Put another way, most communist/socialists wouldn’t be too unhappy if we could copy/paste the living standards of Nordic countries around the world. Problem is you can’t do that since they still rely on exploitation (still ehign capitalist and all). The end result isn’t that far off (in some ways), but it doesn’t scale.

200% true, if he dies in office he becomes immortal

I think we need a city leadership with some real “vision” which is now a possibility for the first time in a long time with the new charter allowing better representation at the top level. Near the end of the article, they briefly mention the idea of the City purchasing the Fred Meyer building, which could be the start of a way out, but it would take drive, patience, and vision to actually come to a solution. I’m picturing some sort of redevelopment that takes advantage of the proximity to public transit.

I think the bad news is that there’s no simple solution to restoring Gateway, and the neighborhood is suffering from so many of the same problems we see elsewhere in the city. It’s going to take a lot more than shuffling tax dollars around and trying to “gentrify” the area to bring the city to a high standard of living.

soviets often try to steal all the achievements of the country

Thing is that the workers in those countries were Soviet as well. Credit goes to the labor regardless of nationality. The softening of national divisions was a great achievement of both the USSR and Yugoslavian socialist governments. It has been disastrous that those institutions weren’t able to prevail until the current day (they should have evolved instead of been abolished, but I don’t know enough to comment much further).

I don’t agree with the depiction of the USSR as an outside force that developed these countries “for them”. It was an opportunity to come together under one republic and develop.

I think the meme is attempting to disparage the “ungratefulness” of present day liberals in these FSU countries, but I think it lacks nuance to say the least.

Those movies from asylum productions are so funny to riff on with friends like mst3k style

• snakes on a train
• transmorphers
• Titanic 2
• etc

I’m so disappointed with the state of tech and the way the “FOSS movement” as flawed as it can be at times is so weak.

Not surprised though, it was just a matter of time (about a decade) after the capital started really flowing that everything was required to go to shit.

Is that in reference to the 1930s etc?

I think the meme is low quality and needlessly provocative (no offense OP I guess), but the answer is likely complex. Once the republics are under the purview of the USSR, the resources and engineerong may well have come from elsewhere in the country, even if the construction crews were primarily local people.

I don’t know enough about Soviet construction to provide an actual answer, though.

I’ll take the “mutual agree” on all that. In the back of my mind I was thinking how “the location is really the core problem here”.

I do think that what I said is relevant to other commercial vacancies around town, so I had to soapbox a bit to blow off some steam.

I think downloading one today is fine as well. It’s possible that it’s going byo get worse in the future, but it’s not like Wikipedia was perfectly “clean” and without its flaws/bias before January 2025. Wikimedia looks like they’re going to offer so e nominal resistance to whatever tf this is, but we will see how it plays out.

Question (that I’m not going to look up), but does wiki have a way to download everything with the change history? Cause in that case you could have an offline copy that you could roll back as far as you’d like.

The loss is slightly offset by state-level changes such as a small increase in projected business tax revenue, but the net result is still a loss of about $621 million in general fund dollars. The decrease tips the 2025-27 biennium into negative territory, with a projected general fund deficit of $373 million.

Sure but the rent is the base value of "your business must be this successful to survive. We allow landlords to autonomously decide for our community what that value should be, with no value add besides a piece of paper backed by our supposedly democratic government(s).

(Property management is a fine job that is rarely actually done by landlords themselves, people managing the maintenance and occupancy of properties can and usually do make a wage like the rest of us workers).

It makes the city more interesting when “crappy” businesses can get by. It makes it easy for people to jump in to the market economy and offer something innovative, instead of just closing everything down and opening chipotle locations, or landlords letting occupants leave so they can make money on speculation which offers no value to our community.

This could work if you live in Venice or something, but i meant *taking* damnit

Karl Marx - The Principles of Communism

Finally, the third category consists of democratic socialists who favor some of the same measures the communists advocate, as described in Question 18, not as part of the transition to communism, however, but as measures which they believe will be sufficient to abolish the misery and evils of present-day society.

These democratic socialists are either proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class, or they are representatives of the petty bourgeoisie, a class which, prior to the achievement of democracy and the socialist measures to which it gives rise, has many interests in common with the proletariat.

It follows that, in moments of action, the communists will have to come to an understanding with these democratic socialists, and in general to follow as far as possible a common policy with them – provided that these socialists do not enter into the service of the ruling bourgeoisie and attack the communists.

It is clear that this form of co-operation in action does not exclude the discussion of differences.

It’s good to have a critical understanding of RT’s viewpoints. In this case, like the other user said, it’s Trump driving his own wedge (per usual), so ofc RT will run an article on it.

I think they meant it in a friendly way, in this case. They should clarify though.

Under capitalism, kayaking the time to get to know your neighbors is revolutionary behavior. When things go sideways, the people in direct geographic proximity to you are going to be the ones in best position to support you (and one another). It’s best to start laying that groundwork asap.

Being involved in wider activism is also a grounding and fulfilling. You don’t need to join a revolutionary socialist party like PSL (but you can if you want to go hard), even joining a park cleanup day or something like that is a good place to be.

It helps to put in some extra shifts at the posting mines

I didn’t want a mod tag next to all of my posts, and Lemmy doesn’t let you disable it.