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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 45 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago
[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago
[–] iie@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Yeah that’s gutting to read

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

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

We were so close gang Malenkov

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago
[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month 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 month ago (4 children)

What abkut flying trains though? Can we have those?

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month 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 month ago

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

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

My time capsule contribution: All hail the metal sky tube

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

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

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

We have those. Well, China does lol

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

Dam that's some sad shit

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month 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 month ago

Outdoor cats struggle nuclear exchange.

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

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

Source?

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Oh no it’s real trump-kaneki

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

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