• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    well I’ve never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn’t happen

    The 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992

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        3 months ago

        2006 was only 4 years ago, right? RIGHT?

        Still though, the average age in the US is 38 so for most people, there was an amendment ratified during their lifetime.

        Speaking for me personally, I would consider anything that happened in my parents generation to be a recent collective memory, at least until I get to the age my parents were when they had me. Sure I wasn’t alive during the moon landing or JFK assassination, but they’re still pretty recent events in the grand scheme of US history.

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          3 months ago

          the average age in the US is 38

          Damnit now there’s something that I’m upset about being above average for.