My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)
This isnt a shitpost, this a fact. In 2020 everyone had little choice but to stay online, on social media, and got absolutely brain fucked by extreme opinions being forced on to them by whatever side the algorithms threw at them. Almost no one on line is in the middle, or if they are, they are very quiet. Everyone is extreme right or extreme left and they attach that to anything and everything. Music, movies, tv shows, comics, youtubers, etc etc etc.
I mean, for example, why cant any woman be allowed to voice her opinion on bathrooms without being called a nazi or woke? Why isnt this subject just a conversation? Why is at the forefront of seemingly everything? And why is being for or against linked to woke and nazi? Are why are we all seemingly OK with banning people from spaces just because they have a different opinion?
And have you noticed that any example used to shit on the left or right are utterly ridiculous extremes? Or the sex wars, they are huge right now. Self professed alpha males morons looking for virgins that will cook and clean vs onlyfans whores who wont stop being gang banged in public toilets for anything less than 6ft3, 6 figure incomes, and 6 pack abs. These people are all insane, but for some reason they keep getting pushed as the average or the majority of people dating. All women are misandrist, all men are misogynist, and theres extreme fuckwit doing fuck wit things on a youtube video to prove it…
Dont like Star Wars these days, chaps? No, you see, its not cos its shit. Its cos youre racist and sexist, dont you know? You need to cut that shit out, and watch the masterpieces coming out of disney+ right now!!!
Scared to walk home alone at night? Well, thats because theres men on every corner waiting to rape you… Dont think all men should have a curfew? I mean, Sally met that one guy who turned out to be into playing warhammer on Saturday nights with his friends. Its basically the same rape…
Extremism in everything, and theres an easily clickable buzzword for anyone that you dont like, so that others rally to your cause.
The whole fracking world needs to drink a nice big tall glass of calm the fuck down.
It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
We’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?
Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
Exactly. You have to go back to at least 2015 to find anything resembling normal life.
…And things still weren’t as crazy as they are now. To me that’s points towards the guys theory LOL
It went to shit when you dumb mother fuckers elected him for the first time in 2017. Stupid fucking idiots.
The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.
Rome went out drunk on wine and conquest.
We’re going out buzzed on overpriced food delivery and crypto regret.
Cheers!
In 2019 the guy from the Apprentice was POTUS.
I feel the same about 2007, and 2000.
September 11th, 2001 was a real inflection point for the US. We, collectively decided that civil rights aren’t as important as revenge.
Almost makes the inside job conspiro seem not as crazy…
sept 11 was the first time the republicans had the chance to seize the opportunity to put america on track for its fascist fourth reichdom fantasy.
Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
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.
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.
Eh The Matrix had it right. 1999
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.
In a way it’s fair to say that every moment changes every moment that happens after. The entire global economy is still reeling from Reaganomics ffs.
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.
Perhaps this is the result of ‘modern’ values corrupting our society.
We must return to the old status quo
I vote for 2016. The unthinkable happened.
We shot that poor damn gorilla.
None of those are correct. There is before Harambe and after Harambe. The day he was killed everything changed.
Almost like something happens every 4-8 years. hmm
It was all pretty normal at least in USA until Sept 10, 2001.
Boomer: 1968
Martin Scorcese: 33 AD
2000
Just been a whipsaw shitshow since.
2000 is when Bush got elected and we openly courted the fringe, the uneducated, and religious right. Openly chose obstinacy and willful ignorance in an unqualified nepo-president who got the job because of daddy. 9/11 happened and the standard became selling shitty policy to Americans by labeling it something patriotic. The tax breaks came fast and hard, more unilateral decision making by the President. We can easily argue there were a lot of historic actions that led up to this from Gingrich to Nixon to Reagan, but Bush and the RNC are the one that really set things in motion to get us to trump. The Tea Partiers, Pailin, the official voice of the Right used openly to demonize the left and people like McConnell or Bohner actively sabotaging bipartisanship and undermining the presidency.
Yeah, 2000 for sure.
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.
He got the three ghosts, he just slept through them.
Everything that’s happened in the since around 1900 is an extreme outlier in the history of humanity. Nothing’s been normal.
