• @[email protected]
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    283 days ago

    Vaccines are so good they’ve made a lot of very harmful diseases a distant memory meaning idiots don’t feel like they’re a threat anymore.

    • Arghblarg
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      3 days ago

      a distant memory meaning idiots don’t feel like they’re a threat anymore

      This is, in general, why I think current events are the way they are. Disease, Fascism, Populism, (lack of) separation of church/state, eroded Unions/labour rights, … it only took a few generations living without the personal pain caused by allowing these things to exist, for certain nations and people to forget.

      • @chonglibloodsport
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        21 day ago

        I blame the internet. When I was a kid getting on the internet for the first time (in the mid 90s) I thought it was amazing to have such an incredible tool of information and communication. I thought it would bring the world together!

        Now I see what it’s really done. Worse than I ever could have imagined. It’s a power and responsibility too much for most people. These idiots have begun to tear the world apart with their stupidity. They believe the most incredible bullshit!

        It’s really frustrating. I wish we could go back to the era before the masses got on the internet.

      • @Zexks
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        73 days ago

        As I’ve recently come to accept far to many people are incapable of learning except through experience. They simply can not be taught by words alone. This is a lot bigger problem in the long run than I think many consider.

      • @[email protected]
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        63 days ago

        Indeed. I remember thinking the saying “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it” was dumb as hell as a kid. But, here we are.