Not sure about it being bipartisan but Republicans have been pushing for this war since Regan. Be it the time Regan’s admiration sunk the entire Iranian navy, to whether Bush administration wanted to put them on the same level as North Korea, to John McCain singing the bomb Iran song during his presidential bid you can see it everywhere. Democrats probably wouldn’t oppose it, as we can kind of see, but they haven’t shown much spine for any decision popular or unpopular for decades now.

Legally all printers do since the mid 90’s

There’s also trade women, and economic women for less destructive solutions.

All praise temple OS the holiest of the holy.

Why are there multiple windows logos? You don’t see Fedora 42 and 43 on the plots nor the different versions of any other distro.

The Calvinists I believe are more in that vein.

If you think it isn’t why go for a generic Jewish piece of clothing instead of putting Netanyahu’s face on his like trump on Theoden’s?

Well there is a lot to unpack there but let’s start with that last sentence the path forward for any country should be its own to choose and overwhelmingly all countries that had communism and then left it behind haven’t wanted to get anywhere near that type of governance again, and many of them are far better off today than they were under Soviet oppression as the Soviet union was an extractive empire where their satellite countries in the eastern block had a larger population density and were by and large more educated than the average Russian, and this stayed true through the entire existence of the Soviet Union. The fact that the wealth gap on paper between the richest and poorest being as close is kind of the point as to have wealth and influence in any communist regime would not be personal wealth but the individual 's status within the regime and the perks of the job, kind of like how the President and all governors of the US, the french president, the prime minister of the UK, and most other governments give their executive leader free housing in their respective Capitals, but for communists like let’s say Ceausescu had lavish mansions built for them while their countrymen starved. For education you can see in China today or north Korea, or any other Soviet country or non democratic country without a vast amount of easily accessible mineral wealth they will educate their country and publicize it for propaganda reasons on the one hand but on the other they limit the sorts of education the average civilian has access to, in china they have a vast number of engineers and use that to great effect for their manufacturing base, while also polluting their country in a way no democratized country would permit on their soil, but china doesn’t have a lot of political science majors or those who don’t follow their groupthink, in short their people can read and have marketable skills that don’t endanger the power of the CCP, the same could be said about the Soviet union, and even there you had problems such as the belief that all life was equal and so despite oranges peing unable to grow in the Soviet union outside or climate controlled greenhouses they tried to force genetic communism to have oranges grow there and politics encroached on science leading to not much happening and a great loss of productivity. Central planning is not the best form of planning and is only good if you want to economically depress those under central planning control at best, see the current slate of dictates from the Trump whitehouse that have devastated the US economy outside of tech these last 2 years, it was a central planning style dictate without accounting for a myriad of factors or building up american production to pick up the slack instead the tariffs forced the poor to pay more while having fewer benefits and getting squeezed more and more, there are dozens of these decisions that led to major issues within the Soviet union and when it collapsed the countries under the yoke of the supreme soviet were able to better decide what they wanted their government to do, it was unstable for a bit but places like Poland and Estonia are thriving members of the EU who have no wish to follow your purity test and will continue doing their own thing so long as they are able to.

Kibbutzs existed before Israel for one but if you can say it is an element of settler colonialism on one hand and say that the USSR and Warsaw pact countries weren’t russified on the other with a straight face while knowing about Russian backed separatist movements in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova at a minimum, not to mention the large Russian population in Baltic nations, what happened to Crimea during the Soviet Union, and why Kazakhstan has a large Russian speaking population you have a very weird set of double standards. As for the Soviets wanting National Liberation within the Warsaw pact you might want to look at the history of what happened in Hungary in the 1950’s, in Ukraine and Poland before world war 2 and during where they were forced to join the USSR by military occupation, what almost happened to Finland, why Romania and Yugoslavia set up defenses against land invasions from the Soviets and the list goes on, not to mention the border disputes with China, or what are called the color revolutions during the last years of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a colonial empire but not like that of the US or the UK but more like that of the mongols, Romans, or Chinese, cultures who expanded their borders not just for resources, but to implement their culture and defensive borders. Yes the US has a somewhat homogenous culture, but much of that can be attributed to Hollywood and mass distribution of media (and the genocide of indigenous peoples in the 1800’s), Communists had those too but also controlled all media, enforcing propaganda and language norms, such as forcing the Magyar and ukranian languages into lower positions within their own countries in comparison to Russia for everything from education to government processes, similar to what france did in the last 300+ years with its internal languages and cultures, and China has been enforcing the dominance of the Han culture for close to 2000 years and has been getting rid of local languages for decades now to promote Mandarin.

I am living in post Soviet times, but if you mean in a totalitarian regime in Russia pre USSR, during USSR, or post USSR they all sucked, be it Trotsky’s terrible decisions which, had he been appointed as the head of state after Lenin’s death would most likely have led the Soviet Union to war against western europe, including Nazi germany, years ahead of time and united them all against the Soviet union, to Stalin destroying crop yields due to bureaucratic inefficiencies to be charitable or a genocide similar to what happened in Ireland or India in the 1800’s due to profit extraction and to quell popular uprisings. And those are just pre WW2 events, that doesn’t condone any of Tzar Nicholas 2nd’s terrible decision making but the Soviet union was doing at the end of the unions existence what the US government is doing now, allowing for seniority to rule leaving a less vibrant and more entrenched political elite who doesn’t need to deliver anything to the people to keep their power.

If you want communism to work you can but only on small scales like Kibbutzs or Co-ops where the workers actually own and control the means of production in a meaningful manner, but the Soviet Union, or any other communist government by name has people who don’t know the intricacies of how a certain field works dictating not only regulations but quotas which are only truly fulfilled on paper. Also I find it rich that people who support anti colonialism and think America or Israel have done some bad ethnic cleansing, to put it mildly in America’s case, ignore the continual Russification of all places Russia can, be it in Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, or even within its borders in areas which had a large non Russian population more similar in culture to Mongolians; they did it during the time of Ivan the Terrible, Katherine the Great, when they took Saint Petersburg from the Sweeds to have a Baltic port, under all the Tzars, but not just them under Lenin and Stalin Russian became the de facto language of all nations part of the Warsaw pact and they suppressed other languages, that’s why Crimea doesn’t have the Tartars anymore for example. I would not like to live in a Russian occupied nation until Russia has true democracy and reduces its corruption issues, these issues having been in place since they were part of the Kievan Rus, and didn’t go away under the Soviet Union.

Did communists kill or depose Stalin?

They just have PMC’s in sub Saharan African countries to help ensure their investments in said countries and bring in their own labor as well not increasing local wealth except for the local warlords.

It will but only due to the decisions of antivaxxers to not vaccinate.

Yeah, the Soviet union is not a place I would have liked to live in during its time in power, and from stories I’ve gotten from family that fled during Stalin’s time it is a safe assumption to have as those who remained did not have a great time during the Holodomor.

What was the context of his arrest and charges? And as someone else pointed out Stalin also did that sort of thing at least once with a 14 year old girl, and he never saw any consequences for that action or those of his Anti-Semitic policies, the 5year plan, or the Homodomor. The communist parties that completely control a country are like any other one party state, be they Bathists, Communists, Fascists, or other they support policies that get fear and loyalty towards their great leader.

Sounds like someone doesn’t know about people like Lavrentiy Beria

That and he knows about the Antichrist.

Maybe we need annual driving compentency tests for all people, this would incentivise better driving for all, maybe get more people off the road and improve our cities, and stop people who can’t see properly from driving. Maybe use some of the registration fees for cars for bus or shuttle services for the elderly to get around and do things.

I am getting that yellow bastard vibes from that guy.

I hate how relevant this appears to be to daily life.