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  • Imagine somebody without liability insurance hits you with their car, breaking your spine. And they don't happen to have any spare money. You'd have to remodel your home for accessibility on your own dime.

  • Democracy isn’t when there’s three parties, it’s when people generally get what they want

    No, its when state is ruled by the people.

    People in the entirety of Europe have been consistently overwhelmingly against Austerity Policy since 2008

    As somebody living in Europe, no they haven't.

    and when one country (Greece) decided to ignore austerity, it was literally threatened with a default by the European Central Bank and wasn’t allowed to do so.

    A default is when you fail to make a payment on your obligations. Saying Greece was threatened by a default is like saying that you were threatened with cancer. Greece wasn't being economical with their resources, which led to them to them being on the verge of ruin. If they had managed their resources sustainably (that's sustainable in the economic sense, not in the environmental sense), nobody would have complained.

    the overwhelming majority of USians want universal healthcare

    It's really easy to find people who don't want it. Too easy for the support to be overwhelming.

    why would an antidemocratic dictatorship of an owning class create free universal healthcare, free education to the highest degree, guaranteed housing and work, public services, thoughtful urban planning and walkable neighborhoods, quality public transit for the period, subsidies of basic foodstuffs, sports centres aplenty, paid holidays for everyone, high workplace safety, etc?

    Because they wanted to? And then along came Gorbachev, decided that they didn't want to give the people those things anymore, and now they don't have them anymore.

    Dictatorships aren't bad because dictators are cruel and incompetent, they're bad because there's no defense against a cruel and incompetent dictator.

    And let me restate my earlier question: Do you have the real numbers somewhere?

  • I already dispelled your erroneous, CIA-manufactured understanding of ownership of the means of production in the USSR and gave you my sources, to which you haven’t replied other than by making up stuff on the spot.

    I must say that I haven't read your sources. So I don't even have a way of telling what they say.

    My thesis mostly hinges on the Soviet Union not being democratic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union. People could only vote in favor or against the Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans, which always won >99% of the votes. This is impossible to achieve in a functioning democracy, especially not over decades

    That “Holodomor” is a word essentially unused from 1930 to 2000, and now it grows in usage each year

    You also need to consider that the Soviet Union kept the information classified until the 1980s, when it was declassified as part of Glasnost. So, why did they keep it hidden for literal decades?

    Looking at those graphs you posted, it seems like Russia didn't break 70 until 2015, which Brazil reached around the year 2000. And why does Russia's life expectancy spike upwards right around the time the Soviet Union collapsed? And why does did it mostly decline between 1975 and 2005? But yeah, other than that, it's a quite impressive growth. Still leaves the question as to why the Soviet Union just collapsed?

  • given how universal access was I such things and how it stopped being the case, why did the “owning class” previously grant the working class access to such healthcare, education, housing, foodstuffs, energy, public transit, infrastructure, sports facilities, and even holiday resorts?

    Based on the personal accounts of a relative who visited the Soviet Union close to its collapse, the answer is that the working class didn't have access to such things. One thing the Soviet Union had was hotels were you could only stay if you could pay with Western currency. People needing to line up for basic goods.

    And lets not forget that the Soviet Union isn't around anymore. Your supposed worker's paradise collapsed, and the ones at helm got rich in the process.