I mean granted this isn’t THAT horny but still 
If you think it’s not THAT horny it’s a skill issue. Meanwhile I’m busy over here fucking the absolute shit out of that moped.
The Soviet Union objectively wasn’t feminist enough imo. Maybe if it stuck around longer it’d have been great
i think they fell into the trap of “women can get jobs, own a home, get an education. what else is there to feminism?” which happens a lot to men.
they were better than the west (amazingly low bar, i know), which is why you still get more women in science in the former eastern bloc, but that was about it.
The initial error IMO was the Stalinist closure of the Zhenotdel and reversion to the nuclear family as the basis of society
I think part of the problem is that when faced with external threats countries tend to become more conservative. I think like China today the USSR likely did not want to introduce social instability by addressing various social issues. I think Cuba is a great example of how to do things differently.
Addressing social issues reduces social instability, conservative policies and cultural norms only empower the NGOs and intelligence agencies (and intelligence agencies masquerading as NGOs) to find willing informants and collaborators. I don’t get it.
I think in the long term you are correct. However, in the short term social reform can often engender a reactionary backlash that increases social instability. For a weak state that’s on the defensive against global capital, social reform can be seen as unnecessarily risky. That’s especially true if substantial fractions of the party hold socially conservative beliefs themselves. Personally I agree that not addressing these issues directly is a mistake even if I think care has to be taken to education people and create public support for reform.
well its soviet latvia which is like the black sheep of the USSR
I thought that was Romania?
Romania wasnt a part of the USSR so theyd be more like the black sheep of the Warsaw pact (the black sheep of the whole eastern bloc would arguably be Albania but for very different reasons)
Edit: Albania was part of the WP at the start (withdrew in 68) but my point stands
And black sheep of the Communist Bloc is Ethiopia or maybe Somalia
I dont even wanna know what Kampuchea is in this analogy
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
The one with rabies
I still forget the distinction between the two.
Between USSR and the Warsaw pact?
I’m not very smart
its the difference between USA and NATO
The USSR was one country (generally composed of countries formerly in the Russian Empire). The Warsaw Pact was an alliance that included many more countries in Eastern Europe (such as Poland).
r/latvia
Hello! I am a norwegian tourist in a small city in Latvia. I have bought an old Riga 5 moped, it looks rough but its working. Cheap 100€ transport. Although my question is, the moped is not registrated, and the maximum speed is between 18-32km/h. If i ride this around in a small city in Latvia, will the Police even care? Give me a ticket, confisquate the moped or anything?
https://www.reddit.com/r/latvia/comments/1nfteqa/riga_5_moped/
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Yeah just use a helmet, and even then if the cops try to pull you over, just kill the motor and start pedalling, pretending to ride a bicycle lol
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Volcels in shambles
but leftistA sex positive socialist country, one can dream.
Let’s not be silly about this being liberatory. It’s objectifying the same as these sorts of ads always are.
Yeah I suppose so.
Finally found the REAL reason why soviet union collapsed
this reminds me of the rhyme about the berva moped:
berva moped drága kincs, jó ha van de jobb ha nincs
closest i can come is: “berva moped precious treasure, good to have but better to haven’t”
That is one sexy moped right there
HELL YEAH COMRADE!
What the what?
“Sex sells Morty.”
One of the things that stuck with me from The Unbearable Lightness of Being is that it often doesn’t. Peoples’ sex lives are often their greatest source of insecurity. That’s why we’re not really inundated with sexy ads for everything, just scents and lingerie and such. Could have been a different book, though, it’s been a while and I was reading and smoking a lot of weed that year.
Some people apparently thought it’d sell mopeds
Right, ofc, it makes intuitive sense and once color image resolution was high enough to transmit horny images, they figured they’d try. Decades later, most hits for “2025 moped advertisements” have no people at all, the exceptions being:
with the first obvious
nine pages down.
I have a sudden inexplicable urge to buy a riga moped
Make me feel super humanized as a woman when people tell me I have no autonomy over myself and I should dress according to the sexiness standards society imposes on my body. Only the strong minded men are allowed to be like they want to, not a woman like myself.
Thanks guys 🥰
? the issue is that it’s an advertisement objectifying a woman’s body to sell a product, literally no one in this thread is saying women shouldnt wear clothing like this ???
I think the issue more this is an add to sell mopeds.
If you wanna drive around looking sexy on your moped in your personal life more power to you!
Yeah capitalism commodifies everything. Including this post that’s currently serving to promote sales of vintage mopeds, ironically still objectifying this woman. It’s how I found out these are still on sale.
I don’t know, maybe I am bad at communicating, but what I want is more focus on how advertisement is bad and less emphasis on the fact that this is a woman. Especially since like I mentioned before you’re using her body, right now, to promote vendors weather you like it or not.
