• tetris11@feddit.uk
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      6 days ago

      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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        6 days ago

        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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          5 days ago

          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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              5 days ago

              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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                5 days ago

                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.