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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah and its kinda insane I feel like things like this are kinda shrug. This type of thing is actually the thing that most makes me want to live somewhere else. I mean I don't want to abandon the world to this rogue state but how non functional we are now is tiring and depressing.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get it. I'm Canadian and though we have a lot more social supports and a more effective government, at the moment, it's by no means optimal. Doug Ford is fucking up Ontario and Alberta wants to be Alabama 2.

Tiring and depressing is absolutely right.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I kinda feel bad for anyone who did not reach an age of cognition before the millenia. Like I was kinda born such that I was just able to see the good and functional kind of state but its been downhill the whole time just real slow to start so its like we has just crested the hill so I could kinda still see it. Don't get me wrong there have been some good economic times and some progress but it feels like it was two steps forward and one back but then one forward and back and went to two back and one forward and now finally all backwards.