hahafuck [they/them]

Yeah, same with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There is a thin veneer of a moral standpoint, the characters recieve ocasional comeuppance for their naked greed and capitalist ambition as small business owners, but ultimately the puppet-master production company behind all the decisions is obviously also trying to sell us on the glory of being an all-day alcoholic who goofs off with your friends and gets into bad-natured hijinks. The failure of both shows to be anticapitalist propaganda is why you can immediately disregard any leftwing ‘activist’ who claims to enjoy either

Idk. I know a few leftwing Czech and East German critics of capitalism who lived through the fall of the wall as adults and who talk about it. There are things they miss, but none take such a rosey view as you propose, for the most part due to the money and goods that flooded into both countries but also because of a sense of a new political freedom (illusory maybe). I think in the former USSR maybe there is more of a view that the 90s were an unambiguous tragedy