@RWApodcast@gen_enhazed All thanks to the market system you support btw. It's all thanks to the USSR and socialism for giving you a baseline that doesn't make it the exact same housing hell of western countries and permanent renting.
@GuyFisherMoney —Russia having twice the population but being a Banana Republic that has little to no cultural, political, and economic sovereignty, and still hitting below replacement fertility anyhows, is objectively a worse outcome than today.
@GuyFisherMoney It's also funny they think Tsarists would magically achieve super-high fertility rates well into the 2020s and escape the fertility crisis impacting 99% of countries in the world that aren't severely underdeveloped.
Even if Tsarists were a bit more successful with fertility—
@AndrejRadojevi2@nightsferatu Absorbed into Russia should only happen if Lukashenko then leads Russia, Belarus under Putin would be a fucking nightmare.
@Stresh_Guard ...The USSR won so much that you need to concede to their framework and argue that the Russian Empire would turn into the USSR anyways. Lol.
@Stresh_Guard Never did I imply the Bolsheviks did everything themselves, but they leveraged the existing resources of the Russian Empire. The Tsars were ready to degenerate and throw that all away lol.
@Stresh_Guard You forgot the part where development is much smaller because Russia ends up being run as a resource extraction Banana Republic under Tsarism, in contrast to Soviet developmentalism which emphasized complex industry and manufacturing instead.
@BrianMcDonaldIE Before Putin was president, the most popular and successful opposition party in Russia was the Communist Party. And as far as Communist Parties go, it is quite an anti-western and anti-american one. United Russia began as a pro-business centrist party. https://t.co/g4fzWTl16i