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[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Hell, I'm 46 and it's really hard to not be cynical these days. I want to believe there's still good people out there but I run into so many assholes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm also 40 something. Oh for the dizzy optimism of the 90s...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I will forever seethe that I missed out on the 1990s, especially considering how IT was a money printer back then & the rave scene was top notch. I just about caught the tail end of the old internet as well, even that has gone to complete corporate dogshit.

And owning a house wasnt a Pipedream : (

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ah the rave scene really was amazing. Have you seen the tiktok videos? The music and feeling will stay with me forever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Don't use tiktok lol, I've seen a few old clips passed around on forums and stuff uploaded to youtube though, shit looked great. Meanwhile the smallest rave gets shut down pretty quickly by the police these days : ( also pretty envious of pints being far more affordable back then, I barely even go to spoons as a student as it just costs way too fuckin much. I guess one upside of the modern day though is party drugs being cheap, pure and plentiful but that can obviously also have significant drawbacks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I joined and deleted tiktok just to download the videos! I'm properly old now I swear everything was just better back then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Thats the way to use it lol, and I hear that a lot : ( most annoying this is we should be able to have a world where no one wants for anything anymore but alas no line must perpetually go up.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I am over 60 and I can plainly see everything it fucked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm quickly catching up to your age and I don't really understand either why it would be a young people thing either. (not that I'm not still young of course, my white hair are just an affectation)
It's just a matter of looking around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Welcome to the age of the smartphone, where we're more informed while being more misinformed and where we're all connected but can't actually connect. We've hit the point where people can watch something, stare the truth in the eye and say "that's a lie" or be told an obvious lie that could be disproved in less than a minute and say "that's so true."

There's no easy way out of the hole now either. If the government stepped in, the people spreading lies would simply lie and say the government was misleading people and people would gobble it up, and there's no way I'd trust anything privately owned to tell me the truth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Half a century here, I've never had a time in my life where the next year was better than the last

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

I'm glad to see folks talking on here. Makes me feel better knowing we're here all going through it. Gives me that Band of Brothers vibe "We stand alone, together."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Everyone over 40: "Yup, social media has really fucked those kids' brains up"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Whereas the reality is that things are so fucked because these idiots get their news from Facebook. The Trump administration admitted to making a mistake deporting Kilmer Garcia - they’ll never find out because they’re too busy sharing OAN articles about that trans women they bullied out of fencing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

I am well over 40 and I agree with OP. Then again, I didn't give up my empathy at the door to adulthood.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Social media was a mistake. User age has nothing to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I have seen so many 50+ year olds that waste several hours a day doomscrolling Facebook say this unironically.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Judging by the typical Facebookfeed, I’d strongly argue the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

At this point we have to contend with small wins like Die Linke getting almost 10% of the vote in Germany, Elon Musk getting bullied out of politics, and Carney winning in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I won't contend with small wins anymore. I want it all, heaven or hell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

PEACE JUSTICE AND ANARCHY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Dutton getting his arse absolutely handed to him in Australia, ditto palmer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Die Linke (Formel SPD) used to be close to a majority in our parents time.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

I wouldn’t be gentle. But then again both my parents are dead so I don’t actually have anyone to be bitter at.

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