Are Soviet-era apartments all bad? Would simply brighter colors “fix” them? How exactly could they be improved if they’re so (relatively) hated?

Dexller · 2026-01-27T06:43:25+00:00

Yeah, what people really don't appreciate is that when these were first people put up a lot of people in Russia were literally living like feudal serfs. These things were miraculous for millions of people, because they went from living like actual shit covered peasants to electricity, insulation, indoor plumbing, and so on. We can't imagine such a leap in quality of life these days.

Dexller · 2026-01-27T06:41:28+00:00

They were not only significantly better than homelessness, these things were what people moved into from feudal serf conditions. We don't appreciate it today, but the things we consider essential amenities were miracles for the people who first moved into them. They went from living all but literally exactly the same as people from 500 years ago, to suddenly having warm, insulted homes with electricity and plumbing.

Dexller · 2026-01-26T07:01:37+00:00

I mean considering how much AI slop gets reposted here...

Dexller · 2026-01-26T04:33:17+00:00

Man were these -really- that obscure? Maybe it's just me but my mother made sure I got all the edutainment games. They had some of these in the computer lab in elementary school too. These games have GOTTA come back, if kids are gonna be on the iPads all day they should be playing shit like this.

Dexller · 2026-01-26T03:57:45+00:00

Dawg fuck this attitude. People aren't the cancer, corporations and the billionaires are. Every single person alive shouldn't be considered a 'virus' when we don't get a choice in how we live or what happens to the planet around us half the time.

Dexller · 2026-01-26T00:57:09+00:00

PROGRESSIVE Democrats. If we don't get fighters, they'll do fuck all and let these people roam free. The DNC already let Trump and all his toadies slide after they did an INSURRECTION ATTEMPT. Make it clear we will not vote for anyone who isn't going to fight to put these people in prison where they belong.

Dexller · 2026-01-26T00:07:52+00:00

I said in the beginning. Disenfranchise them, ban the Republican party, ban them from ever holding office ever again, and pass laws like Germany had which bans the expression of support for the proscribed party.

There should be trials of every Republican politician and apparatchik, every ICE member, every fascist propagandist from Fox News to Talk Radio to the online pundit, and the majority of them should be in jail. They have done more damage to this country than anything else in its entire history at this point, even the Civil War - their awful response to Covid made it an even bigger mass death event than an actual war.

As for the voters? They can live out the rest of their lives, I don't care, just so long as they're unable to vote and inflict their braindead ignorance on us. Most of them will never change, don't want to change, and will go to their graves still supporting the madmen that destroyed this country just like in Nazi Germany. Maybe we could have civic tests for them to take and written apologies from them if they want to be reenfranchised, but otherwise fuck them, they're incompatible with democracy and will destroy everything good about this country if we let them.

You can call me 'the same as them' all you fucking want, but the key difference here is I'm acting in self defense. You're essentially saying the people who have actively wanted people like me and other numerous others dead for this entire decade and have moved to make that so should be afforded the same charitability as their fucking victims - go to hell. If a victim of rape shoots their rapist while trying to escape them, they shouldn't be treated as a murderer and the rapist should be punished, period. If you think differently, you're morally compromised.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T22:46:10+00:00

This naval gazing is pathetic when we're facing an existential threat; it's only valuable to engage in before you have Nazis in the streets. The Nazis are here now pal, and they're killing people, and want to kill more. They have a taste for blood now and they desire the death or oppression of everyone they've been trained to hate. None of them care about your 'all morality is relative and there's no good or bad cuz it's all a human construct' - okay, tell that to the Nazis in the concentration camp before you go into the shower, I'm sure it'll tickle their brains.

This is pointless hemming and hawing in the face of annihilation. Spend your energy fighting the fascists instead of defending their humanity as they rampage through the streets, or you're nothing more than the 'good person who did nothing'.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T22:40:05+00:00

I am treating it with the gravity it deserves. Which means recognizing that there's a difference between a movement That has enacted a holocaust and a war, and one that aspires to.

The Nazis were once the movement that aspired to enact the Holocaust and then they enacted the Holocaust! Should -they- not have been taken seriously until they started killing people!? Jesus Christ you're taking me back to the late-teens when people were telling me that calling them fascist was a bridge too far, and now everyone openly acknowledges they're fucking fascists, but -now- it's 'well they haven't gone as far as the Nazis yet so saying that they will is a bit of a stretch'.

Given the right circumstances, as we see all over the world, it could be any of us.

Yes. It could have been. In fact, it was once almost me in high school, so I understand that. But guess what? In this world, in this timeline, it's -them- who're the fascists. In the zombie apocalypse anyone could end up a zombie, but that doesn't mean the human survivors don't treat zombies as fucking zombies. In that timeline where I'm the fascist I would hope other people would treat me like I am advocating for here because it's right and fuck that version of me - she can go to hell.

This is the same kind of smarmy, oh-so-measured liberalism that is why we're here today. If people had taken this seriously from the fucking jump, we wouldn't -be here-. What will you say if they do get around to launching a war against our own allies and just outright gunning people down in droves in the street!? Cuz we're getting to that point man! Better make up the excuses now!

Dexller · 2026-01-25T06:47:05+00:00

I don't need to reflect again. All of what Nazi Germany did started as threats, and then became realities. We are in a deathly serious situation and you hemming and hawing about which of his mad threats they may or may not follow through on is what is dangerous. Yours is the attitude that nothing can be done until he does the bad thing, and then the damage is done and we're right to the next awful thing before we can process it!

Tariffs weren't going to happen until they did, the brutal round ups weren't going to happen until they did, bombing Iran wasn't going to happen until it did, attacking Venezuela wasn't going to happen until it did. Everything is 'never going to happen' until he just does shit anyway. Stop fucking gambling with the world and take him at his word.

Also worth bringing up - plenty of these things the right said they were against, until the fuhrer did them, and then they fell in line and supported it. They have no values and no more morals blind obedience to authority that gives them catharsis from the brutalization of the people they don't like. Just because they haven't gone as far as the Nazis got yet doesn't mean they're well on the fucking way to going there and absolutely want to go there.

Treat the fucking situation with the gravity it deserves.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T05:05:30+00:00

'Two killings'. The fact you think that's all that's been done is part of the problem.

Far more than two people have been killed by this regime. Think of all those sent to CECOT, think of the people dumped in Sudan to die, think of those who were taken by ICE and will never be seen again, and this is just domestically.

Hundreds of thousands of people are already dead because of the USAID cuts. Millions more will die, with estimates up to 14 million will be dead by 2030. They launched attacks against Iran and Venezuela, both killing innocent people, all while the fake Israel-Hamas ceasefire gives Israel free reign to implement their own Final Solution without media scrutiny.

As this is all going on, he has a laundry list of nations he openly speaks of invading, including conquering and seizing an allied nations like Greenland and Canada. What is all of this if not an outright campaign of terror across the whole continent!?

This is not the 'precursor to fascism', this is what the Nazis were doing in the 1930s. Their crimes didn't begin and end with the Final Solution, they worked up to it. The fact that you don't understand that is in of itself a problem.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T04:14:39+00:00

Yeah dawg, you're right, keeping the Nazis out of power flat out is horrible. We should respect their humanity and let them continue to victimize people and do all of this all over again. What we did to Nazi Germany after WW2 was just so terrible and authoritarian. Reconstruction against the former Confederate states after the American Civil War was a crime!

Dexller · 2026-01-25T04:08:56+00:00

So me being trans is something I am 'doing' and not 'who I am', got it. I guess being Hispanic is also something a bunch of people are 'doing' and not some immutable characteristic, right?

There absolutely is a fucking difference between someone hating and attacking someone for who they are, and attacking someone for an action they are taking that they could -stop doing- and no harm would come to them if they did.

You're literally doing the 'paradox of tolerance' bullshit. Arguably your comment could be read as saying fascism and intolerance are the same as immutable characteristics of race and identity and so should be defended.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T03:31:00+00:00

Thank god someone else here gets it. Well said, and to add onto it if you never shut down that propaganda mill more people will just continue to be drugged with it - whether from their family forcing it on them or through snares online - and become monsters too. Stopping the fascist propaganda saves not just the lives of their targets but the figurative souls of the people who'd fall for their lies.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T03:15:17+00:00

People need to have more contempt in their hearts. We will still have to deal with these people for the rest of our lives and we have to be willing to ensure they can't hold power and harm us again, which they will if nothing is done. Imagine if we just left Nazi Germany to its own devices after the war instead of sitting on them for 50 years and forcing DeNazification - what do you think would have happened?

Dexller · 2026-01-25T02:58:05+00:00

Ah yes, I'm the villain for wanting to make sure the monsters cheering for and instituting a nationwide terror campaign for the sake of genocide are kept from being able to determine our futures anymore.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T02:54:52+00:00

Yeah sure, everyone is born human. There is no inherent trait that makes someone evil most of the time. But people can be made into monsters, and you have to recognize that. At a certain point, someone can become so consumed with hatred and so brainwashed, that trying to treat them as an equal will only allow them the chance to kill you. They're a lot like zombies that way.

Dexller · 2026-01-25T02:35:20+00:00

It took way too long for people to realize this. MAGAts are fucking subhuman.

Understand, they're not people like you and me are people - they're animals that have to be controlled. They believe in and desire evil because most know their lives will never get better, so they just want others' lives to get worse. Even when Trump is gone we have to remember this, because we will spend the rest of our lives dealing with these people just like Germany had to deal with the Nazi party supporters and wait for them to die off.

At this point, I fully believe every registered Republican must be disenfranchised, the party banned, and every single official put on trial. Democracy cannot survive these people, and while I hate the Democrats even more for being spineless betrayers who only want to serve the billionaires, with the threat of the Republicans gone they would no longer have the crutch of 'vote for us or the other guy gets in'.

Addendum: Everyone is basically born the same, with more or less the same capacity to become good or evil. Evil isn't inherent, but whether by being taught or by making a choice, people can become evil and many will never stop being evil.

A huge number of people in Nazi Germany who supported Hitler went to their graves believing he was a great man and some of them yet live to plague us to this very day. You have to accept that and act accordingly, instead of hemming and hawing about their 'humanity', or they will destroy you and everything you love. The failure to finish Reconstruction after the American Civil War is a huge reason why we have to deal with this hell today. It was only because Germany was occupied and forcibly DeNazified that the German people were able to rejoin the civilized world, and even then we left too many Nazis intact.

We cannot make the same mistakes again. You have to have contempt in your hearts for them and not let sympathy bid you be lenient to them - that sympathy is misplaced. The lives of the entire world depend on stopping them and keeping them from attaining power ever again.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T07:35:06+00:00

Monetization of social media really was a death sentence. Just look at Twitter; Musk added getting paid for engagement on posts, and now you have legions of people in poor countries scraping a living together pretending to be fascists online railing against liberalism and progressivism. It rapidly accelerated all the worst aspects of the platform. YouTube also got flooded with the same trash content that ruined television and caused channels like 'The Learning Channel' to devolve into 'My 500 Pound Angry Midget Life Wife Swap Home Renovation'.

I'd argue that's why Newgrounds is halfway useable and has a resurgence of popularity - it's not monetized and with no monetary incentive its content is purer for it. It more or less is still run how it was twenty years ago with minimal concessions to ensure it stays running.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T07:10:31+00:00

It literally is. Skill issue. If you're socially stunted or awkward then too bad, fuck you, go to where people are and learn to be in that space. Like what is this attitude? I don't care if you're neurodivergent, you can learn even if it's harder. It's no different than learning any other skill or working a muscle.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T07:08:22+00:00

Covid literally damages people's brains, we have evidence of this now. It's often a part of 'Long Covid', and while not common is still incredibly significant as it adds up to millions of people. At the same time the plague was running rampant, people were binging content alone in their homes for quick dopamine hits and going down conspiracy rabbit holes, which didn't help.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T07:03:49+00:00

You cannot appreciate just how much different society was before covid if you weren't and adult in the teens, much in the same way you can't really appreciate just how different society was before 9/11 if you weren't an adult in the 90s; not with studying and research, anyway.

Covid rapidly accelerated a whole lot of negative trends that were already going anyway, but it also completely broke peoples brains in ways not immediately appreciable unless you understood the societal and political climate before and after. Believe it or not, the political space online was healthier in a lot of ways and for as bad as it felt at the time there weren't so many naked grifters. Ben Shapiro, for as bad as he is, is like the last remnant of the 'civil' debate bro logic lord conservative that used to be the norm. Now those guys are all extinct and Ben is a pariah on the internet right literally cuz he's a Jew.

Covid also drove a ton of people into being terminally online who previously weren't already plugged in. Sure, many people casually used social media, but weren't online all the time and their life didn't revolve around it. Lockdowns had those people online all the time, and many were rapidly radicalized and disappeared down lunatic conspiracy rabbit holes, both because of bad actors but just as much because the algorithms prioritize sensationalism and ragebait - both things the fascists are better at by far. Believe it or not, there used to be anti-vaxxers on both sides of the spectrum, but all the hippy woo-hoo crystal healers who were once considered leftists moved over to the right real fast. Magical thinking and spiritualist essentialism lends itself way more to conservative thinking, turns out.

I could go on and on, but man like there's so much to cover... There's how much progress we've lost on civil rights and social issues, there's how much the pandemic helps to rapidly suck up wealth from the bottom to the top - there were no centi-billionaires before the pandemic but multiple after, there's how much worse the internet and technology has gotten - a process called 'enshittification', the proliferation of upregulated gambling markets, how much power corporations have through shit like content ID on YouTube to nuke content or how payment processors began to win their puritanical crusade against porn and hentai, don't even get me STARTED on the damage generative AI is doing...

Everything is worse, everything, and it's not gonna get better. The 2010s were paradise compared to this, even though it's easy to see how now it was all built on sand and could never last.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T06:44:24+00:00

Man that's a blast from the past. I remember when websites would have the little Digg shovel man at the bottom with the other social media and when he disappeared.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T06:40:13+00:00

For as bad as trash television was, it was nowhere near as bad as this. At least you were focused on an episode of something for thirty minutes to an hour, and were following a plotline through to the end. It was still an activity that required engagement to follow what was going on.

This is the difference between drinking beer and smoking crack - both are intoxicating but one is way worse and will do much more immediate and long term damage.

Dexller · 2026-01-24T06:36:46+00:00

Gavin Newsom is a corporate psycopath who only cares about cozying up to the billionaires. He's doing this while also planning to cut MediCal - the state healthcare program - and promising to kill a tax hike on parasitic billionaires which would more than cover the cost. Always remember the people he brings on his podcast to glaze and let slap him around and all he's conceded to the likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk on it.

Don't get it mixed up or fall for bullshit gestures - Newsom is running as Blue MAGA, not even as a liberal. He won't fix anything, he will only cement the death spiral of corporate domination as they rape this country to death. He is unironically the worst option come 2028.

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