What are they trying to say here ?! How can this even be seen as negative ?

I'm genuinely pretty sure the DDR Museum in Berlin is run by socialists who want you to notice this, I swear to god that entire fucking place makes 0 sense otherwise. All the stations are like this, they're describing something good that nominally west germany did or still does but then describe it as bad because the communists did it, it ends with you looking at ginormous flat which it tells you cost the equivalent of 50€ per month or something and that nobody but the the richest 5% of the country could afford in Berlin today, before letting you out via the gift store full of DDR nostalgia to buy. Even all the most unpolitical, co-worker-belief-system people I've went there with caught on to it.

Yes, i think there is a panel where it tells you that some worker for a 3 room apartment pays 10% of their salary. Then they show you a standard 3 room apartment and while going through it I was so surprised because I would never be able to afford anything even close to it.

But all the museum is about how people where oppressed and poor !?
- "This is because the evil communist government hated the free market and smol bean landlords "
- I think the most egregious one to me was the stasi listening post that said they listened in to every 3rd person or something along those lines. this was post snowden, so by objective metrics that seemed a lot better than the allied NSA listening in to 100% of everything lol
- : “Well, the people who MATTERED were oppressed and poor! How were they supposed to feel good about themselves if even the weak were allowed to live?”
- but in reverse and sad
before letting you out via the gift store full of DDR nostalgia to buy

Holy shit you're not kidding

I went to check their online shop and it is entirely the kind of merch you'd expect to see in a pro socialist shop: plenty of Hero of Labour merch, Marx and Lenin stuff, a faux DDR passport notebook, that kinda stuff. There's a few things that border on either being actual anticommunism or possibly parody (like a sign saying "No Goods Today" in German), but none of it looks like it's meant to be ironic

Adding on as I look at more things: they sell a magnet celebrating the formation of the DDR (Republic Day, October 7th). I'm with you, there's no way this place isn't run by socialists
- Republic Day, October 7th
  
  another reason to celebrate
Example of the one thing the west is good at being used against it: Propaganda.

You don't say "we're perfect." You say "oh well sure we've got our flaws, but it's nuanced and really the other guys aren't even trying!"
Now it's just being deployed by socialists. They say "oh well the DDR wasn't perfect, you couldn't choose your own apartment (which cost 50 euro a month) and people had so much free time they fucked a lot, which isn't very productive. Compare it to our modern system where we can't fix our own things and we work so hard we're too tired to fuck! We make so much stuff! Anyway if you wanna ironically buy a Lenin poster or this book going into more details, feel free to do so!"

socialism is when all people in the world love each other but unironically

this is communism

Is this not how kindergartens are everywhere in the world or am I missing something? They are trying to make it sound extra nefarious

Okay but nap time was fucking bullshit and I had better things to do than lay on a cot pretending to sleep for an hour or whatever the fuck.
- It was truly afwul.
  
  Except that one time when some girl laying next to me was trying to teach me how to count to a 100. I tried to show it off to my parents later that day but couldn't remember any numbers past 50
- The gamer gulag will have mandatory nap times

Yes hi I'm sending my kid to kindergarden in Germany right now. It's the same thing under capitalism 😲

Except there's worse coverage, non-german citizens get discriminated by not getting the same coverage and it costs 250€/hour if you go out of pocket.

also the wait lists in some major cities are so long that you might want to get your kid on them before you even get pregnant
250 AN HOUR???? That's quite literally unaffordable unless you're in the 1%
- Yes under capitalism you get exactly as much as the state allows except if your part of the elite.

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some "fun" anticommunist highlights included:

The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren't forbidden from existing by the state
The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it's not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn't doing this)
There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren't allowed to deviate from the USSR's policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

spoiler (sorry, I only photographed the English text)

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

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The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having

This goes against ! We must denounce this as bourgeois behavior!
The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality

As opposed to the cheap dime-a-dozen housing that gets smacked up everywhere, rented for outrageous prices and god help you if you paint a cabinet or drill a hole in the wall - Goodbye deposit.

kindergarteners should have their "individual initiative" suppressed, kids at that age are SOCIOPATHS

for real. I have some childless friends. which I should say I am also childless, but I like kids and used to teach kids from ages 10-17. my friends have never worked with kids and never interact with them, but they remember school as being mean to them and not letting them achieve their maximum individual potential, so they think kids should just have all this unstructured magic playtime to explore their own genius.

I'm not saying we need to be shitty to them, but kids are crazy. they need to be constantly reminded not to cough in others' faces, not to dig in their own assholes and then touch group food, not to act like goddam maniac when someone it's someone else's turn with a shared resource, and that it's important to play in a group activity or accomplish a task with a partner and realize a shared vision.

kids can be absolutely fuckin bonkers' ass little terrorist monsters with no impulse control, and people who think they are magic enlightened angels should be forced to work with them for like one day.
- I have a niece who keeps biting people
  
  I am afraid of her
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- I've done improv and TTRPGs with large groups of 7-9 year olds. So many theater teachers love to talk about how "kids are just so creative" and "just go back to your childhood" and act all enlightened about how the system just pushes us into boxes.
  
  Kids fucking suck at improv. Their creativity is ass in any group project. They cannot relate to others and lack empathy. "I'M A BIG YELLOW ELEPHANT AND I AM BREATHING FIRE OUT MY ASS" okiedokie Philip, but actually it's Lisa's turn and we've already made characters. Michael is actually being burnt alive right now, so maybe instead of making it burn more, you think of a way you can help your good friend? Love the input though.
  
  Kids are put into boxes, but those boxes are titled things like "be nice" and "you are not the only person in the world"
  and "if you play the 'kick each other over the shins game' then at least one of you will cry. Which is okay, but you gotta be prepared for it"
  and "GODDAMMIT DO NOT CLIMB TREES WITH A BROKEN ELBOW!**"
  and "hey when your nose is broken, maybe don't play dodgeball?"
  and "your friend didn't punch you out of nowhere, he punched you because you kicked him and those things are related, but yes I agree getting punched isn't nice, don't you think getting kicked isn't nice too?"
  and "Hey remember yesterday when you came up to me, crying, because your friends wouldn't let you play with them? Well now Sophia, your friend, is telling me you won't let her play with all of you. Do you think Sophia feels like you felt yesterday? Oh I'm sure this game can accomodate one more person, since it's the same game you were playing yesterday when it could suddenly accommodate you"
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- You've touched on some unexamined thoughts that rattle around in my brain. I'd like to formally say "oh yeah, huh..."

I agree, Parenti Quote parenti indeed. This would be "Uplifting News" material if in a Capitalist nation.

This person is gonna absolutely lose their shit if anyone ever tells them about schools.

their orietntal indoctrination facilities vs our free and benevolent prussian education system

It kinda funny how the German is already heavily loaded and trying to make it a bad thing, but the English translation is reducing any amount of nuance the original text still had left in it, painting it as this devil institution brainwashing young people into becoming soulless borg commies.

for example, the original last sentence reads like this, faithfully translated: "Socialist morals and a positive attitude to life in a community were more important learning goals than the development of individual skills."

Here's the whole thing, trying to be as faithful and transliteral as I can be to the original:
Kindergarten served not only for childcare, it was also the first educational institution, anyone born in the GDR would visit. Obviously, because of this, state leadership had an interest in providing wide coverage: places at a Kindergarten were available for way more than 90 percent of children. The daily schedule was precisely planned and applicable to everyone: they would play together, eat together and have naps together - under instruction [you could read this as "guidance" too, but the tone of the original is very clearly already trying to make the supervision part of childcare into an evil commie thing, so yea]. Socialist morals and a positive attitude to life in a community were more important learning goals than the development of individual skills.

It’s funny bc I have a very rudimentary knowledge of German that never progressed beyond pointing at things and saying “der kase, das madchen” or whatever and I was going back and forth like “this does not look like it’s lining exactly” lol

Dance dance revolution museum

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The ritual was subject to rigid planning, the couple would move together as a collective, respond to thrusts made by the other, and even drink each other’s bodily fluids through various means and orifices.

What lead paint huffing fever dream has these dipshits thinking life under capitalism "encourages the development of individual ability"

It's just a nice way of saying that under capitalism "children will be left alone, to fend for themselves".
- "We would throw them to the forest to live with wolves, but both wolves and forests seems to disappear under our glorious system"

Oh no! Our daycare does all of this too! I can't believe I've sent my children to a communist daycare!! In AMERICA NO LESS!!

Teaching children collective group think… or just the most logical way to heard around 20-30 rabid 4-5 year olds who can say

Montessori, for example, has a more free-flowing structure to the child's day, where they can do an activity when they feel like it, stop when they feel like it. The idea is that then they're always in the right mental state (i.e. engagement) for the task they're doing then.

If the only reason the child is painting, for example, is "because it's 2 o'clock", then the child likely doesn't feel like doing that then.

Sounds interesting but I've never seen it even in a capitalist kindergarten. Sounds easier to pull off with smaller teacher-student ratios, though.

So it's school

Didn't the Germans invent kindergarten lmao.

In the modern european iteration, yeah, even the name is German.
I wouldn’t give them too much credit considering they took the idea from indigenous Americans
- As opposed to the anglos who took the land, but not the ideas.
the word is german for child garden

What the fuck, please show me even a single kindergarten in the world where things are not done as a collective, not only early socialisation of children is the point, but there's one teacher per group.

Whomever wrote this must be a camouflaged Solarian from Asimov books.

Montessori schools maybe?
- Not really, there's usually less children per teacher and other things are modified too, but ultimately it's the same purpose and definitely in that age range.

Speaking as a parent, I can say that all babies are born Libertarian. Even liberal education systems understand that they need that shit socializing out of them at an early age

MFW reactionaryism literally is the refusal to grow up.

~~bedtimes~~ naptimes are authoritarian and fascist

Honestly all the flak other leftist sects give anarchists should be attributed to porky, he’s the real “anarkiddie”.

The climate crisis is literally porky throwing a tantrum that he doesn’t WANNA clean up after himself.
Yes! Fuck nap time fuck morning people and fuck the police!
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That's just a regular kindergarten though. What am I missing? "They indoctrinate" yeah, that's what insitutions of education do. Just because we like our system doesn't mean we should pretend you don't get served your head and ass with liberal talking points (case in point: That museum text).
Also all kindergartens plan the day for the kids. They're toddlers, that's kind of what they need, some adult supervision alongside the opportunity to socialize and experiment in a safe environment (which is what happens when they play together.) What would the alternative even be? The kids have to eat meals on their own? They don't get fed the whole day? They don't take naps? Try having them take naps while the rest are playing and see what happens, lmao what the fuck are they saying here?

Furthermore the kids do have individual expression in the playtime! Like what are they talking about?

The fact that all children are inherently objectivist is such a hard pill to swallow 😔

Sounds about as regimented as my kindergarten in capitalist USA. They even made the kids recite the national anthem every morning lol, like a fascist cult. Anti-communist propaganda with a swing and a miss, yet again.