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Lol, yeah, totally reasonable way to engage with someone.

People hated the Rákosi government for its political repression and economic austerity measures. Imre Nagy was not a western-sponsored colonel in the Hungarian military, he was a communist. After the fighting in Budapest, revolutionary workers councils organized all over the country. You think the CIA and Radio Free Europe were responsible for that?

My issue with this type of logic is that it's all or nothing. Thereis a sentence in the declassified document, therefore the whole thing was orchestrated by the US. There was more going on here than Operation Gladio.

I think calling it an op is going too far. There was a democratic students' movement that siezed the radio station, and they had mass support. The CIA gave support to an ex-Nazi who provided military training after this had happened. The crackdown by the Soviets was brutal and many innocent Hungarians were killed. Dismissing the whole thing as just a CIA op makes it sound like another Bay of Pigs, which this was not.

Yeah the ones chosen for their similarity to the Moscow cityscape to be sprayed with radioactive cadmium to test the effects of nuclear fallout!

https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-community-under-the-atomic-cloud/

This doesn't answer your question and is only tangentially related but when an opportunity comes up to share this you don't want to sleep on it.

https://youtu.be/5ofEwuHhWGw?is=BPJSF6ft48J_kKiz

No idea. Did someone dislike it? Not many capitalists here so it's surprising.

Even the architecture of the Starbucks is so inhuman. It looks like a fireplace in an AirBnB that's just a TV that shows a video of a fire.

Here's a canonical example. The East Germans made a drinking glass that didn't break. They produced 120 million of them. Then, capitalism happened and now we don't have unbreakable glasses any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfest

I bought a bunch of green energy stocks in 2024.

I'd love to find a news article about an election that says "All is well, people head to polls to show their support for two excellent candidates. Either would be a fantastic choice for the nation."

Europe too.