And male hispanic expectancy dropped MORE than Russian male expectancy did in 1992-3
Dems, November 2022: damn why are so many latin voters turning reactionary? I guess they're bad racist people.
I'm pretty sure my race's life expectancy has dropped into the 50's.
Yeah, data's not out yet but NA expectancy probably dropped by 5 years. An act of genocide.
Takes one colonized person crushed up by shitty living conditions to know one, I guess...
Gorbachev's Market Reforms provided the material conditions for Yeltsin to take power though and do his thing.
he’s got just as much if not more blood than Kissinger on his hands.
Let's not get carried away here.
For every thing you say about Gorbachev there's like 10 things you can say about Kissinger.
Also he wasn't directly responsible for Yugoslavia and he wasn't really the one who dissolved the union, that was Yeltsin.
Gorbachev at least thought he was doing the right thing that would preserve the USSR and pave the way for continuing to develop socialism in the soviet union. Frankly I think people overestimate Gorbachev's role in the collapse, someone else would have done the same thing under the conditions the union was under in 1986. The system was already deteriorating anyway under Brezhnev and his successor Andropov.
Gorbachev was more just shit at his job than actively malicious but people love to shit on him lol
Wasn't he in the Pizza Hut commerical because he was broke and they offered him a decent chunk of change?
It was also sort of a political ad for him to promote the new market economy, but I 100% agree that it is hilariously pathetic that the General Secretary if the Soviet Union had to shill out for shitty pizza
From the little I know, Andropov was actually kinda like the good version of Gorbachev but he had very little time before he died.
IIRC, he started some party reforms which were good but his economic policy was mixed/not developed enough before he died to say much about.
I would say the rot began with Khruschev, the collapse was baked in when he began his market reforms
Not denying it's a possibility, but a lot of the media narrative about right shifting Latinos laser focuses on Florida gusanos, then tries to generalize it as if it applies to all Latin American immigrant families across the country.
There was a county in southwest Texas that swung 35 points from 2016 to 2020.
Not just any Texas county, but the county with the highest concentration of latinos in the country.I think I'm mistaken on that count, but regardless it's still an outlier; over 90% of the population is Latino. It's a great case study to bring to liberals who can't possibly conceive of staunchly conservative minorities.Until 2020, no Republican had received more than 35% of the vote in the county since Richard Nixon in his 1972 landslide, and no Democrat since George McGovern that same year had received less than 65%. McGovern is one of only three Democrats, the others being Adlai Stevenson in 1956, and Joe Biden in 2020, to have received less than 60% of the vote in Brooks County since it first participated in presidential elections in 1912. In 2020, the county had a swing toward the Republican party in the national election. Despite the county still voting Democratic, it only gave 59% of the vote to Biden; his performance was the worst by a Democrat in Brooks County since 1956. Donald Trump was the first Republican to carry over 40% of the county's vote since 1972.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_County,_Texas
makes me wish I were better at making image-based memes, I feel like you could make a doozie out of this one.
how'd you find this out?
story came out the other day that white expectancy dropped by 0.68, black expectancy a little over 2, hispanic a little over 3. The russian expectancy data is on wikipedia.
Yikes. This is 100% because Latinos can't work from home at nearly the rates white people can.
