It's been downhill since 2020
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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.
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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.
Syeve bannon was behind the media push that ended it. He's talked about it in interviews.
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Ah youngins
It's been downhill for quite some time
All these people saying INSANE things like “2015” break my goddamn heart. Like… there’s no way for them to know just how much better it could be.
It’s infuriating that the people making it worse absolutely DO know better.
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I remember this. This was a turning point. That and the bailouts.
Bailouts said, "I'm for the rich." Flint said, "fuck the poor."
Not possible. Handsome man. Beautiful family.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Been a few blurbs published about how covid affects brains
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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.
Drone striking questionable targets
if you want to bring up warcrimes, the world has never been normal, especially not the US, they've been up to some heinious shit since before we were born
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Its whatever best year you remember. From my perspective, its been sharply downhill since 2000.
Those older than me often say it went to shit during the Reagan years. Its been slowly getting worse for a long time.
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Syeve bannon was behind the media push that ended it. He's talked about it in interviews.
Steve Bannon gave birth to GamerGate through WoW guilds.
Insert small to large dominos meme where the small domino is some disheveled guy playing WoW at 3 AM talking about how women suck and the large one is Donald Trump recreating concentration camps, J6, or whatever dystopian bullshit else that has happened in the last few years.
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I remember this. This was a turning point. That and the bailouts.
Bailouts said, "I'm for the rich." Flint said, "fuck the poor."
Bailouts started with GWB.
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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.
We were downloading MP3s on dial up.
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There's too many people and the simulation can't keep up a coherent narrative
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Its whatever best year you remember. From my perspective, its been sharply downhill since 2000.
Those older than me often say it went to shit during the Reagan years. Its been slowly getting worse for a long time.
Dimpled chads and the Brooks Brothers riots. The Jingoism that followed 9/11 masked the turn things would be taking.
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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.
This is actually the right answer. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, and we're all still in the middle of what is essentially a no-declared-sides WWIII now. 2015 was good, but things had shifted in the world a bit. Countering China was starting to become a huge deal suddenly for the US, and China moved into the South China Sea and did some currency revaluation that was all aimed at their 2029 and 2049 CCP anniversary goals.
Also, I was in fucking phenomenal shape.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)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.
