• SupaTuba@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    My friend who is 40+ talks about remembering when America stood for something. He talks about ideals and values.

    I’m 28 and have never really known such a place.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah I remember that world. But I bet it helps that we were the last generation where our culture was pretty centralized around television & radio and not the Internet & podcasting.

      In hindsight all I see is a corporate media veneer filtering anything my friends or I saw. But hey at least we got some fun Wild West years on the internet afterwards.

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        18 hours ago

        That’s fair. It’s just as likely I’m a reflection of modern media requiring engagement (rage-bait and fear-mongering) and negative foreign influence through online propaganda apparatuses.