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Back in the day was an unusually peaceful time for much of the world... people would instead get in heated battles about stupid bullshit like game consoles and
by micromacrofoot 4y ago
Back in the day was an unusually peaceful time for much of the world... people would instead get in heated battles about stupid bullshit like game consoles and operating systems.
Things were different before, and it seems things are becoming different again.
- smackeyacky 4y agoBack in the day people remembered there were social norms (e.g. the old social rule that in polite society you never raised either religion or politics as topics of discussion). If you wanted a political discussion, you took it where it was welcome. "young people today" and "get off my lawn" and all that but manners and decorum went out the windows with the original eternal september and we may never see them again.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoback in the day those "social norms" mostly existed for straight white people and they masked absurd amounts of abuse