The essence of being “late Soviet” isn’t big government. It’s that the average citizen looks around and thinks, This can’t go on. The whole system is fake and insane. Niall Ferguson cites budget deficits; he should look instead at health care & higher ed. https://t.co/ZdYX3nBIPS
— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) June 25, 2024
And surely, we are closer to that than ever before
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feeriker
June 26, 2024 at 2:34 pm
Yup.
freemattpodcast
June 26, 2024 at 4:16 pm
Will S.
June 26, 2024 at 4:26 pm
🙂
awildgoose
June 26, 2024 at 5:07 pm
Khrushchev echoed the same argument: “Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? Many things you’ve shown us are interesting but they are not needed in life. They have no useful purpose. They are merely gadgets.”
Sounds pretty spot on to me.
Will S.
June 26, 2024 at 7:20 pm
What’s that movie with the robot arm attached to the stomach, feeding the wearers?
Steiner
June 26, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Nikita the shoe banger really said…we will Barry you! (rimshot)
He knew about the KGB mind viruses and how stupid and useless dirty shit hippies and Marxist EDU maggots really are in former America?
Muh John Lenin (my spell) and Imagine world, peace and love comrade, go hit that bong somewhere else snowflake.
He did inject some backbone into Stalingrad as shown in Enemy At The Gates and was politically astute enough to release what was left of the German POW’s in 1956.
The rule by unelected council who can’t be voted out or ever suffer any consequences?
We will bury you as the shoe banger said.
Will S.
June 26, 2024 at 7:20 pm
🙂
Adolf Stalin
June 27, 2024 at 7:36 pm
I thought the parallels the author drew were correct, especially between the exhibition of US product in Moscow and excuses that would be, and no doubt have been, made for toothpaste being kept under lock and key in San Francisco.
To me, Biden is a hilarious version of Konstantin Chernenko, “Colourless Konstantin” lol-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko .
I hope the author’s wrong in implying that we’re still only in the Khrushchev era. I’d much prefer it to be the equivalent of 1985 when Colourless Konstantin kicked the bucket.
Will S.
June 27, 2024 at 9:26 pm
🙂