That makes sense. It is so deep even the commies couldn't erase it in a few decades.
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Yeah. This is general.
Many people overestimate communism in this sense.
But look what was in central Europe before. Nacism. And before that? Austro-Hungarrian empire. The most of backwards of all the European monarchies.
In practical terms people many centuries under some form of feudalism.
The roots are very deep. I'm not sure if many Americans appreciate how good it is to have so long tradition in "freedom"
No. We do not.
We're powerful, rootless idiots. The worst kind.
yeah, and before the austro-hungarians was the ottomans
things are still better, in a lot of ways, especially for eastern and central europe, everything up to czech/slovak/hungary/poland/slovenia this boundary is basically where europe gets better
things are not terrible in the southwest but i'm in portugal and that's probably as low as i'd be willing to go these days, i long for bosnia again
Hey, we had metal straws in 1st republic. way before paper straws were cool 😂
Fuck paper straws lol glass or metal only
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Hipster feudalism 😁
women and their straws
i mean, it's so obviously something more than just ... well i'll just leave it at that anyway
i had one lady lure me with her straw selfies, put it this way