Leah Rowe continues to go full on cow and writes a fully automated luxury space communism manifesto on his page, all while watching AVGN episodes on his librebooted thinkpad:
https://archive.fo/5a3Ka
It's a comedy goldmine, and my favorite part is how he talks about a game where the rights to the game were taken by the government and how living under communism just meant they "weren't greedy":
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This is the most out-of-touch champagne socialist thing I've read in while. I don't usually do a point-by-point breakdown but just for this one
> The Russian people didn't have a lot because they weren't greedy.
More like chronic mismanagement and centralized planning hurt productivity a lot. See
Red Plenty for a (supposedly) authentic view of the attitudes of the times.
> They made their own video games.
A lot of countries did. Russia had its own computer knockoffs, like the Agat which was a Apple II clone. I can't say much about this but I'm not sure what the point of the statement was.
> By capitalist standards they were poor.
They
were poor.
> Life expectancy was better in the USSR. Homelessness and unemployment were virtually non-existent.
I was curious about this one.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546027/?page=1 As far as I can tell the life expectancy was about the same as the US and Europe, about 70 with women naturally living a few years longer on average.
The USSR did make a pledge to have no one homeless, but that comes with having multiple families in one flat. And when you have mathematicians and scientists doing factory jobs for low pay, employment isn't exactly great.
> They had the finest universities in the world.
I really don't think any finer than European and US universities. In particular the US and the UK churned out Nobel Prize winners at an amazing pace.
> They beat the US into space.
I'll leave the Space Race debate for now.
> They invented Tetris.
I don't know why this is seen as a uniquely Russian thing. As if the communist government somehow helped this?
> I believe every human being deserves the same basic standards etc.
Ok, you can believe in universal human rights, but the world needs to become far more productive to achieve 30 hr working days. Free time in particular isn't a human right.
> Even if someone isn't a communist I want to help them.
There is nothing wrong with this, but I strongly disagree with the "communism helps everyone" sentiment. I think this view is more broadly humanist.
> I want peace.
Respectable but idealistic.
> United Federation of Planets
Idk what to even say.
tl;dr idealistic wants by someone who doesn't want to face reality and basic economics.