In high school a major topic of discussion was whether it was better to run towards the flash and get it over with or run away from the flash and try and survive a little bit longer but it would probably hurt more. Of course we were half an hour outside of Midtown so we wouldn't have a chance anyway
I saw all of it and lived through it. This is qualitatively different. So strange for someone who clearly did not, to try to invalidate what is happening right now.
Seriously. Like, yeah, I was born in the 70s, grew up with the kind of background dread of knowing the world was perpetually on the verge of nuclear destruction, but what's happening now is so much worse. For me, it's because it's completely internal. Like, these are *other americans*.
If this goes south the way it looks like it will, we're facing a situation where our entire country becomes the literal battleground in a second civil war, and I don't know if there's any place I'll feel safe until it's over.
I'm not saying this *will* happen, or that other people need to be concerned in the same ways I am, I'm just saying, for me having already lived through one national existential crisis, this feels quite different.
Right, but if you're trying to understand, having your own countrymen trying to turn a democracy into a dictatorship surely feels different than some faceless boogeyman half a world away with their finger hovering over a button, no?
Well, honestly I am not sure what is the most scaring. At least, in one case, I could do something against the situation, which is not the case for a dictator far away.
we got when the wind blows (1986). because someone, maybe because it was an animated cartoon, figured this would be appropriate for kids. it was really not.
I was also a small child. I remember when Reagan fell asleep at the UN, the fall of Berlin wall and was pissed off every time because it was interrupting MY TV shows. Get that bullshit grownup sad sacks off my TV
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