• AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 hours ago

    As an American, I can’t wait for the lessons learned and the death to American Exceptionalism. I look forward to reaping everything we’ve sowed due to our shitty actions (or complete lack of action).

    But also as an American I am bitter and don’t believe for a second that the 60-70% of people here that need to learn a lesson, will actually learn a lesson. I no longer believe things will change for the better within my lifetime. It sucks.

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      20 hours ago

      When you are too old to leave the country because you are too invested, not old enough to be dead before it gets really bad. So living through the next 40 years is going to be fucking grueling.

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        12 hours ago

        Kind of like elderly people in eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union?

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        12 hours ago

        Kind of like elderly people in eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union?

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      I no longer believe things will change for the better within my lifetime.

      Funny. That was sort of the subject of a YT video I made today. Basically the whole of my working life has corresponded to the decline of economic liberty for the working class and working poor, so I don’t really celebrate New Years. I expect every year to be worse than the one before.