[unhappy orange character] Life was so much better back in the day…

BACK IN THE DAY

[orange character smirks while their slave toils away] What injustices? Everybody’s happy here

https://thebad.website/comic/nostalgia

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    22·
    3 days ago

    Back when I was a kid, we had much better social welfare, higher wealth taxes and more asylum grants. And social media was forum sites, usenet and email-based stuff, not Facebook (though I wasn’t online back then).

    • BadOP
      15·
      3 days ago

      I like having the right to exist within society 🥺

      Although to be fair, I do miss the Usenet & IRC days. It felt so easy to connect with people on a personal level back when the Internet was less crowded. Much less arguing, and much more being excited to be there.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        6·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, society definitely advanced when it comes to acceptance of e.g. homosexuality. Though the current direction is “backwards” in most countries …

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I feel like to comes down to not what the particular rights were at the time but the direction they were going over a period like a decade. This is why I don’t like how things have gone since the 70’s. I feel progress slowed in the 80’s and went to a crawl this millenium and has not been looking good the last 20 years and is basically regressing.

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
            2·
            2 days ago

            People are more accepting (or at least less willing to be a bigot in public) of a bunch of stuff today than even 20 years ago, though, at least in places that didn’t go full MAGA. The leader of my country’s biggest far right party is literally a lesbian woman!