On one hand those 3rd world despair porn accounts are a plague. On the other hand, my god has the UK declined.

phoronixrly 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How has the UK declined and who is to blame you think?

	▲	vkou 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, it has objectively declined from a point in time where it held dominion over one in four of the world's souls, keeping most of them in poverty as it siphoned resources out of them, and blocked their own economic development, by dumping its own products into their markets at gunpoint. And that decline is a good thing. More recently? It's been making some effort towards burning the furniture.

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abanana 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It can be very interesting to read opinions in such places as "Letters to the Editor" in newspapers from the 1800s. The conviction that "things were so much better in the past" and "everything's gone to shit" (in the face of clear evidence to the contrary) is, and always has been, an integral part of the human condition.