This is actually a misunderstanding of American culture. Anyone consuming less then 120% of their daily recommended calorie intake is considered starving. It’s just how we do things over here.
Tf? I can barely eat 2000 Cal a day. How do people eat that much
Your stomach and throat can stretch quite a bit over time. And overeating regularly affects the production of the hormone which tells you you’re full, especially when you’re eating processed bullshit that’s scientifically curated to make you want more food. The mechanisms our bodies have for regulation of caloric intake were really not balanced for the modern American diet. American kids who are genetically predisposed to obesity need to try way harder to avoid it than the average human. We stuff so much goddamn sugar in literally everything. Why is our regular bread so sweet? And once obesity sets in, the feedback mechanisms get really difficult to counteract. Shit sucks.
Edit: forgot to mention that some people just have a crazy high RMR and can eat that and much more without gaining much weight. Shit’s wild, but the flip side of that is that a lot of parents of kids with high metabolisms get side eyed like they’re starving their kids because they’re not gaining weight.
I think the USSR had some shortages, but maybe non-fatal shortages are good for people’s health, better than total ad libitum
Publication Date: January 8, 1983
I actually agree with you that this is not that great of a source. It debunks the claim that the USSR starved its people in general but does not show the time of Stalin. There are of course many comrades here who can point to how Stalin didn’t starve the USSR either, but the point still stands.
If a communist state in 1980s didn’t starve their people then it follows that socialism without starvation is possible. The starvation argument isn’t done cause liberals care about victims - they don’t really - they care about denying the viability of socialist projects. When even the Soviet Union with all its falls was able to do achieve what the CIA did show, then this means the socialist project is viable and could work in various versions.
This is the real point here.
Before any of you sorry ass libs reiterate Nazi propaganda via the Holodomor in here, I would suggest you just look further down in the thread and see what your sorry ass loser lib friends got in response.
Nobody believes your bullshit here. You’re not going to convince anyone here.
