Writer's Block: Day of German Unity

[thebitterguy]

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You're Fucking Kidding, right? Seeming simplicity? You mean a "constant near paralyzing fear of nuclear annihilation"? You mean Two minutes to midnight? You mean DefCon 2? You mean hoping there's another Stanislave Petrov to save our fucking lives?

Seriously, this is retarded.

I would like to refer you all to read Gabe's article on punk rock and how it was driven by fear of nuclear annihilation.

Comments

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Who wrote that, someone born post-Glasnost? JFC. Simplicity my ass.

Also, on a related note, Sarah Palin scares the crap out of me.

Just sayin'.

[thebitterguy]

If I ever say, sincerely, "I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the cold war", slap me.

Far as I'm concerned about Palin, she's still harmless compared to Cheney, who was a pretzel away from Supreme Executive Power.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Agreed, that's stupid as fuck.

[meerkat77.livejournal.com]

No 1: I am pretty surprised that LJ really mentiones our Unity - day.
No 2: I can´t believe the stupidity of this question!
The god damn cold war wasn´t some sort of action - movie... at least not for my generation.

[thebitterguy]

Happy Unity day, then. Is it a holiday there?

What's even odder is isn't LJ owned by Russians now? I wonder what the Russian replies to this one look like.

[thebitterguy]

It also occured to me that LJ's a Russian company now. Did this get run by anyone in head office?

[meerkat77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *hehe Yes, it is a public holiday but - honestly - to the majority of people it is just a day off work.

I´ve read some of the listed answers and there actually were a few in Russian... I also wondered what they wrote.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, it's totally great now that Russia is totally friendly to everybody and nobody's fighting any stupid proxy wars in third-world countries. Totally.