• @[email protected]
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    482 years ago

    Given the trajectory of current politics, the Bell Riots are definitely possible in that timeframe.

      • teft
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        262 years ago

        That’s Benny Russell. I don’t know who this Sisko guy is but I’ve read many of Benny’s stories.

    • Aa!
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      42 years ago

      All hu-mons look alike to me

  • @[email protected]
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    352 years ago

    I just watched this episode a couple days ago. Some of it is way too applicable to current day, particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      212 years ago

      particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

      I’m not sure how accurate that really is anymore.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          252 years ago

          What’s astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase “9/11 changed everything.” But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.

          • @[email protected]
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            192 years ago

            I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it’s normal. I guess that is new/changed.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can’t really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.

            And it’s all a tragedy.

          • @[email protected]
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            Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politicians to take advantage of, at the cost of people’s lives.

    • CarlsIII
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      202 years ago

      particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

      I wish that was how it worked! Society would have been so much nicer by now.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    I mean the encampments came true. We just need a stone cold daddy with a hint of crazy to get the downtrodden’s voice out now.