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Was the world always a fucked up place? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For those say in their 60s or 70s here. When you were in your 30's or 40's did you have the feeling that the world was a fucked up place? So much has been going on since I entered adulthood in the early 2000s and I feel like it's getting more and more intense. It's never ending.

Is it unique? Or has it always been this way?

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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, as an American, I can only speak for my lifetime...

Late 60s/Early 70s - Vietnam/Nixon - Pretty fucked up.

Late 70s - Iran hostage crisis - Fucked up.

80s - Reagan/Bush - Iran/Contra - Recession - Iraq War I - Fucked up.

90s - Clinton era was pretty good. Big scandal was a blowjob. People actively talking about blowjobs all the time.

2000s - Bush II, 9/11, Iraq War II, Abu Ghraib, 2008 financial crash - VERY fucked up.

Late 2000s - Obama - Not awful. He should have ended Bush's drone program, but not awful.

2017-2020 - Trump. Covid. 1,000,000 dead Americans. INCREDIBLY fucked up.

Early 2020s - Biden - Fucked up inflation. Covid weirdness.

Now? (gestures)

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I guess this is accurate but people were different during these eras too. Leaders did bad things but there was a sense of ordinary people being mostly good. At least I had that feeling.

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