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You mixed me up with the guy you're replying to, who keeps arguing that his racist views are not racist.
No I meant the guy posting vacuous tired meme content
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John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
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Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#262This needs a retitle of "Being poor in the USA". You need to talk to someone who grew up in the DDR or the CCCP to get some perspective (although I bet people from the so called third world would have quite something to add, too!). I am a little better as I grew up in socialist Hungary. Some memories that this article brought up: off-brand toys? You couldn't even buy LEGO until like 1982 for Hungarian forints. A few…
Thank you for writing this. I grew up in the USSR. And then early Russia (the country was recovering from the USSR wreckage, even more painful). The "$800 car" bit made me smile too. PS. Now, when I live in a nice EU town, own a somewhat successful software company, and my #1 mission is so my kids never, NEVER EVER, _EVEN IN THEIR DREAMS_ have a tiny glimpse of that life.
Я с тобой согласен, товарищ! That's the mission indeed.
I fucking started a school in Hungary to give a better education to my (well, my brother's, details) little ones. Hungarian education didn't change enough from thirty years ago.