listening to the mao-kruschev dustup in the 50s over india, tibet, albania, . . . fairly hilarious to think of scaled up classic leftist infighting
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daqing oil field produces lots of oil managers of field emphasize heroic peasant efforts to make it work knowing mao likes that shit. do not mention the fact they bought lots of foreign capital goods too. mao: we must learn from the peasant of daqing
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this is all so incredible midcentury chinese communism was a petri dish of information and incentive problems
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"are warcraft races a metaphor for hbd" the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
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tyrion fordring in 2020 would not be permitted to say "i dont see race"
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this is of course especially funny because WoW is a race war simulator alliance: humans (white ppl) dwarves (christianized norse) gnomes (autists) night elves: celts horde: orcs (black ppl) trolls (caribbean ppl) tauren (native americans) forsaken (woke whites, never trusted)
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additional races who feature in the blizzard race war: pandas (chinese) fish ppl (japanese) monkey ppl (indians) goblins (jews)
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maybe the lesson is you could get away with just about anything in the before time and no one cared because it was a fun game without any malice
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im not making up any of these associations btw its transparent goblins speak with NYC accents and love money, night elves have druids, dwarves are always norse/scottish, tauren have Chiefs and live intents and wear feathers, trolls sound jamaican and talk about voodoo, etc etc e
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You should look into how the transition to “markets” was implemented in post-Soviet Russia.
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A rich mix of cargo cult economics, grift, and cronyism.
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