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   augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 00:57:05 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   >Ceaușescu's attempts to implement policies that would lead to a significant growth of the population led to a growing number of unsafe abortions and increased the number of orphans in state institutions.
   damn... what a merciless tyrant
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 00:57:58 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     I'm sure this guy sucks, but I'm not finding anything that bad so far
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:03:26 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @augustus he and his wife were a true power couple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia%C8%9Ba_Roman%C4%83_metro_station
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:03:51 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >Ceaușescu was greatly concerned about his public image. For years, nearly all official photographs of him showed him in his late 40s. Romanian state television was under strict orders to portray him in the best possible light.[13]
     this is.... horrifying... I feel sick, the sheer brutality of this man's tyrannical reign
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:05:53 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain communism continually innovating new methods for public weight loss programs
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:07:13 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @augustus i must admit, they excel at eliminating obesity
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:08:15 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @augustus I read about this first in "revolution 1989", which is a great book about late stage European socialism
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:12:25 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >Nevertheless, according to opinion polls held in 2010, 41% of Romanians would vote for Ceaușescu[95][96] and 63% think that their lives were better before 1989.[96][97] In 2014, the percentage of those who would vote for Ceaușescu reached 46%.[98] On 27 December 2018, a poll was conducted where 64% of people had a good opinion of Ceaușescu.[99]
     Nicky boy did nothing wrong, other than looking like some sort of shit vampire
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:13:50 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @coldacid tell me more
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     coldacid on 🔥 (coldacid@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:13:51 JST coldacid on 🔥

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     @augustus he's also the reason why there were the incestuous tranny twins in Black Lagoon
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     防空識別區 (adiz@outerkosm.us)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:14:35 JST 防空識別區

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     @augustus@shitposter.club God, I wish I had a government that actively encouraged me to fuck and bust inside.

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     coldacid on 🔥 (coldacid@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:17:35 JST coldacid on 🔥

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     @augustus Hansel & Gretel's backstory is they were Romanian twins who were put into one of the orphanages when their parents couldn't care for them, and were sexually abused so hard in them that they both turned trans
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     of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:18:27 JST of nothing

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     @augustus paying people for children also occasionally results in dead and abused children that were only conceived for the check, and then not cared for. Just saw a video about such a child in the UK. There will be negative outcomes with any policy because we live on Earth and not paradise.
     
     The thing to avoid is motivated reasoning.
     >Germany closes nuclear reactors. Germany starts saying that it can cut customers off from the energy grid arbitrarily.
     Q: do the anti-nuclear people realize that was a mistake?
     A: no. Suddenly they are capable of discerning the unseen alternative, the opportunity cost. Germany's current energy troubles are surely worse than the unseen alternative of a nuclear accident, inevitable since "not even the Japanese could do it safely"
     Q: are the anti-nuclear people capable of such high-level reasoning in any other case? Do they see the opportunity costs of the welfare state?
     A: no, that is too hard for them
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     of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:21:31 JST of nothing

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     @11112011 @augustus I don't actually have any ideas like "if Bill Gates is for it, I'm against it!" that this link would challenge.
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     DJ Solomon (11112011@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:21:32 JST DJ Solomon

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     @apropos @augustus its cool u agree wit gates https://www.gatesnotes.com/Wyoming-TerraPower?WT.mc_id=20230505100000_Wyoming_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:29:35 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     > Ceaușescu probably never emphasized that his policies constituted a paradigm for theorists of National Bolshevism such as Jean-François Thiriart, but there was a publicised connection between him and Iosif Constantin Drăgan, an Iron Guardist Romanian-Italian émigré millionaire.
     
     >Nicolae Ceaușescu had a major influence on modern-day Romanian populist rhetoric. In his final years, he had begun to rehabilitate the image of pro-Nazi dictator Ion Antonescu.
     
     >The strong opposition to Ceaușescu on all forms of perestroika and glasnost placed Ceaușescu at odds with Mikhail Gorbachev. He was very displeased when other Warsaw Pact countries decided to try their own versions of Gorbachev's reforms. Gorbachev made no secret of his distaste for Ceaușescu, whom he called "the Romanian führer". At a meeting between the two, Gorbachev upbraided Ceaușescu for his inflexible attitude. "You are running a dictatorship here", the Soviet leader warned.[13]
     
     NazBol bros...
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:30:02 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @11112011 @apropos yes
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     DJ Solomon (11112011@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:30:03 JST DJ Solomon

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     @apropos @augustus but this based right?
     Screenshot 2023-05-12 at 09-49-14 I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough.png
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:35:29 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @augustus hmm reading more about ceausescu, it makes alot of sense why romania went into actual armed conflict when communism fell instead of them being voted out of power elsewhere
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:35:29 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @cell Because he was the only slightly capable commie leader who *actually* tried to put down the revolutions instead of encouraging them like that cuck Gorbachev, they hated him and killed him for this alone. his actual reign doesn't seem particularly bad at all from what I can find, I'd love to be proven wrong about this, all his supposed crimes are boring shit like "he didn't do enough for gypsies!"
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:37:04 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @cell also he was 71 when they turned against him, I can't blame them for wanting him gone at that point. the more I read about him, the more it seems to parallel exactly how WWE is run. it's like an entire country being run by Vince McMahon.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:38:35 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @cell >Additionally, producers had to take great care to make sure that Ceaușescu's height (he was only 1.68 metres (5 ft 6 in) tall[85]) was never emphasized on screen. Consequences for breaking these rules were severe; one producer showed footage of Ceaușescu blinking and stuttering, and was banned for three months.[13]
     this is almost word for word the type of shit that goes on in WWE
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:38:36 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @augustus only on fedi would you find WWE used as a metaphor for communist Romania, i love it
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:39:58 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @augustus >only leader...who actually tried to put down the revolutions
     forgot someone?
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:40:08 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @cell my nigga
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:41:14 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @augustus hold up this doesn't have the usual wikipedia station article blurbs about people falling in and dying complete with dates and what they were doing
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 01:50:18 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @augustus i need to visit shenzhen one day and see what kind of metropolis the man has brought upon the world
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 02:02:09 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     • Macdonald Duck Eclair
     @ResidentEvil @cell northern England here, feel free to shit all over Ceaucescu for me
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     Macdonald Duck Eclair (residentevil@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 02:02:10 JST Macdonald Duck Eclair

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     @augustus @cell
     I wonder, where you were born and where you live, guys.
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     Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 02:15:55 JST Another Linux Walt Alt

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     • Macdonald Duck Eclair
     @augustus @ResidentEvil @cell
     
     https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/35535391/Snookeroo is what comes to mind.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 02:41:22 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pite%C8%99ti_Prison
     Turns out things may not have been so rosy after all in Communist Romania
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 02:44:17 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >The tax on childlessness (Russian: налог на бездетность, romanized: nalog na bezdetnost) was imposed in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, starting in the 1940s, as part of their natalist policies
     the cat lady tax
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 02:50:29 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     Did these aesthetics ever look good at any point? They seem dated and backwards to us, but was there really a time that this seemed futuristic and cool? Was it like the globohomo bendy art style where people hated it even during its peak?
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 03:01:44 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >With full-scale food rationing in place, the Communist Party published official guidelines on how Romanians could eat nutritiously while reducing their calorie intake by 25%. There was a shortage of available goods for the average Romanian. By 1984, despite a high crop yield and increased food production, wide-scale food rationing was introduced. The government promoted it as "rational eating" and "a means to reduce obesity".
     You can criticize communism for all kinds of things, but at the end of the day there is no better ideology out there for attaining public weight loss. They simply GET RESULTS.
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