Yeah, I did lol. Though it being lighter on my wallet was the main reason.

The only thing on foreign intervention in my reply is the reference to loans, which were taken by the Polish People’s Republic, and indeed the Romanian Socialist Republic - the 80s were a period of austerity to repay foreign debt to continue purchasing specialized goods from the west - that is undeniable.

1. “Stole a Piece of Land barely enough to Feed a Family”. Anecdotal evidence, one of which I have no evidence of being true or not, and is besides the point of “Communism bad, because they ‘stole’ my grandma’s land”.

2. “The State of Constant Fear” is also anecdotal reference, one which is even harder to verify and can be claimed just as easily as “a very large amount of people are supportive of revolution to overthrow the government because they don’t go and vote”

3. Aha, the classic. If “Russia” (you clearly mean the USSR, but probably think modern day Russia is the same thing) is so evil and despised across the former Warsaw Pact, why is it still popular in East Germany? In Bulgaria? In Serbia? Even, before 2014, in Ukraine? And besides, what does Russia matter? Does the viability of a political ideology depends on if a state is popular around the world or not? Were that the case, Kingdoms would have been abolished centuries before the French revolution and religion would be gone by now.

4. “context I avoided on Purpose” No, it’s nonsense you added, and a common tale told around these parts of the world. What do you think Donald Tusk, the Kaczyński brothers, Lech Wałęsa and Bronisław Komorowski, all major political figures of the post-1990 era in Poland all have in common? They were in the opposition to the PZPR. And nowadays the most common political ammunition between parties in Poland is to accuse each other of communism. This is moronic! “Oh he was in the communist party and that’s why he’s corrupt!” is fucking nonsense - and what’s communist about market reforms, joining the EU, befriending America, like the Alliance of the Democratic Left did in Poland in the early 2000s? (and lost 3/4 of their voters after that).

Blame all the problems on socialism all you want, and I know you will, but how long will this continue? 20 years? 50 years? And you want to dig further and uncover more and more “crimes”. All this’ll do is find out that to expand the “Crimes” of communism, you have to go “the fascists from WW2 are innocent victims, actually”

Raising the interest rate (i.e. making loans more expensive) is the measure taken if there is a belief that there is too much demand for goods by the population (Keynesian inflation theory) or too much money in circulation (Monetarist inflation theory). It’s taken in the hope that reducing the purchasing power of the population will slow the price increase down with falling demand. Which is why you had mainstream economists talking of say the need to increase unemployment (i.e. take people’s incomes away) and how wage increases are bad due to the supposed theory of the wage-price spiral.

Cutting taxes is a measure taken with the hope that with reduced costs, private enterprises will scale up production and increase the amount of goods’ supply as compared to demand, lowering or at least stopping the increase in prices, as orthodox economists hold the thesis that excessive demand (as supposedly caused by the 2020 Covid Crisis) is responsible for the currently high inflation.

Nowadays, it’s commonly accepted in many studies, such as this recent one from New Zealand that a significant cause in the inflation is the desire for even higher profits compared to what they already had in years prior.

Lowering taxes in response to a stagnant economy in this case is, as I understand it, unlikely to affect inflation, but is rewarding a private sector that used the fuel and energy price crisis caused by the war in Ukraine to enrich itself even as those prices fell again, with more riches. Especially considering the currently stagnant economy, it’s placing hope on a sector that has already failed to deliver out of an ideological belief that the state is unable to do what the private sector can, as well as the support it gets from and how many politicians have personal relationships with the private sector.

And I’m from Poland. The government reversed the decision to collectivize agricultural land in 1956, lowering the amount of state owned farms from 10000 to 1500 after Bierut died.

By 1996, when the last one was privatized, there were roughly 2000 of them at the start of the campaign in 1992 with a total of about 3750 thousands of hectares of a (current) total of 14630 - a quarter of farmland in the country.

Yet Poland, with its mostly private agriculture, was known for the worst supply situation in the Eastern Bloc. Gotta love the hand of the market, especially since the west imposed high interest rates on loans taken in the 70s (as countries do between each other). The government of the 90s, deciding that it was going to get richer faster with the market rather than a planned economy it was barely wanting to have it (as the “communists” of the PZPR were largely just nationalists), went through market reforms and what happened? Prices shot up, poverty increased to dramatic amounts, unemployment was over 20% for a part of the 90s (not even including those who had given up on looking for a job), organized crime started roaming the streets and doing stuff like killing mom’s childhood friends… and of course the farmlands themselves, since this is the topic, became desolate towns with antisemitic graffiti, a 60+ year old average age and nothing going on for them to this day.

But you probably think this is cool and good. After all, the people there can work their asses off at more than 40h/week at a workplace they have even less say in than in the west, to pay German prices for goods of a quality you’d find in the bargain bin here, a food that will kill you over time, and come back home to froth at the mouth about how the “LGBT Lobby” is trying to turn their kids gay while then going on rants against the oh so free government and opposition because they’re “all thieves” anyway… and against foreigners. After all, they’re only following the logic of the market and doing what the west wants of them (i.e. keep the wages low and profits high).

The polish Śnieżka is basically the same too. It’s frankly good shit, to the point where you can find Plombir even in every supermarket here in Germany, even in the west and in the countryside.

I mean, it is going down. You can see it by the rising numbers for the AfD. While people will likely never outright go “this is a waste of time, let’s ditch Ukraine to save ourselves” there’s a lot of people going for the party they think will give them just that - and it happens to be the far-right - who have no qualms about supporting Russia over questions of morality and aren’t constantly infighting.

The whole War in Ukraine really was the nightmare scenario for the left.

Is it even safe for you to stay there?

Even leaving the whole risk of a war zone, it feels like a total lost cause when it comes to any politics.

Truly fascinating brainworms.

It’s like they froze a European radlib in 1985 and let them out just now.

The NCR has way more problems than the taxation, which a lot of NPCs complain (hey, like IRL conservatives). Chief Hanlon’s conversation implies that the NCR is exhausting its natural resources from overuse, draining water from lakes etc. in the service of agrarian capital, with the profit motive being the driving force behind capitalist development there - at least according to a followers’ critique and they sustain themselves through imperialism - which is why Chief Hanlon wants the NCR to take an L in the Mojave, to discourage the country from overextension. Thomas Hildern of the OSI (who is willing to use dangerous technology and steal credits from the people working under him) implies that the NCR is heading towards famine from low soil fertility (the reason for the Vault 22 side quest). It could be interpreted (and probably was intended) as a malthusian critique, but the metabolic rift inherent to capitalist agricultural production is also playing a huge role in it.

To read orientalism from the Legion is a bit of a stretch. Even chuds are very very unlikely to use the metaphor of Ancient Rome as the evil orient or as communist, ergo this take is rare to see even somewhere like r/newvegasmemes.

There’s a case to be made that the Arcade companion quest is apologetic towards the Enclave troopers, yes. The only one among them who opposes just outright siding with the Legion in the battle is Arcade himself.

The House ending explicitly does NOT leave these communities alone. If the Kings aren’t incited to fight against the NCR, he’ll send the securitrons to kill them. If the NCR takes over Primm, he imposes a special heavy tax on the town just for the hell of it. For all his pretenses of being an enlightened impartial benevolent dictator, he’s sure petty like Elon Musk.

Overall, the devs do have a bias. Somewhere between a libertarian and a socdem one, I think.

Caesar literally says he based the Legion on ancient Rome because it’s as far away as possible from the NCR society, which he grew up in and despised.

His is not a progressive critique, but the Legion being a parody of the NCR is intentional.

No, I mean Broken Hills from Fallout 2. The only human in Jacobstown is Dr. Henry (who’s a NPC in the NCR capital in Fallout 2), the assistant is a ghoul. Marcus is also the mayor of both settlements.

Broken Hills was a mixed community, while Jacobstown is a Super Mutant refuge more or less.

Jacobstown is the successor of Broken Hills from Fallout 2. It was probably one of the first mixed Super Mutant/Human communities, dependent on Uranium mining.

It was marked by heavy racial tensions, and it dissolved after the Uranium ran out.

Yes, they are

Minor:

Goodsprings: It’s a small town, they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

Primm: same as above

Powder Gangers: Just a criminal organization. Beyond the Vault 19 ones (which seek revenge on the NCR, but don’t really have any goals), they only seek to maintain their hold over the Western Mojave and it’s a matter of time before a pissed off larger group wiped them out.

Brotherhood of Steel: A successor organization of the United States Army, focused on hoarding advanced technology out of a belief they’re inherently better than the society left standing. Isolationist, militaristic and very stagnant. There’s probably not a single good ending for the Mojave where they’re left existing.

Novac: Another case of small town, small influence. Except that they’re also near the front, so would be wiped out easily by the Legion.

Bright Brotherhood: A generic cult, which doesn’t have much appeal outside of the ghoul population.

Great Khans: A communal-living nomadic society, haunted by its roots as a criminal gang and being a victim of NCR war crimes. The ending where they leave the Mojave is interesting, because they’re said to work together explicitly with the Followers of the Apocalypse, but we’re likely never going to see what this would lead to because we’re not going to see a non-Bethesda non-mobile-shovelware Fallout game again, and especially not one set in Wyoming.

Boomers: A somewhat brainwormed isolationist community. Their enthusiastic usage of heavy artillery and the bomber from lake Mead makes them unpredictable.

Followers of the Apocalypse: A mostly humanitarian organization influenced by some left wing thought, such as community organizing and opposition to the profit motive. However, they’re a big tent organization with very decentralized structures so you have their members acting in diverse political ways. The man later known as Caesar and Joshua Graham were both members, and so is for example Bert Gunnarsson (from the Aerotech Refugee Camp) who ignored the FotA severing ties with the NCR Government to work with them anyway, or Tom Anderson who instead sabotaged the local NCR by stealing water supplies, and so is also Emily Ortal (who helped out Benny). Others, like Julie Farkas, meanwhile are more passive.

The Kings are a local gang, if more benevolent than the average.

The Omertas are scum.

The Chairmen are pretty passive political actors, except for the man, the legend, Benny. He’s a bozo and a dollar store Indipendent!Courier, but I love him.

The White Gloves are the Bourgeois of the future.

The Jacobstown mutants are a small community that wants to be left alone.

Major:

The NCR is a modern liberal state. That is, corrupt to the core, driven by bourgeois interests, led by Bozos, sustained by imperialism and on the verge of environmental collapse.

The Legion is “first as tragedy, then as farce” - Mussolini Edition.

Mr. House is a less clownish Elon Musk. He thinks he knows how to solve the problems of the world. So while he’s dreaming of sending people to space colonies within a century, he’s perfectly happy that his “lol let’s rebuild the Strip” displaced out lots of people into Freeside, turning it into a crime-filled slum.

Indipendent Vegas is left up to the players’ Interpretation + what happens to the other factions, really.

The government has more interest in pursuing the global power ambitions of the Standort Deutschland rather than accomplishing environmental goals, even in spite of one of the parties being named Die Grünen (which is basically just good PR for them and nothing of substance) - and the goals that are being pursued anyway are all to the slogan of Cem Özdemir “Zwischen Wirtschaft und Umwelt gehört kein oder”. Environmentalism as long as it remains profitable, even at costs of +2, +2,5, +3 or more °C

The next elections are sure to be won by Merz, with or without the AfD, and very likely to have the FDP in influential ministries, so nothing will change - or perhaps even for the worse.

That’s what happens when the main goal of production is not the goal of creating socially necessary goods, but to insert money into the labor process and end up with more than you had at the beginning.

Sanità all’Americana. Mancava solo quello.

Qui in Germania (abitavo in Italia fino alla crisi) invece hanno piani di ridurre la quantità di ospedali e cliniche, specialmente nelle regioni di campagna, per migliorare la qualità di quelli che rimarranno.

Anche se funzionerà, c’è il problema che mica tutti gli operai degli stabilimenti sanitari (inclusivi i medici) saranno pronti a traslocarsi o guidare/prendere trasporti pubblici più di prima per continuare a lavorare in un mestiere pagato male… e ovviamente se ti ammali gravemente e ti devono portare più lontano di prima, può darsi che la mortalità aumenterà.

Wow that’s an old one. It reminds me of the glory days of r/fullcommunism

Didn’t the live expectancy rise continually during its existence except during the wars and 1991?

Actually, that’s the one point that isn’t accurate. The life expectancy stagnated since the 1970s, in the USSR and in Warsaw Pact states.

However, countries like Cuba continued rising in life expectancy at a steady pace (except for 1991-1994 for some reason) famously to the point of beating the United States of America.

I’ve quit that server because there was a guy yankkksplaining me why the same housing policy as the one a nearby city’s socdem government follows is good and based actually, as well as praised landlords who (iirc) actually do want to build cheap housing and drive rent prices down, you see.

On the other hand, there was a surprising amount of international comrades… me included, I suppose

It’s baby leftists, not really surprising. 1/3 will go back to being libs, 1/3 will go Vaushite and shit and 1/3 will eventually develop into more mature comrades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94fFbxx0Rzw