• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      Absolutely.

      And honestly, I’m convinced that that generation more or less fully dying out in the last decade or so (and I mean across the western world, not just in the states) was a pretty direct cause of this fascist resurgence, because everyone who was a part of getting rid of fascism the hard way last time around is in the ground.

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        19 hours ago

        The thought does scare me and even though I’m pretty sure it has its critics, that 80 year cycle thing does make me wonder - given the (current) average human lifespan, there might be something to it.

        All that wisdom dies off and has to be re-learned. Kind of like all the idiots learning about vaccines right now.