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[+] -10 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I am fighting socialism because my father grew up in the FRG and my mother in the GDR, and because I was able to talk to my grandparents on both sides, who lived in the FRG and GDR respectively.

My relatives in the socialist GDR had to work more (more hours per week, less vacation days per year) and could afford less (though technically, affordability wasn't the issue: they had the money, there was just nothing to buy).

My relatives in the west also had more freedom in where they traveled, which media they consumed, and which opinions they voiced.

Don't get me wrong, I hate capitalism too. But change needs to come democratically. Otherwise things get worse, not better.

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  • [–] 16 points 21 hours ago

    “Socialism” can mean different things, from European-style social democracy or Keynesian economics to Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. The Reaganites having spent the past four decades using the word to mean anything beyond an Ayn Rand pipe-dream of pitiless free-market competition hasn’t helped.

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  • [–] 13 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    The acronyms make this entirely unreadable dude

    “My father grew up in the frog and my mother in the Great Darrier Reef” sure man.

    You typed out four paragraphs, add the extra four words 😭

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago

    Context clues? I don't actual know what the FRG or GDR are but I was pretty much able to gleam one was a socialist state (presumably part of the USSR) and the other a capitalist one.

    (actually GDR now that I think about it definitely stands for German Democratic Republic.

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