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Every once and a while I am reminded of the hope bolsheviks had for the future and it fucking ruins me

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

This is fucking depressing, god I miss the ussr so goddamned much

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago
[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago
[–] iie@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

Yeah that’s gutting to read

[–] miz@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We were so close gang Malenkov

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago
[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of time capsules are insanely optimistic. People in general have wild predictions about the future. Shit people today still think stuff like flying cars might work (lol, lmao).

Something I think about in terms of future hope (this is written in the context of computers and why they turned out awful):

"[...] part of it, maybe, is that lingering naiveté from the early days of computing, where we thought we could make utopia just by forgetting where we came from and leaving all the old world’s messiness behind. [...]

That said, we are probably too cynical now. It's almost considered childish to hope that maybe one day we might be basically decent, or that we might not live in a surveillance capitalism hellscape. Certainly it's harder to dream wonderful dreams in a world where the dominant hegemony is actively trying to suppress the idea that things could get even marginally better.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What abkut flying trains though? Can we have those?

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, flying is bourgeois decadence. Humble earth buoys your footsteps and you are not content with this?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

i KNEW the fucking birds were our enemies! mao vindicated!

[–] un_mask_me@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

My time capsule contribution: All hail the metal sky tube

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I want trains that travel straight through the Earth's core

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

We have those. Well, China does lol

[–] shath@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

Dam that's some sad shit

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "those who do not know what war is" one is funny. I'm not convinced that a fully communist world will end war. If anything I am in fact quite convinced that leftists will fight other leftists just as hard or even harder for sometimes ridiculous reasons.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Outdoor cats struggle nuclear exchange.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For the sake of my own sanity I’m gonna say:

Source?

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Oh no it’s real trump-kaneki

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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This link is a try not to cry challenge (impossible)

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago