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What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There is always hope, and things have always been quite bad one way or another. You're looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses, and forgetting how bad it was too

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes, but it's not that things in the past were perfect, it's that you could identify a general trend of things getting better. Sure, there were still huge problems, but you could believe it was just problems we hadn't gotten to yet. Now we live in a world that's actively going backwards.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I get what you mean.

    Personally I am unsure of whether it's one of two things

    1. Things are getting better now as they were back then but now I am older and more cynical so I don't accept they really are improving as a whole. Much like many people my age probably did when I was younger.

    2. Things are getting worse and we're all fucked.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Same mate. The jury is still out on that one.

    I think an actual left wing political party as an option would be a bloody good start.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I agree with you, but I'm too old and worn down to do it, and nobody else seems to be in much of a hurry either.

    I don't think it's coming in my lifetime.

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