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That’s why we have an obligation to educate Cuban communists on this matter, because they haven’t spent enough time on Internet forums to have a proper understanding

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Fuck Boomers, they are like this everywhere not just the US, they think the welfare net they spent 50 years dismantling still exists and as others have mentioned, when they find its gone they blame immigration.

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Not an expert on European politics, but the major political parties of the various US client states are always full of empty careerists who are connected in some way to US intelligence. It seems like Trump was never really able to wield the power of the ‘deep state’ because they fucking despised him, whereas with old man Biden their basically running the show now when it comes to foreign policy.

It didn’t used to be that way - if you look at all those old female pop singers like Billie Holliday or Edith Piaf I don’t think they ever had a specifically feminine audience. I wonder if the introduction of rock music in the 60s onwards, which is in some ways is just a kind of hyper-masculine split from pop/folk music, has something to do with it.

I agree, but I think it has to be admitted that the Wall was a massive fuck up. I understand a significant problem was brain drain, ie people educated by the state would then flee to the West to benefit from their skills. And I’m not sure how you fix that problem, but the Berlin Wall was a massive self-own and propaganda victory to the West, and there had to be a better way. If living standards were generally better in the East then immigration/emigration should have eventually levelled out.