You’re literally support atrocities and tyranny. You have zero friends because you’re fundamentally evil. This is why when someone as soulless as you tries to pretend that they have some moral ground, it can only ever be taken as a joke. The “liberal” pejorative only exists in your head as a way to project your own evil on to others to cope with such a disgusting worldview
“It never happened but they deserved it”
There it is, you’re an evil piece of shit who actually supports these atrocities. You don’t care about the validity of the sources because you you never cared about what the facts are. To parasitic bootlicking enthusiasts such as yourself, cruelty is the point. You give nazis a run for their money when it comes to tyrannical monsters.
This isn’t something new, controversial, or some hidden secret. It’s something that’s academically studied and well documented. This was literally the USSR’s go to propaganda tactic when it was still around. Literally only out of touch tankies cannot comprehend common knowledge like this.
A big part of Soviet propaganda is their use of whataboutism is deflect criticism against their regime. Supporters of the USSR and far left ideologies have inherited this tactic, which is why whenever you see anybody criticize someone on the far left, they always resort to using whataboutism, especially about the US. It’s recycled material from a dead regime.
This is the type of psychotic shit that help remind me that this shitty ideology and its supporters are evil monsters who should never get anywhere near power. It’s no wonder that Communist regimes gave Fascist regimes a run for their money and then some when it comes to committing atrocities and tyranny.
This is an ignorant argument because the ideology of communism is not the communist utopia. These are two distinct concepts.
Marx and Engels were both notorious authoritarians who made fun of the pacifist socialists of their time for being too weak and cowardly, and they preached violence for as long as they lived, and this reflected in their works. The communist ideology as described by them has three stages:
Since communism is a utopia, it will never, ever be achieved, and so the communist ideology will always get stuck on stage 2 forever… and that’s exactly what we’ve seen in history. Every single communist attempt in history that has resulted in a successful violent revolution ended up being tyrannical hellhole with a regime that always swore that communism was around the corner but they’re not quite there yet.
The only people who try to conflate the communist utopia with the communist ideology are Marxists who are too disingenuous to admit that their crappy ideology is in fact inherently violent and inherently authoritarian. No amount of True Scotsman fallacies about “real” communism is going to change reality. Those were real communist attempts, those were real communist policies, and those were real communist principles at work. No, it’s not fascism, it’s communism. This is what the ideology results in every single time. No amount of attempts is going to change the inevitable outcome. People forget, but Fascism and Communism are sister ideologies. They’re not opposite ideologies, but adjacent ones.
I wasn’t arguing, I was just restating the point you made
Wikipedia isn’t the source moron, it’s just an aggregator of info. The actual source is the Soviet Union itself because they did this, and they left behind quite a lot of victims and documents for us to see what they did.
Soviet propaganda literally revolves around deflecting criticism of their evil behaviors with whataboutism with the US.
The point still stands that left wing authoritarians like Marxists and right wing authoritarians like Fascists tend to mirror each other in policy because there’s so much overlap with the authoritarianism.
Tankies literally can’t handle facts so they resort to toddler levels of denialism like this
No, we can say they were wrong because doing something like this is evil and tyrannical
For sharing a fact? You’re a “special” one, aren’t you?
You’re 100% correct, the people downvoting are dumb
Languages are like tools, if people don’t see utility in them, they won’t use them. The only people who would go out of their way to learn and use a specific tool are experts and enthusiasts, and there aren’t enough of those around to keep a language alive. If much bigger languages like Yiddish, Romani, Bavarian, Assyrian, etc are classified as critically endangered and struggling to survive then these smaller languages simply have no future. I think efforts like this are good for preserving the language, and there’s definitely value in that, but I ultimately think that this is a doomed language.
Most of these houses are not in downtowns of big cities but in rural towns that are far away from everything. Not to mention, just because a unit is vacant that doesn’t mean it’s not being used.
No, you’re just wrong. You can’t twist reality to fit some niche ideological fantasy that you find sexy.
The reality is that statistics show that if we took all the vacant houses including all those that are inhabitable, under renovations, all the second, third, whatever homes, and we took all the investment properties as well and made them all immediately available, there would still NOT be enough houses to meet the current demand.
The reality is that we have very nonsensical and outdated zoning as well as restrictive construction process that strangle output. We need to reform our zoning laws and expedite construction to pump the market with many new housing units as possible to not just meet, but also exceed demand. That’s the only way to bring house prices down in a genuine way while also giving people homes that they actually want to live in places that they want to live in.
How many of these are actually habitable? I would assume a large portion are either too dilapidated or under renovations.
I very much doubt that nearly a third of the housing stock is vacant for no reason, especially when it’s a seller’s market. The statistics for people who own more than home or buildings with more than unit are not enough to explain the difference. I’m skeptical of these random no name authors on websites like medium.
I know people here want a sexy quick solution, but the reality is that this country’s housing stock is too small, too old, and is not keeping up with demand at all. The one and only solution is to reform zoning laws, expedite housing construction, and pump the market with so many new units that it not only meets demands, but exceeds to the point where prices fall and we have a buyer’s market.
If they remove this then there’s no reason to get an android
I need someone to explain to me, what situation could possibly arise that would require me to use Copilot on my fucking TV?