[cucumber3732842]

>As a German I believe it's more about demographics nowadays. The country and all large companies are run by older people who only saw rising prosperity their entire life. They all have settled in a comfortable place and do not seriously care about the future anymore

However bad Germany is in this regard, I suspect the US is far worse. There is no cohort in the US who remembers living in "East US" to temper the excesses of the people who've only known ease and comfort (though of course those people will tell you they worked hard to <insert career/prosperity path that no longer exists).

[dogemaster2025]

Certain liberal cities are the “East US.”

[realo]

Do you mean places like Kansas? Very clearly becoming "East US" : https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-5728969/kansas-revokes-...

[dogemaster2025]

Actually Kansas is doing the opposite of East Germany.

East Germany introduced the Transsexuellengesetz in 1980, which allowed people to change their first name or gender, as long as they provided, among other things, two psychiatric evaluations to ensure the condition was permanent, and not some decision driven by some temporary influence or fashion, but a full diagnosis of transsexualismus.

[Throaway1985123]

True, Minneapolis had the USA Stasi deployed there!

[collingreen]

Which certain ones and in which way are they like the east Germany mentioned?

Or is this just lazy bigotslop?

[dogemaster2025]

The socialist ones, which were like east Germany because they are socialist.

[wholinator2]

What do you mean?