It's been downhill since 2020
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)American defaultism.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)These kind of lib delusions are how we got here.
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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]lmao wrong. It was the year before yts invaded. 1400 something.
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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.
It's whatever year that the oppression affecting the less privileged finally reached you.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Your mistake is viewing trump not as the obvious fash continuation of the state/capitalism but as some kind of unique magical monster.
That's how we got here.
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Trump was president in 2019 and I remember him cutting massive amounts of food aid (means on wheels) for elderly people during Christmas time. It was some serious Scrooge shit, except he didn't get three ghosts to make him mend his ways.
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]they’ve been up to some heinious shit since before we were born
Yeah since they invaded and genocided the americas. Always has been.
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Bailouts started with GWB.
Handouts to the rich (aka "bailouts") are a major foundation of the casino economy. No beginning and no end under capitalism.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In their mind the world will end with their deaths, so they are only doing what nature bids them to do. If they had it their way they would detonate every nuclear weapon in existence within a few seconds of their final demise to take everyone with them.
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]If you think fascism started with Bush, then you missed about 400+ years of history.
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It’s absolutely social media to blame imo. 10 years ago they were only just starting with the aggressive algorithms we know today. This combined with the rise of TikTok and its own algorithm has lead to a resurgence of the right. I believe this was a direct response to how progressive we seemed to be getting in the 2010s. The wealthy right were getting scared. I occasionally accidentally see YouTube “recommendations” and it’s usually unhinged right wing shit with millions of views.
I occasionally accidentally see YouTube “recommendations” and it’s usually unhinged right wing shit with millions of views.
As someone who regularly watches my youtube recs, I never see this. Maybe it's because youtube knows my preferences from watching their recommendations....
On the other hand youtube is definitely trash that promotes fascism. So I'm not doubting you either.
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We were downloading MP3s on dial up.
Napster ring a bell?
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Legit but let's be even more real. It's the US's imperial insanity that caused 911. That insanity has always been fundamental to USA from its founding.
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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.
Trump did more drone strikes in his first term than Obama did in both his terms. And that is only of the strikes we know. At one point trump declared that strikes dont need to be reported and they didn't count the number of strikes afterward.
Biden actually fully ended drone strikes... and he did it quietly without much fanfare.
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I occasionally accidentally see YouTube “recommendations” and it’s usually unhinged right wing shit with millions of views.
As someone who regularly watches my youtube recs, I never see this. Maybe it's because youtube knows my preferences from watching their recommendations....
On the other hand youtube is definitely trash that promotes fascism. So I'm not doubting you either.
Oh yeah I’m never logged into an account; so I when I see it, I see what it’s pushing as trending and popular. These days I use Freetube and only see what’s “recommended” by accident when I occasionally use YouTube on my iPad.
When I used to use an account I also didn’t see any fascist shit either, so at least that’s a way to avoid it!
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lmao wrong. It was the year before yts invaded. 1400 something.
You remember the year 1400?
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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
I think in 2010 or so someone said that if you were US Marine and were involved in every single action that the USMC took part in, you would take part in around 2 events every year.
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lmao wrong. It was the year before yts invaded. 1400 something.
YouTube was like 2006, not 1400s. Where are you getting your information?
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My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory.
(TikTok screencap)Ive lived through a few of these already.
2020 is when everything changed.
2016 is when everything chagned.
2012 is when everything changed.
2008 is when everything changed.
2001 is when everything changed.
