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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Kids playing in the streets.

Kids having semi autonomy.

Cheap rent.

Glass ~~fold~~ food and beverage bottles and jars.

A middle class.

Hope.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago
[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Man, I miss hope. It was so great.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 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

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 7 points 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.

[-] HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk 2 points 6 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.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

[-] HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk 2 points 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.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 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.

[-] HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

I have started donating to Corby 's new party, whatever it'll be called. Hopefully it'll grow into something meaningful

[-] HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

I have hope!

Hopefully it is although, not knowing how old you are I just hope it happens quickly!

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

Jumpers for goal posts.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago
[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Food and beverage.

[-] HamFistedVegetarian@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

"We're all middle class now"

John Prescott - 1997

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

1, 2 could be explained by pedophiles are on the prowl, plus people have IPAD/youtube kids now.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.

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