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How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I'll coast right through it. I'll also accept "I don't" and "very poorly" as answers

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[–] zout@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just hope no wars will be started over here (western Europe) in the next ten years, so my sons won't get drafted.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the netherlands doesn't have a draft bill now does it?

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I turned 18, I got a letter saying I would have gotten drafted if a war would break out while I was still under 30.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh that must've been relatively recent then. I'm 32 and don't recall such a letter.

[–] zout@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I was among the last to get drafted (I'm 48). After my year they stopped drafting, but they never cancelled the draft bill.

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

Not too recent, it must have been around 2003.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

We hope the next inevitable American civil war doesn't spread across the northern border to Canada. The ideologies already have and it's not good.