Maybe some math. People were really interested in tracking movement stars, planets etc. So if you learned their system of notation you might be able to speed up the development of certain mathematics since they’d see the "practical " value in it for astrological or religious purposes.
Edit I think they are actually joking (as it happened cause altered timeline?)
Why do you think there were so many drag, trans and LGBTQ clubs in Berlin's Weimar period?
Woviets
:soy-cutie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
One effect of the widespread availability of Caller ID spoofing is that, as AARP published in 2019, "you can no longer trust call ID."[2][3]
For fucks sake, this was old news when I was young, how can millionaires not know that kind of shit?
So concentration camps as focus groups to test out new products?
I mean it would get them a job at the :pete: consultancy company, but wow.
Park Yeon-Mi
Park's father was arrested for illegal trading in November 2002 and was sentenced to hard labor at the Chungsan reeducation camp in a show trial in 2004.[6][12] Her views of the Kim Dynasty changed when she watched an illegally imported DVD of the 1997 movie Titanic, which caused her to realize the oppressive nature of the North Korean government. She states that the movie taught her the true meaning of love and gave her "a taste of freedom"
Obviously I would like to have everyone better lives, but to think Titanic means there is a better live for you is a bit naive?
they were shot while trying to escape.
Or killed by the automatic devices, or drowned or died falling from their escape routes.
140 people died in connection with escaping the wall, 101 people fleeing the GDR, 30 people who didn't want to flee out of the GDR or FRG who were killed, 8 people on border duty
there were 133 law suits against around the double amount of people, around 50% were convicted
In August 2001 the head of the party for democratic socialism (the successor to the SED and some left wing organisations, who later formed with others the party The Left / Die Linke) said: "The shootings at the wall are unjustifiable and are a violation of human rights".
Klaus Brueske, born 14. Sep. 1938, died 18. Apr. 1962 tried to escape with a truck and died after breaking through the border crossing U Heinrich-Heine-Straße (were the KitKat/Sage club is nowadays) and causing an accident at the crossing with the regular traffic within the FRG
whose material conditions would be better under capitalism versus socialism
Within the imperial core while having degrees which are accepted and maybe are white passing and male
Western propaganda worked. East Germans watched West German TV and saw all the treats in the commercials. They believed that they too would be driving BMW’s and eating bananas in their big-ass houses. Never did it occur to them that all of the treats of the West came with a price.
There is an interview with a person who escaped from North to South Korea and she basically tells the same, she said: I watched the shows I thought most (could become) millionaires and there was no poverty. Then I got here and saw poverty, lived precarious etc. she said her life only got better once the media picked her up to do Anti North Korean propaganda on TV basically.
Wasn't summarily executed though. Of course I am against borders, but the narrative that it is worse to lock people in the country (where they can move freely) than to keep others out is bullshit. The tens of thousands of people who drowned in the subterranean sea is objectively more evil than what the GDR wall was. Similar: The support and the teaching of the people who tortured and killed tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands and in total millions of labeled leftist sympathisants in Southern America, in South East Asia and Africa by the US is worse.
While we don't calculate life against life the military industrial prison complex of the US gets away with a clean west in comparison if you ask the media.
I don't applaud summary executions, but have trouble with hyping up moral judgement against a state and thus institutions which don't hold power anymore while women are murdered in the FRG sometimes without recurse, when the chancellor of Germany is responsible that a person in Hamburg got tortured to death as direct consequence of him being Mayor there.
The good and fun of the show made the ideology more painful to me. Pitlover is the liberal techbros dream of a rational society guided by ideas and good speeches (if a charismatic strong independent leader who wants the good pushes for them at least).
There were quite a few good scenes, arches and teary eyes for me, though it isn't materialist or Marxist in the end.
Imagine how amazing shows could be with that budget if it wasn't bound so much to a profit oriented company.
Got any literature sounds interesting?