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its the end of the rule as we know it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My GenX existential horror was learning in my thirties that all the western American Exceptionalism ideology I was indoctrinated in as a kid was just a way of keeping us from getting proactive for sake of the future generations, and my parents and teachers and ministers knew this and actively lied to me anyway.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I also think that a lot of bad things about the US that a blind eye was turned to because they seemed to be getting better have since become relevant again because they've started getting worse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I realized that in my 20s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I was particularly credulous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Conservatives are well known for acting against their own self interest.