• MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Oof. Check out what retirement ages were in the USSR. They were very similar to China with options to retire earlier if you worked more physically demanding jobs.

    Turns out retirement ages in the imperial core have always been worse and since there is no big bad red to be scared of, the capitalists don’t feel the need to make the same kind of concessions they needed to make to prevent similar uprisings in their country in the past.

    Your life is being stolen from you for someone else’s profit. It will always be this way under a capitalist system.

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      1 year ago

      imperial core

      How does this not describe the USSR and China? Two literal empires that increased expansionist policies after going communist?

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        1 year ago

        How many countries have Russia and China, combined, bombed in the last 10 years?

        How many countries has the US alone bombed in the last 10 years?

        It’s a shame you don’t really wonder why people don’t describe Russia or China as part of the imperial core, because if you bothered to engage in arguments in good faith, maybe you could finally get the taste of boot off your tongue.