coderradiomascot19h ago
Ann1944
I am 82 years old.
I have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War, the Turmoil of 1968, Watergate, the Hostage Crisis, two oil crisis, disco, Reaganomics, 9/11.
The covid pandemic....
These past 11 months have been easily the most miserable era in America in my lifetime.
The hatred, the bigotry, the lies, the racketeering and pedophilia are beyond anything I have ever seen.
We are not going to hell as a nation.
We are IN hell.
Mar 22 at 11:59pmWeb
Show threadSteve Felten1d ago
@Ann1944 Well, the verdict is still out for Trump vs. disco.
Show threadAnn194418h ago
@stevefelten
Sorry about the dico your right, it doesn't belong on this list. Blame it on my 81 years. lol
Show threadThomas Decker17h ago

@Ann1944 @stevefelten no no that was funny - and we needed the laugh.

Also, the flipside is that we woke up to a lot that has been going on all this time. The pedophilia. Reaganomics. AIDS. Cigarettes. The Climate.

Now we know better, and that makes me feel better than not knowing shit.

Show threadWilliamBob14h ago
@stevefelten @Ann1944 -disco sucks. I still prefer music that can be played in a drunken kitchen; however, most of the records burnt at events like the notoriuos MLB game where tens of thousands records were trashed, were soul and R+B. And not white rock and roll. Just good old cultural music hatred; hated like early rock 'n roll "elvis hips"or early hip hop "pissing on the stairs like they just don't care". Not disco, but different. Hope is aliens arrive so all can unite in their hatred.
Show threadtuban_muzuru1d ago

@Ann1944

I think the patient is dead. Time to call it.

Show threadCaptain Jack Sparrow1d ago

@Ann1944

not quite, as you still have some hope

Show threadJbrown, Esq1d ago

@Ann1944 you havent lived through the pandemic.

Its still raging, killing and disabling millions, meanwhile we have *nazi eugenicists* in our government of the same type we killed in Germany in 1942. They have decided to speed up the demise of older folks like yourself, as well as all the disabled, sick, pregnant, etc etc people who they think dont matter.

The pandemic is still ongoing. This is late stage capitalism, oligarchy, fascism. GENERAL ACTION NOW!

Show threadDavid J. Atkinson1d ago
@Ann1944 You forgot big oil, industrial farming, fast food, increasing poverty, and … global warming. Yeah, I think you are right.
Show threadbeakerman7h ago
@meltedcheese
and punk rock
Show threadDavid J. Atkinson6h ago
@beakerman Um…I like punk rock!
Show threadMichael Vilain1d ago

@Ann1944 I was in grade school when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened. I didn't know what was going on until years later when I saw THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER.

I asked my Mom about it, not realizing what really happened. She told me she didn't know if she should send me to school or not in case there was an emergency. In the end, it blew over, I continued learning my multiplication tables, and I was clueless about how close we came to a nuclear war.

Show threadAlpaca Male23h ago
@Ann1944 Don't forget that one time you (sorry, they) bombed a girls school in Iran and killed over a hundred children between the age of 7 and 12. I guess their siblings and parents feel pretty bad as well.
Show threadNetraven22h ago
@alpacamale @Ann1944 Never forget.
Show threadAnn194418h ago
@alpacamale
I am not American, I am Canadian, we didn't bomb anyone!!
Show threadAlpaca Male18h ago
@Ann1944 Sorry, fixed
Show threadTam T Tam23h ago
@Ann1944 Let me tell you man i went to church today with my family and the hate from some people in church is outrageous. What is the reason people go to church???? To learn about God peace and love but this church people full of hate and why are you here among us. We sold our house few years ago and we use to go to the church in our way and now we are one hour away so we decided to go to the church near us about 1 mile but that was a serious mistake. Not 2 or 3 people but a number of them.
Show threadConny Nasch17h ago
@Zamunda @Ann1944 I am happily Atheist and certainly not a Christian Nationalist 🤔 which seems to be fascist in your country. I feel for all thinking people in your living hell.
Show threadAnn194417h ago
@connynasch @Zamunda
I am also an atheist & I am Canadian, not American, thank god...lol
Show threadTam T Tam12m ago
@Ann1944 @connynasch I am not an atheist and i am an American thank God
Show threadProject 17897h ago
@Zamunda @Ann1944
As an atheist, I hope the rapture is real & happens ASAP.
Then we will be relieved of 90% of the BS in the world. Can't wait for all the Christian nationalists to be removed from civilization. What a wonderful world it will be.
Show threadTam T Tam12m ago
@JustRobForNow @Ann1944 I met so many atheist and they have no clue about the bible just heard from someone or read few articles somewhere and decided to live the life. Good luck with it
Show threadsearching4sanity23h ago
@Ann1944 🫂
Show threadCaliCarol23h ago

@Ann1944

I'm younger, but no spring chicken and yeah, this moment is batshit crazy.

Show threadTJC-23h ago
@Ann1944
Two years older with the same gut reactions. We continue to push back with all our power as citizens.
Show threadBecca23h ago
@Ann1944 if you're in hell, don't stop driving. put the pedal down.
Show threadOoze 𓁟23h ago
@Ann1944 After realisation comes action.
Show threadDonCC22h ago

@Ann1944
GOP

fuckers

Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉22h ago
@Ann1944 But disco though...
Show threadLudwig Vielfrass13h ago
@ApostateEnglishman @Ann1944 there’s a lot of great disco music and I’ll die on that hill.
Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉13h ago

@lerxst @Ann1944 I was surprised - although not particularly surprised, as once you hear it you can't unhear it! - that a lot of Dave Grohl's drumming in his Nirvana days was inspired by disco beats. So there's that...

Anyway, it was more the sheer incongruence of the inclusion of "disco" in a list of truly awful things, that led to my joke. Of course there's a lot of great disco music. I mean if Le Freak by Chic doesn't make you wanna put on some oversized shades and start moving, what will?!

Show threadLudwig Vielfrass12h ago
@ApostateEnglishman @Ann1944 the first LP I bought with my own money was the “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” soundtrack. The first 8-track I bought with my own money was “C’est Chic”. Nile Rodgers is a legend and one of my all-time favorite guitarists.
Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉12h ago
@lerxst @Ann1944 Agreed!
Show threadphiltor 🇺🇦🌻22h ago
@Ann1944 this is a dystopia.
Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦22h ago
@Ann1944 @gdinwiddie condolences ❤💔
Show threadEndicottRoad5922h ago
@Ann1944 I feel your pain. In fact, we all do.
Show threadNetraven22h ago
@Ann1944 agreed.
Show threadBlumine22h ago
@Ann1944 But don't think that things with Trump will be better. If you want democracy tour have to fight against Trump. He is only interested in his own power and money, anything else. To get both, he will destroy everything.
In Venezuela and Iran democracy hasn't been installed with Trump. 🍀
Show threadHeyla21h ago
You should have been a lot more radical 🤷‍♀️
Show thread@iveyline21h ago
@Ann1944 I agree with you. The US has become hell on earth.
Show threadAskPippa🇨🇦21h ago
@Ann1944 The whole world is anxious and worried with you.
Show threadFelis_Catus_Domesticus21h ago

@Ann1944

A hell of our own making, no less..

Show threadJD20h ago
@Ann1944 🫂
Show threadJack Graham20h ago
@Ann1944 I love that you included disco in your list of the tribulations of the 20th century.
Show threadDaniele1019h ago
@Ann1944 Our retirement is kind of ruined by Covid, war and morons.
Show threadJack William Bell19h ago

@Ann1944

Four years younger, but same same. Except I've felt like this was coming since 2016.

But when I think about it, I think it started way back with Citizens United.

Show threadDavid Penington2h ago
@jackwilliambell @Ann1944 In my non-American opinion it started in 2001 when Republicans
a) went to court to block counting of votes
b) organised a riot to block counting of votes
And judges voted on party lines to block counting of votes. (The sign of a hyper partisan Republican controlled Supreme Court to come)
Show threadJack William Bell1h ago

@DavidPenington @Ann1944

That was bad, but something we could have recovered from if it had been a one-time thing. But Citizens United permanently gave the super rich a political tool to bend everything their way. It was all downhill from there.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Political_impact

Citizens United v. FEC - Wikipedia

Show threadJack William Bell1h ago

@DavidPenington @Ann1944

Also, FWIW? The 2001 decision to hand the presidency to Bush wasn't a cut-and-dried thing and was something our electoral system wasn't prepared to handle. The number of votes in question was *under* the margin of error. So each side kept insisting on recounts hoping the error would tip their way. Then the winning side wanted to stop the count.

The honorable thing to do would've been for Bush to concede because Gore won the popular vote. Didn't happen, of course.

Show threadJack William Bell1h ago

@DavidPenington @Ann1944

NOTE: I lost a friendship from pointing out the margin of error thing and opining that something had to be done – even if I didn't like what *was* done. Because not everyone understands math and statistics.

Show threadgovinda hari dasa18h ago

@Ann1944

* Everyone that votes is liable. *

Show threadMu18h ago
@govinda_hari @Ann1944 also: everyone who didn't vote
Show threadAnn194418h ago
@mu @govinda_hari
Mistakes happen. No problem.
Show threadTwobiscuits🚴‍♂️ 18h ago
@Ann1944 "disco" 🤣
Show threadHans van Leeuwen18h ago
@Ann1944 https://youtu.be/O5NzGUrQf64
January 6th

YouTube
Show threads1m0n418h ago

@Ann1944 I don't intend to argue about how bad things are now, however segregation in the US lasted until the 1960s an beyond.

You were 11 years old when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white person on the bus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott

Maybe things have never been this bad for the white population in the USA.

Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia

Show threadAnn194418h ago
@s1m0n4
Segregation is still going on now. I am against all the hatred in the world. I live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, right across from Detroit. I remember when the whole city was torn apart with Whites against Blacks. We are all equal in my mind, but I realize your people have suffered & did not mean to offend you. What is going on in the States right now is because the white population is afraid they are losing the upper hand & the white supremists are doing everything to keep what they consider their right to be at the top of the totem pole. Please accept my apology if I offended you,