• EABOD25@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    What? The Rodeny King beating and subsequent riots, OJ Simpson murdering 2 people, Columbine, the first time the WTC was bombed, 1500 people died near Mecca, and like 3 civil wars in Africa

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      16 days ago

      Not to mention all the shit that wasn’t being captured on any kind of recording at the time.

      The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?

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        16 days ago

        There’s only a single decent quality video of the first plane on 9/11. Because in a city of millions of people, only 1 person in the area was recording at the time.

        I can’t even imagine how many videos there would be if it happened today.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        16 days ago

        yeah and for a lot of people who’d be using lemmy, the reason they weren’t aware of all this shit is our parents kept us safe from it

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          16 days ago

          I mean - I probably got to live the very best of the 90s Americana as a suburban kid with an old computer and a modem in it.

          I still saw a lot of shit going on in the world. I mean … AIDS pandemic, anyone? Remember fear around shaking someone’s hand?

          Sometimes I think the problem is that at any GIVEN time, like 2/3 of people aren’t paying attention to what is happening outside their own immediate experience.

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            15 days ago

            It is intensely difficult to join those ⅔. It takes more than adding fascists’ names to your Lemmy filter tell ya that much.

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              15 days ago

              “Oooommmmmm … Ooooommmmm”

              <deep breath>

              <2 minutes guttural screaming>

              “eh, I’ll try again next time”

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                15 days ago

                I’m supposed to be walking even more now. I have no ability left to forget difference between what should be and what this garbage today is. Play some old favorite shows in my earbuds? Idfk.