It's been downhill since 2020
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)wrote last edited by [email protected]In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.
And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse, nothing to check them against.
Reality is happening, but we do not comprehend it.
Edit: if you want fiction about this, the book 'echopraxia' has this running through it, or the film 'eddington' which is entirely about this.
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Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
Smartphones --> dumb people --> Donald Trump
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It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
And the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.
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In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.
And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse, nothing to check them against.
Reality is happening, but we do not comprehend it.
Edit: if you want fiction about this, the book 'echopraxia' has this running through it, or the film 'eddington' which is entirely about this.
At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)It's called mass psychosis.
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sept 11 was the first time the republicans had the chance to seize the opportunity to put america on track for its fascist fourth reichdom fantasy.
The overwhelming majority of Democrats also voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Ah the good old Futurological Congress by Lem. Read it, the movie is a mess.
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The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.
The internet has made us aware of how fucked up our kind is.
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September 11th, 2001 was a real inflection point for the US. We, collectively decided that civil rights aren't as important as revenge.
9/11 also marks the end of western hegemony as the West destabilized the world and ruined its reputation as a force for good in its pursuit for revenge, leading to the rise of BRICS and other anti-imperial coalitions.
9/11 also coincides with peak imperialism, the final stage of capitalism, which marks the point when increasing exploitation abroad has diminishing returns so capitalists must begin devouring the imperial core, leading to stagflation, enshittification, rent-seeking, and other parasitic activities. This in turn leads to an economically struggling population of former petit-bourgeois, which is a class condition that is especially susceptible to reactionary propaganda, leading to the rise of fascism.
Historians will almost certainly mark 9/11 as the beginning of the end of the American Empire.
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2017-2021 was Trump, so I think it started earlier. Was it maybe more like US election season 2016 as the start of it? It's hard to pinpoint. But yes. The old US seems gone now-- Our government went from covertly corrupt to very openly so. We're becoming Russia, and its hard to imagine ever rolling it back to who we once were.
Harambe was 2016!
Not my joke, but it fits, lol.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)"With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
It was Harambe. We didn't reload.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)The vaccine was really just a sedative; they kidnapped you and plugged in you to the matricksssssssss
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"With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
It was Harambe. We didn't reload.
Harambe wasn't marked as Essential, but he was truly essential for all of us.
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September 11th, 2001 was a real inflection point for the US. We, collectively decided that civil rights aren't as important as revenge.
The terrorists ended up winning the long game in the end. They caused America to tear itself apart from within and made it a pariah on the world stage.
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Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
Making the internet as easily accessible and dumbed down as possible didn't help. It let stupid people easily find each other and reinforce each other's beliefs while isolating themselves from reality.
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I see this said about the 90s all the time but really this is not true. In the 90s there was (not an exhaustive list)
- First Gulf War
- Yugoslavia war
- Rwandan Genocide
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Columbine Massacre
- Los Angeles Riots
- The Fall Of USSR (while on one hand a good thing it also cause so much economic decline, hunger, and excess mortality in the millions to many former bloc countries)
- Somalian War
- US 1990 recession
- 1997 Asian Financial crisis
- Dot com bubble
- Hurricane Andrew
- 1999 İzmit earthquake
It's very common when asking any person what was the best period of time for the world for their response to be a period of time their formative years were.
The reality is history is full of horrid horrid things and nostalgia is a follie that'll trick your mind.
wrote last edited by [email protected]What about the African Great War?
Edit: ...and Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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And the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.
This would imply that capitalism is inevitable in species with potentially spacefaring intelligence. I refuse to accept that for my own sanity’s sake.
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At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.
I know it's cliche, but i think capitalism deserves a lot of the blame.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)1975 is the beginning of the end for the US Empire. The treasury spent on a dumb war in SE Asia, Reaganomics and his trickle down BS, Gulf War I & II (wasting more treasure). Krasnov, COVID and fucking Krasnov again.
