KoL_Enjoyer [comrade/them, comrade/them]

Why? Is the current government too sympathetic to Russia, too mask off fascist, or just mishandling the country economically?

Agents are another name for preprogrammed? LLM instances, as far as I know. So the automated AI helpdesk/chatbot that many websites have begun using, for example.

As far as the general gist of their comment, I agree with your parent comment.

I see your point on trying to look into the longer term and see the crisis inherent in the system. I usually end up trying to criticize capitalism as a whole, but since I’m not that well read, it does end up going in circles quite often, you’re right on the money there. In general, I think my views are still quite simplistic and fuzzy, which is why I’m looking to read more history, theory and devote more time to forming a coherent opinion. Thanks for the short writeup, it helps with that.

Thanks for the hakim recommendation, I am not that big into video essays, but I see he even has dedicated “reading list” videos. Cool!

To the second part, you’re right, I mixed up my words. What I meant was the countries of the Warsaw Pact, it’s just that it’s so often portrayed as a group of USSR vassal states. Regarding the statistics, I can see a definite trend within the USSR states and most Warsaw pact countries (thank you for pointing this out), but specifically Czechoslovakia seems to have stabilized in the 80s already and the market reforms seem to have had a smaller effect. Any idea why that is?

Heyo,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask (first comment in this negathread, I think, I’m mostly a newshead), but I’ve been getting into more debates about economic systems recently and I often get hit with the argument that “Czechia, Slovakia, Poland are all much better off than during socialism and even if income inequality rose in that time, general wealth levels rose by so much that practically everyone is better off”.

Would anyone have pointers to some books/articles, explaining the processes and events surrounding the fall of communism, with a particular focus on these western parts of the USSR? I’ve read Blackshirts and Reds(referring to the Market Paradise chapters here), unfortunately that book isn’t sourced well and it expects you to already be aligned with its way of thinking. The people I end up arguing with usually hold very opposing opinions.

Well, I’m not aware of the cultural differences in meaning, but the first word is literally “euphoria” transliterated into the Hebrew script. I’m a complete beginner in Hebrew, but the machine translation sounds pretty much on point to me. “The euphoria lived for a short time” or simply “The euphoria was short” is the most literal version possible.

I’m not totally sure you aren’t being cheeky here, but - Cave in (to someone/thing) means to stop resisting their pressure and accept their terms (while not being happy to do so)

The government caved in to the demands of the protesters. She caved in to her family and dumped her boyfriend.

Ah right, so uneven on a microscopic scale, flat on the macro one. Makes sense, thanks!

Correct me if I’m wrong, I have next to no knowledge on stealth fighters and detection technology.

Isn’t an uneven surface desirable in a fighter jet, though? From a radar-evasion standpoint. I remember reading something to that effect in a book a long time ago.

This is on par with refusing to play Tchaikovsky, absolutely unhinged behaviour.