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    014 days ago

    Reading about tankies while being from the post soviet bloc is especially aggravating since we all remember and some still have to endure our drunk parents glorifying the „good old days” when milk was a luxury item and people listened to your phone calls.

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      014 days ago

      I mean people still listen to your phone calls even in western countries and egg is looking to become a luxury item.

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        014 days ago

        Well you are comparing one totalitarian regime to another. The US is no longer a „western” country.

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          014 days ago

          Nah, it totally is. Being western isn’t signified by “Good Values” it’s signified by its location on the map.

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            014 days ago

            Plenty of western countries are located in the eastern hemisphere. Australia is considered a western country…

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              014 days ago

              Yeah they often get coined with that term because they have “Western Values” or come under the influence of western countries.

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            014 days ago

            That’s why I put western in quotes. It’s a dumb but helpful classification like the „first world”.

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      014 days ago

      I mean in the USSR, you definitely had choice when it came to voting. There was the right choice and the wrong choice. You’d better choose correctly.