I always find it amusing when baby boomers quote the expression “… strong men create good times, good times create weak men…” as if the children of ww2 weren’t the most coddled generation in history.
I know it’s not directly related to your comment but I always think about how impotent the US has proven to be the last 80 years
What an intellectually dishonest title. You can’t keep posting after your death; your persona and all the relationships you spent a lifetime building become commodities for Meta to profit from
I remember watching brexit thinking “damn they really are that stupid?” only to see Trump elected here shortly after. The fascist slide didn’t start here and when it takes over the rest of Europe we’ll all be sitting here watching yall “handle it” with all that empty bravado
ETA: Americans are showing up in public in the tens of millions knowing our government and our next door neighbors are well-armed lunatics who would love to exercise their power over us at the drop of a hat. I, too, believed that since 99% of the people I talk to aren’t fascists that we’d have the numbers and the resolve to do something, but we’re still missing a key ingredient in getting everyone on the same page at the same time
So like, the entire Marvel universe?
Tldr: if you ever had to write an essay in middle school it’s basically that—a long string of grammatically acceptable sentences that don’t really tell you anything