6mo ago

AP gov exam

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Honestly I'm sick of living in interesting times, experiencing "once in a generation" financial crashes, or having to essentially helplessly watch a genocide take place in real time. I would have loved for us to live in a boring time where nobody would remember us outside a specific niche of archaeologists
- Future landfill miners will remember us fondly for the hoards of resources we are leaving them.
- Back when I was a kid the most interesting thing that happened in politics is that Dan Quail misspelled potato, and that was followed years later by the Republicans throwing a fit over Bill Clinton getting a B.J.. We were always able to discuss politics with people who had different ideas until after Limbaugh, and later Hannity talked a bunch of people over the brink. Even after that, it was only the crazies that you couldn't talk to. The internet made things worse, but it didn't get really bad until smart phones and Facebook gave every idiot on the planet an equal platform from which to speak from.
- I would have loved for us to live in a boring time where nobody would remember us outside a specific niche of archaeologists
  if we were living in boring time social rule would be so strict that nobody deviated from it, and while things would be nice, it would also simultaneously suck because that's something that you simply have to live with without having anything to do about it.
  1950s america is romanticized, but men were over worked and often excluded from doing more interesting things throughout daily life, where as women were stuck in the homes dealing with homework unable to own their own bank accounts independently from a man. Minorities were one of the things of all time.
  While the economy might suck, and the global climate might suck (remember, the 1950s was literally leading up to the cold war) it's really not that bad, considering how much freedom we do have actively accessible to us. You for example, can sit here and shitpost about it, and i for example can make this post.
  
  I think we are talking "boring" from an outside perspective.
  The 1950s saw the Korean war, the Algerian war for Independence (where France mass murdered hundred thousand of civilians), we saw the end of the first Indochina War and the beginning of the Vietnam War, we saw the revolution in Cuba, we saw the first hydrogen bombs, the soviet Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, the cold war really picked up, NASA and CERN were established, the polio vaccine was invented, and so on.
  The 1950s were far from boring for the world outside the US picked fence.
  
  The 50's were probably great for kids born into middle class American households. But the adults of the 50's had just endured the worst war the world had ever seen, so I'm sure there were a lot of unresolved emotional issues for men and women alike, that were buried under alcohol and clouds of tobacco.
- I’d be fine with it if we could get some good “once in a lifetime” events occasionally. I’m in my 30s and pretty much every single one has been bad so far.
  
  We've seen remarkable progress throughout our lives, both technologically, and socially. It's just that those things become mundane after a while and you don't remember how amazing they were when they happened.
- Financial crisis are decade based
  70s,80s,90s,00 I guess we got lucky and pushed it to 2020

Nobody will remember this time in a few decades. Garfield was straight up assassinated and you're just now realizing that I'm not talking about the cat.
- The business plot is basically unknown.
  
  The one involving Prescott Bush (yes - THAT Bush), who was also involved with financing the Nazi party even after WWII had broken out?
  
  we're living through it! Except this time there's no FDR.
  
  Every US Marine should have at least a peripheral awareness of that one.
- Without googling anything wasn't he assassinated by Charles Gateau? Not sure about the spelling but it's a pretty known event
  Edit: I'm back after looking it up and the spelling is Guiteau
  
  Yeah, we spent time learning about this in middle school. it was a question on a class test and one of the standardized tests either the state or the fed requires.
- I knew
  RIP Sweet King 👑
  Bros couldn't even give their cousins a little government job as a treat, smh

Funny that you think the right won't have completely eliminated AP programs by 2053
- Funny you think the right won't have completely eliminated 2053.

Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times

I like to imagine that the 2020-2025 period will be a whole chapter in the history book
- I just hope that when they show screenshots of the discourse that I'm in the screenshot.
- Highly contingent on whether we lead ourselves to WWIII. We are living in interesting times but most of the events are close calls, Trump ALMOST had a coup, Trump ALMOST got assasinated, there was ALMOST a workers revolt. I think other moments in US history got us beat...for now.
- Don't forget 2016-2020.
- Just like 1939-1945 is...oh no, thats 6 years. RIP 2026