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      I was Born '83 and remember chernobyl. Not that i would have known anything about it. But my parents ran out, hauled me inside and said no more playing outside. In retrospective that was quite disturbing it seems.

  • Remember when Y2K was going to potentially end the world, but it didn’t thanks to experts working 'round the clock?

    Remember when corporations turned around and got pissy because Y2K was successfully avoided, claiming that it was all a big hoax?

    Remember how it’s now taught in some places that Y2K was a hoax and you can’t trust experts?

    No wonder the world struggled with COVID.

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      Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I can see the same thing happening with climate change; say we successfully avert it, you’ll have all the lunatics on saying, “see?? There was nothing to worry about, we stressed and struggled for nothing!!1!”

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    More like 80s babies, since we were actually old enough to remember those first two things

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        Everywhere is getting really fascist, really quickly. It’s terrifying. At least last time, other countries stopped Germany. Who would stop an afd/cdu coalition now? Not the Trump, le pen, xi, Putin, modi, or literally any British option. We’re going to have to bet on the finns.

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          We’re going to have to bet on the finns.

          Please don’t, for the sake of us all, it’s the same over here unfortunately.

          All of the shit is everywhere already. Fighting this shit is going to have to be a worldwide effort the same way bigots, fascists, nazis etc. are uniting worldwide. There is no place on Earth immune to idiocy, because most people are just idiots and/or fucking suck.

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    I love how the teenagers here think that right wing ideology is the cause of the world’s problems, even though the left has been in power for like decades, literally in Europe and in the US conservatives are shifting with the overton window and becoming more to the left.

    Keep voting left, and then when your countries fall, I’ll be laughing.

    Suffer more, and feed my joy. You deserve every bit of it. You voted for it. You want it, and I love watching it.

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    You forgot -

    • Housing crisis which makes house impossible to afford.
    • Rent crisis which makes event renting harder and gives owners freehand to increase rent however they like
    • Global job scarcity
    • Stagnation of income in sight of exploding inflation
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    Has there actually been a better century in terms of comfort and stability for most people