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> Everything is on fire, all the time. I envy the people who can tune out the world and pretend as if we are not living in a historic time, I can understand bu
by rr808 4y ago
> Everything is on fire, all the time. I envy the people who can tune out the world and pretend as if we are not living in a historic time,
I can understand but its always been this way. Financial collapse in 2008 was probably more stressful for most people. 9/11 and wars in ME. Dotcom bubble. Gulf war. Crash of 87. Iron curtain coming down and dissolution of USSR. Economic upheaval of Reagan. 70s economic collapse, crime wave, Nixon/Watergate, war in Vietnam. Nuclear war threat. End of segregation in the 60s, WW2 etc etc
The only difference now is that we're more wired.
- clcaev 4y agoNone of these compare to a presidential candidate who publicly muses about being a dictator and is elected anyway... and this was only foreshadowing what he orchestrated on Jan 6th.
- papito 4y agoYou can't just list big events and compare them with what is happening today. Having grown up in the USSR, it is rather different for me when I watch the United States democracy coming to an end. It is absolutely not the same. But then again, if you are a native-born, I can see how it's easy to have no idea about what is happening or where this is going.