Acquaintance was confidently talking about how Sweden is a socialist country. The sad thing is most Americans probably believe this, but dear god it is so over

  • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    One time when hitching a ride to my 10 year high school reunion (which I recommend against going to btw) we were talking about countries we had visited/traveled to. I had mentioned that I had been to Cuba recently, so we got to discussing Cuba a bit. The Christian lib that was driving said something to the tune of “Cuba experienced a huge economic boom when the evil Soviet Union finally collapsed.”.

    It was so mind-numbingly historically illiterate I was gobsmacked. I didn’t even know where to begin. Like they actually euphemistically call the 1990’s the “special period” because of how absolutely devastating the collapse of the USSR was for them. I couldn’t even begin to understand how he arrived at that conclusion.

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      Yeahhh I just kept my mouth shut and sorta marveled at the ignorance of it all

      The convo that came after was very interesting, but luckily we (I) centered the convo back around to the Roman Empire tik tok trend. Though I couldn’t point out how most of it stems from the west’s perception of conquest/manliness