So what does Hakim do with this massive income?
The answer is nothing. No party. No organizing. No nothing.
Just shitting out podcasts/video narrations of Wikipedia or Twitter threads/posts.
Grifting off of his Western audience and outrage about the current state of the world.
@ResurrexitAgain There's actually a secret third option you forgot: I was objecting to your bad arguments.
The post you reacted to made no claim that there were no hospitals or universities before Soviet occupation and communist rule in Eastern Europe. Of course, you can interpret it that way...
@ResurrexitAgain On the dam stuff. It's just a bad comparison. The minor strategic projects the nazis did in Ukraine are not at all comparable to the massive Soviet social spending in the Baltics.
these types of people who claim russia is uniquely evil (and somehow more evil than the west) are so strange to me.
what even is this argument? medieval universities mean russia never made something themselves?
@ResurrexitAgain Of course, they would have had access to the Marshall plan, probably. But America was also free to help Eastern Europe rebuild when they were communist. They just didn't want to. That is more of an indictment of America, than it is of communism.
@ResurrexitAgain You can hardly expect them to put up a map of Kaunas and show all the new institutions built. It's a stupid country ball meme, not a history lecture.
@ResurrexitAgain For example:
The meme might be colonialist as hell. The inspiration certainly is.
But the reason there's no schools at first might also be because memes are a limited format. To clearly show the contrast of before and after, it is more clear to only depict the hospitals after...
@ResurrexitAgain Yes, Russia is also very explicitly doing a colonial war and committing genocide right now. And if they were as powerful as the west, they would surely kill as many. But as it stands, the west has killed many more and committed much more evil. Because they can.
@ResurrexitAgain The last direct European genocide was probably in Iraq after 2003? By some estimates over a million died. But the Sudanese, Gazan and Congolese genocides currently ongoing are also funded by the west.