My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)

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    *2016 was the last normal year.

    Let’s not forget the chaos and societal upset during the first term.

    Edit: I guess it would actually 2015 as the last normal year. 2016 started with Harambe and ended with the far-right winning an election and a Nazi parade honoring trumps election.

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      Bruh we as Americans have such a short attention span/memory I stg.

      His first term was “BUILD THE WALL”, “CHECK THE BAFROOMS”, “SHUT DOWN BASES IN EUROPE” and “NO MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS ALLOWED!!!”

      None of these ideas he’s espousing are new, they’re just more hateful and damaging. He just got slightly better at understanding politics/government, so now he’s more dangerous/efficient.

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        Yeah, there was too much infighting and incompetence for him to do as much damage in the first term. His cabinet was dropping like flies the first term and we’re almost 8 months in and nobody’s been fired yet

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    “With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.”

    It was Harambe. We didn’t reload.

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      It went to shit when you dumb mother fuckers elected him for the first time in 2017. Stupid fucking idiots.

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    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.

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    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.

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    The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.

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      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.

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    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, nothing to check them against.

    Reality is happening, but we do not comprehend it.

    Edit: if you want fiction about this, the book ‘echopraxia’ has this running through it, or the film ‘eddington’ which is entirely about this.

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    remember when redditors thought 2016 was the worst year in history because some celebrities had died?