glk

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If you ask US Americans what was "evil" about East Germany, they'll almost always say "the Berlin Wall"... in c/history@hexbear.net
[–] glk@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Communist countries invested in people over capital. If a person fled west they took their investment with them so to speak.

Funnily enough, racism trumped anticommunism. Many potential migrants from VN & China were discouraged because westerners didnt recognise their degrees. (That probably changed in the past decade ).

Hello and welcome to Deep Space Nine. in c/movies@hexbear.net
[–] glk@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I haven't seen this in over a decade what are the top 5 episodes?

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"Audiophile" culture is the apex of commodity fetishism (hexbear.net)
 

This music is great! It must be because of these capital intensive goods which I use to play the music not the human and social society which produced it.

(CW: Mention of Sexual Slavery) 165 year since the abolition of Roma slavery in Romania. in c/main@hexbear.net
[–] glk@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

1733: Russia’s Empress declares Roma to be slaves to the crown

Medieval kingdoms did similar things to Jews. Supposedly sometimes it was a stupid attempt to curb anti-semitism; because if the jews were crown property than a pogrom is an attack on the crown. Naturally the next king would ignore this context and expropriate Jewish property because it was 'his.'