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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, it's unfortunate that people can't just grasp the simple degree of nuance like:

Things were always bad but now they are even worse.

It's like as soon as you say that things were always bad. People's brains are like "Bad is bad so it was bad then and it's bad now so it's the same"

I do agree with the idea of this meme itself though. This meme isn't really saying that things aren't worse, it's just saying that some demographics were ignorant of the country's failings for others, and now they're not because the country is failing everyone. It's throwing a bit of an insult from the angle of "You don't really care or notice if things are bad until they happen to you", which is fair, but most importantly does not deny that things are worse.