• superkret@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    I struggle to think of a time when Europe as a whole was “Great” and where I’d want to go back to…
    Maybe the mid 1990’s?

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      23 hours ago

      In the mid 1990’s

      • no matter what a husband did to his wife, it would never be considered rape by German law. (The guy who will most likely be our next head of government voted against the change back in 1997.)

      • violent xenophobic riots took place in Germany, and the government kind of just shrugged and did nothing.

      • same-sex marriages were not a thing anywhere in Europe.

      • racist, sexist and homophobic jokes were socially acceptable even in relatively progressive circles.

      • transgender people even existing was still a taboo. Giving them any rights was completely unthinkable.

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        5 hours ago

        A number of (european) countries had recognised same sex partnerships in one form or another during the 90s.

        Not that you’re wrong in general, but please don’t bundle the always-so-backward Germany with the rest of us.

    • mvlad88@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yeah mid 1990’s in Romania where the best, crazy inflation, 70% of the population still had toitlets in the garden, one colored TV per apartment building, those years were the bomb. Would totally do again.