Kinda sucks having a generation of spoiled narcissists in charge tbh.
You forgot “lead-addled”
Three generations of spoiled narcissists coasting on what the Greatest and Lost built.
Can we take a break from daily historic events a little bit?
So now we’re on to “decades where centuries happen.” :/
This isn’t the first time in the last century we’ve had a big economic crash and a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment cresting into a paramilitary response. Hoover’s Great Depression and the OG Immigration Quotas system, Eisenhower and Operation Wetback along with the Recessions of '53 and '58, Nixon’s Stagflation and border closure with Mexico, Reagan’s S&L crash and closing the border with Mexico, Bush Jr’s Great Recession and border crisis…
Pretty much every Republican Presidency delivers two things.
Sorry, you are cursed to live in interesting times.
If only these times were actually interesting and not just a pile of stupid bullshit.
I hate that now I have to reframe all the history stories I’ve ever been fascinated by, now that I know how easily we discard reality as an entire species just for no fuckin reason. Now that I know exactly how dumb we all are as a collective, I have to apply critical thinking to every epic story about wars and kingdoms and great deeds. Even the ones with “valid” historic records are very likely pure bullshit covering up the most stupid goddamn things imaginable.
Hannibal crossing the alps? Probably was total BS. No elephants, probably didn’t even do it himself, probably wasn’t the alps, it was probably some row of hills behind Hannibal’s golf course.
Best I can do is a once in a centuries empire collapse.
Remember the 80s recession? GenX remembers.
Millenials born in late 80s or early 90s may not remember but it could still have affected their childhood.
Also, it could not have. “Could” anything is pretty vague. Every childhood had a preceding history.
‘Could’ specifies a possibility of an event occurring, as opposed to no possibility.
For example, I could have rice for dinner, however there is no way I could jump to the moon.
When applied to the context of this conversation:
A person born in the 90s could have had their childhood affected by the recession in the 80s. A person born in the 50s could not have had their childhood affected by the recession in the 80s.
Could is only vague in the scope of probability; this is because it’s a confirmation of the possibility, rather than a defined probability.
This cycle of republicans wrecking the world, then democrats quietly, meekly fixing the mess after like a battered wife, it goes way back.
Sounds so banal.
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Which Who?
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What?
When?
Now?
Soon.
That was a bit before my time but i remember some people saying the 2002 crash was in part an extension of the 80s recession as the 90s boom was partially due to the tech boom.
Those sucked.
Devestated my childhood
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4th “once in a lifetime” crash, SO FAR…
more like
Like two three years ago when they told us there might be a nuclear escalation.
Millennials: eh shrug maybe not
You should expect about one recession every 5-10 years.
They are all “once in a lifetime” in their own way if you want to sell news headlines.
Meanwhile, genx:
Yeah kinda. We’ve gone through everything that the Millennials have plus some.
In my years, I’ve lost a home, two cars, four careers, buried 5 close family members including parents and a sibling. Been an alcoholic, recovered. Had severe depression. Recovered. Had Nearly lost my partner to illness and helped her learn to walk and eat again. Been so broke a few times that I was stealing water from construction sites so we could flush our toilet. Laid to rest a dozen beloved pets. Said goodbye more times than hello.
I’m back on my feet, starting over. Again. A little wiser, a little more battered and scarred up, a lot more tired. Missing a few teeth and all my hair, but still going.
The world right now is a massive mess, don’t get me wrong. We’re in real trouble. But at this point I don’t think anything short of an actual band of raiders with halberds chasing me down through the woods is going to end this ride for me. At this rate, might happen.
wait really? i don’t see how time could work that way
I used to roll my eyes when older people said that time keeps repeating, that everything happens over and over again.
Then I got old and started seeing everyone making the same damn mistakes over and over and over again, the same events recycling but with new actors, people not learning from the past, not working together, not writing things down so we don’t forget, and yeah, I DO get it now. The adult blackpill is a lot darker and more bitter than the one you swallow when you’re an irate teen who thinks the world owes you something. I would love to go back in time and have that energy again.
Nature doesnt owe us, humanity does. We havent come this far to cock it up now
You got to buy houses at a reasonable price and had proper student unions, don’t @ me.
I’m sure you think that’s true.
Pretty early to use “surviving” as a verb.
Throw gen z in there. We start at 1997
I’m gonna get fired for being room temperature one day.
We are in the “hard times create hard men” part of the cycle.
Hard non-binary persons, mind you!
And if they wear furry suits it’s because they’re harder! Wait…
Interestingly, in the era of this expression, “hard man” often had a somewhat negative connotation like “calloused,” which I gather is generally not the meaning intended by those who use it today.
I wonder if it was intentional in the original…
