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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Dumb meme that tells that babushkas know everything in the neighborhood.

It's dumb because eastern europe is turning into a totalitarian shithole much faster than the UK and the US

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's actually a bit deeper than that, at least from my Romanian perspective. Our old ladies were literally hired by our security services to monitor and report on everything going on in their neighbourhoods. They were essentially human CCTVs, facial recognition and behavioural pattern matchers all rolled into one while being paid pennies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Our old ladies were literally hired by our security services

You're joking, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Deadly serious. By the end of communism, they had over a million informants. You had to make the assumption that everyone you talked to and every old lady on a park bench was an informant.

Funny story, I know someone who was recruited to inform on her colleagues at work, but after the third time in a row she told them everything is wonderful, everyone is happy and productive, she was promptly fired (as an informant, not from the factory).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

We hired you to give us DIRT 😤😤😤 MAKE IT UP IF YOU HAVE TO

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