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Was born in the USSR, tankies know better evidently
Same. Some things were good. Many things were not.
Probably you weren't born when it was REAL communism still
Is it not obvious that it was sarcasm??? REAL in allcaps should have given it out for sure, no tankie talks like that
Communism is stateless. Which stateless state in the USSR was communist?
that’s quite confrontational
Not really, no.
I've heard some stories from friends of mine (mostly Romania and Poland, which is not the USSR, I know), but it turned out (I wasn't so sharp on the timeline) that they were between sth like 2 and 9 when communism fell. And it's still interesting to hear these stories, but when I think about my views and knowledge of the world when I was 6, I don't come up with much that's worth listening to. So I appreciate meeting someone who remembers the USSR!
Were you politically active? Was that possible at all? Did you have a strong opinion on Gorbachev? Did it change in 1991?
I bet a lot of white people in the south remember segregation as a good thing. They didn't have to see how "dirty" their communities are.
God, I cringe just typing that, it's disgusting.
"When exactly was America so great that you think we should go back to it?"
They then proceed to tell you about some time when women, minorities, and children were things with no rights and were treated like slaves.
You don't need to look into the past to find that.
Said by a father of brown kids too
pretty much everything about 9/11 and the subsequent wars
I had something similar. I was in this "eat healther class" and the person kept going on and on about how healthy China eats. So finally I'm like, yeah I lived there for almost a decade before coming back to America. It isn't anything like you're describing, so much shit is deep fried, re-served to the next customer, or dyed to look fresh when it's not. Most foreigners get very sick the first few weeks in country because of the lack of enforced food regulations, like using "gutter oil" to save money. Yes, it's exactly how it sounds, they skim off the floating oil in trash and sewers to reuse it, especially in street food to save money.
But I'm wrong, because she has TicTok and had never met anyone who lived there.
they skim off the floating oil in trash and sewers
There is not a meaningful amount of oil in random sewers.
Resturaunt grease traps are often located under sidewalks. It gets sold to companies that refine it for industrial uses, but some restaurants were buying that refined product for food. It makes absolutely no sense to put your grease into the grease trap, and then take it back out to reuse it when you could just not change your oil in the first place.
There was a backlash, it probably doesn't happen anymore.
Chinese food is healthier than US food simply because there's more veggies.
As far as the other stuff goes, I haven't seen situations where those would be possible, but I understand things were very different 10 years ago.
Ahh damn, if I could say I'd only once had the screaming shits over a filthy squat toilet in China, and then had the dawning horror of remembering it's a bring-your-own-toilet-paper country, I'd be a happy man... Truly there's nothing like going into your mind palace to Numbers-style work out all the variables like p(shitting-yourself-in-elevator), p(shitting-yourself-in-car), v(elevator-over-45-floors), v(didi-in-mental-traffic), d(to-an-acceptable-toilet)...
I love the country dearly. But not for food hygiene or general cleanliness.
From what i've read about gutter oil, it was illegal from start, traded in black markets and China cracked down on it? It's also long-term damaging, carcinogen and whatnot.
Joke's on me, I'm wrong half the time
I know a guy, late 50’s, who believes the Stolen Generations was one of the best thing to happen to Australian black children. That it’s only because they were given to white families that we have a portion of decent native black people in Australia.
Frankly, I know more terribly uneducated and, with the advent of the internet, wilfully ignorant older people than not.
The flip side of this is hearing an adult give an unhinged and personally biased account of an event or time that is super well documented. For instance older family telling you that Reagan's election healed the country, and immediately boosted the economy.
Yeah, if I have kids and my dad starts talking to them about what "really happened during the pandemic" I'm yanking them out of that conversation as quickly as possible to prevent them going down some idiotic rabbit hole.
Yeah, human memory sucks. If someone tells me that something I remember clearly was totally wrong, it's likely enough that they're right that I have to look into it every time.
You make a great point. In court cases human memory is notoriously unreliable (any lawyer will probably tell you this) and usually lead attorneys on cases rely on evidence like logs, communication, photos, videos, etc. to make their case.
And I am guilty of thinking highly of my memory as well, I really ought to be more critical of my memory.
“Events you can personally remember pretty well” may not be the ironclad argument you think it is
No dude, I obviously got transported into a new nearly identical parallel timeline where Nelson Mandela didn't die in prison. Its the only explanation that makes sense.
I’m pretty sure I would remember if it was “Berenstain “.
Nelson Mandela is dead???
No, it's a silly internet conspiracy.
What about the Berenstein Bears?
I think they are still alive but I'm afraid to check now.
Does their underwear have a horn of plenty on the label ?
Brother Bear died in prison in 2019. Papa Bear caught covid after demonstrating how to wear and how not to wear a mask for Sister Bear's kids and though he survived the acute phase, he didn't survive long covid. Mama bear got depressed and gave up, passing away in 2022.
Sister Bear then tried changing her name to Mama Bear but her husband was freaked out when she asked him to change his name to Papa Bear and convinced the judge during the divorce that her obsession was recreating her old family wasn't healthy for the kids so she only had supervised visitations. She was put down in early 2024 when she mauled the court officer when he tried to physically remove her kids from her (she was still a Mama Bear).
At least that's what I remember happening in my timeline. Pretty crazy ending for the Barrenstayne Bears.
I didn't want to know that 😭
I'll have you know I remember the fall of Rome like it was yesterday.
i don't remember yesterday.
I can't find my keys.
"I remember what the TV said about that at the time, I think."