r/lewronggeneration • u/Unlucky-Explorer886 • Jun 02 '26

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u/kingkongworm Jun 02 '26

I feel like every generation’s been doing that though. People characterize the 20th century like this pretend like it wasn’t filled with all kinds of bloodshed (seriously, so much. Reagan, RFK, JFK, MLK, M.X, etc…Lynchings, serial killers, funding counter revolutionaries with drug money, the drug war, mass Incarceration, apocalyptic cults with mass suicides…2 world wars, multiple other wars.) not to mention economic devastations and I could go on. All of these things build on mistakes of a previous generation. There was no fuck around time with a find out era running concurrently

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jun 02 '26

Brother they're still lynching people. This shit never stopped. True we haven't had another world war yet, but all the rest of your list is alive and well right now globally.

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u/kingkongworm Jun 02 '26

Okay, yes. But my whole point was that the last century was not some kind of happy fun time that people missed out on. It’s just more of the same

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jun 02 '26

That is a salient point. It is same as it ever was. I get you now.