I can recommend the Aquired Podcast Episode. A 3h long Story of how VISA became the world leader and how much profit they make year over year. It is craaaaazy. We need to get rid of Visa and other US bases payment providers ASAP!
I'm still at awe how we are living in post-reddit times, where a title can just be changed. Just like that. How many untrue titles and straight lies were posted back then on Reddit and it was just accepted as a fact that once a post ist up, it can never change its holy title. Like it were not technical possible. They decided to feed uneditable lies and florished from that. BUUUH REDDIT.
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Brothers and sisters,
the battle for production has been won.
Completed returns
show that the standard of living...
has risen by no less than 20 percent
over the last year.
All over Oceania there've been spontaneous
demonstrations of Party workers...
voicing their gratitude and joy!
In honor of this massive overfulfillment
of the ninth three-year plan...
it's been announced that chocolate ration
is to be increased to 25 grams per week!
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"If there is hope...
"it lies in the proles.
"If they could become conscious
of their own strength...
"they would have no need to conspire.
"History does not matter to them.
"It was three years ago...
"on a dark evening.
"Easy to slip the patrols.
"And I'd gone into the proletarian areas*.
*Lemmy, Anm. d. Red.
Ich habe auch nie verstanden wieso es Völkerball heisst. Wieso lassen wir zwei Völker gegeneinander antreten bis der letzte fällt? Zombieball klingt so dada wie unverfänglich. Sollen sie doch lernen Zombies abzuschiessen - besser als Völker abzuschiessen ist das allemal.
Gut das ihr alle gekommen seid. Wir haben schon auf euch gewartet.
Ich habe einen neuen Hund, aber er hat probleme mit dem einschlafen. Ich schätze es ist ein Wachhund.
There is actually a map for that.
The independent states would trade goods and concessions like any US or EU state would, gaining their own regional wealth with any tradingpartner - and each other that would unleash a lot of developmental potential. Parts of east Russia could be a second Canada. The problem will be, that in the case of a state implosion, the collaps could lead to an annexation of the eastern parts by china, justified e.g. by ethnic arguments. In the case of a revolution (slim chance with russians), those states could be hold by a future russian democratic republic. It is mainly in the hand of Russians - and its not looking good.
