It's been downhill since 2020
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)I think the last normal year was either 2012 or 2013.
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2005 was the best year: France had a hot and dry summer, so the grapes got a high concentration in sugars and tannins, which gave to most wines of that year an extreme deepness and complexity.
Oh, I miss 2005 so much.wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah 2005 was good.
It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.
The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.
The UK had just passed the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples, and a few other countries had something similar.
TV was getting pretty good as well.
Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)I feel like that about 2016. I'm telling you, it all started with Harambe. It all went downhill from there XD
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)hhhooo boy...let me tell you about how it felt to live in the world before September 11th 2001...
it was freaking amazing.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Actually that was 1997
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)wrote last edited by [email protected]I've always found it some form of narcissism or something that people always find some way to interpret something during their time as the most/best/worst whatever.
Kind of like how every election is always the most important election ever.
Or today is the most or least safe or all of these ridiculous things people suggest anecdotally. Your average person has little knowledge or context of history and just selfishly presumes, yes, NOW, this time, OUR time is the most crazy.
I'm well aware I'm thinking too much for a shitpost.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)I left the US after Bush Jr was elected and it was the best decision of my life. That's when fascism started it's slow ramp up in the USA
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)The timelines been screwed since harambe was murdered.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)It was 2014. That was the final year of that Obama high where things really felt like they were turning a corner before we were slowly confronted with a world where Donald Trump might actually be president, and the only one standing in his way was somehow Hillary Clinton, a woman that Republicans had been preparing to beat for literally 20 years.
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It was 2014. That was the final year of that Obama high where things really felt like they were turning a corner before we were slowly confronted with a world where Donald Trump might actually be president, and the only one standing in his way was somehow Hillary Clinton, a woman that Republicans had been preparing to beat for literally 20 years.
You may not have been paying close attention. Obama was astoundingly better than Trump, but invasive spying on citizens was allpwed to remain legal under his watch, and he extended what was allowed. Drone striking questionable targets started under him as well. There's more, but those two are the highlights usually brought up.
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You may not have been paying close attention. Obama was astoundingly better than Trump, but invasive spying on citizens was allpwed to remain legal under his watch, and he extended what was allowed. Drone striking questionable targets started under him as well. There's more, but those two are the highlights usually brought up.
But he spoke well and smiled a lot, especially when fake-drinking that Flint water. What a hero.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)This was going on under the surface all this time, growing and growing, people just did not see it as a valid concern thinking "crazy people" or "stupid people" will "come around eventually". They did not expect there'd be enough of them to pull the carriage backwards.
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I left the US after Bush Jr was elected and it was the best decision of my life. That's when fascism started it's slow ramp up in the USA
It's everywhere, like apostrophes in possessive pronouns.
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I've always found it some form of narcissism or something that people always find some way to interpret something during their time as the most/best/worst whatever.
Kind of like how every election is always the most important election ever.
Or today is the most or least safe or all of these ridiculous things people suggest anecdotally. Your average person has little knowledge or context of history and just selfishly presumes, yes, NOW, this time, OUR time is the most crazy.
I'm well aware I'm thinking too much for a shitpost.
I watched a few documentaries on the 100 Years' War recently; I'm convinced we're still living out THAT trauma ... and that was just one crazy time out of many. It's one of the ways I cope with climate change and the degradation of the global environment: reminding myself that living in really fucked up times is more the norm than anything. I do believe that modern technology and the absolute privilege we live with has given many of us in the developed world the illusion that we're in control of the world. I have a suspicion that the awareness of how little we can do to stop the sheer randomness and brutality of life and human callousness is why religion has been so prevalent for most of history, it's people having some solidarity in, "Holy shit, this is fucked. God, save us, you're obviously our only hope."
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hhhooo boy...let me tell you about how it felt to live in the world before September 11th 2001...
it was freaking amazing.
I came here to say the exact same thing. 9/11 changed the US forever in a bad way.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)There's too many people and the simulation can't keep up a coherent narrative
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But he spoke well and smiled a lot, especially when fake-drinking that Flint water. What a hero.
I remember this. This was a turning point. That and the bailouts.
Bailouts said, "I'm for the rich." Flint said, "fuck the poor."
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You may not have been paying close attention. Obama was astoundingly better than Trump, but invasive spying on citizens was allpwed to remain legal under his watch, and he extended what was allowed. Drone striking questionable targets started under him as well. There's more, but those two are the highlights usually brought up.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The worst the obama administration got was a typical couple of weeks of the Trump administration. It is so much worse now it's unthinkable it could have gotten this bad when looking from the perspective of 2015.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)June 26th 2015 was the peak for the U.S. It's been downhill from there.
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To me it was 9/11 that started the insanity.... Either way, if you look at movies from the 80s and movies from today, you clearly see the humanity lacking from todays movies.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Let’s be real- it was the US’s response to 9/11 that started the insanity. There was absolutely a way forward, but no- some shitheads gave the Americans a bloody nose and the US decided to try to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart for two decades while threatening anyone who pointed out that this was a bad idea.
