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Americans used to ridicule people living in the Soviet Union because they had to buy the same sofa, the same car, the same beer, all manufactured by the state.
by astrodust 8y ago
Americans used to ridicule people living in the Soviet Union because they had to buy the same sofa, the same car, the same beer, all manufactured by the state. They lived in the same apartments, stamped out by decree, from Europe to the Pacific.
Now having Lay's everywhere is a thing to be celebrated?
Lay's are terrible. It's like what happens to a potato when you take all the fun out of them and make them into something
even blander.
- hikarudo 8y agoI think they meant that you can find Lay's everywhere, not that you can only find Lay's everywhere. There's a huge difference between those two things. I'd take that any day over Soviet Union.
- astrodust 8y agoIt's this kind of bland ubiquity that is what the Soviet Union was all about. I'm not saying the Soviet experience was great, but that the modern American experience of the same shit, the same stores, the same everything everywhere you go is bordering on absurd. America is a handful of mergers away from having one cable company, one telephone company, one media company, one film production company. That's not a good look.