Herman

Infamously grindy schooling in EA is even worse in Korea than it is in Japan or was in China before they clamped down. If students don't make it into one of the top unis that's it for their career.

Once people are in their 40's it becomes extremely difficult to get hired and after 55 employers are legally allowed to begin reducing peoples wages. Many seniors don't qualify for pensions and live in poverty.

Hyper shallow K-Pop and extreme rates of plastic surgery suggest a vapid culture. A large portion of the population calls it 'Hell Joseon'

The more I read about South Korea, the less surprising this is

Begging the question

Just in case anyone is interested this is bad science. Homo Longii is at this point generally agreed to be Denisovan. This, Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens all evolved from Homo Erectus. Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA was introgressed into our gene pool during multiple breeding events where we ultimately won Y & mtDNA fitness competitions. These hypotheses were fine before we had the DNA mapped

Will the epidemic of trans on trans violence ever end?

Proper debating requires steelmanning the argument against going to bed

Wasting my weekend, you?

WE ARE GOING TO FUCKING BILL YOU!

Yeah obviously that's a mistake on my part (should have been worse off now than it was under communism) but it relates back to the original part of western communists wanting to retvrn to the USSR and it's Satellites.

Not a Russian accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOucw3uN3c

Claims the US is his country

https://np.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bmygbt/comment/en253x7/

He claims that 77% of Czechs for example believe the country is worse off under communism.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md

The medium article he linked says

Roughly 28 percent of Czechs say they were better off under the Communist regime, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute SC&C and released Sunday.

Only 23 percent said they had a better life now.

https://medium.com/@RichieBrownShow/communist-nostalgia-as-the-reality-of-bourgeois-democracy-hits-home-in-eastern-europe-3960aa341560

From the actual article

The previous regime was assessed as better by 31 percent of Czechs, while roughly the same proportion, 32 percent, preferred the existing system.

https://archive.fo/bFYoy

Even though that's not a good result, it's still vastly different to his view... that it should be reintroduced. It's also from 2011 so is cherry picked as broadly speaking things were rough in the earlier period of transition to democracy.

Plenty of Americans shit on the USA and it's not just the communists

9% not at all proud

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692150/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx

... No

Just took a look and I would almost guarantee this guy is western and even more likely in the anglosphere. One of those interesting situations where countries that actually experienced authoritarian socialism (like yours) are far less supportive of its reintroduction than countries who didn't experience it. I wonder why...

It's not just Lemmy, fedi in general has dipped. There are also so many alternatives. When Digg imploded, internet growth was still exponential and Reddit was close to a single alternative. Now Reddit is bigger than Digg ever was. Digg had 40m MAU back in 2009 where as Reddit has 90m DAU so more than twice the monthly unique users in a day. Add to this there are multiple options, just on on fedi: kbin, piefedi, mbin, lotide. Then there are all the standalone sites, disqus being the biggest.