the absolute state of historycels.
https://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-clear-lake
Superior link: https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php
Bonus video from the same year at mighty Moscow grocery store for comparison:
Also in 1989:
Soviets trade 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer for some Pepsi.
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The absolute state of commies lol
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No, just to bag the groceries.
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Looking for store managers
Pay: Competitive
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I’ll have to find it, but I remember there was a job advertisement a few years ago that got somewhat infamous on Reddit/Twitter for an art museum in Canada and they wanted the candidate to have a masters degree in art for a Secretary position that paid like $12 an hour lol.
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That’s a reasonable wage for their services, wdym?
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Exactly, high qualifications for competence doesn't mean the work is valued, theyre separate axes, see garbagemen for the inverse
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Soviets were never
the most intelligent 
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I was surprised by how little they improved since then.
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Too busy killing nonbelievers.
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It's pretty easy to be laid back about who you let manage your store when you have the right to instantly fire them if they demonstrate incompetence, with no further implied consequence
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in a lot of states they don’t even have to demonstrate incompetence. at-will employment means you can fire someone for literally anything besides illegal discriminatory reasons. you can fire someone because you think their car is ugly or their laugh is annoying
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You clearly don't know what you're talking about. At-will employment does NOT mean that you can fire someone for any reason. You can only fire someone for a good reason, like if they're not doing their job well, or if they're breaking the law.
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Yes it does
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This is an idiotic comment and you should feel bad for even thinking it, let alone typing it out and posting it.
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You wish you could feel bad
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Yeah, I really wish I could feel bad about ruining your life, but unfortunately I just don't have that capacity.
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I like to tell her she's not a real pirate so she replies defensively in pirate-speak
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https://rdrama.net/post/100963/kiwifarms-marseykiwi-becomes-casualty-of-russoukranian/2662871?context=8#context
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it's called an arts history degree and it's very valuable
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Its a reasonable question, why would he know the specifics of how the American job market works? It doesnt say anything about what the situation was in russia
By this point it was too late for the commies though, kruschev era was the last chance
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Cope
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If he was smart enough to surmise the necessary skills for that position, then his question boils down to "are you r-slurred?"
If not, he was r-slurred.
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You really love that nonsensical propaganda, lol. Yeltsin was a bona fide rightoid. He just joined CPSU for purely selfish, careerist reasons. Which he himself admitted.
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Fact. You're have to be a full-blown r-slur to think that a high-level Soviet official would have some "Road to Damascus" moment from seeing a supermarket.
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yea but don't take away the burgers obvious propaganda. they saved the world five times at least they learn in school.
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The five times burgers saved the world.
American revolution inspired anti-imperialist and anti-monarchy sentiment spreading around the world leading to further revolutions and the beginning of the bongs getting btfo of all their overseas holdings.
Modernized the world via electrical and early communications innovations. This saved the sperm whale.
Cured like all the fricking diseases, and fed starving frickers for like 100 years straight
Bailed out western europe twice even tho we could have let em rot. Then stopped the commies from gulaging the world for 50 years.
Gave the world GPS, the internet, and like 90% of modern technological/medical developments.
These are jokes but the truth is the world owes the burgers big time and the vast majority non-american adults realize this. But it doesn't stop the seething.
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unironically, "oweing" anybody anything is the most r-slurred take in the world.
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yes but "owing" isn't
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Better settle up then!
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Great, now say that to the reparation r-slurs.
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but muh glonass tho
Current hyperfixation:
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You'd be speaking German without us, put some respect on our name
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I do speak German?
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I’m sorry that America failed you
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ich bin böse und knalle mit der tür
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good2know that Danes make that joke universally
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Unironically this, where’s the lie?
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The conditions of the USSR sucked butt so it’s not surprising at all how many lies they needed to believe about American standard of life to not immediately kill themselves.
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Actual fact. This is a real Road to Damascus moment and why Yeltsin became even less commie.
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you say as you push nonsensical propaganda
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We have the best stores in Belarus, people. The best!
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This.
Of course the Enternal Fish fell for NATO propaganda.
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Hey, do you have pulse dialing yet? A decade ago they only had tone, lol
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Ironically, westoids experience the same levels of brainwashing they claim the DPRK has.
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No they don’t?
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Belarus public “education” system
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He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops, with the coldness and the chocolate and the herschnozzle on the flibozzle and the cherry on top
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On the other hand soviet union had almost no obesity, diabetes or stray animals.
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Nor homeless
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No covid either, you can't say that about any countries today
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What do you mean "no covid"? Of course there's covid, it's a pandemic!
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They did have stray animals, I think that was a legitimate problem they had in some areas.
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Capitalism gets all the credit for the grocery stores in places like Haiti too, or it should if we apply the same standard rightoids use in their ridiculous "victims of communism" screeds.
Capitalism has killed way more than sixty million people, like exponentially more, although that admittedly has been over much more time in many more places. Still, just during Churchill's life tens of millions of Indians died while they were subjects of imperial Britain. This easily rivals Holodomor or the the great leap forward, and it's just one colony. For some reason rightoids only apply the standard of "victims of this ideology" to communism.
Communism took Russia from a backwards feudal state and allowed it to industrialize in like 1/3 the time it took the west, and if capitalism is so obviously without fault one would think that thirty years of it would have made Russia richer and stronger...oops.
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CAPTIALISM KILLED PEOPLE TOO GUYS GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWL
you r-slurred commies literally always sprint right to that point. not being an r-slured communist doesn't make someone a
rightoid 
by the way.
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Not sure why they bother drawing the parallel as it's clear to see that victims of capitalism die because of a careless or evil administrator, whereas that is the central feature of communism
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they always include every capitalist country and war deaths over a span of like 200 years to say "SEE! capitalism is way worse because it's killed way more than the soviets did!!!!!!!". for some reason they never include war deaths for communism, though.
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Both have some Ls but communism seriously lacking in Ws
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but it did
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source?
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Why are you getting upmarseys?
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Way more Americans have died than Russians if you start counting the Americans from the beginning of their history and count the Russians only from the Ukraine invasion.
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Just imagine how r-slurred you would have to be to
over a carp post.
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Amazing that a country was able to develop industry in less than a century, with only perhaps a dozen successful predecessors to imitate. Shocking they ended up with such low quality industry given their fraternity and gumption.
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They industrialized in 1/3 the time because they weren't starting from scratch. They didn't need to invent anything, they only needed to copy American and British innovations.
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And purchase whole factories from Ford and Fiat lmao.
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Why compare shit tier countries in a discussion of the merits of superpowers lol
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The death toll of communism has managed to kill more people than all of pre-capitalist societies combined, unironically.
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Are you trying to actively scare stupidpol away smh
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Brother this is a default-sub-Reddit-thread from the height of the anti-Trump fervor years:
https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/e3kvg0/til_boris_yeltsin_made_a_unplanned_stop_at_a/?sort=controversial
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the title
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Point of personal privilege: the intelligentsia at stupidpol has determined that dunking on Soviets is the easiest path to achieving fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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Well, it’s a huge messaging problem, not just for commies, but for leftists in general.
Most people like where they’re from, they know the US isn’t perfect, but they don’t want to hear that their country and everyone they know and love should be pushed into the sea or “reeducated”.
If leftists could sound like they’re rooting for the home team once in a fricking while, maybe the working class would be more inclined to listen to what they’re saying.
But “leftism” in the US is just a cool-kids club for upper middle class angsty white and white-adjacent perma-adolescents. More than half of them don’t even believe in the shit in the first place, they just do it for clout on social media and then buy a baller butt house like Hassan.
Like Landback—you actually think these r-slurs are ever going to self deport to Europe?—Not that they would take them—but heck no, it’s just self deprecation to show what a superior person you are.
And it’s pretty lame because there are some things that could be improved that the majority of Americans agree on, but it’s culture war r-sluration all the way down.
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all the good stupidpol users are already here
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^not a rightoid adgendapost btw
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reality is right wing brother
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Also not being a commie
does not make 
you a rightoid 
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Indeed. I hate
Commies because I'm a Pole 
not a rightoid 
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As a fish, carp wriggles through both sides and is, therefore, the ultimate centrist. Too slippery for words
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(((🐟)))
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Yeah tell me about it. The Soviet Union was really popular with everyone in the world except for right-wingers.
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It can’t be a rightoid agenda post because carp is not a rightoid since there are no rightoids on rDrama
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well, at least the URSS had no fatties
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Snapshots:
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jWTGsUyv8IE:
archive.org
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ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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I read somewhere that he was just pretending in order to to encourage reform back home
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