• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      USonians used to be more community-focused. In the 1950s polio was eradicated due to massive community efforts, showing that they were willing to do things to benefit their community.

      Nowadays they won’t even do the same to benefit their extended families.

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        16 hours ago

        But when he says “smaller and smaller groups of people” does he mean that this kind of mentality isolates people to increasingly smaller groups?

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          It used to apply to different groups in the past.

          Fuck you, my community got ours

          Fuck you, my friend group got ours

          Fuck you, my family got ours

          And now we’re finally at

          Fuck you, I got mine