I remember that getting high paying short term jobs was kinda easy. If you luckily got in touch with someone the likelihood that they would contract stuff out to you was there, especially in terms of electronics, IT, or event organization.

I did fly around a bit and that was quite relaxed back then. The security was virtually non existence, the food was somehow nicer (except if you were vegan, vegetarian or had trouble with lactose or didn't eat pork for religious reasons). There was little on board entertainment though that would fit your interests, so talking with your random neighbours was more common (this was true for any location really).

When I was a kid we would re-purpose wire from construction sites to dig our own land lines between friends and used self constructed radios to stay in touch. Weekends at the scrap yard were quite common. During summer you would have some locations in parks, at the river or alike you would meet up and those were social meeting places, where you could expand your social circle or make out with persons during holidays you often wouldn't see again. A similar attitude I only found later on in live at cruising places (and some festivals with swinger/hippy vibes or left flat shares).

the time tax to get basic life done was pretty absurd

True, but it was much less than now for plenty of things in the USA right now. This includes healthcare, child care, universities, education, holidays, public transport, funnily even flats at this point if you are looking at SF or Berlin.

Pretty much everything you needed for everyday life or a substitute you could get fast. What was your experience living there?

Sure there was "Bückware", but the standard of things you could get without large time expenditure was decent and much better than it is now for plenty of poor in the USA. With the advances in productivity and technological prospects since then what level of consumption could we create now? With near instant availability and stock information for consumers, retail, logistics and producers?

it was grey as fuck

With plenty of green areas in which trees had to grow (you see it now) and also a ton of Lauben/Datschas and regular holidays in greenery. Cities could've been much more colorful indeed.

An example of what I mean btw… our church had a missionary to West Germany that visited. He told us in the East, there was a bus of schoolchildren from the West driving through. The police boarded their bus and found a Bible, so they pulled all the kids out and shot them. Literally all the grown ups in my church uncritically believed this story.

Those slanderous things luckily can't survive the internet. But the sentiment can. The lies evangelicals tell is absurd.

If you look at campaigns it is easier to organize younger union members and the trend in small areas in Germany is positive. It is true that from the 80s till after the end of history union membership was falling very fast. However now new members can be kinda easily be won - even though class consciousness is lacking. This is true also for people with Ausbildung / Vocational training, who were harder to organize 20 years ago.

I do agree with a lot of what is said, but want to underline that this was the perspective of a likely older left person, who was likely part of resistance to revolutionary intersectionality (in contrast to liberal one). However of course not having mass organizations and millions in financing and expropriations against the left means that you will have it harder.

While squats are good and you had a good left support - even after the German Herbst - in the mainstream society you did not really have stuff like DWEnteignen or a principled fight against the end of Wohngemeinnützigkeit, those things and how gentrification relates to capitalism was something that had to be worked out for the public conscious after the reunification. Even plenty of the left did decry the Neue Heimat instead of defending it and framing the argument as attack against collective partial solutions. The split between migrant workers (who were often not really allowed in established unions - and who did awesome stuff i.e. Ford Streik 1973) is also less prominent now than it was, however racists are more upfront than they once were in some way (and are less upfront than in earlier times). In the early 90s I was part of a leftist group in which there was a discussion whether gay members ought to be allowed to be visible not hetero passing or if this would be bad for communist organizing in the Neue Länder.

Relative to the very good strength East socialized left people had in the early 90s (without economic base for it though) we are much worse off. But the trend is positive once again, different than in the early 2000s.

the witcher games.

I feel like its the same thing with Skyrim

You me, the same.

What is a family theatre vs regular theatres?

Or: Don't live in a single family home, but use efficiency from modern apt. complexes. Those can also re-use gray water to some degree and have a much higher efficiency over building lifetime and inhibitor than single homes. You also need less material.

I went into the thread. You defended Nazis and argued that it makes sense that the FRG (west Germany) had so many Nazis in control of the government, police, judicative, and companies. While there were alternatives (believe me as someone living in Germany and having informed myself about that I know it). You also moved your goal posts and tried to diminish influences of other states i.e. the US (which you nationalist rise above others). All in all you would be okay in the instance, but get back lash when you kept up the way to jump from one to the other.

That you try to ignore those actions and the responses to your comments fits that lemmy users arguing against hexbear are deflecting heavily from their own responsibility and their own actions.

Your points in regards to both Russia&Ukraine are also not true (else you would directly link to it, and then there is no consensus in the hexbear userbase neither) and liking the CFR article is also not showing anything about hexbear (who - if you do search for it - are actually linking the UN report as well as the Chinese answer in regards to the Uigurs in their threads and comments about it).

What do you try to say?

Am I the only one who is angry at them abusing the cute caterpillar?

Thanks for that! Bear-ing the fruits of federation I am.

I think this is the objectively correct answer

However how about for me who is sadly an older adult?