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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Here’s a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.

    https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897

    The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography “I became Stockholm Syndrome”.

    There’s also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.

    Basically when you’re at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn’t even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.

    The guy with a gun, whom they’ve been talking to for days and has not hurt them in the slightest looked much less dangerous than the impending doom of the police barging in and shooting the wrong person.







  • Mercival@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlCommunist Filth/Capitalist Filth
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    I have a whole fucking family, who lived through the USSR. Not a single one of them misses it. Being spied on every step you take, my grandma has the “you never know who’s watching” mentality to this day.

    That’s not to say they don’t hate the current regime, but it’s nothing compared to the absolute atrocities of the USSR’s secret police.


  • Well, I’m from a post-USSR country and a substantial part of this was the criminalization of homelessness. Can’t have homeless people, if you lock them up (be it in a prison or asylum).

    Then again, just about anyone, who did not conform to the party’s message got locked up. Getting your place bugged at the slightest hint you might be up to something disagreeable and all that good stuff. The secret police could disappear and or beat you up without any real justification.

    I hate late-stage capitalism as much as you, but coming from a country that’s been through this, I am extremely reluctant to give the rotten and frankly repugnant USSR regime any credit.


  • Conflating Israel’s actions with Judaism as a whole is extremely antisemitic in its own right.

    Israel’s regime does casually murder children on a regular basis, it is not antisemitic to say that.

    If you’re suggesting ignoring the fact, just because “Neo-nazis might like it”, I can’t stand with you.










  • Mercival@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    They have quite a lot of money, particularly in foreign currency slush funds (see Room 39 for example). However the Kim family has the final say in what is government money and what never makes it onto the books.

    They could probably afford a FIFA championship. It’s admitting they have that kind of money, that would be a huge problem.



  • Mercival@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlJust the basics
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    That’s all part of the problem though, isn’t it?

    I live in central Europe and veggies and fruit are one of the first things, you see when you enter a store. They’re also really affordable and you can get them in pretty much every corner store all over the town as well. There isn’t a place where basic fruit and veggies are more than 15 minutes walking/public transit distance from you within the city. Never had to drive to a grocery store in my life. Some places are even open at night.

    Let’s not blame the people for eating like this, when that’s exactly what the system is set up for.