I just realized my dad did the most boomer thing ever

He had the opportunity to inherit a house in Poland from his parents, but he chose not to because muh principles and he wanted to emigrate

We could have literally had a free house

As someone who might in that position, he might be feeling as though he is stealing/abandoning his home.

well uh

@Jacob ...and a school environment like this:

he can't be abandoning his house if he had a chance to inherit the one he grew up in

He wouldn't be building one up himself though, which might be what is tying him down though eh

my uncle built an extension to it

my dad could have done that

@Bjorn - MD Now imagine how nice Poland would be if there was no brain drain due to emigration

Only a matter of time...

There are less and less suitable places whence said brains can drain by the year...

One thing I think was kinda cool about the communist government was emigration restrictions

That's probably the edgiest thing I've said on here

No thanks. No way would I ever tolerate a government that would hold me prisoner.

Broken clocks are right twice daily

You tolerate this one

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Nothing's stopping anybody leaving the US.

People leave here all the time.

Lol.

I've seen the frog alot, What does it mean?

@sigruna14 I'm still undecided if I would actually support that policy in real life but I definitely see the merits. Which is why I said "kinda"

Yeah. I'm neither a communist, nor even a socialist, but I have to say that I struggle not to say that I'd rather live in circa October '89 East Germany than a minority-White U.S...

@Jacob Best to make a country nobody would want to leave rather than hold your own citizens prisoner.

Another way to look at it is it's like forcing parents to take care of their children. It's not really holding you prisoner, it's forcing you to be a good citizen and fulfill your obligation to your people to repay your ancestors.

That said, I oppose emigration controls, but I was just alluding to the relative importance of demographics vs. economic minutia.

@Wilhelm You are lucky, you obviously don't watch TV or spend much time online.

I try not to

@Nemets In hindsight, maybe. A hard call to make, but definitely an argument I'd be willing to entertain.

Both were devoid of organic spirituality, but the East had more organic social cohesion.

...which is ironic, considering that 500,000 or so East Germans were on the Stasi informant rolls.

I've talked to my mom about that

She said a big difference under communism is that they didn't have the same culture of chasing after money we have today

Communism is a complete failure it's end product is only starvation and death.

Yeah, there was more in the way of solidarity, partial due to being indoctrinated into it, but mostly due to the need to cooperate in order to compensate for the shortcomings of their respective economic systems.

Seek... a third way....

@Wilhelm That's not really true. Communism was a failure, but the idea that the typical person in the Eastern block was just starving is inaccurate.

Well, I wouldn’t say he’s too far off since a single communist regime literally starved millions of people to death

I'm talking world wide. It is a Jewish idea in order to subvert the west. It does not recognize human nature.