• MangoCats@feddit.it
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    22 hours ago

    at anytime a bigger war could break out.

    Welcome back to the late 1970s / early 1980s I grew up in.

    We just learned to live with it- maybe move to a big city for a better chance at instant vaporization.

    Meanwhile in 1984: When Doves Cry you might as well Jump, and when the 99 Red Balloons Float by you’ll be sitting pretty in this dust that was a city.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      The 80s were anxiety inducing because the specter of war was then high until the Soviet Union collapsed on itself, so throughout the 90s and the naughts a nuke war wasn’t going to happen even with North Korea trying to rattle sabers.

      Instead and beginning last year we now have madmen on hair triggers, and if it’s not a third world war, then a prospect of another American civil war where there’s a high potential of causing a global economic catastrophe.