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lawn • today at 10:33 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Something is really, really wrong in Europe. There will be books written about this in the future.

Replace Europe with the US and the statement holds just as well. Or China or why not Russia.

We live in bad times.


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toyg • today at 10:46 AM

We live in times. There is always something: just in Europe, in the 50s and 60s we had the Cold War (and on the other side of the Iron Curtain, outright invasions); in the 70s we had terrorism and economic shocks; in the '80s we had Libya, Lebanon, heroin, AIDS, Chernobyl; in the '90s we had genocide in Yugoslavia, big market crashes and sovereign debt crisis, the war in Kuwait; in the '00s we had 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq; you can go on and on...

The reality is that, as long as we don't start firing nukes, we'll all be alright in the end.

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