It's been downhill since 2020
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American defaultism.
This isn't about America. The whole world was fucking nuts in 2020. We kicked it off by burning Australia to the ground and a few months later, we had so many world disasters, COVID in the forefront, that we forgot Australia.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)September 11th, 2001 was a real inflection point for the US. We, collectively decided that civil rights aren't as important as revenge.
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Trump is a unique magical monster. There isn't anyone else that can act the way he does. He has a personality disorder that cannot be copied by any average intelligent person. There isn't anyone else with near that type of wealth and social immaturity. No other adult has ever acted like he does that didn't have a mental disorder.
Others try to copy him but are easy to see through as they cannot bring themselves to act like he would. Ramaswamy tried but is just too mature and of normal intelligence. You need a child(with a disorder) in an adult body with 100% total and complete confidence in itself. A complete narcissist.
There has never been anyone like him before as anyone with his type of childlike behavior would have been dismissed.
There has never been anyone like him before as anyone with his type of childlike behavior would have been dismissed.
I'd like to introduce you to Andrew Jackson....
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idk, I was a kid and harry potter wasn’t real, so that kind of sucked for me
ah yes, 2000, when JKR wasn't known to be a fascist supporting shitheel.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The USA has been in a constant power struggle between monied interests and liberty since the founding days. The same party has been in control of China since before Mao was starving millions of people. A lot of european countries are literally still monarchies.
This is the normal.
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There has never been anyone like him before as anyone with his type of childlike behavior would have been dismissed.
I'd like to introduce you to Andrew Jackson....
An orphan with limited education became a successful military leader who spoke intelligently. About the opposite of Trump. Both are clearly evil yet one is childlike while the other is not.
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An orphan with limited education became a successful military leader who spoke intelligently. About the opposite of Trump. Both are clearly evil yet one is childlike while the other is not.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Andrew Jackson was a literal psychopath, and came up with the ideology of just ignoring court rulings.
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ah yes, 2000, when JKR wasn't known to be a fascist supporting shitheel.
to be fair, she probably also wasn’t at that time. money ruins people
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Andrew Jackson was a literal psychopath, and came up with the ideology of just ignoring court rulings.
Yet his personality is nothing at all like Trump. Jackson would not be able to lower himself to say the idiotic types of immature things Trump would say. Jackson truly believed in his horrid views. Trump takes whatever view he sees gets him the most attention/power/money regardless of the view and will change it as needed.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)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.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Its actually that between 1991 and 2001 that we merely had a full decade of relative stability in world events. Crazy shit stopped happening for a while and we have collectively imparted that things used to be "normal" on people born after 2001 but they've interpreted their own childhoods as the normal years.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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And that's my theory as to how Trump won a second term. A lot of people think that 2019 is the cutoff
Personally I think it was 2015 was the last normal year for the world and my life hasn't recovered from 2012. I'd actually say 2022-2024 were the most normal and stable years of my life. I got married, held a job, and built a community in a stable place.
2022-2024 were the most normal and stable years of my life.
Maybe stable for you, but the rest of the world wont leave your world alone. Defund and reallocate happened in those years. The genocide of Palestinians under a Dem president using your tax dollars started in 2023. And Ukraine was invaded in 2022.
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I think 2016 was the last great year.
It got better in 2021 for a bit.
For real, how short is the meme maker’s memory? We went truly off the rails during the first Trump admin.
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I think 2016 was the last great year.
It got better in 2021 for a bit.
I relate 100% with this. How funny. Like, that's perfect.
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I vote for 2016. The unthinkable happened.
We shot that poor damn gorilla.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)
It's get.ting bet.ter all the ti-i-imeI have to admit. it's getting bet.ter
A little bet.ter all the time (can't get noo worse)
I've seen this argument so many time... It's not going downhill, we are just getting older, we understand the problems of the world better, we are more informed, we watch the news and we start to have that nostalgia feeling that it was better before. It was not ! The world is getting better for so many metrics, sure there are issues, there always has been, it's not perfect. Sure there are localized places where it's temporarily getting worse ( the US might currently be living through a rough time, but it will pass).
Overall, it's getting better all the time. We are currently living the best time in history so far. Millions of new stuff to discover, infinite access to the cumulated knowledge of mankind. More democratic country than ever, famine is getting down overall, health is getting better too. Poverty is decreasing too.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to try and make it even better, we definitely should do everything we can, there is still a lot to do to make it the best world possible. But please stop with this constant whining about the past. It was not better, you simply didn't know any better in the past, and your memory of the past is tainted because your brains actively choose to erase bad stuff and only remember good stuff (this is a real human brain unconscious behaviour, look it up).
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Was that when the mumble rapper OD'd on hot cheetos?
that was after this was more of the "look at me i do xanax cos im so sad crowd"
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
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It's get.ting bet.ter all the ti-i-ime
I have to admit. it's getting bet.ter
A little bet.ter all the time (can't get noo worse)
I've seen this argument so many time... It's not going downhill, we are just getting older, we understand the problems of the world better, we are more informed, we watch the news and we start to have that nostalgia feeling that it was better before. It was not ! The world is getting better for so many metrics, sure there are issues, there always has been, it's not perfect. Sure there are localized places where it's temporarily getting worse ( the US might currently be living through a rough time, but it will pass).
Overall, it's getting better all the time. We are currently living the best time in history so far. Millions of new stuff to discover, infinite access to the cumulated knowledge of mankind. More democratic country than ever, famine is getting down overall, health is getting better too. Poverty is decreasing too.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to try and make it even better, we definitely should do everything we can, there is still a lot to do to make it the best world possible. But please stop with this constant whining about the past. It was not better, you simply didn't know any better in the past, and your memory of the past is tainted because your brains actively choose to erase bad stuff and only remember good stuff (this is a real human brain unconscious behaviour, look it up).
We're running out of water for agriculture. The zoomers may be middle aged, and the alphas, adults, when the climate crisis fully catches up with us. And if the human species is lucky, it'll happen first in the US or Russia or one of the old-guard powers, and the new order can use their renewable energy surplus to create new desalinization technology.
But current estimates (by those few climatologists willing to say other than it's going to get very bad. ) estimate the upper limit of the sustainability projections are a global population of about a billion people, if the international community chose to act today on all fronts. (Obviously that's not happening in the US, or in autocratic regimes, who imagine -- falsely -- they can create a self-sustaining colony on Mars -- we're a century or more from that).
That is a best case scenario unless we discover some miracle technology.
All other scenarios get worse than that, from a population in the hundreds of millions to human extinction. There is a ray of hope near the bottom, since Homo Erectus had at least one period of tens of thousands of years with a population under 10K before they would populate the world again, until they were out-competed by other hominids (e.g. us. Homo Sapiens). So we might have a tiny society that survives for an eon, but don't expect any culture (from wet burritos to Beethoven's Fifth to the 道德經) to survive. And a fuckton of science will have to be rediscovered.
So seriously bad shit for all of Human society is, at this point, for all intents and purposes, inevitable.
