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We slotted into the wrong timeline when Al gore lost.
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I try not to go down that rabbit hole. 9/11 possibly doesn’t happen and that changes everything.
Or even better, Carter wins a second term in 1980, no trickle down economics. Corporations are kept under control. Taxes on ultra wealthy stay in place…
It will be a test that none of us have the answers for. And that is a scary thought.
I’ve lived through the cold War, have followed geopolitics for over 30 years, it has never been this hot.
Me too and agreed.
Depends on where you live. If you’re in the United States, you should definitely be preparing for a imminent incoming recession.
Feel like I’ve heard this constantly for the last 2-3 years at least. I guess if you keep saying it, someone will eventually hit the right timing and claim credit for having predicted a recession.
Have a look at the unemployment data which just recently hit 4.1% the household jobs survey versus what the government says.l and theres a gap of like 600,000 jobs the government claims that households cant find, consumers have spent themselves into a wall and are pulling back, etc. With inflation being as high as it was and is if it’s above GDP then we actually have negative growth.
Maybe, maybe not. I just know that people who try to predict the future are wrong most of the time, especially when it comes to the economy and trying to time the markets. Never works.
Oh, I definitely wouldn’t be shorting, or something like that, as I do not have the timing prediction powers for that. Even if I am right, being right in a timeframe is the real problem.
I’m struggling with answering this question. I mean, obviously, I don’t know. I could give an opinion on what I think is most likely to happen, but what does it matter? Like, legitimately, what does it matter? And I do mean it earnestly, what would it matter even if I just so happened to be right about my speculation?
We all certainly hope that 2025 will be better. But I think the important thing to remember is that 2025 being better is possible. In fact, I used to be a homophobic ultra-conservative fundamentalist Christian bigot. In my remorse over the person I used to be, I noticed I felt shame rather than self-righteousness over my condemnation of people just being who they are. In my longing to undo the evil I committed in the past, I realized I have the opportunity to fight for good, even if it means fighting what feels like my own reflection. I got better. I still have a ways to go and even more internalized prejudice I need to demolish, but at least I know getting better is possible, because I did it before goddammit. And if a dickhead like me can be better, can’t we all?
And even if things just turn to absolute shit, I know I can at least make my tiny corner of the world a little bit brighter if I can make myself better. And you know what? I think it’s good enough for me to know that I can start doing something about that right now. Afterall, as Marcus Aurelius would say to himself; It is up to you!
At least in the US, depends on how the elections go in November. It’s another nail biter and I’m not sure which way the election will go, but I am reasonably sure of the paths that follows each option.
As for the rest of the world, I’ve got my own problems.
At least in the US, depends on how the elections go in November.
US, Taiwan, Ukraine, Poland, Baltics, Europe as a whole…
I’m hoping it’ll be better for me despite everything going on politically. I should be done with a treatment that, fingers tentatively crossed, will help my depression, my therapist just entered a pact with me and we’re both gonna start walking four times a week at minimum, and I’ll hopefully have dropped the ten pounds in trying to lose by then.
Of course, I’m American, so probably none of this matters if the GOP takes control. People like me are first on the chopping block for conservative genocide, and part of project 2025 is to completely eliminate any and all legal protections for people like me.
So, I hope it’ll be better and I won’t get hate murdered. Fingers crossed!
While it’s not feasible for everyone. Getting a dog was the best thing for my emotional and physical well being. My dog tripped the steps I get per day. Plus, she’s a relentless alarm clock in the morning.
If shit box wins, buy a shot gun, first thing on my list. Better than a hand gun for home defense.
Every year is worse now, sorry.
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Yep
Yep.
Bad things are gonna happen regardless. Good things are going to happen regardless. There’s the things in the news, the things in your community, the things in your friend and family groups, and the things that happen to you on your day to day.
While it’s important to focus on the problems we face and the changes we can make, we also need to focus on the wins no matter how small. Mere pessimism isn’t enough. Mere optimism isn’t enough. Mere anything isn’t enough because life isn’t that simple.
Take time to mourn, but fight against the waves of despair that want to drown you.
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
It songs the tune without the words
And never stops at all"
Things only get worse now
Eh, pretty much this. Think about the problems we have been facing, and then consider whether there has been any progress toward making them better. Climate change, no. Access to housing and medical care, no. Economic disparity, no. Political polarization and fascist sentiments, no. Extend those lines into the future, and, realistically, things are only getting worse.
I’ve never seen things get better, only worse in a different direction.
All hinges on whether Trump wins imo
So, worse it is
Probably the only statement that literally everyone can agree on, just not mean the same thing.
Fair point.
I think it will be better. I think trump will lose. I’ll graduate in December, I just got married, and we’re going to move out of my in-laws house sometime in the spring trading suburbia for a coastal urban city. I’m going to make new friends and have kids and ask them questions which will prepare them to be good and thoughtful citizens and whatever else they choose to become.
At this point you may, and rightly so, assume that mine are rose tinted glasses. However as a hobbiest student of history I’ve come to the conclusion that the world is always on fire. Humanity tends to have a bias towards bad news, and there is plenty of bad news around, but cynicism only incentivizes inaction. If we want to give the world the best chance for happiness in our time, to honor the legacy of those forebears who strove to build the better world of today, then we have to acknowledge the good.
This doesn’t mean ignoring the bad, or giving up on the better, but we have to immerse ourselves in the electrifying notion that civilization has moved over the past 200+ years gradually, with new and terrible acts of inhumanity along the way, toward better lives for the average human. We have a duty to fight for that trend so that we in our old age can scoff at the perceived slights of our progeny as our parents and elders do now. The disconnect between the generations in some ways can stand as a testament to the progress that has been achieved.
They don’t make cardboard like they used to so I’m going to get off my soap box before it sloughs into a pile of microplastics.
It will be better. Trust.
I hope you are right. I don’t agree though.
Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Depends on November. Vote.
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I say this with a 100% genuine and serious tone: this is a truly, truly stupid take.
I really, earnestly, sincerely mean it. Vastly stupid take.
Congratulations on being part of the problem
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We can blame you because voting is part of your duty living in a democracy.
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You might care if someone close to you, who was a closeted gay, is ripped out of their home one night and never heard from again? Maybe a family member, with a black spouse, is lynched for daring to marry a white woman? Or, even closer to home, perhaps a tweet or post you made from 2010 suddenly becomes against a decency law and you’re questioned, tortured, and jailed for it?
At what point, exactly, would it behoove you to care? When it’s your neck on the line only?
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Trans enby here.
If you want to avoid those horror stories, then stop whining at people who have lost faith in the Democrats and start doing something to restore it.
George Carlin would have been smart enough to realize the dangers we were facing. I’m not a huge fan of Biden or the DNC but my vote will be a vote against Trump.
Lol, George “They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” Carlin?
He’d be telling people to quit putting their faith in politicians, not yelling at them to shut up and vote.
i blame you 🤷♂️
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Why should politicans do good things and care about you if you don’t vote?
Why should you care about politicians and vote when they don’t do good things?
It goes both ways.
To anyone that genuinely doesn’t like either party, I think that you can still vote for a third party in the US? The system is rigged against them, but any little helps.
Or just ruin your ballot to show dissatisfaction in the status quo and maybe give the counters a good laugh.
You screw the Canadians, Mexicans, Ukrainians, and a bunch of normal countries around the world, not to mention some other friends across the pond.
Protest voting is exactly what Trump is hoping people will do because he knows his constuency is too small if people turn out to vote in greater numbers.
Oh yeah, voting for the “lesser evil” is what people should do. But if you’ve already decided to vote for neither anyway, you may as well protest vote for the benefit of whatever world exists next election.
Probably a managed democracy like Russia. I wouldn’t be suprised if Trump ‘ran’ for a third term after this one. He’s going to fuck the voting system if he wins again. Not to mention all the horrific shit in project 2025, which will fire most of the non-aligned government staff running stuff like NOAA. Good luck with hurricane and fire predictions when the head of NOAA is some Amazon author, lmao.
Then you abide the greater evil. The choice of not taking a side is still itself a choice. If you have friends, family, colleagues that would be effected by the outcome of the election, and you decide to not participate, you are doing them a disservice.
By saying that you’re admitting you’re ok with a Trump dictatorship. Fuck off.
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Dumbass
That’s how you end up with the bigger evil.
Does it though?
Yes
To anyone else reading this: yes
To you: don’t be a contrarian douche
My bad.
My grocery bill will keep going up. Nobody will fix this.
It’ll get worse, or even way worser than worse.
Biden has done a lot of good in his first term, so there’s no real reason to think it’ll get worse in a second term.
That’s the thing, there’s like a 1% chance he actually wins… Democrats, not the DNC, are still pushing Biden to leave with the most recent news stating that he will not only cost us the presidency but the house as well.
Republicans will have full control to make absolutely whatever law they wish with a very friendly SCOTUS picked specifically for their willingness to enact the heritage foundations most vile wishes… The future is insanely bleak in the US. :(
Okay, so what are you proposing exactly?
Just hand it to them?Of course not, I was just commenting on the fact that I seriously doubt there will even be a second term.
The result of the US elections are the tipping point either way for the whole world, and every country is awaiting what will happen.
One side drops the world in misery, from the full destruction of Ukraine and it’s people, to an intense war in the EU and the Koreas.Taiwan as a country will cease to exist, as will its chip production. Not to mention the deep scarring that will take place within the US itself where it will see the Constitution torn up. America First, but as a consequence it loses power and status everywhere else for years to come.
The other possibility is that starting in 2025 the current big worldwide conflicts will be resolved semi peacefully, a slow growth to more financial prosperity and equality sets in plus a number of billionaires will need to pay some of their taxes, but international treaties and trades will be reinforced.
I am really hoping for the latter, because if the outcome is the first, we’ll see a least a decade of chaos and economic downfall everywhere.
So, my choice is made, it will be better in 2025 <crosses fingers>
Im somewhat of a doomer and I see a steady overall decline. so for me its a choice of a lot worse or a little worse which is also a no brainer for me because I prefer slightly bad to real bad but Im wierd like that.
