Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent.

This just screams mott and bailey fallacy. It is very reminiscent, for example, of transphobes complaining that they get attacked for having the gall of claiming “sex is real”. And that’s basically what happened here. You said some upsetting shitty things in the thread about the two child policy, and now you’re whining about people getting upset about it. Go touch some grass.

Slavery is still legal in the US as per the 13th amendment.

Saying all that to essentially arrive at

“Were these built to house people? Yes. But were these built to house people? No.”

is very reminiscent of Beetlejuice of the Howard Stern Show.

I mean you’re probably right I guess, the Soviets probably built these houses nefariously or whatever, but still it’s a funny conclusion to have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Russia

Unless the USSR set aside some funds to have wikipedia run propaganda for them in the future, it seems that you’re wrong.

Blocking them isn’t enough, because the harm they do with the plagiarism goes beyond stinking up your personal feed. This kind of stuff proliferates. People save the image to post somewhere else, and so on. Annoyingly, plagiarism doesn’t seem to be against the rules in this comminity, but I really think it should be.

No, I am here to try to understand. You have to admit that “I’m not a serial shitposter” is much less of an explanation than “ad filled comics”. So I’m a little confused what the ad is that you’re referring to. When you go to a museum, and see a painting has the artist’s name scribbled in one of the corners, do you consider that an ad? Or are you talking about something else here?

That makes absolutely no sense.

Whatever. Why are you going through so mich effort to remove the artist info from comics?

Why is the background smooth behind the swastika?

Sure. But that makes it all the funnier when someone voluntarily chooses to focus on the roommates to criticize the USSR.

Mod action 2 days ago in another community

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reason: constantly removing artist info from comic strips

Seems like a good idea

After the fall of the Soviet Union, every single ex soviet state in Europe (outside of Russia and Belarus) went on a spree to “decommunize” their architecture because it’s so soulless and terrible, and they’re better off for it

Their homelessness did skyrocket after the USSR dissolved though. So saying “they’re better off for it” kind of depends on what you value more, pretty buildings or housing people.

Tell me you’ve never been homeless without telling me you’ve never been homeless

I love this kind of thread. It always attracts some guy who finds it necessary to point out that in the USSR people had to endure the absolute horrors of having roommates. I think I saw him phrase it as them having “survived” roommates once.

Ok sure. But just because other stuff is worse doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fix something. We don’t stop fining drunk drivers just because murder is worse.

“Others could get a bigger bazooka” is also not something that would satisfy me if my neighbor has a bazooka.

It doesn’t matter that it’s not your fault. If you happen to stumble into a situation where you end up being able to do immense harm, it’s for the good of all of us if there’s some mechanism that ensures that you won’t be able to.

If my neighbor finds a bazooka rather than buy one, he still has a bazooka.

Let me ask you this: does it matter? Whether my neighbor buys or just happens upon a bazooka, he has a bazooka, and I don’t feel safe.

They’re very much first world.