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shaoxing, zhejiang province, china

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They should add a second child and see if omelas gets more awesome

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Olivos House, Pilar, Argentina - Gonzalo Bardach Arquitectura

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Details at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, photographed by Alain Draeger, 1983

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she b-blocked me...? ;_; but but I'm just a.. *suddenly eyes razor sharp* i am very evil

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want to read 3-6 large books by the end of the year but i so far i have gotten distracted by smaller fiction and marihouna cigarettes. chat, will i make it out of the lions jaws alive?

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The Trust Agency was founded in 1990 during the unification process to privatise the DDR’s state-owned enterprises according to the principles of the market economy and to liquidate those that were ‘not competitive’. It took over 8,500 companies with 45,000 locations that employed some four million people and privatised 6,500 companies, selling them far below their value – often for the symbolic price of a single West German DM. Around eighty percent of these companies were sold to West Germans, fifteen percent to foreign investors and five percent to East Germans. Two thirds of all jobs in East Germany were lost, even though West German buyers were subsidised by the state. Violations of the conditions of the liquidation process – such as job retention – went unpunished and many of the labour rights that the West German trade unions fought for were abolished in that process. This was an approach that still, to this day, leaves eastern Germany economically weaker than the West and causes persistent social inequality. As a result, there are now only 850,000 industrial jobs in the territory of the former DDR, four to five times fewer than there were in the DDR. In the agricultural sector, the land taken over by the Trust Agency gained the attention of speculative buyers around the world and local farmers were unable to afford the rising land prices. Agricultural companies from West Germany and other EU countries now own this land.

RISEN FROM THE RUINS: The Economic History of Socialism in the German Democratic Republic, Internationale Forschungsstelle DDR

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reblogs got turned off but this deserves preservation

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by Juan Carlos Beltrán

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(In the cuck chair)(starts booing)

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Julia Dragović. CBR Building (1970), designed by C. Brodzki, M. Lambrichs. Bruxelles, Belgium

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ph. Danko Maksimovic - Naples, Italy (2023)

Film: Kodak ColorPlus 200

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obviously everything happening in the us is horrific but (like everything in trump's traveling carnival of government) it's mostly exceptional in now slapdash and clownish the cruelty is. let us please not forget that the EU has been paying foreign governments to torture and murder asylum seekers for years -- and australia's been doing the 'sending refugees to unaccountable offshore camps' thing for more than two decades. & like i say this not to detract from the justified fury and outrage for the situation in the usa but to urge everyone to analyse it not as some bizarre abberation but as something that fits alongside a long list of policies long pursued by the usa and other imperial core nations

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Scans from burst magazines documenting the japanese underground punk movement in the late 90s