We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of trans liberty can only strengthen the cause of fediverse peace. There is one sign Hexbear can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary TomboyShulk, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Hexbear and Lemmygrad, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Ms. TomboyShulk, open this gate! Ms. TomboyShulk, tear down this wall!
Semi related, but that “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” line was so fucking stupid.
You’re in Germany Ronald. Gorbachev isn’t ba politician in East Germany. It’s a different fucking country! The Soviets didn’t like the Berlin Wall, but the East Germans did it anyway BECAUSE IT’S A DIFFERENT FUCKING COUNTRY!
I get it, it’s just anti-Communist, orientalism that assumes the Communist Hordes of the East are all beholden to their Soviet masters or whatever. But even the United States’ puppet regimes went and did their own shit sometimes, so long as it didn’t rock the boat too much. How hard is it to give these Warsaw pact countries some agency in your understanding of the world???
Anyway, I’m talking to the liberals in the walls again.