Then factor in the hours you have to spend at a second job because your main job doesn’t pay a living wage.

in some units the average age of infantrymen reaches 45 years

The average

Thank you for the context. It answers the first question I had to a degree (although there’s a big difference between trusting someone to return a wallet and, say, trusting someone to honestly handle a large amount of money), but I don’t think it gets at the second and third questions. Those deal with the objective issue of how many people would actually return a lost wallet, and if that’s changed over time.

In other words, is this change in sentiment tied to changing real-world conditions? If people today are about as trustworthy as they were in 1972 but everyone is more pessimistic about it, that’s quite a different story than if people are actually less trustworthy today and the common sentiment simply reflects that. Or maybe people have become more trustworthy over time and the sentiment is entirely detached from reality.

I don’t know how meaningful this is. A few questions come to mind:

1. “Trusted” with what? Leaving a phone on a table while you use the bathroom? A large amount of money or responsibility? Your kid?
2. How trustworthy (however you define it) are most people?
3. Has people’s trustworthiness changed over time?

This looks like “the vibes are worse than '72,” which means something, but I don’t know how much.

Havana hard time drawing a clock

This is also a less cliché way of asking, essentially, “so why aren’t you on the next flight over there to volunteer?”

As for the sentiment for USSR - of course it is strong inside brainwashed russia

If the citizens of Bad Country agree with my propaganda, that’s proof of how bad their country is.

If the citizens of Bad Country reject my propaganda, they’re brainwashed, which is proof of how bad their country is.

Intent is a key element of genocide. Just like if you kill someone by negligence it’s not murder, if you kill a lot of your own people by mismanaging a war it’s not genocide.

At this rate Ukraine is genociding it’s own population

We should not throw this term around casually.

You’re right that there’s a difference between, say, Pinochet disappearing thousands of political opponents as a more-or-less open policy of internal repression and the level of police violence we’ve seen thus far in the U.S.

You’re wrong that Biden is going to do anything to help.

Direct escalation would make things more unpredictable.

This is the U.S. strategy – to provoke Russia into a response that will turn more than Europe against it.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/index.htm

From an American journalist who are multiple trips to China during the middle of the 20th century. Was originally published as a book; bonus points if you can snag a copy of that.

I don’t particularly believe that Russia is anything but the first western state to evolve from capitalism to an authoritarian kleptocracy.

The U.S.?

Nah, they’re trying to win, they’re just constrained by:

1. Being a capitalist party that can’t firmly promise much material aid to voters
2. Being an imperialist party that can’t respond to widespread discontent with current imperial wars
3. All upper leadership having golden parachutes in media, banking, law, etc.
4. No real way to force Biden out
5. No better option (again, given the restraints of a capitalist party) than an incumbent who’s already beaten Trump once
6. Liberal ideology like “we need a strong Republican Party” and “we can’t simply arrest this guy we’re calling a fascist”
7. The general incompetence that crops up when party leaders basically can’t fail their way out of endless party job opportunities

If you and I got in a boxing match and for some reason I insisted on wearing 50 pound weights on my ankles, I could try really hard and would still suck given my self-imposed constraints.

Agitation and education are examples of praxis one can do without an organization. Ideally they should put people on the path to organizing, or directly be part of an organization effort, but even in isolation they at least sow the seeds for people to move in the right direction.

Did Russia just wake up one day and decide to invade? Did the largest country on Earth for some reason decided it would start a costly war just to grab a little more land?

Why do you think Russia invaded?

When people flee a poor capitalist country, they are economic migrants, not refugees from capitalism. When people flee a poor communist country, they’re fleeing communism.

Act fast!

Damn this “managed democracy” guerilla marketing for Helldivers 2 is out of control

Representative Brad Sherman also said that the US should “think of whether we stay a signatory” to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC.

The U.S. already isn’t party to the Rome Statute, and in fact has legislation on the books to invade The Hauge if the ICC issues a warrant for U.S. personnel.

This asshole is the guy saying we just don’t understand the complexities of the real world, and we should leave things to The Adults In The Room.