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OT: American Politics

mbow30 said:
We really have no perception of how difficult life was 2 generations back.

3 of my great grandmothers got on cargo ships when they were ~ 10 years old, alone or with a similarly aged sibling, to move to a foreign county without their parents and no money in their pocket. The brother of one of those great grandmothers died on the ship. Another one got separated from her sibling at the port.

diseases we’ve since eradicated menaced society.

Trade wars led to hot wars in the late 1800s that set the stage for wwi.

pandemics lasted 10 years.

But yeah let’s hearken back to the 1880s and repeal vax mandates. So dumb.
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Amazing that we are here.
 
mbow30 said:
We really have no perception of how difficult life was 2 generations back.

3 of my great grandmothers got on cargo ships when they were ~ 10 years old, alone or with a similarly aged sibling, to move to a foreign county without their parents and no money in their pocket. The brother of one of those great grandmothers died on the ship. Another one got separated from her sibling at the port.

diseases we’ve since eradicated menaced society.

Trade wars led to hot wars in the late 1800s that set the stage for wwi.

pandemics lasted 10 years.

But yeah let’s hearken back to the 1880s and repeal vax mandates. So dumb.
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I think about this a lot. We must do more to appreciate the golden era of peace, health and equity most of us have experienced. It's been built on progressive, democratic institutions. Let us hope.
 

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mbow30 said:
We really have no perception of how difficult life was 2 generations back.

3 of my great grandmothers got on cargo ships when they were ~ 10 years old, alone or with a similarly aged sibling, to move to a foreign county without their parents and no money in their pocket. The brother of one of those great grandmothers died on the ship. Another one got separated from her sibling at the port.

diseases we’ve since eradicated menaced society.

Trade wars led to hot wars in the late 1800s that set the stage for wwi.

pandemics lasted 10 years.

But yeah let’s hearken back to the 1880s and repeal vax mandates. So dumb.
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People got too comfortable.

In my lifetime the only two big things to happen were 9/11 which had zero impact on me and covid. No war, no recession.
 
Some of my earliest childhood memories are of seeing footage of Vietnam on TV when my parents watched the news. My mother was adamant that I not go near any mail boxes lest an FLQ bomb be in one of them.
 
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