• AtomicHotSauce
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    112 months ago

    This is what I’m afraid of. I just don’t see us all holding hands across the nation any time soon.

      • AtomicHotSauce
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        62 months ago

        Exactly. This was the “initiative” to which I was referring. We’re further from that than any other time in my life. I just keep wondering when the breaking point is going to be.

      • @zeppo
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        22 months ago

        Damn… I can hear the Hands Across America song now…

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMVMjdYVYcE&t=30s

        It was a pretty silly idea overall. Nice intent, I guess, but seriously, who was supposed to be standing around in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico and Arizona?

        • Flying Squid
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          22 months ago

          They were even saying that at the time. No one is going to stand in the desert in Arizona at the end of spring.

          My family didn’t participate. Not sure what my parents’ reason or reasons were.

          • @nomous
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            22 months ago

            My family did, I’m 100% sure it was my dads doing as it doesn’t seem like something mom would do.

            I was little, i just remember driving to a nearby town and standing on the side of a road holding hands with someone for a few minutes and then leaving lol.

            • Flying Squid
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              22 months ago

              I would have been 9 years old at the time. If my parents made me hold hands with a stranger, I would have felt really uncomfortable.

              • @nomous
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                22 months ago

                I would’ve been 6; my parents probably sandwiched us kids between them. It was the 80s though, I might’ve been besties with a stranger if they said had an NES and Super Mario Brothers at home lol.

    • @Bytemeister
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      12 months ago

      I don’t want to hold hands. I want to hold criminals accountable.