OH NO, THEY WERE SITTING IN ROWS, THIS IS FASCIST, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE DISORGANIZED AND THEY SHOULD HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS JUST LIKE IN THE UNITED SHITHOLE STATES OF AMERICA!
Unintentionally apt, since Portland, in good old American fashion, manages to be a wreck and have thousands of displaced/homeless people without a war having gone over it.
Only if "get back to the war" means "get back to knocking around Europe because Kiev -- excuse me, Kyiv -- is not a safe place for the Z-Man to be right now"
Especially the Democrats, weirdly enough. When he was in power, they basically considered him a dumb redneck (who grew up in New England and went to Yale), and they were constantly bemoaning the fact that his stupidity and his rhetoric were alienating important American allies. Now Bush seems to have gone through a Marvel-esque redemption arc, and the east coast establishment simply loves him -- he's the grand old senior statesman of our time. Simply not being Donald Trump is apparently the bar we've established for wise statecraft.
Seeing the Starbucks-drinking libs go from "Bush is the worst president in the history of America," and "He's a right-wing extremist who needs to be assassinated" to "let's applaud this loveable old man who made some mistakes, but was basically a welfare state leftist all along" has been pretty surreal.
I was in high school before I realized (my father, an historian, told me) that the wall was only in Berlin. Every textbook I'd read up until that point implied it was all across Germany.
The DDR was German, unlike Hitler's Reich and unlike modern Germany, which is a colony of the United States. Also unlike Ukraine, which is similarly a colony.
Egon Krenz, the last leader of the GDR, has gone on record saying he admires China's model, and that adopting reforms modeled after Deng Xiaoping's would have saved the country.
In authoritarian China, eating freely is a cherished activity.
Nice way to spin "the Communist Party ended the millennia-long cycle of famine and has provided food security for 1.4 billion people" as something sinister.
OH NO, THEY WERE SITTING IN ROWS, THIS IS FASCIST, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE DISORGANIZED AND THEY SHOULD HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS JUST LIKE IN THE UNITED SHITHOLE STATES OF AMERICA!