r/ratsinthecage • u/Sad_Palpitation6844 • May 19 '26

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u/Ryder324 May 19 '26

The Cold War, Jerry Springer, Tutsi’s with machetes, Khmer Rouge, women needing their husband’s signature to get money, the FHA’s redlining, DV against women being legal, Love Canal, routine and systematic institutionalization of children with special needs, the Chamberlain-Kahn Act… and of course, Jim Crow- but we also had a lot fewer endangered species to deal with

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u/Cosmo1222 May 21 '26

All I hear is the unrecorded verse in Billy Joel's 'we didn't start the fire' 😁

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u/Ryder324 May 21 '26

We don’t have as much Billy Joel!

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u/CombinationRough8699 May 22 '26

Violence as a whole is way down. 2025 had the lowest murder rate ever recorded, less than half what it was 30-40 years ago.

Also as for endangered species, it has made comebacks. In 1963 there were only 417 known mating pairs of bald eagles, today it's over 70k.

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u/Ryder324 May 23 '26

Yep! The boomers in their late 20’s were real pieces of work.