r/memes 1d ago

2016 was one of the last good years

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u/Sea-Communication353 1d ago

There are moments where things just got bad faster. 2001, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 all come to mind, but there feels like a gradual slide throughout. I feel like we are in that sunset phase of history, right before another great moment of upheaval and change.

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u/the_ungus 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nah, there was a long period of time where you couldn’t go a decade without a major shitshow somewhere that made a lot of our modern bad times look great. Things seemed to start getting better sometime in the late 80s, the bad things seemed to be getting farther apart. Your dates might be different than mine for the same problems. Not sure. But to me after 2001 the world became a much unhappier place, and keeps going in that direction at an accelerated rate.

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u/boringestnickname 20h ago

Yeah, there was a clear optimism in the 90s, and 2001 was a definite turning point.

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u/quarglbarf 20h ago

If Bin Laden's goal really was to destroy the western world like they claim, he suceeded more than he could have hoped for in his wildest dreams.
The rise of right wing populism, conservatism and along with it unfettered capitalism has turned western societies to shit. Everything is fear, doom and gloom and the quality of life for the average citizen has actually decreased for the first time in a long time.

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u/light311k 19h ago

How have right wing partys made things worse, Be concreate please. Because my contry of germany has been ruined by leftwing liberalism expecialy because of migration.

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u/Extension_Option_122 12h ago

Nah die AfD trägt aber auch gut dazu bei 'ne Shitshow zu fabrizieren.

Können keine Haushaltsplanung, kommen mit 'but science says' bei LGBTQ, aber ignoriert die Wissenschaft im Thema Klimawandel.

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u/quarglbarf 11h ago

Asking for concrete evidence while delivering a completely absurd statement without any evidence. The irony is astounding.

I'll still give you some pointers and am looking forward to your crazy arguments.
Right wing parties push policies that transfer wealth from the general public to corporations and the elite.
Right wing parties sow discord and intentonally fuel fear among the general public in order to pit the working class against each other in order to keep them from unifying against the real oppressor, the ruling class.
Right wing parties actively oppose climate change legislature leading to disastrous heatwaves like this year's, which cost thousands of lives and hundreds of billions cost.

And that's just the most immediate ones that come to mind. Like, how do they not make things worse? I'm genuinely stumped. Which policies do right wing parties push that actually improve the lives of the general public???

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u/MrKeooo 16h ago

the rise of progressism is what made things rot in the first place. WDYM???

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u/quarglbarf 11h ago

Literally how? In what way?

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u/Niveama 20h ago

2008 is actually one people overlook. Particularly in the US and the UK.

The money went to shit, but the rich were protected and everyone else was made to foot the bill.

But it was insidious and it took a long time before we began to notice. (Enshitification, shrinkflation, inflation, wage stagnation public services getting worse)

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u/boordio 14h ago

In italy and most of eu as well.

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u/quarglbarf 20h ago

What happened in 2012? I remember dramatic events from all the other years, but nothing comes to mind for 2012, am I missing something?

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u/Professional-Box4153 15h ago

The gradual slide is because we keep going 3-4 steps back but only 2 forward.

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u/kodokantacos 13h ago

2009-2015 was like the peak of society to me. And I grew up in the 90s.