This is a great development, especially since the DPRK has struggled to export the advances in 1st tier cities to the countryside. Looks like the increased prosperity is finally diffusing.
Mardoniush
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From what I've heard a number of unions are unabashedly communist. Especially the auto workers union which has connections to the main extra parliamentary communists.
I was extremely online in the 90s, but there was a real feeling the internet was "somewhere else". Because you had to find a desktop and shut down the house phone to get on it, it took effort and planning, almost as much as walking down to the local shops. And because it was "Somewhere else" you had to weigh up being there over doing other things, in other places.
I'd say the smartphone, and really, proper 3g and substantial data allowances killed real life.
Additionally, at the same time there was the slow monetisation of the commons. Libraries shut down, squares and pavements lost public seating and became places for outdoor cafes that weren't the type that let a kid sip a coffee for 5 hours with friends because they knew they'd be back as cashed up adults. Quiet local dive pubs became either overly loud clubs or sports bars, or shockingly expensive gastros. So not only did the internet go from "somewhere else" to "Right here, all the time" but all the other "somewhere else"'s disappeared.
Sometimes you just need some spare iron mongered.
I think the telling thing about Cyberpunk 2077 (the original TTRPG of course is written by a communist) is that to achieve a dystopian hellscape worth looking at they needed to blow up the internet. Realistically you are not going down to the local hyper-cool nightclub with your best friend to dance the night away while hooking up a risky job involving putting a laser sword through the brains of some chuddy corpo. They're gonna Whatsapp you in your timeshare pod and use time tracking software and real time AI guidance to optimise your hits/time ratio on your 18 hour day.
On the dawn of June 30th, r/Chapotraphouse arose to the thunder-burst of “Check out this dope ass bear!” What is the Hexbear, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?
"“The proletarians of reddit,” said the Central Committee in its manifesto.“ amidst the failures and treasons of the ruling classes, have understood that the hour has struck for them to save the situation by taking into their own hands the direction of posting.... They have understood that it is their imperious duty, and their absolute right, to render themselves masters of their own destinies, by seizing upon the reddit power.”"
They're Lost! All of them Lost!
I guess you could use it to differentiate the post Khrushchev SU from Stalin but who the fuck has that position today? You are either anti revisionist or you accept Stalin and later leaders equally despite differences or mistakes.
Tall glass of Hg thanks!
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them malding before you, and to hear the lamentations of their posters.
~~Yes this is the dumb climate denier econ guy who was popular in the days before the Erdtree.~~
Nope he's an odd Transhumanist associated with Bostrom et al so, more a dumb eugenics guy.
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The key Soviet development was to combine it with an urban centre for entertainment and admin. Otherwise you get a Milton Keynes.