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EdmondDantes_

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20. While on one hand I agree there's a lot of ugliness, it's also a lot of good

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2026, 05:52 PM

May 2

Especially compared to history. Infant mortality dropped from about 100 in 1000 live births in 1915 to about 5.5 in 1000 live births in 2023 for example. AIDS isn't a death sentence. Same sex marriage went from a cudgel to cost us elections to widely accepted.

Just because Trump and MAGA are trying to drag us backwards, and there are similar movements in much of the world, they haven't won until we stop pushing back. Yeah a lot of things are heavy and depressing, but their hate isn't inevitable.

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