/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>766906
anyone still being a proponent of social democracy or (soviet style) socialism has a different presentation of the same disease. what if gosplan had computers? what if the NHS actually covered dentistry? what if america had universal healthcare? what if we privatized the roads and implemented negative income tax instead of welfare?
moreover, a chunk of its best ideas (like free trade) are in active opposition to where we're going next. didn't like free trade? great, but you're not getting the postwar consensus back. welcome to the era of arbitrary tariffs, personality-led trade disputes, and suddenly finding out that 20+% of the world's urea supply has been cut off at precisely the point it needs to be shipped out to be turned into fertilizer in time for farmers to make use of it because we didn't even get forewarning and consent manufacturing for an illegal war. didn't like caution about the state interfering in the affairs of private companies? great, but you're not getting the postwar consensus back. welcome to the era of being put on the supply chain risk list because you wouldn't let the state use your technology to spy on US citizens, welcome to the era of bending the knee to get a tariff carve out, welcome to the era of the state demanding you hand over a chunk of your shares or revenue for special treatment, welcome in short to the era of open naked gangsterism and oligarchy.

now obviously actually-existing neoliberalism lead us here, just as actually-existing social democracy lead us to neoliberalism, but you cannot fault someone for looking back nostalgically at the best of what came before in contrast to the worst of what we have now.

>>766909
>what if gosplan had computers?
That is a rather non-trivial what if. Not that Soviet economy didnt suffer from systemic issues unrelated to computation, but having technology to carry put a detailed economic planning vs not having it are two meaningfully different scenarios.

>>766902
>postwar social democracy failed
It could have probably survived with proper reforms and maybe some painful but temporary austerity. In spite of criticisms from both the left and the right, the Nordic model works fine and Norway is a great country to live in. It is completely unprepared to deal with the doom that's coming, but then, besides maybe China, who is?
Instead of building a path to that system, "everyone" decided it was impossible and that uncooperative antisocial liberalism was necessary because it was the only system that wouldn't fail, and now whoops, it's failing.

Anyway, the gist of modern socialism (which is not a single unified ideology but does have its common ideas that nearly everyone today agrees on) is that private ownership of the means of production structures society as an antagonism between those who own them and those who don't, and those who don't tend to lose, often badly (you're hopefully not so sheltered that you need examples of this). It is generally desirable to live in a society where this doesn't happen, and so the goal is to build a system where prosperity doesn't rely on the existence of this antagonism.
I stress: the goal is to build a system, not to "ban corporations" or anything like that. Socialism is not "capitalism but with a ton of prohibitions". Sometimes the solution proposed is quite soft, e.g., market socialism.

Have you ever tried reading a book in your entire life

>>766903
How much you paying

Blastin songs about fuckin up the British.

>>766889
Same

>>766339

giwtwm

>>766302
some of the best lamia art I've ever seen thanks anon

>>766339
why am i getting my cooch tickled seeing this?

I wonder if this will be a long hot summer in my area? It's expected to be in the 90+°F all next week. We're not even out of March yet! Ugh, I guess this is just is until it kill us maybe. Our summers are already long and hot enough. Although I think I do hate the cold more but luckily my area is usually not too cold at least not compared to much of the rest of the US.

>>766527
Unfortunately for you, cancel culture will always be reactionary, you are harkening back to the uncivilized times

>>766527
The slope begins with the declaration of belief, it can only be ended by killing religgers a la Xavier Renegade Angel scene style worldwide.

Equally redistributed speech amongst the populace

If you can't refute them that's your problem.

>>766527
>Le Paradox of Le Tolerance
Kill yourself Reddit uyghur.

All of the New atheist types becoming generic rightoids with the anti-"SJW" movement should tell you everything.

>>766849
theamazingatheist didn't

They were right about god not being real. Otherwise I dunno, I might be the only chantard on the planet that never fucked with reddit so I have no idea what else they were on about.

Maybe, but they destroyed their credibility by constantly coming up with cringy shit like "The Faces of Atheism" and "Epic Atheist Quotes to KKKristofascists with".

Shoutout to Charger, Left 4 Dead 2

>My Femboy Roommate
I'd never played porn games before but some asshole on this site brought this to my attention a few weeks ago and now I'm glued to f95zone chasing that high. The ones I've liked so far are Summertime Saga, Demon Deals and WelCUM to the City. All three are still in development but the former two are much further along and worth playing. The third only gets a mention because the art is quite nice and I don't mind clothed babes. Honorable mention to The Lewdest House but that's only for its unique art and writing; to putit politely, you'd have to be into lolis to find most of the love interests attractive.
picrels in order of games mentioned

I'm starting to think this might be the greatest dating game ever created, like in the history of all dating games, like in the history of mankind

>>766888
Civilization developed for thousands of years to get to this point and its perfect and it could become real if we didn't fucking hate AI and instead hated the way it was used by the bourgeois

I really dislike floaty esotericists who seem like they just speak gibberish. I might sound like a total hypocrite saying so (because I know I sound like an esoteric chud).
That's why I try to steer clear and far away from them. >_>
That and I feel like they're too eager to undermine visible divinity & royalty for the Pope's or Allah's sake, these Duginists & perennial traditionalists.

Grace-chan, what are your thoughts on Pedro II and Brazilian monarchy?

>>766824
Phew

>>766836
Sometimes I think Pedro II let his monarchy go, but pessimistically I feel like I could also quote Hobbes,
>In such a constitution of people, methinks, the King is already ousted of his government, so as they need not have taken arms for it. For I cannot imagine how the King should come by any means to resist them.
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Others find him to be too Liberal, but I can understand being a monarch and not really being into the high churchism (as my recent posts indicate)–although I'm not really too keen on the peak Victorian era style of constitutional monarchy as a political ideology (really, I despise with the most livid passion 🔥 that era's dull Whiggy ideal of constitutional monarchy). For myself, I'm not really all about high church so much, but for other monarchists it has to be all high church to the utmost degree–and if a monarch is short of Saint Louis IX tier religiosity, then that monarch better abdicate and loses his legitimacy in being a monarchy–That's quite a quagmire for myself, liking absolute monarchy but not being too altogether happy with the high churchism. So I cannot judge Pedro II for being insufficiently Catholic and rather Liberal.
I'm the kind of person who looks with approval at Henry VIII dismantling the Becket shrine or Emp. Peter I instituting the holy synod.
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Other than this, Pedro II oversaw great victories and was a learned administrator.
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I'm the kind of monarchist who hyperfocuses on a few select monarchs (as opposed to a wide array), and it is mostly either from personal fixation at their stories or ideological leniency with my own ideals of monarchy. My chief fixation are three rulers: Louis XIV, James VI & I, Gaius Caligula (who admired Alexander the Great)–these names represent my top three to read about. I like the so-called Enlightened Despots like Emperor Peter I, Joseph II, Frederick the Great. The Stuarts & Tudors. & a few others. –Dictatorships like ᴉuᴉlossnW & Stalin are actually where I started early on, along with stories of the Julio-Claudian Roman Emperors, so that is why I have an eccentric taste in monarchy compared to others… obviously North Korea is a fixation as well. These areas are altogether what interest me the most, it's not so much history but the stories, and noPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

attention Graceposter >>766785

>>766815
Random bi croatian who desires a new Yugoslavia ili nešto

stalag nonsense

All of you to the gulag. No stammering, straight bar. No you may not announce hypnotic memes you found on internet radio, only holy crazy jail.

Apes should drug no matter what god damn

They should do all that genetic ivf shit and figure out how to give monkey bigger dicks. And give some monkeys huge dicks and others micro dicks and see what happens, i think it would be worth the money.

>>766738
qrd on giving it to spiders? how the fuck does that happen?

>>766823
just be chill, otherwise they will think you are a cop and it's entrapment

dzień dobry i zapraszam do lewicy, wybierz swojego wojownika:

1. dziadzia wąsacz któremu nikt nie powiedział że sld już nie istnieje
   
2. kamil napierdalający czwartogęstościowe wywody na bluskaju nt. 8% i jak europa jest kurwa najlepsza
   
3. klaud(ia) która tak bardzo kocha roboli że uczy się ukrainśkiego na duolingo (nigdy nie zobaczy osoby pracującej)
   
4. niezidentyfikowany użytkownik skłotu. jedyne co potrafi zorganizować to parasol w dupie. propsy bo bynajmniej cokolwiek robi
   
5. piwniczarz który po latach cenzo i akodinu nieironicznie poszedł w chrystosocjalizm
   

>taguj siebie

>>764678
nie jest ukrainśki na Duolingo xD

Ciekawe, ile lat ma pytający/a? Mój dziadek (1910 - 1994) zawsze mawiał: "za sanacji brud, smród i wszy, za komuny elektryka, szkoły i lekarze". Tak to pamiętał, i myślę, że miał rację. Trudno powiedzieć, co by było, gdyby Polska poszła inną ścieżką rozwoju, ale stało się jak się stało. Osobiście bardzo dobrze pamiętam czasy komuny. W latach 70-tych mojej rodzinie żyło się bardzo dobrze. W niedziele dostawałam chałwę i miałam "chodzącą" lalę Zoję. W latach 80-tych było ciężko, ale była świetna muzyka (Republika, Oddział Zamknięty) i można było chodzić na wagary do parku. W sumie cieszę się, że nie jestem nastolatką teraz z wszechobecną cenzurą mediów społecznościowych. Pewnie byłabym anorektyczką albo wielorybem. A tak przynajmniej, po PRL-owskim dzieciństwie łatwo mi zachować normalną wagę.