice central planning to be socialist which I absolutely disagreed with. Like I said you need democratic worker control for socialism.

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  • Hah, I grew up in the soviet occupied Estonia, democracy did not exist and neither did socialism. Advocating for anarchist ideas also got you locked up. I know enough about countries dressing themselves up as socialist to not fall for it. Socialism does not exist without workers democratically controlling the means of production.

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  • I'm guessing you aren't an anarchist because that's mostly about unjust hierarchies, not conflating the word authoritarian.

    Socialism and capitalism is about who controls the means of production. In authoritarian countries that would usually be the state or ruling party making it no better than the bourgeoisie of a capitalist country and in socialist ones it would be the workers. I know of no country where the workers control the means of production. Workers having democratic control over the means of production is absolutely essential for socialism.

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  • I need some evidence to believe that authoritarian nations kill and surpress anarchists less than others.

    Also none of those nations offer socialism any more than anyone else.

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  • You don't need to side with any hegemony but defending countries that would and have killed anarchist movements makes you less of an anarchist than one that does defend any western power.

    Ultimately advocating for anarchist ideals is more likely to work outside of authoritarian governments so I cannot understand how hexbear can defend those. But then again people vote against their interests all the time so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

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  • I tried to understand why they were defending governments like in Russia, North Korea and China but got permabanned for sectarianism.

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  • They aren't like any other anarchist I know and I'm in a local anarchist group. Like no anarchist should ever be defending authoritarian governments.

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  • I prefer if my instance is federated to everything and I can just block what I don't care to see. Like lemmygrad seems to be some fascist propaganda and hexbear is the same but for people that are underage so I blocked both. Apparently I was permabanned from both without posting or commenting there so it's not like I can interact with people there even if I wanted to.

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    Inflation?
  • Inflating money only loses purchasing power if it's tied to the value of something else as I originally said. That was literally my original point.

    And what do you mean by USD debt?

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    Inflation?
  • So what makes the stuff stores buy more expensive? Like you can create a chain of price raising as far as you want but ultimately it's just someone deciding to raise prices and that creating inflation.

    Again, only a handful of countries own US debt and I don't even know how US debt interest rates are going to connect to inflation in other countries. Like China and Japan are the largest debt holders and their inflation is vastly different.

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    Inflation?
  • There are a handful of currencies backed by USD but most are not. I only know of Belize dollar, the Hong Kong dollar and the Dirham as backed by USD, as far as I know those are the only ones.

    Do you think stores look at the inflation and raise their prices accordingly or do they raise their prices and inflation is calculated based on that? One of those is correct.

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    Inflation?
  • I don't think the federal reserve is active outside the US. Also printing money was the cause of inflation when gold was backing the money, now the worth of money is only governed by what you can buy with it. Like you can double the amount in circulation but if no one raises prices there would be no inflation.

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    PoE 2, lets goo
  • My first though was "Hell yea, another Pillars of Eternity game" then I remembered that Deadfire has been out for a long time and Avowed was announced a while ago.

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    Employee of EVERY Month
  • Rooms are made of stuff and contain stuff so there are like 100s of things someone could be allergic to. Outside of allergies someone could have some extreme form of claustrophobia as well which would make the whole idea of a room rather unappealing.

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    Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes
  • The article doesn't mention how it compensates for different keyboards. Like wouldn't different switches and wear change the sound?

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