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You have to design your avatar and then it tells you off for not being socialist enough. It then depicts you as a factory worker (albeit a smiling one) implying that you can't have any free will or personal tastes

Socialism when no casual clothes, magazines, or beer apparently.

One more for funsies

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[–] Florn@hexbear.net 81 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The worst thing liberals can imagine is having a real job

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 69 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One western country was cool for like 50 years and the fucking liberals will never let that go lea-tired

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 53 points 3 weeks ago

"We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it."

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dance Dance Revolution grades your avatar too? Feels like they’ve kinda lost the plot with that game.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

They really went downhill after DDRMAX2 huh

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago

The sad thing is I think they buy all this nonsense

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the strongest liberal attacks on socialism is "we are more than the work we do", which is why they strip you of your personal identity for socialism and only depict you as the worker identity.

It's a reapplication of the personal property vs private property argument except applied to personal identity. They're coming for your toothbrush vs they're coming for your personal identity.

The personal identity element then also ties into the "they're coming for your freedom" propaganda since the only time anyone ever feels free under capitalism is when they're able to assume their personal identity. The time that people feel least free is when forced to assume their workplace identity, which is strictly controlled by the dictatorship of a company that they work for.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The funniest thing to me in relation to this, is the complete crank "tankies" out there who are like "yes, that's exactly what communism does, and that's what we want".

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just assume these are fash or wreckers tbh. I don't believe them for a second. Doesn't matter what they are though they get treated the same way either way.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. Like, I get them on the whole "Soviet aesthetics are cool AF" thing. I even think modern commie states should still build stuff in the Soviet brutalist style, which I am aware is a controversial opinion even among commies. But at a certain point... you don't like brutalism, you like fascism in a sloppy coat of red paint.

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nazis hated what would end up becoming brutalism

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, the fascists hated it then. But modern fascists who think they're communists, National Bolshevik types, they really love Soviet aesthetics, they just also like systems of governance that are incompatible with socialist economic systems.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

Damn can you imagine an economic system that doesn't let you be what you want to be?

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Berlin is the worst gentrified city in the country, its essentially a tourist trap for rich west wing libs to do cocaine in and enjoy „the edgy art“ go to „alt kinky spaces“ like KitKat, have their humanism ayahuasca trip and complain why 40+ east german boomers dont speak english.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My mate has done a lot of cocaine whilst he's been over there

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

And one visits the pyramid of giza when in Egypt! Lets hope your friend didn’t go to the brothels there, because trafficking is a serious issue in that country.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's travelling with his wife, so I doubt it

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

You know them better than me.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I went there for the lols and left with an accidentally cool Marx-Engels-Lenin fridge magnet from the gift shop

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They got a Marx snow globe

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe it's the beers talking Marx but you got a scrit that won't quit. They sell those cute, shakable globes here and... [unintelligible] ...ten euros! Get outta here...

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The ostalgie shops are usually better staffed with more „authentic“ gdr stuff. To be fair it pales to the actual „remembrance“ of the former Soviet bloc - Like when I was in Belarus during the last WW2 anniversary and there was like a giant golden lenin statue to buy.

[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

You just know this was ordered to be installed by someone who can't imagine work being an enjoyable part of life.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago

Dance dance revolution got weird

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Telling someone off for not being socialist enough is the most socialist thing you can do though.

I don't know what the Dance Dance Revolution museum has to do with it though

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I know right? This website should have a thing like this. Where no matter what you do, it tells you off for not being socialist enough. I think a lot of commies would have fun playing with that.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I assume it's related to this (possible content warning? Robot Chicken can be rude and vulgar):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF82Wue_VPE

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hell yeah! A picrew maker that tells you off for not being enough of a communist stereotype! That's fun!

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty neat, even if it doesn't tell you off when you're done...

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I grew up with a Jewish man who immigrated to the US as the USSR was coming to it's final days. From the way he tells it, you were definitely allowed to be a cool, rock and roll stoner dude if that was your choice. That's what he chose.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

I have no doubt. But that flies in the face of the stereotype.

Кино

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

I am sorely disappointed this has nothing to do with Dance Dance Revolution

[–] emdash@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like that it gives you a newspaper every time

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fuckin' Trots, at it again!

[–] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

Interestingly, they're both bricklayers.

Like, if this was about the 'ideal socialist human' then like, it's so stupid that just because someone does work in bricklayering and does look like that, doesn't mean they can't look or act different outside work. Surely for example, you'd wear the left outfits when you're not in your jobsite, or when you're at your house, or the park, or any public space..

Insinuating you can't have both (I'm assuming! Maybe I read it wrong) is dumb lol.

[–] poster596@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

meanwhile capitalism

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thats not a factory worker thats a brick layer, and also your friends are wrong and the museum is correct, sorry babe :^)

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

I realised my mistake but decided to leave it. Both are honest proletarian jobs and the backbone of any functioning society