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The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.

No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.

No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.

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[-] Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, well known liberal checks notes George Bush.

Russia cannibalised itself after the Soviet Union fell, didn't need any Western help there.

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Please lookup the Shock Doctrine and educate yourself

[-] Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not reading a pop politics book for you. Go read The Gulag Archipelago.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have. But unlike a book about Boris Yeltsin's systemic hollowing out of the russian economy and the facilitation of this by the Americans, its hardly relevant.

Although if we are bringing up the gulag archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is not on your side on the issues. Especially not issues like the yeltsin government, the west's influence on Russia and Russian sovereignty.

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lol fuck you I'm not eating vegitables. you go eat a pop tart

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Excuse me but my book was spawned at the beginning of time with no creator and thus no bias or agenda, and is a crystal of pure truth, and yours is poopy tankie peepee”

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I don't care about antisemitic noblemen. His book is fake, and he's lucky he wasn't killed.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

"I'm not reading pop politics, go read literal fiction"

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The one written literally decades before the events in question?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

The USA was attempting to destroy the USSR from day one. Despite being an extremely intelligent and educated person, you were never told that the USA actually invaded Russia within months of the October Revolution. Liberals are such a fucking joke.

“The USSR destroyed itself.” Give me a break. The USA’s entire existence derives from stealing land from indigenous people and enslaving and exterminating them. Because the USSR dared to declare that it was an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist project, the USA dedicated everything to its annihilation. But thankfully the story isn’t over. China never broke with Stalin.

[-] Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

My guy, China is the least socialist place on earth. It is so capitalist and so unequal. You pay to use the roads, you pay to use the hospitals, you pay for any schooling past middle school, if you don't have a city residence permit your pension is 5% of those that do.

Have you ever been?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is when you pay for things, and the more you pay for things, the more capitalister it is. When atoms exchange valence electrons, for example, that’s capitalism right there. Entrepreneurship has been woven into the fabric of reality since God, the great investor in the sky, created it.

What’s funny is that the US ruling class doesn’t pay for anything—they’re so rich and powerful specifically because they’re stealing from everyone else (including you)—yet nobody would argue that the US isn’t a capitalist hellhole in terminal decline.

I have to wonder—if China isn’t a socialist country, why is every student there compelled to study Marxism? Isn’t it extremely dangerous for a country masquerading as socialist to expose every single student under its sovereignty to Marxist texts?

[-] Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If socialism isn't from each according to his means to each according to his needs then what the fuck is it?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The quote is “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” Mr. Marxism expert.

Was capitalism built in a day? Do you think that Xi can just press the communism button and make everything instantly perfect everywhere? That’s not how it works. China is currently doing the USSR’s (and Stalin’s) NEP, but they’re doing it so much harder than Stalin ever did. They are literally hanging the capitalists with the rope the capitalists are selling them. Once the forces of production are built up to a point where everyone’s necessities are met—and once the USA is no longer in existence—it will become possible for the world to move forward into the next stage of history.

Also I like how you didn’t answer the question about Marxism being taught to Chinese students. Because there is no answer. Because you are wrong 😉

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[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is when exchange.

In exchange for such a shit statement I could give a slap on the face and that would count as capitalism in your book.

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[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Political Liberal not “social liberal”

Bush was a capital L Liberal Capitalist

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[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The bourgeoisie cannibalised Russia. Liberals from the west insisted that Russia and the rest of the Soviet republics would be ruled by the bourgeoisie. This was the whole point of the Cold War. At huge expense to its own citizenry the west conducted a series of proxy wars and led an arms race to make it as difficult as possible for workers to control their own destiny.

As expected, false scarcity and extreme inequality followed, and to justify or explain this inequality, the bourgeoisie used from the usual ethnic and sexual minority scapegoats. With your weird understanding of history, you're obviously American, so none of this should be hard to understand. You have people dying on the streets, the government won't even raise the minimum wage, but the news about the evils of Mexicans, blacks, trans people, etc. never stops.

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