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• Post #4167551

  That rise is such bullshit, they’re looking at it through rose colored glasses. Yes, some things were better, the absence of predatory capitalism comes to mind first and foremost and even the Stasi knew less about us than Meta and Alphabet. The difference for me is in the how. Alphabet and Meta don’t bribe your friends, family and neighbors to actively spy on you and most importantly don’t disappear you for thought crimes. And the things that were great in the GDR… nearly none of that was due to...

• Post #4072590

  Uh… I don’t know why I would have to “out” myself. I’ve never been shy about where I stand politically. I’m a green progressive social democrat (to put it into terms even americans can understand) and it says so in my profile:

• Post #4071293

  No, they’re looking at what life for regular people is like under a capitalist regime. And I agree with that. Living in a capitalist hellscape is shit! Doesn’t mean it was better back then though. It sure was different, better in some ways but worse in others. And the West didn’t shoot at people trying to flee and in the west your neighbors didn’t rat you out to the authorities for listening to radio from the other side. And it wasn’t the west that tore my family apart when the wall was bui...

• Post #4067885

  I was alive when eastern Germany was still the GDR. Citizens weren’t starving. The usual quote was: “Es gibt alles, nur nicht immer, nicht überall und schon gar nicht, wenn es gerade gebraucht wird.” You can find everything, but not always, not everywhere, and certainly not when you need it most. The GDR “economy of scarcity” knew some scarcity, mostly citrus and coffee. There was always enough potatoes but rice and pasta was scarce, good cuts of beef and pork were always quickly sol...