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kamilkazani
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kamilkazani is a personal blog at kamilkazani.substack.com about politics and economics. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Avocado Economy: Why Russia can't produce anything”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kamil Galeev's Substack to explain how power works, including due process, Russian elites, and how Russian firms use consumer data. Commenters treat it as a clear explainer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Avocado Economy: Why Russia can't produce anything2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-10
What Hacker News says?
This guy explains it well [1]. Which is the main - or perhaps the only reason - why some countries have due process in the first place. It is not that social elites just decide to extend it on everyone out of grace It is that those in power want to extend it on themselves, so that they could not be killed, jailed or exiled extrajudicially, just out of political expediency [1] https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/on-th…
Comment linking /p/on-the-due-process
on “ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon”Submitted Russian channels and bots spying in Ukraine as a story · 29 points
HN discussionTrump fundamentally misunderstands how power really works. Power doesn’t mean others kiss your boot and give you peace prizes. People hate being ruled over. They absolutely hate it. So you have to hide your power through, ideology, laws and institutions. Galeev explains it well [1]. This is how American imperialism works. The American led western liberal order was an unprecedented alliance and America was the house.…
Comment linking /p/might-makes-right
on “'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos”Submitted US-Iranian War: a best case scenario as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy reading this article: https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/avocado-economy-why-russi...
Comment linking /p/avocado-economy-why-russia-cant-produce
on “The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data”Submitted Against the Brainrot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLinguistic choices aside, the nature of power acquision is very different in russia and western countries. One of the best explainers is on Kamil Galeev's twitter/substack. Highly recommended read: https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/avocado-economy-why-russi...
Comment linking /p/avocado-economy-why-russia-cant-produce
on “The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data”Submitted Why has Russia been so politically stable? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avocado Economy: Why Russia can't produce anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Read the Greeks as a story · 1 points
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