Times you thought real change was coming... only to be sadly disappointed
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High Voltage
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I can remember phoning my sister, we were both so full of hope and optimism only to have it gradually ground away over the coming months and years to such an extent now that, apart from a brief, albeit naive, blip with Corbyn, I'm so apathetic about the future in general. The only saving grace is that neither me and Mrs Voltz have children and my sister doesn't have children, so really no fucks to give
I can remember phoning my sister, we were both so full of hope and optimism only to have it gradually ground away over the coming months and years to such an extent now that, apart from a brief, albeit naive, blip with Corbyn, I'm so apathetic about the future in general. The only saving grace is that neither me and Mrs Voltz have children and my sister doesn't have children, so really no fucks to give
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
The Anti Poll Tax movement and the possibility of it developing into a wider more generalised working class movement rooted in communities, once the poll tax was scrapped.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Well people said it would be shit. And it was, it's still ongoing and could very easily become a lot worse. From Roe vs wade to the Republican party descending into fascism.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
2008. Well I thought, ha ha. Now what for capital. Turns out its more fictitious capital, war and the far right
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
Day to day it was a lot of bad tweets and a sense of “what has the silly twat done now”.
Also, Roe v Wade was overturned on Biden’s watch - and he could have used his influence to shore up the shakiness of that precedent in his previous incarnation as VP.
The anti-austerity movements after the Tories got elected leading up into Corbynism felt like a change was coming. I am pretty bitter about how he was treated tbh. I will never forget or forgive the dishonesty, smears, conniving, and unwillingness to engage in good faith with critics that the Labour right wing demonstrated then.
ska invita
back on the other side
on the plus side we got Real Brexit as opposed to BINO
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
The collapse of the communist bloc in the ussr and central/Eastern Europe. Tho I suppose the wrong sort of real change happened
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Poll tax riot. First six months of the Miner's strike.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
There will be change. Not sure what, or to what extent, but the very different baggage the Labour party carries compared to the Tories’ baggage will guarantee that imo.
I just don’t expect the kind of change that I’m liable to be excited about.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
blaming biden for trump loading the scotus with 3 republican life long appointments meaning a 6 to 3 republican decision on roe Vs wade is pushing it
hash tag
Reaching out
Sure, there will be change, but not meaningfull change.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Portuguese revolution
Winter of discontent
Miners strike
Fall of the Soviet Union
Poll Tax
Labours economic program around Corbyn
Winter of discontent
Miners strike
Fall of the Soviet Union
Poll Tax
Labours economic program around Corbyn
Silas Loom
Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.
Execution of Charles I
like a good few here who go back a long way i have seen plenty disappointments. so many that disappointment is now my expectation. it used to be often remarked that with age comes a propensity for right wing drift, and that most of us, having sung the Internationale in our youth will die insisting upon a union jack draped coffin and a Thatcherite speech from a local round tabler. i don't fit that stereotype really. These days i just see that the wheel of history can take a longer time to turn than i hoped when i was 20, but i still cling (sometimes desperately) to the idea that our day will come. Eventually.
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