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    10 months ago

    Counterpoints:

    • china, Russia and the whole clusterfuck that is Middle East are a thing;
    • The far right is on the rise throughout all of Europe.;
    • Polarisation of public discourse is now the norm;
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      100 years ago, the only one of those that was better was possibly the Middle East, depending on where. The Chinese and Russian populations are significantly less oppressed and more educated than they were 100 years ago, which doesn’t minimize what they’re currently going through, but 1924 was not a good year for Russia or China