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1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

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Re: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

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Post by sn41 »

pjc50 wrote: post #48
inglor_cz wrote: post #38

There is a lot left of the 1980s spirit in Czechia. * Willingness to do things by hand (such as sewing improvised masks in spring of 2020 at home). * General distrust towards authorities. * Caustic, dark sense of humor. * Readiness to be cynical/heretical about every Sacred Cause pushed by the media or activists. Americans would probably be genuinely shocked at the reception of the BLM movement here. * Corruption, un…

> Americans would probably be genuinely shocked at the reception of the BLM movement here It's not really surprising that a country that wasn't itself a colonizer nor exactly colonized (Hitler aside) and has few nonwhite immigrants wouldn't understand the American situation while also being naively racist.

Czechia is not "uncolonized", either. The Soviet actions in 1968, the German annexation in the 1930s, an episode which includes the assassination of Reynhard Heydrich [1] leading to the Lidice massacre [2] are recent examples. There are also less remembered things.

I have heard from my few Czech friends about the amount of art that Swedes stole from Czechia. [3] See the section "Sack of Prague". The English page is rather slim. It is better to see an automatically translated version of the Czech page on the stolen art treasures. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prague_(1648)

[4] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0v%C3%A9dsk%C3%A1_loupe%C...

Re: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

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smcl wrote: post #58
inglor_cz wrote: post #38

There is a lot left of the 1980s spirit in Czechia. * Willingness to do things by hand (such as sewing improvised masks in spring of 2020 at home). * General distrust towards authorities. * Caustic, dark sense of humor. * Readiness to be cynical/heretical about every Sacred Cause pushed by the media or activists. Americans would probably be genuinely shocked at the reception of the BLM movement here. * Corruption, un…

Sorry, I'm adding another reply as I re-read and realised this point was interesting too. I hope I'm not derailing this too much but I don't get to speak openly about CZ stuff with people so when it pops up on HN I get very interested. Re BLM, this one is a bit of a mixed bag in my experience - the categories I see are: 1. people who are on-board with BLM (most/all of my friends) 2. people who naively take it on face…

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Re: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

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Post by schoen »

StavrosK wrote: post #54
gostsamo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My bad, HN doesn't make obvious to screen readers who is answering to whom and I thought that you mean the comment with the Yugo radio programs.

Maybe it would be helpful if the devs added some sort of "reply to" ARIA tag to each comment? That wouldn't be too hard, would it?

Hey dang, if I mention you this way, will you notice the above suggestion? It seems pretty easy and pretty valuable!

Re: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

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Post by StavrosK »

schoen wrote: post #63
StavrosK wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it would be helpful if the devs added some sort of "reply to" ARIA tag to each comment? That wouldn't be too hard, would it?

Hey dang, if I mention you this way, will you notice the above suggestion? It seems pretty easy and pretty valuable!

You can also email him, he's very responsive.

Re: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.

#65

Post by smcl »

smcl wrote: post #58
inglor_cz wrote: post #38

There is a lot left of the 1980s spirit in Czechia. * Willingness to do things by hand (such as sewing improvised masks in spring of 2020 at home). * General distrust towards authorities. * Caustic, dark sense of humor. * Readiness to be cynical/heretical about every Sacred Cause pushed by the media or activists. Americans would probably be genuinely shocked at the reception of the BLM movement here. * Corruption, un…

Sorry, I'm adding another reply as I re-read and realised this point was interesting too. I hope I'm not derailing this too much but I don't get to speak openly about CZ stuff with people so when it pops up on HN I get very interested. Re BLM, this one is a bit of a mixed bag in my experience - the categories I see are: 1. people who are on-board with BLM (most/all of my friends) 2. people who naively take it on face…

Ok downvotes suggest that my observation is not only not shared by others but is considered ... harmful? I’d like to know what part people disagree with or find particularly bad
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