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[unhappy orange character] Life was so much better back in the day...
BACK IN THE DAY
[orange character smirks while their slave toils away] What injustices? Everybody's happy here
Back when I was a kid, we had much better social welfare, higher wealth taxes and more asylum grants. And social media was forum sites, usenet and email-based stuff, not Facebook (though I wasn't online back then).
I like having the right to exist within society ๐ฅบ
Although to be fair, I do miss the Usenet & IRC days. It felt so easy to connect with people on a personal level back when the Internet was less crowded. Much less arguing, and much more being excited to be there.
Yeah, society definitely advanced when it comes to acceptance of e.g. homosexuality. Though the current direction is "backwards" in most countries ...
I feel like to comes down to not what the particular rights were at the time but the direction they were going over a period like a decade. This is why I don't like how things have gone since the 70's. I feel progress slowed in the 80's and went to a crawl this millenium and has not been looking good the last 20 years and is basically regressing.
People are more accepting (or at least less willing to be a bigot in public) of a bunch of stuff today than even 20 years ago, though, at least in places that didn't go full MAGA. The leader of my country's biggest far right party is literally a lesbian woman!
Still better than AI slop
In my childhood it was safer and more affordable to live.
Back in my day we could think that the future would be better and not worse!