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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by star_wraith@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Who wants in? We can talk about what is was like to write a letter to your grandma or having no other way to ask someone out other than by calling them on the phone. Or checking out movies at Blockbuster or whatever your national equivalent was (we usually checked out videos at the grocery store, actually).

We’re cool because we can actually remember the USSR and “East” Germany. Although not as cool, I can remember when homophobia and transphobia was so much more widely accepted and the “default” position for most Americans. Not as cool.

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[-] aFairlyLargeCat@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

I watched the first moon landing live in college.

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

In your 70s? Dang elder cat here. Hexbear apparently has got people who were born in 2008 and people who born in 1950.

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Which is a good point since the hostile part of the lemmyverse tries to tell us, who have quite a bit of diversity and lived experience that we are all 14 year olds. Some of us witnessed the births of countries which freed themselves from colonialism and USA's influences life!

It is a try to reduce us to a caricature that can be easily dismissed.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

jesus-christ You're my dad's age. I'm 36.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

I think you win

[-] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

If you don't mind me asking, roughly when and how did you become a commie? If it has been a while, would you say your political tendencies have changed or evolved much over that time?

Just curious. blob-no-thoughts

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