• @jeffw@lemmy.world
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    8211 months ago

    As soon as people who remember it start dying off, the fascist apologists start coming out.

    It’s like how anti-vax can grow because nobody in the young generations met anyone with polio.

    • massive_bereavement
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      11 months ago

      Also I think that nostalgia works in a way where we remember more good times than hardships; humans are good adapting to any bullshit situation to the point we can call it comfortable and finally we look kindly to the past because old people remember mostly being young and healthy above all (despite not making this link mentally).

      That’s why everyone has this nostalgia for their youth, not because the 60s or 80s where a good time.

      • @fidodo@lemm.ee
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        1211 months ago

        “wasn’t the world so much better back before we ruined everything for everyone? Why can’t we go back to those times?”

          • Chainweasel
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            211 months ago

            DeSantis is already pushing propaganda in Florida schools about how much better black people had it as slaves. I’d be shocked if they didn’t try to repeal the 13th amendment by the end of the decade.