Submitted 11 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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Well… you keep on giving the most rabidly ignorant, recklessly greedy bigoted zealots the keys to the kingdom every 4-to-8 years, what did you expect?
Then when Democrats can’t fix everything quickly while under constant zealot attack and sabotage, you reward the saboteurs with the keys to the goddamned kingdom again. All while you proudly proclaim that you’ve got it all figured out, because you read a blog post or tweet somewhere:
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg?
When Democeats refuse to fix it because they want to “play by the rules” you mean.
This is why I’ve become an accelerationist, pissing off massive swaths of Lemmy tankies and libs. We likely need these consequences so people make more active, informed decisions in the future.
Unfortunately, we’re talking generations here. We didn’t really condemn terrible leaders of the past until they were swept deep into the margins of history.
This is actually the sentiment that I see a lot of Trump supporters use to support him in real life. They don’t like him. But they’re fed up with every other politician. They’re unwavering when he’s burning things down because that’s what they want him to do
That’s where you messed up. The current administration of chaos is extremely efficient at putting the horrors outside of people’s direct vision. Comparatively, very few people are going to arrive home to find their neighbor on fire and feel compelled to act.
Better social safety nets and better education can put people in stable enough circumstances they can become socially aware of problems beyond themselves. By that point they don’t even need to be pushed into it. And Democrats - not all of them but plenty of them - have championed those policies. But they’ve been thoroughly crushed now by “both sides” mentality because they don’t have a violent expulsion reaction to being crushed by accelerationism.
When they said “recklessly greedy bigoted zealots”, did you honestly think they weren’t talking about conservatives?
I dont mean to turn this into one of those arguments where fight over whether they are a millienial or gen-xer… But I do recall recentley seeing someone in that age range, posting a message
“Born just in time to see the end of the fuck around days, and just in time to live the rest of my life in the find out time”
🎶UH OH UH OH, EVACUATE THE TRADE FLOOR UH OH UH OH IT’S INFECTED BY THE CLOWN UH OH UH OH STOP THESE TARIFFS ARE KILLING ME HEY MR ORANGE MAN FUCK OFF AND DIE🎵
In my head set to music.youtube.com/watch?v=FrGiD2yompY
Also fuck the stock market anyway
I don’t remember a once-in-a-generation economic crisis in 2002… I remember the dotcom bust and my dad watching his retirement evaporate in 2000…
They’re probably referring to this:
But not at the taco bell.
Limits to planetary growth
I was just thinking about this today when I was out for a run.
It’s similar to how we keep getting record temperatures year on year.
I think something isn’t working as intended
Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced ‘average temperatures’.
theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-abov…
This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.
We’ve had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.
I was born in 1985. Not a coincidence. I’m trying to tone it down, but it just. won’t. stop.
Meanwhile oil demand keeps growing. That’s what gets me.
Side rant: I fucking hate the phrase “unseasonably warm/cold”.
We haven’t had a normal season in decades, maybe we should just admit we broke the seasons instead of tiptoeing around it.
The system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as intended.
2012 (kinda continuation of 2008) is missing
Weak men created hard times. Thanks, boomers.
There’s no war but the class war, everything else is propaganda to distract us from the real criminals.
True, but most of the oppressors are boomers.
It’s just that easy to accept the cycle, eh?
Isn’t it interesting that every single Republican in office during that time had 2 each?
Technology has sped up everything about society, for better and for worse.
The problem is that the “for worse” parts are now back to back existential crises.
Also 2016, that was a big one.
Hey… if it follows number pattern… the next stage in the crisis should be about ten years away… so that’s cool right?
Maybe “the 2038 problem” will be the new Y2K?!
The 2038 problem is going to be +3C global warming, ensuing wet bulb temperatures and mass starvation due to breadbasket failures. (debbie downer sound)
Dunno about 2002 but '08-present day is 100% the same event
While the housing crisis is still everlasting (most significantly in the US, many other countries have started national housing programs) the economic one has ended in the june(?) of 2009!
Idk how you can say it ended when the fundamental causes of the collapse were never addressed, the perpetrators were never punished, and the middle class continued to shrink. Stocks were pretty much the only thing that improved since 2008.
Says who? Billionaire investors and regulators who saw an imaginary red line go up for two consecutive quarters? “Peace for our times.” The '08 crash was (is) massive and will be the defining event of the 21st century for future historians.
No, you misunderstood. You see, the crisis lasts your entire generation
it’s all the same crisis baybay! the entire time throughout all of history
<astronaut meme>
Wait, it’s all a crisis?
Always has been.
Exactly. It isn’t a “once in a generation crisis” it’s a “one generation” crisis. OP must have skimmed over their orientation papers and misread.
Oh it’s certainly not one generation
Those darn millennials!
Such rascals.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The boom bust cycle is a feature of how we do capitalism in the US. It is related to an unsustainable growth mindset.