Careful, If the communists are asian, white liberals will fully believe they’re open dog/cat eaters because they already believe that. Joe himself prob believes that asian people eat babies until they come on down to Californ-i-a and get nice big ol fake titties

IDK

They wore clothes woven from homegrown hemp, used birch bark for shoes, and routinely faced near-starvation (the mother, Akulina, starved to death during a crop failure in 1961).

Flip side to the dudes in the Pacific who were still hunkered down

why

The capitalist military industrial complex

We have those, they're called projects.

But at what cost???

why won't something think of the children investors!!!???

Time for the CIA to activate the student riots one more time

For real. It's like living in a very old NYC apartment building and being like "It's still standing, truly a testament to the politics of the robber barrons who built it!"

Why does it suggest liberals are scared of this?

Because OP wants to straw-man for clout.

Aren’t they okay with Projects for affordable housing?

Yes, an overwhelming majority of liberals are in favor of that.

So liberals aren’t communists?

No. Also I'm not sure why you're asking this question.

Then, why are the red hat clowns so grumpy?

I'm also not sure why you're asking this, but:

Red hats will get grumpy about virtually anything because it helps motivate their perpetually angry and afraid base; one of the defining segments of the deeply conservative mindset is that potent mix of fear and anger.

Unless it's a data center, those seem to he pretty streamlined at getting approved and built.

These apartments had working plumbing, something most of the people moving into them at the time had never had before. It was a huge step up to most people, regardless of how ugly the buildings look.

I always tip my landlord. After all he's doing a good job fixing the leaks and molding. (Okay he hasn't done it in decades but he said "I will so stop asking and I am increasing rent by 3 times!" so he's still going to do it!)

No, homelessness is for them a low, low price for having capitalism.

Like they overwhelmingly approve of universal health care but only the "socialist" candidates seem to make part of their platform?

This Vancouver? https://www.columbian.com/...

The whole >90% of territory never saw a foot of German soldier was not where most of the destroyed urban housing stock stood. The war destroyed over 1,700 towns and 70,000 villages, which was roughly half the urban housing stock in the most populated and industrial regions, and left about 25 million people homeless.

Many houses were built by workers in their spare time after work, on a land granted by the state and using construction materials provided by the factory or plant they worked at, but that was a supplement to state reconstruction, not proof that war ruin was secondary.

The barracks aging is precisely what created the need for khrushchevkas in late 50s and early 60s onwards. Then brezhnevki with some improvements over bare minimal comfort of previous gen, and eventually from 70s onwards to the end of soviets the massive prefab took hold. There were countless experimental projects at different times and in different configurations, from 3 storey alpha builds of Khrushchevkas to Kyiv’s Podil 4 blocks project of late 80s, but all of it was a response to the war-created housing deficit, not a response to industrialization alone as you falsely claim.

Aggressive industrialization wasn’t the fundamental explanation for the scale and duration of the postwar housing construction program. Wartime destruction was the main driver.

It really helps to actually learn about the subjects before you start braying about them.

This is completely incorrect.

Even if it’s a meme, and it rips the piss out of liberals or whatever, such mistakes make them easy target and work only in echo chambers

That would require liberals to read so they know what you just said. Quite rare.

Oh and on the other hand, British mass social housing for working class emerged because of King George's WW1 realization that better fed and kept humans give more durable cannon fodder, after comparing British and German soldiers. At crown's command, no socialism required.

The exact context in which the word “quality” was used, since you seem to have glossed over it was:

they were made with enough quality that they are still used today

No one said that these are high quality homes. They said that the caliber of build was strong enough to still be inhabitable 80ish years later.

OP is a russian citizen

I live in a communist block built in '89. The outer walls are 1m thick, while the inner walls are 50cm thick. I can't hear my neighbours, even if they're having a party. We even have a 7m long terrace. It's a nice enough appartment, especially since the city made a lot of green areas with plenty of trees, playgrounds, schools, shops, etc. Granted, the later were post-communist additions, but it's still a nice place to live. And yes, I'm aware of the state of most of these commieblocks, I'm just saying it's also possible to have a nice "communist" apartments as well. We had to work abroad for 4 years to be able to pay for it, but we could do it without taking on a mortgage for 30 years. Would I rather live in a house with a garden than in a flat? Sure. Would I rather live in a house with a garden while paying a huge mortgage for 30 years? Absolutely not.

The liberals being banned here is proof of otherwise

Stalin ate all the onions with a comically large spoon, except for one. Sadly the last onion wasn't very good.

What would you say the difference is between soviet and western onions?

Well, if you want to talk about some Soviet vegetables, we can.

despite all their issues, they are preferable to homelessness

It's true, this is a much better solution https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Yeah no shit. Literally everything has ups and downs. The USSR just got through a world war against a power that was trying to genocide and colonise their land. Entire cities were destroyed. Millions were made homeless. Commie blocks were a good thing and yet they're shat on. Like what else were they meant to do?

How so?

The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile.

The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them.

What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today.

Ask yourself is guzzling western propaganda uncritically good, on the whole no is bad.

Why are you writing like that? I looked at your profile; you've shown in other places you can write a coherent sentence. So is this some kind of affectation? What are you trying to convey by pretending to be illiterate?

Ask self, authoritarianism good, on whole no is bad. Ask self, shit posting on lemmy good, depends.

name a non-authoritarian country

What would the absence of 'authoritarianism' be called?

Call me crazy, but I've had this thought about a lot of "boring" architecture. Why don't we just say it's an open graffiti spot, so that these large boring walls turn into something colorful on the outside? It's most likely only gonna be as high as you can get a ladder, but I feel that's better than nothing. Some people will certainly spray profanities on it, but graffiti spots already exist in some recreational areas, and those bits tend to get sprayed over by someone else, whereas more beautiful sections tend to remain far longer without being touched.

Yeah the soviet block housing is architecturally DEPRESSING. Not that they are the only ones who built joyless prison boxes.

projection

oh boy liberal world comin out strong with the RuZziA BaD trope 🤣

As one would expect in a capitalist oligarchy.

You confused commieblock with US Navy carrier.

What this have anything to do with the meme?

I thought that was the China Foxconn propaganda: “they work 23 hour days and they are all 8 years old and they had to put suicide nets on the buildings because they try to flee out the windows from the men with whips like rats from a sinking ship and their skin rots off from chemical exposure because China man too stupid for safety gear and too cheap, all money in communist society goes to the bosses and the elites while the people starve, anyway they built ghost cities for show and they’ll be BANKRUPT AND GONE in 10 years time” he confidently posted from the west