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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

tbf, the period of popularity of these issues was pretty brief. Proposals which were passed by Nixon ~1970 would have been unthinkable ~1950.

... but yeah, we've also lost a lot of fucking ground.

[โ€“] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, wild to see even in my lifetime how much things have shifted.

I've moved to a much further left country (Denmark) and hearing and seeing how it's slowly moving to the right as well is fascinating. It's of course a much smaller world than it used to be but it's wild how unified all of that effort it