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It's crazy to me that some people think this is new.

• perching_aix 1y ago
  Not sure why it would be, short of taking a cheap shot at people. Most people alive right now were born in the past 50 years [0], and won't be intimately familiar with history in so much detail, including me. It's niche knowledge, let's be honest. And people being conspiratorial and speculating on these is not the same as knowing about it with examples. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag...
  • exe34 1y ago
    "it's worse now" would imply a positive belief about how things were better back in the halcyon days and things are worse now. Otherwise they would not have said it. Not knowing something isn't the same as knowing something that is not.
    • perching_aix 1y ago
      Not sure I follow? These were the things that were said: > It is crazy how secret services (...) now have a green pass Step-function. > think this is new Step-function. You're the only person describing a gradient ("it's worse now"). > Not knowing something isn't the same as knowing something that is not. This is what I'm saying. That this kind of thing having been speculated on by a lot of people the GP above then believed doesn't mean those folks had actual information backing all of that up.
      • exe34 1y ago
        I didn't mean to imply any gradients, I was referring to the perception that things have changed in a negative way. I think we are in agreement anyway.