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Riverside

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  • lying about the situation in Iran and Eastern Ukraine only helps the violent fascists in power in those places

    Looking at history, it's western intervention leading to far right in both though. Ukraine saved itself from Nazism thanks to communism, and only after western-style capitalism took control have far-right movements taken place. As for Iran, I wish Mosaddeq hadn't been ousted by the west too, but alas it's again not "tankie lies" leading to violent regimes, it's western meddling. The tankies you hate have advocated since the past century against the ending of the USSR (which would have saved Ukraine from the demographic and humanitarian disaster it's suffering for the past 25 years) and against intervention against Mosaddeq. If you had listened to the tankies 70 years ago, there would be no far right.

  • Its not looking good..

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  • Europe: collaborates in the genocide of Palestinians

    Europeans: "China is so evil and militaristic, look at all those hypothetical things they could hypothetically do to Taiwan!"

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  • Believe me, I'm a communist, there's nothing I wish more for Iran than a secular socialist government, land reform, LGBTQ and women's rights, economic equality... Unfortunately, the west destroyed their most recent chance at this with the total sanctioning and military intervention against Mosaddeq, because British Petroleum's interests in the region were more important than the lives of Iranians. CIA paying mafias to perform protests against the government, MI6 paying actors to destroy private property and pretend they were communists, military blockade of petroleum exports... The whole suite.

    This is why I reject so much further western meddling. If Iran is to have a socialist government, it will be by itself without meddling, and the point of focus from the west should be, IMO, preventing sanctions and military action against the Iranian people. However bad the Iranian government is currently, the only alternative for now from what I see is ISIS or Israel, and neither is better, it's the sad truth of geopolitics.

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  • It's not whataboutism, the protests are literally created by western-manufactured poverty, the US has admitted as much. Remember that the sanctions on Cuba are justified with the following:

    "to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government". I'm quoting official US memos here.

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  • You don't need to know much about Iran at all to know for a fact that US intervention will make it worse, you just need to look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine, and every other "repressive dictatorship liberated by US efforts" to see the consequences of invasion.

    The protests in Iran are happening because people are literally dying due to impoverishment caused by western sanctions causing the local currency to implode. Focusing only on the government reaction during a period of military buildup Against Iran amounts to atrocity propaganda, however well-meaning your intentions are. It's meant to create mixed feelings about the invasion amongst progressives "look at how dictatorial they are"

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  • How many people have died in Iran as a consequence of western sanctions since their currency exchange value plummeted? Remember, EU+US sanctions murder HALF A MILLION PEOPLE YEARLY over the world.

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  • But why leave the building initiative in the hands of the market+tax instead of just collectively making political decisions about what gets built where?

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  • I agree, that's why we all should condemn the western sanctions that made the local currency collapse and led people to starvation and violence

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  • Why not remove the concept of landlords altogether then? Collectivizing the lands would be an even more complete version of land tax

  • The clues were right in front of us.

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  • I don't think most people here have any problem with collectively owned computing such as torrenting or SETI@home. The problem are private companies.

  • London knife crime vs viral content about London crime

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  • Rolling averages are used to smooth-out graphs with high-frequency noise. Since measuring the stabbings per month only gives you some 50 stabbings on average, maybe one month you'd get 30 and the next month 70 due to stochastic reasons, and so to make the graph smoother and more readable and long-term trends more visible, you can do a rolling average.

    As for the "starting in 600", that's common practice and it's good as long as the axes are properly labelled, which they are.

  • London knife crime vs viral content about London crime

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  • Isn't the outcome the important thing? Like, clearly fewer people are dying/being hospitalized by knife attacks, isn't that ultimately the relevant metric?

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  • If it wasn't for that we would either be homeless or be all living in my grandparents' house

    Or you could become tenants from a wholesome small landlord! I wonder why that wasn't in your possibilities?

    Are we the assholes if we rent our house in order not to force my parents to work 200 hours a week since salaries here barely reach 800€ a month?

    So the people renting your apartment will be the ones working 200 hours a week instead? The lifestyle of your parents depends on other people paying them rent and you still can't understand why private rent is theft?

    what we need is strong national regulation, not banning renting houses altogether

    The "stronger national regulation" needed is the expropriation of rented housing to a collectively owned rent organization, and the masse-construction of affordable housing for social rent, and the rent of all of this housing stock at production+maintenance costs.

    To be clear: most people would do what you're doing in your situation. But the fact that your family is escaping overwork and poverty through renting one of their flats simply means that another poor person who can't afford to buy a flat is subsidizing their lifestyle. It's not that your family are intrinsically evil people, it's that private rent is exploitative by its very nature.

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  • And how exactly will they purchase a home in Ukraine if they're spending their income to pay your mortgage?

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  • You can blabber all you want about the great leap forward, the fact still stands that Mao liberated China and Korea from Japanese occupation, removed the fascists of the Kuomintang, and doubled life expectancy. Mistakes happened, but his mandate was still overwhelmingly positive and material life prospects bloomed as a result. How many people died of starvation in China during Maoism, and how many in India in the corresponding period?

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  • You can spread your anticommunist propaganda as much as you want, I gave you numbers and facts.

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  • the government would also have to pay for it. That means rising taxes

    Not necessarily. The government literally prints the money with which workers can be paid, there's no need to increase taxes to pay for such housing. Modern monetary theory is cool!

    But at the moment, we are quite far from that. I'd already be pretty happy if the government would stop selling their governmental buildings

    Yes, we're far, but that doesn't make reformist measures more likely, they're impossible to carry out without huge worker organizing through unions and socialist parties.

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  • He didn't starve tens of millions, millions of people starved yearly in China before Mao since it was a preindustrial country. Mao found a China with below 30 years of life expectancy, and left a China with 55+ years of life expectancy, Chinese communism literally saved tens of millions of lives in that era if you compare it to comparably developed countries such as India

  • Why I gave up electronics club

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  • Currents aren't drawn incorrectly. Electrons do move backwards, but since their electric charge is negative, the current goes the correct way.