penguin_von_doom [she/her]

I think it is very human not to consider the possibility that you might lose what you’ve already got. East Germans didn’t realise that the BMW’s were part of a system with unemployment, lack of community and disgusting inequality. East German media tried to tell the whole picture about the west but were ultimately not believed.

I think this systematizes the entire situation of the Eastern bloc very well. There were some major issues with the system, for a number of reasons, and people of course didnt like that, and its normal for people to desire things that will improve their material conditions. However, the 90s and 00s really took away the good things that were there during socialism. The entire period of the 90s was basically a dissolution of society. In many ways, it feels like the same level of neoliberalism is only now reaching the West, and the situation in the US and UK really rhymes a lot with that of 90s Eastern Europe, with the absolute dissolution of social institutions, absolute mistrust in society as a concept, rampant individualism and everyone having conspiray theory brainworms.

Ewwww, no. In the week that would take the civilization in the sink will discover the wheel and fire

In addition to what you said - if you live alone or just with a partner, it takes forever to fill the machine, in the meantime everything in there ferments or dries out and becomes nasty crusty, and then it is much more of a chore to empty it.

People here are quick to celebrate the banning of the fash and forget that the people who do the banning are people who believe in horseshoe theory unironically and people who view the left as no different and no less bent on destroying civilised society as the fash.

Not to mention that the tech companies themselves are very fascist adjacent

This is one of the reason I gave up on online dating. The other being that it feels like there are three super bland people in total there but somehow each having a thousand profiles.

Yeah, I never imagined him being this hot

If we’re not having leftist infighting about which harry potter book is the most lib what are we even doing?

Nobody mentioned Harry Potter yet?