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You: "Can you tell me where x is?"This is why I clearly say "Can you tell me where x is." Then they get confused while I stand there as they walk away.
It appears he over leveraged and is losing his shirt.Some more or less absentee landlord who owns a house on my street was talking from his giant luxury truck to myself and a couple of neighbours with that extra special rich guy tone.
I called him a hotelier and he got mad.
Tangential takeaway from this. Maybe the problem wasn't communism at all.
Marx thought so, he thought a nation like Russia trying to implement communism was an extremely bad idea. He later came to believe that the best path to communism was via a slow evolution from capitalism to communism and that countries had to go through a capitalist phase to industrialize and build up first. And he believed that the "western democracies" had the best chance to achieve communism that way without revolution and bloodshed.Sliding across topics:
Tangential takeaway from this. Maybe the problem wasn't communism at all.
Maybe the problem was Russians.