• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    My first grade teacher swore WW3 would be over clean water.

    Hes been proven more and more right as time goes on.

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      1 hour ago

      Man I thought the assassination of MLK Jr was a heavy topic for first grade when my kid came home talking all about it. You got him beat by a mile.

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      10 hours ago

      I came to the comments hoping that someone had acknowledged that lack of water has consistently led to war.

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      13 hours ago

      That’s a pretty heavy topic for a first grade teacher. Meanwhile I wasn’t taught about WWII until freshman year of high school.

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        10 hours ago

        GenX has had WW3 hanging over our heads since we could walk. There was a brief respite during the 90s, but that’s over now.

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          1 hour ago

          As a millennial, born too late for duck-and-cover…born too early for shelter-in-place.

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          5 hours ago

          I was talking to someone the other day about the freedom that was felt in the music and movies of the time due, in my opinion, to the constantly hovering cold war end-of-the-world.