Just had a company event and out of nowhere they all started talking about ma freeze peach and how China is “literally 1984” and how we can see that our main conflicts nowadays are between “evil autocracy” and “democracy with western values where it could never happen that the press is lying”. I had to bite my tongue so hard the entire time, which I think they noticed. In the end I just said that I don’t want to provoke the inevitable world war 3 even more, which killed the mood hard lol.

It’s so frustrating to be alone in a group of “intellectuals”… Especially if you need to stay civil to not get fired.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    The anger is mainly because we have 17 governments with countless of officials, all not really working together, making governing a bureaucratic mess.

    And things can be a lot better. Belgium still has a poverty problem of some sorts, it still has a right wing problem, big companies get too much benefits still, contributing zero to society while getting funded by subsidies, the country is in need of renovations of roads and houses, the energy market is in the hands of basically one big company, etc. There is still work to do, but there is a solid base to build upon.