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Uh, you live in a place without weekends, women's voting rights or laws against child labour?

• pdimitar 8y ago
  I live in Eastern Europe, where drastic social changes only happen if the politicians see a crowd with pitchworks and torches at the town hall. Literally. People around here are just realists because no significant changes ever comes before people get that fed up. Civil discourse and constructive discussion has so far netted us nothing but dossiers and people landing on dissident lists. This happens to this day. No need to be snarky.
  • yread 8y ago
    > pitchforks at the town hall Hey, do you live in Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague ? Don't let the czech mentality get to you, people there complain just for fun.
    • pdimitar 8y ago
      Bulgaria. :) It's easy to write us off Eastern Europeans as "complaining just for fun" though. Many do but when you get to the bottom of it, real change happens extremely rare. And that's a valid argument and a historical background to have. But regular-complainers and realistic-no-BS-folk often get conflated by external observers -- to my despair.