It's been downhill since 2020
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.
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remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
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remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
Pfft those idiots didn't have the foresight to see that things were going to get worse. What a bunch of dingalings.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
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remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?
When were u when Chuck Berrie is kill? The day rock roll die
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2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
Yeah, I still feel like that year is when things really went off the rails in the US. I lost a lot of friends and family to the cult, and I'm starting to think they're never coming back. A chasm has formed in America and it's only getting wider.
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Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
....And things still weren't as crazy as they are now. To me that's points towards the guys theory LOL
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)I feel the same about 2007, and 2000.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
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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.
Rome went out drunk on wine and conquest.
We’re going out buzzed on overpriced food delivery and crypto regret.
Cheers!
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Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
It went to shit when you dumb mother fuckers elected him for the first time in 2017. Stupid fucking idiots.
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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.
Yeah, it's less "stability in world events" and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.
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It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
We're really generating value for those shareholders aren't we?
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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.
Almost makes the inside job conspiro seem not as crazy...
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The old people who run the world feel the weight of their impending deaths, but in their narcissism they have mistaken it for the oncoming end of the world.
Tell that to the zoomers.
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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.
Yep, preach.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)This isnt a shitpost, this a fact. In 2020 everyone had little choice but to stay online, on social media, and got absolutely brain fucked by extreme opinions being forced on to them by whatever side the algorithms threw at them. Almost no one on line is in the middle, or if they are, they are very quiet. Everyone is extreme right or extreme left and they attach that to anything and everything. Music, movies, tv shows, comics, youtubers, etc etc etc.
I mean, for example, why cant any woman be allowed to voice her opinion on bathrooms without being called a nazi or woke? Why isnt this subject just a conversation? Why is at the forefront of seemingly everything? And why is being for or against linked to woke and nazi? Are why are we all seemingly OK with banning people from spaces just because they have a different opinion?
And have you noticed that any example used to shit on the left or right are utterly ridiculous extremes? Or the sex wars, they are huge right now. Self professed alpha males morons looking for virgins that will cook and clean vs onlyfans whores who wont stop being gang banged in public toilets for anything less than 6ft3, 6 figure incomes, and 6 pack abs. These people are all insane, but for some reason they keep getting pushed as the average or the majority of people dating. All women are misandrist, all men are misogynist, and theres extreme fuckwit doing fuck wit things on a youtube video to prove it...
Dont like Star Wars these days, chaps? No, you see, its not cos its shit. Its cos youre racist and sexist, dont you know? You need to cut that shit out, and watch the masterpieces coming out of disney+ right now!!!!
Scared to walk home alone at night? Well, thats because theres men on every corner waiting to rape you... Dont think all men should have a curfew? I mean, Sally met that one guy who turned out to be into playing warhammer on Saturday nights with his friends. Its basically the same rape...
Extremism in everything, and theres an easily clickable buzzword for anyone that you dont like, so that others rally to your cause.
The whole fracking world needs to drink a nice big tall glass of calm the fuck down.
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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.
Yes, the climate crisis is a huge problem, probably the biggest mankind has ever faced. Everyone should do everything they can to try to minimize it (I sure am).
You'd say it started going downhill in 2019 or 2016 ?
/sThere is good news though: climate literacy is going up, more and more people realized everyday throughout the world. It hasn't really reached the political level in most countries but I see a trend of countries taking more and more action against climate change. Of course we are not there yet, but we could be in the future. This is not to say that "the climate" is not worsening, but there are improvements here and there. I truly believe humanity will make it, likely not with the same population count but still. Life on earth is almost guaranteed to survive, it has lived through worse than that. It has to get worse for people to really realized and act against it.
Climate change is one thing, but it's not "ALL", there are many metrics by which the world is getting better all the time.
All in all though, and I think it's the most important: doomer talk is not helping at all, it demoralises people, and it prevents them from acting, if people believe we are done for, why would they make any effort ? Why would they try to fix it ?
Seeing the strong word you have about the climate crisis, I can only imagine you are doing everything you can to minimize it, are you ?
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Yes, the climate crisis is a huge problem, probably the biggest mankind has ever faced. Everyone should do everything they can to try to minimize it (I sure am).
You'd say it started going downhill in 2019 or 2016 ?
/sThere is good news though: climate literacy is going up, more and more people realized everyday throughout the world. It hasn't really reached the political level in most countries but I see a trend of countries taking more and more action against climate change. Of course we are not there yet, but we could be in the future. This is not to say that "the climate" is not worsening, but there are improvements here and there. I truly believe humanity will make it, likely not with the same population count but still. Life on earth is almost guaranteed to survive, it has lived through worse than that. It has to get worse for people to really realized and act against it.
Climate change is one thing, but it's not "ALL", there are many metrics by which the world is getting better all the time.
All in all though, and I think it's the most important: doomer talk is not helping at all, it demoralises people, and it prevents them from acting, if people believe we are done for, why would they make any effort ? Why would they try to fix it ?
Seeing the strong word you have about the climate crisis, I can only imagine you are doing everything you can to minimize it, are you ?
Everything I can is scant little. But some people object to my removing my footprint entirely. While I separate out my recycling from my landfill, perhaps you can explain how I can better encourage multinational corporations to consider sustainability as something other than a marketing tool.
Yes, we have bacteriaphages which serve as treatment for XTR Tuberculosis, but things like this do scant little for people who are infected as autocratic interests work to dismantle the global disease control state. Yes, young people are better learning left-wing politics as our education systems in the US are being systematically dismantled around such efforts.
I am sure you can find small ways things are improving. After all, we are closer to manned Mars expeditions even if they're decades away. We are closer to fusion power even if it's still approximately the same thirty years away it was in the early 1990s. There will be a point we can stuff hydrogen into a power plant and get a net energy output by fusing it into hydrogen, but that is a long way away, longer than our time left if our international community doesn't take immediate action.
But yes, I'm bitter. In the 1980s when I was a student and young worker I was expected to give 110% (despite that is oxymoronic, it was the rhetoric of the time) and since then I learned that our leaders, our representatives, our officials don't even bother to act like adults while holding office and allegedly conducting their duties.
We are watching the decline and fall of civilization. USSR went, now the US, and the EU and China stages are already destabilizing, and that's not merely from climate change, but our refusal to distribute political power.
So I can't be entirely sure, my friend, but it appears from over here, from my (granted, cynical) eye that you are missing the forest for the trees.
The climate crisis is only the first of great filters humankind is imminently careening towards and has yet to show effort towards navigating. We are rapidly turning into the example for future intelligent species of what not to do... assuming they can discover that example from the geological layers, determine how we killed ourselves and then actively choose a reasonable response where we failed to do so.
But I don't say this as a doomeristic / beatnik approach. I'm saying this as a sober assessment. We're not going to get to enjoy the benefits of 2020's era progress for very long, assuming we can hold it as autocrats wreck all we've wrought for their own personal gain, and the world literally burns.
