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@greyowl The issue is he uses imperialist/authoritarian things done during the final years of the USSR that are not remotely considered communism as proof that it doesn’t work. I wouldn’t have any issue with his dismantling communism using real arguments about true facets of it but I take issue...

@greyowl It’s incredible that a guy who was born in the USSR doesn’t understand communism. His explanations of it are full of outright falsehoods. He really has no excuse, I think he’s massively biased in his perspective on this and that blinds him towards certain viewpoints, especially since he...

@claudia4christ Because his exercise science content is fantastic and high quality.

@tennille It's hard to swallow for sure. I try to only follow his fitness YT and forget he does anything else. We all have our own areas of expertise, and our own areas of blindness/biasedness.

@arekusun It's a common criticism for a reason, there are a laundry list of reasons why the USSR at that point was not primarily communist and had many other influences that affected the QOL. He was criticizing non-communist policies as a detractor of communism, I'm not sure what you want me to say?

@taslott Yeah lmao idk how we got here. I have to be more careful to not mention anything good that's come of socialism or communism online, people are conditioned to hate it as a concept even while they're getting fucked by capitalism. I guess it doesn't matter that I always provide sources too.

@dawn16 Yes I linked them in the comment! in addition, this post: Has a great list of related sources for the same evidence among others.

@happyhopej Yeah, unfortunately from the perspective of historical fact, the state of Russia at that point was primarily due to Western imperial interference and totalitarianism. This is well documented; the CIA went to great lengths to poison the well of a worker democracy. The wealthy owning...

@dawn16 As I said in another comment, he is shockingly poorly read on economics, even if you don’t agree with socialism or communism as systems, his takes on them are many times literally factually incorrect. Super frustrating since all the comments are sucking him and capitalism off and the...

@amachristian Just don’t look at his channel where he talks about social and economic issues. Yikes. Mike is genius - in exercise science, most economists would take issue with his views.