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He did say exactly that. But while capitalism doesnt necessarily lead to democracy, you have to take into account that a working, sustainable democracy requires a high standard of living, freedom of speech and the press, rule of law etc... So far capitalism is the only way to achieve all this, while socialist efforts always started or ended up in dictatorships/authoritarian regimes. There are still many flaws in capitalism but capitalist societies are the only ones that allow criticism of their own system in the first place and thus create the possibility to reform and adapt themselves. Capitalism evolved from classic Manchester capitalism and slavery to things like modern Scandinavian societies. In socialists countries however you criticize the government and you get a lot of problems.
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Maybe this has something to do with a kind of Inferiority complex the Russians have because with Chernobyl at the latest it became clear that they can't compete with western technology and that they had always imagined and pretended that they were among the absolute best in the world. In some cases that might have been true like all that space programm stuff, Gagarin etc or crazy ass freighter aircraft. But in most areas due to lack of inner-competition in a socialist economy they had no chance to compete with the west. Japan however never had this feeling of inferiority (at least not in the 20th century or in our lifetime). And if Russia would have something like Sony or Nintendo or Mitsubishi, there would be no need for Russia to always look to their western neighbors with this subtle jealousy. That's probably also a symptom of the resource curse. If you have a shitload of oil, gas, coal and metals under your surface, that you just have to dig out and sell, then you have no urge to make money out of creativity or with complex high-tech stuff.
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maybe if its imported cheese from france or so. US made cheese is produced under US food laws which is a nightmare.
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The problem with these supermarket bakeries is that they often just use prebaked stuff from factories to warm it up in the store. Only this way allows them to have these super cheap prices. They use enzymes and other stuff that make the production process way faster instead of traditional bread dough that needs to rise for many hours. So the bread from supermarket bakeries and traditional bakeries is often a difference like day and night. A bread from a traditional bakery that doesn't use more than a handful of ingredients often costs around 7 Euros for 1 kg. For the same money you can buy 3 loafs in a supermarket bakery but then you only get a third of the possible quality. And if you squeeze these supermarket breads you realize that they are just a puffed-up version of real bread.
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I think the problem is that convenience is everything in the US. This woman in the video only opens up cans and bags filled with powder. She probably doesnt even call a knife and a chopping board her own. Plus all the people who dont even cook at home but go to restaurants, where the menu consists of calorie bombs only. The restaurants are often just part of a chain and mostly sell the same food that McDonalds or In and Out burger sells but in a much more fancy way and with higher quality standard. But that doesnt make the food healthier. A burger is a burger is a burger. The rest is just marketing so that college graduates can still eat garbage food while looking down on the lower class with a sneer without taking notice that they eat the same unhealthy food.
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3:11 I have been thinking about this for days now and I also think that Israel's respond to the attacks by just bombing the hell out of Gaza, is not how a democracy should respond to terror attacks. The problem is, that Israel is in a dilemma situation. No matter how they act, someone will always hate them. If they don't respond to the most severe attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, then all Jews on earth have to live with the certainty that they cant even feel safe in the state that was created to save Jews from annihilation. Guess how the Israelis would react if the government doesn't react to this whole thing. The only way to save them in the future, would be to either bring the attackers to reason (which is impossible since Hamas, unlike other Palestinian organizations, wants to kill all Jews on earth and Israel as a state no matter how good or evil Israel acts in the Palestine conflict) or to eliminate the attackers. Israel chose to eliminate Hamas by going to war with them. The problem is that you cant win a war against a terror organization. You can kill their leaders, but the movement and the ideology will always stay and other leaders will come into play. USA did the same mistake after 9/11. Terrorists don't play according to international war rules like the Geneva conventions or so. For instance they use civilians as human shields. And Israel knows this but is still attacking Gaza with air strikes and troops and say that Hamas is to blame when civilians are being killed cause we ordered the civilians to go to the south of Gaza. And this is the point that I don't understand. Why do they press the "bomb" button if they see civilians in the area where the strike will happen? Why does Israel fall for this tactic by Hamas? Israel is now killing civilians which increases the hate on Israel in the whole Muslim world and they don't even achieve anything positive by doing this. The chances are high that if they continue with this tactic, that there will be more potential terrorists in Gaza and the neighboring states after the war on Hamas than before, because all the people who lost their family by an Israeli airstrike will hate Israel even more than ever before. And since Gaza is razed to the ground they don't have no perspective for their future life. There is no better breeding ground for the next generation of terrorists. So I am asking me the same question like NFKRZ: Maybe there's another way to handle this?
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I feel like being drunk just by watching this video.
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Learn German! Among the big western European countries Germany is the one with the largest Russian diaspora and with the most connections to Russia and post-soviet countries. Not just history wise with all the Volga Germans and Altai German National Okrug, Katherine the Great etc... but also many intellectual people, musicians, writers, oppositional politicians from Russia moved to Germany since Putin started to ruin the country. There are also many Germans who speak Russian or at least learned it in school and it's not just the people who were born and raised in East Germany.
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The photos of him sleeping in Chinese class are hilarious :D
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Well most rich americans still eat mostly burgers, fried chicken, BBQ, Pizza, pancakes and all that stuff, with the only difference that they go to fancy restaurants where the quality might be better, but the food is still the same unhealthy calorie bomb making you obese and sick.
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@JesusOfficialAccount Thats the result of the American idea of freedom. The Americans want to be the land of opportunities so they give the companies the opportunity to use every chemical process that has been invented to create the most NASA-like food and sell it in super markets. In most other democracies the idea of freedom is to do whatever you want as long as you dont harm anyone. The American idea of freedom is: "Do whatever you want, even if other people will suffer from your actions." Thats why in Europe everything is much more regulated (still not perfect but at least they try) and in the US its up to you to find the few healthy products in a mine field full of crap.
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The thing is that getting hit by a car (especially in a country like Russia with its ridiculous drivers) is more likely than getting shot by some random dudes shooting in the street because why would the shooter kill Bald of all people being at the scene. Why would the guy with the gun shoot on people at all. They might be crazy shooting in the air but not that crazy to aim at random people.
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I think it will take at least one or two upcoming generations until Ukrainians can start forgiving Russia. God knows if Ukraine or Russia will even still exist as we know it now. Germany was also not forgiven immediately after the end of the war, and again it took a generation for the necessary remorse on one side and the willingness to forgive on the other. Russia on the other hand is a country that never came to terms with its own history because they never lost a war. This can be indeed a heavier burden than loosing one. If they had come to terms with their history they wouldnt even have come up with the idea of invading Ukraine.
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The idea of socialism and communism is not suitable for human societies because it would require a "perfect" human being with no ego and equipped with an ultimate sense of community, plus for a socialist system to prosper you would need altruistic leaders who dont succumb to the temptations of power. All this contradicts the human nature. Capitalism however, while not being perfect at all, at least managed to accept the human nature and I think history showed that democracy and freedom is only possible in countries with a very high standard of living and prosperity. Capitalism (or at least some kind of free market) doesnt automatically lead to democracy and freedom but it is one of its requirements. Russia didnt turn into a democracy due to its history with much less western influences than Poland or Ukraine etc. and its resource curse, which increases the chance of turning into a dictatorship significantly. In socialist systems the state has so much power by definition that sooner or later the government will either take advantage of it to enrich themselves or it will take wrong decisions that will destroy the economy. There is also no incentive to push innovation and competition in a socialist system, so it will take ages until e.g. digital technologies will be developed.
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@ReadTheoryItsNotThatDifficult Human nature is not capitalist, but capitalism embraces human nature more than socialism does. They lived for thousands of years without any economic system as we know it today because this only became necessary with the industrial age. The space race was a result of extrinsic motivation not intrinsic. They wanted to be faster than the Americans. In a capitalist society innovations are mostly a result of the inner competition, not an external enemy. Also the space race was just a show-off thing. They put so much effort and money in this relatively unimportant project, so that the general economy of the USSR suffered and was not capable to develop things that push the nation forward. Along the lines of: “We hardly have any consumer goods, no freedom and hardly any personal rights, but we are the first in space!” It says a lot that the Soviet nostalgists always come up with the space race, which in the long run was just a propaganda program to fight a desperate battle with the West that they could not really afford, just to give the impression that they can compete. In addition, large parts of the economy were based on forced labor and the gulag system. Without the coal from Vorkuta, St. Petersburg would have remained cold in winter. In order to employ people there voluntarily, it would have been necessary to create much better working conditions on site and pay very high wages, but there was no money for this in the USSR.
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The real american food you listed is just as unhealthy. Its higher quality maybe compared to these prepackaged powder bags but if you eat a normal american diet then you will get obese or sick sooner or later because the calorie intake is way too high, it contains too much meat and animal products, bad fatty acids etc.... BBQ is mostly a meat apocalypse, desserts are mostly sugar bombs, fried food is fried, soups are probably okay if you make your own soup like tomato soup, potato soup etc.. salads often dont contain salad but the term is often an excuse for mayonaise mayhem, Sandwiches can be healthy as you can put basically everything in it but most people put unhealthy garbage in their sandwich, starting with toasted "bread" if you want to call this thing bread.
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Man NFKRZ has the potential to be a model on the stages of Milan or Paris if he gets back to his former shape. But Russia knows how to destroy the potential of its citizens. Maybe in a few years when he manages to чёрт out things of his post-russia depression.
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Well the statistics dont lie and they show us that US citizens eat mostly garbage food resulting in obesity and unnecessary diseases. Also the aisles in the grocery stores dont lie. They wouldnt exists if the people wouldnt buy that crap. Just because there are people like this TikTok woman showing an absolute extreme case, doesnt mean that the average citizen can sit back and relax and continue with their maybe not as bad but still bad diet.
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Learning the Russian language, the Cyrillic script is actually the easiest aspect. It's probably the easiest foreign alphabet one can learn as a Latin script native. After a few weeks of reading on and on, one can read longer texts relatively easy. The grammar is much more of a challenge.
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