My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)
Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
It's been downhill since 2020
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rabber@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Smartphones --> dumb people --> Donald Trump
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Making the internet as easily accessible and dumbed down as possible didn’t help. It let stupid people easily find each other and reinforce each other’s beliefs while isolating themselves from reality.
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
2017-2021 was Trump, so I think it started earlier. Was it maybe more like US election season 2016 as the start of it? It’s hard to pinpoint. But yes. The old US seems gone now-- Our government went from covertly corrupt to very openly so. We’re becoming Russia, and its hard to imagine ever rolling it back to who we once were.
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
Harambe was 2016!
Not my joke, but it fits, lol.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
- Just been a whipsaw shitshow since.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.”
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I think the last normal year was either 2012 or 2013.
matdave@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
2014*
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that’s my theory as to how Trump won a second term. A lot of people think that 2019 is the cutoff
Personally I think it was 2015 was the last normal year for the world and my life hasn’t recovered from 2012
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
2022-2024 were the most normal and stable years of my life.
Maybe stable for you, but the rest of the world wont leave your world alone. Defund and reallocate happened in those years. The genocide of Palestinians under a Dem president using your tax dollars started in 2023. And Ukraine was invaded in 2022.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The USA has been in a constant power struggle between monied interests and liberty since the founding days. The same party has been in control of China since before Mao was starving millions of people. A lot of european countries are literally still monarchies.
This is the normal.
realitista@piefed.world 2 months ago
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
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
If you think fascism started with Bush, then you missed about 400 years of history.
realitista@piefed.world 2 months ago
It's always been there somewhere in the shadows, but that was the first time I saw it happening out in the open.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
1975 is the beginning of the end for the US Empire. The treasury spent on a dumb war in SE Asia, Reaganomics and his trickle down BS, Gulf War I & II (wasting more treasure). Krasnov, COVID and fucking Krasnov again.
hector@lemmy.today 1 month ago
1972 was the genesis, there was a business Round Table where the rich and Powerful companies agreed on a long game to overthrow democracy and undo the gains from the New Deal. They have since refined the game, and destroyed any organized opposition. Also obviously had worthless conservatives on their side take over the Democratic Party.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
2016*
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
These kind of lib delusions are how we got here.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Been a few blurbs published about how covid affects brains
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The vaccine was really just a sedative; they kidnapped you and plugged in you to the matricksssssssss
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 months ago
American defaultism.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This isn’t about America. The whole world was fucking nuts in 2020. We kicked it off by burning Australia to the ground and a few months later, we had so many world disasters, COVID in the forefront, that we forgot Australia.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
June 26th 2015 was the peak for the U.S. It’s been downhill from there.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually that was 1997
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah youngins
It’s been downhill for quite some time
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
SW42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I second 2015 as the last year things sucked on a normal and bearable Level.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We will make any excuse for these issues to not be deeply rooted in our civilization, huh
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.
And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse.
staph@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I know it’s cliche, but i think capitalism deserves a lot of the blame.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 month ago
2018 for chile
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I still feel like that year is when things really went off the rails in the US. I lost a lot of friends and family to the cult, and I’m starting to think they’re never coming back. A chasm has formed in America and it’s only getting wider.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 months ago
There’s too many people and the simulation can’t keep up a coherent narrative
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
2016 as a gen z i reamber the xanax epidemic of the time and it was bad
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Was that when the mumble rapper OD’d on hot cheetos?
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
that was after this was more of the “look at me i do xanax cos im so sad crowd”
Yrrsinn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
In 2010 they tried to create micro black holes, since this hat not worked the probability for extra dimensions is somewhat limited, at least that is what we believe. But maybe something went wrong back in 2010.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ah the good old Futurological Congress by Lem. Read it, the movie is a mess.
x0x7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s called mass psychosis.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I feel the same about 2007, and 1999.
tino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
TV was getting pretty good as well.
Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.