@kaia AFD dislikes this toot ;_;
Though IG they'll see that once they have deported those what was it? 20 million people? They won't have to be obsessed or even think about race (in Germany) anymore! /big s
@kaia @UkeBLCatboy
Take them to Russia for a quick tour of "traditional values". We are already seeing a taxi ride price hike due to sharp decline in number of drivers, thanks to recent "counter-terrorist" measures. Uber is against our tradition — walk on foot, or get a Chinese car instead!
Somehow it didn't solve the demographic crisis, neither did reducing the availability of abortions and oral contraception. I wonder, maybe the war and declining economy have more to do with it, hm-m-m? 🤔
Not at post communist Slavs and central Asians.
@special-boy
There is nothing traditional in these "traditional values", it's the same image of great past they attempt to sell to those who are younger and the unsuspecting westerners.
The number of abortions (and miscarriages) per woman have been much higher in the USSR, it was just most often performed out of clinic, and they will likely revive this particular "tradition" by making more civilised means of birth control less available.
@special-boy
> Amish of German heritage in the (They do not have a demographic crisis)
Well, that's natural — they have very few ways of entertaining themselves,
which also used to be true for rural Russia — they had vodka and
fucking, but now, due to aging population and declining health even of those who are younger, it became mostly vodka 😩
@special-boy
For Russians, I think alcoholism is a symptom than a core problem, during the periods of greater political freedoms and economic prosperity, hard alcohol consumption drops significantly, it also "coincides" (not really) with growth in birth rates. But this threatens the centralisation of power. And vice-versa actually, there's a theory that Gorbachyov's anti-alcohol campaign might have contributed to the dissolution of USSR.
@kaia @UkeBLCatboy
@special-boy
Unfortunately Russians themselves don't see centralisation as a bad thing, but the worst part is that the international community doesn't see it either — just watch them, when it caves in again, western politicians will do their best to keep it in one piece, they would rather deal with some new "owner of these lands", than with dozen representatives of smaller entities.
@special-boy
They just want someone more cooperative than Pooteen — replace him with Hooteen and be done with it, but I have digressed…
Russians actually stand their ground against alcohol relatively well. From what I can see — much better than many ethnic minorities from the eastern parts, for whom wide availability of alcoholic beverages becomes a really harsh blow, their traditions immediately start deteriorating 😅
That is their tradition at this point.