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I can’t understand what you’re trying to convey. The terms fascist and nazi seem to have lost all meaning nowadays…at least to the far left.
When the far left calls Trumpists fascist they are generally referring to the far right's current objective of overruling elections and installing a theocratic theocracy under Trump where white males are in charge across the board.
Things collapsing has been a predominant sentiment in every modern generation. It's unprecedented because of our collective amnesia, that regards the familiar as a stable starting point rather than a random moment in a volatile reality. Journalism was a tawdry, un-respectable business since its conception, but experienced a brief period of valor around the mid-twentieth century when industry concentration, Cold War e…
So, no, it's not just an old man opening a paper in the morning and claiming that "this country is going to hell". That's not new. THIS is.
I am genuinely surprised by this take on HN, which is very common. Any serious historian will tell you that this is not normal.
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Well, they did have domestic terrorist groups going around setting off bombs on the regular in the 60s and 70s. I was quite surprised to read about it. https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...
And going back further there was even more of that going on during the labor wars of the late 19th century into the 1920s.
We’ve had it comparatively calm and so bombs get noticed.
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It’s interesting, even if you don’t believe in a higher power, people that believe in God have far lower rates of depression and suicide, so if you try to optimize your life for happiness and mental robustness, it’s then logical to believe in a higher power. This is an interesting manifestation of the incompleteness theorem. :)
I don't consider basing my worldview on emotion-based fantasies mentally robust. Is it possible that believing a lie increases ones chances of being happy & less depressed? Sure, but that doesn't make it worthwhile.
From where cometh this objective truth? :)
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And the baby boomers who created the upset of the 60's are now in charge, and their disillusioned leadership is pushing these divisions ever wider. They are the institutions and they do not trust themselves, as is clear via the leadership stalemate and both parties destroying their best hopes in favor of the crumbling and ever more distant wealthy status quo.
> And the baby boomers who created the upset of the 60's are now in charge No, "they" are not. The few people in the inner political circles of that generation are in charge, same as every other time in history. The normal hardworking people are never in charge. I remember when in middle school (Gen X here) I thought when our youth generation grows up and gets to be in charge the world will be better, because everyon…
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> The GND is not about being green, it's about redistributing wealth No idea what the GND does and what they proclaim, the Greens I mentioned are the ones in my country, which isn't the US. As far as I understand nothing else than Reps and Dems matter anyways. > AOC is a radical I don't think so, but that could also be due to me not being from the US. Lots of things my country does would be wrongfully labeled as soci…
> In order for you to understand me a bit better - If I'd be able to vote in the US, I would've voted for Bernie Sanders. You'll have to clarify specific policies because saying you support Bernie Sanders just makes it even murkier.
You could call me a Socialist, and I would be fine with it. However, I would never support an authoritarian or non-democratic system. In my opinion my country has the best political system which currently exists, so I feel fortunate for that. Still, I don't find it to be perfect. Too much lobby-ism, aka. corruption. Too much influence by industries. At least everyone has a vote and everyone can technically start a process to bring change.
Healthcare, critical infrastructure, essentials and maybe more should belong to the people of a country. The US seems to be a country belonging to those who own the most of it. Businessmen, politicians and so on. Markets have to be regulated and controlled. Tax avoidance is no different to me than tax evasion. Yada yada, feel free to ask more questions about my opinions, but I guess this is a good start.
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Or maybe it's not a lie and believers are genuinely happier and less depressed.
Every religion states that the other religions are lies, which means that, at the very least, the majority of religious people believe a lie as a fundamental aspect of their worldview. Thus, you apparently can be genuinely happier if your worldview is based on a lie. Still not worth it.
Almost no religions state this, it might be an interesting thought experiment to steel-man your arguments :)
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I’ve never heard an argument about the “specialness” of that generation? I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point. Which always came as a surprise to me… If we’re going to generalize about people based on generation (bad idea, but…)— I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent, in aggregate, than the…
>I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point. Counterreaction, a lot of voices claiming to speak for boomers, or boomers themselves, have done plenty to claim "it's just young people messing up". Despite the obvious that they have been the majority voter base for decades, have more wealth as a collective, and because of their age and wealth, tend to have…
And I’ve been called both in the same day.
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Hmm, I don't know what country you are in, but this doesn't sound like the US at all. There's a recent spike in the cost of driving due to gas prices and car supply, but afaik driving tests here have always been fairly trivial and still are.
Not OP, but I can confirm old country made it super hard lately. On the other hand, IL DMV seems to give away DLs like they are candy. Anecdata only; if anyone has data, I will happily retract this statement.
In the USA DLs are by far and away the most common form of identification. Many people don't have passports, just DLs.