China and India have 5 times the population of the USA, and yet are 1 order of magnitude or more below the USA. You’re not making sense here

You know that Switzerland, a country in the literal Alps, has one of the best train infrastructures on Earth?

As the other comment said, of course there are fringe cases. There shouldn’t even be a city in Dubai, let alone trains getting there, but fortunately, most cities on earth are in accessible places because, well, otherwise why would thousands upon thousands of people go there.

That’s a policy issue, not one of engineering or physical constraints.

Communism is when you perpetuate the class relations of your country in an authoritarian manner. Oh wait, or was it backwards…

on purpose

lol

At least they’re not blowing their budget exploding rockets…

Not only right wing, but mostly right wing. The left isn’t the side mostly denying the science of climate change, or the medical consensus of vaccines and gender reassignment therapy.

China bad, what other source do you need?

The only argument that convinced me against that, would be that in some places, there are people who would have to change the date in the middle of their day, like, imagine working at an office and in the morning you’re signing the date as the 14th and in the evening as the 15th. Having two different dates during the same “human day” kinda makes dates a bit weird, and I get that

0 upvotes, not 92 as your screenshot shows…

Yeah no, looked through the past few weeks, post isn’t there in either lemmygrad or hexbear.

And yeah there are people saying insane shit like that no doubt, but that doesn’t mean it’s the general sentiment which is the entire point of the conversation

None of that counters what I said, you’re literally active in lemmy.world and you didn’t answer to anything I said.

Because the word “tankie” in .world is used to refer to anyone who doesn’t spend 90% of their waking time preaching the dangers of gommunism

I literally can’t find the post or comment you sent a screenshot of. I looked in lemmygrad and in hexbear for posts containing the words “simple as”, sorted by new, and nothing appears. Can you link to it please? I’d love to see the comments, maybe you can change my mind.

Criticise the former Russian Empire for being imperialist. Criticise the current Russian government for being imperialist. Don’t call Russians rapists and murderers. Makes sense or it doesn’t? I criticise heavily the US government for its actions and I don’t go around calling Americans murderers and colonialists.

He’s explicitly using the word “Russians”, and referring to them as people who murdered, killed and raped. If you read through the comments again you’ll see I agree with criticism towards the russian government and engage in it myself.

Unless the guy above is a minority in Russia, your point kinda doesn’t work for the instance. I suspect they don’t live in a Russian-majority country

Sorry that I don’t engage in the sadly all too common revisionism of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact popularised by the anticommunist agenda, that happens to match so well with the current trend of Russophobia imposed by western media. It is possible to criticise Putin for the fascist he is without engaging in racism towards Russian people, and revisionism of WW2 history, and it’s possible to acknowledge the role of the USSR in the elimination of Nazism in Europe without defending every action such as the great terror during Stalinism. I’m sorry you can’t see beyond your hatred, and if you’re Ukrainian, I honestly can’t blame you for it given the current situation.

We see you

I’m not Russian

only thing you have done over and over again

If you see “Russians” as a continuous evil people over time I have bad news for you: you’re racist. Comparing a contemporary russian, to a russian from the 1970s, to a russian from 1915 is absurd, the social changes experienced in 1 century have turned upside down the Russian society and what “being Russian” means, in multiple occasions. If you’re Ukrainian, it makes sense that in the context of a war you’ve been polarised to hate Russians as a people and I can’t blame you for it, if you’re not Ukrainian you’re just racist and speaking from nationalism and hate and not from actual facts.

Did what you said and searched “Ukraine” in ml. First post had a poll about citizens from EU and from US wanting the war to end. Went to the comments, first comment, 15 upvoted: “then tell Putin to to home”. Response to that comment, 4 downvotes: “how original”. As I said, the overwhelming sentiment, because people generally aren’t idiots, is that yes, USA bad, NATO bad, and USA has been pushing NATO further to the east and that’s a really bad thing, but also Putin isn’t a saviour of Russia and a freedom fighter but a Russian oligarch in an imperialist war who additionally pushes fascist-like policy at home such as degradation of social rights, boosting of religion, and militarisation of the country. Criticism of NATO and the USA doesn’t amount to “Ukraine deserves to be invaded”.

Marxist-Leninists, in an overwhelming majority, oppose Putin and the modern Russian state, since it represents the opposite of what the USSR represented.