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		an9n on Jan 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BBC censors its own archives Ah yes, the good old 'it's always been that way!' fallacy

edent on Jan 31, 2022 [–]

The original said:

> What the hell went wrong with the western world

This, to my reading, implies that there was a time when things were "right" in the western world. And, at some point, something went wrong.

BuyMyBitcoins on Jan 31, 2022 | [–]

I read it as “at some point, it got way worse”.

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