Comment on It's been downhill since 2020

gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I lived through all these. 2001 and 2008 were horrible, but sort of felt like a normal kind of horrible. Recessions and terrorism were things I’d seen before. It was only the scale that made those anomalous.

  From my (American) perspective 2016 was when shit started getting very weird. We were relatively stable, relatively prosperous, foreign wars were tapering off… And half the country decided that a game show host was her best bet going forward.

  Then it started snowballing… Bill Cosby’s a rapist, there’s a global pandemic, Kanye put out a pro-Hitler song, Pete Davidson is a sex symbol that no starlet in Hollywood can resist, The secretary of health had his brain eaten by worms, everything you own or use became a subscription service, The fear Factor guy became a political king maker, The first lady has a crypto scam that everyone’s kind of okay with, we created AI but it’s only good for spam and rule 34 tweets, we decided political corruption isn’t a crime if you brag about it, America’s war machine is being turned on its cities… Oh and the US is building full on concentration camps.

  It’s a very strange time even compared to occupy, The tea party, or Bush riding out 9/11 Reading a children’s book in an elementary school.

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  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Perhaps this is the result of ‘modern’ values corrupting our society.

    We must return to the old status quo

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• confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  None of those are correct. There is before Harambe and after Harambe. The day he was killed everything changed.

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• Amberskin@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I vote for 2016. The unthinkable happened.

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  • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We shot that poor damn gorilla.

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• Overshoot2648@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Almost like something happens every 4-8 years. hmm

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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was all pretty normal at least in USA until Sept 10, 2001.

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• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Boomer: 1968

  Martin Scorcese: 33 AD

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