Stalin stuffed the soviet beureacracy with so many loyalists that as soon as he died, the soviet union underwent de-stalinization.

A lot of it was the aging of the population and leadership, combined with loss of political knowledge caused by the loss of an entire generation during ww2.

We are not making sacrifices. The people being killed by dem policies are making sacrifices. This shit is 2 serial killers trying to pull a good cop bad cop on us.

Really on the nose that last comment there. Literally saying that they can be mildly annoyed into supporting world genocide. There is no way this person is not already a nazi.

leading discussions on theory

I thought these guys hated theory? Also, leading? Sounds authoritarian …

making clothes from scraps and making lattes whenever needed

Do these people think that the economy in higher stage Communism will look like a loose collection of arts and crafts projects?

Their disclosures often followed innocent questions: Have you seen the president lately? How does he seem? Often, they would answer with only silence, their eyes widening cartoonishly, their heads shaking back and forth. Or with disapproving sounds. “Phhhhwwwaahhh.” “Uggghhhhhhhhh.” “Bbbwwhhheeuuw.” Or with a simple, “Not good! Not good!” Or with an accusatory question of their own: “Have you seen him?!”

Somehow I find this to be the funniest part of the article.

I agree that Biden has been shamefully complicit in the Palestinian genocide (among broken campaign promises and rightful health concerns), though I would imagine that “finish the job” Trump would be a more destructive choice.

Biden also believes in “finishing them”, he just doesn’t say it out loud. The Biden admin has sent an absolutely enormous amount of munitions to Israel (without which they don’t have the military capacity to fight against Palestinians this long) and provided full diplomatic cover. The Biden admin has also sent boots on the groun in palestine, sending US soldiers to participate in the Nuiserat massacre.

I don’t hold Biden in the view of someone who is a champion of environmentalism or global peace, but an anti-NATO, anti-climate science, fraudster surely would be more likely to implement harmful changes that are difficult to reverse versus a generic neoliberal?

Biden is also anti-climate and anti-science. His optics are better than of Trump, but his policies aren’t. The whole thing about voting for Biden wouldn’t be a discussion if Biden was materially and significantly better than Trump.

The fact that you cling to belief in “actually existing socialism” - a system which failed in the 20th century

Most politically grounded ultra. This person has so little exposure to politics outside of radlib memes that they think AES is a political program or ideology!

On the face of it, the term is rather neutral and does not appear to necesitate the existence of war profiteers. Connotations of words often don’t propagate across cultural lines.

If this was true, there would be no need to write this article. Even the very next sentence of the article questions if the survey responses are true