Following the trend from around about 2001, every year will be a little bit worse than the year before, except for those years that are a lot worse.
Thanks to climate change, to an extent this is already guaranteed
[gestures at climate] anybody want to tell them?
Don’t worry, those multiple looming tipping points are blatantly obvious.
We’ve been asking “could the next year not be as bad as the last year???” since 2019. But every year has been a little worse.
2016, to be precise
Well, for Americans.
Wait. Y’all are not sliding into a hopeless abyss whereever you are?
Yes, but it didn’t hit us the moment Trump got elected. It hit us more starting in summer 2019 when such discourse finally reached us, and at the end of that year we were all saying “let’s make 2020 better.” and then WHAM… COVID-19.
I have seen the future and I don’t like it
Maybe you just didn’t look far enough?
2027 shows up with a pickaxe.
“What? It’s not a shovel.”
I’m sorry to say, it likely continues getting worse from here. It’ll be awhile now before it gets better.
Yup. Anybody that knows anything about history knows that we’re all in it deep. How long it takes, though, that’s anybody’s game. It could be in our lifetimes or our grandchildren’s lifetimes. It could even all be over a few years from now - unlikely, but possible.
One thing is for certain, it is going to get worse, much worse, before it gets better.
You don’t get to this point and just turn around and never come back. That’s like getting bone cancer and then it just disappearing on its own. And right now, it has metastasized in the oval office and all branches of the US government and has been consolidating power across the world, brazenly, for several years, basically unhindered.
Eh, buckle up. Open AI runs out of money in August. First domino in the LLM bubble popping. Those tech companies the only thing keeping the stock market from already looking like a recession. Shits gonna crash
2027 will probably begin with an insurrection like 2021
This is why ppl gotta stop saying “this year is gonna be my year”. Bad things happen. They will continue to happen. What we can do now though? Like Spain, we should be striking. We should be forcing them all out and kicking them out of the country. Plain and simple. Time is an illusion. Action needs to happen now.
You can riot at anytime.
This is the way, probably never happen. People have tried organizing over and over without success.
I disagree. They may not have achieved their goals, but they have often achieved a step towards it. Riots for the abolition of work may lead to less working hours and better protection. Stonewall was a riot…stuff for queer folks is far from perfect but has improved a lot in the last decades in many countries.
You can disagree all you want that’s fine and dandy, but America right now won’t rise up and riot against Trump. Atleast enough where it would matter. Too many people can go about their daily lives no matter what, too many dumb people supporting him, too many of everything except people who want to overthrow him.
Ah yeah, I realize I misunderstood you. I thought you meant that rioting/organizing against this system in general (historically) doesn’t work.
But I still believe that organizing matters, always. Even if it only saves a few people from being deported or makes change more difficult it is meaningful. I may not bring Trump out of office, that might be true
Or, vote in the midterms for – at least teeth?
Sorry, bubbles gonna pop soon. If anything keep your expectations for next decade, this one’s already down the drain.
Sorry, for the next decade there’s a scheduled finding out after the prolonged fucking around with greenhouse gas emissions.
Hey uh please don’t fucking jinx it, alright?
It’s never going to get better in the lifetime of anybody alive today.
why not?
Because, if you’re in the U.S., it has become strikingly clear that we have a major education/bigotry problem and things don’t typically get better when there’s a critical level of stupid bigots in a society.
Orange pedo can stop breathing, and that’ll be nice, but our issues extend so much further than that.
Hope mycodesucks and I are wrong.
Mamdani is living proof it can improve locally. We just need more of his type to cover the US - which has always been true, local level is the grassroots that form the government. So there is a way, even within the system. It might take a while, but it can be within our lifetimes.
You need an electorate with a certain average intelligence to elect someone like that when the opportunity comes up.
Those with looser morals will more successfully convince the less intelligent they are right. Because they are willing and able to use fear, confusion and hate as tools, which hits a lot harder for the lizard brain than the intelligent brain.
Climate change is the primary reason. Climate change also causes economic and societal collapse, which again accelerates the descent into fascism which is already happening.
Boomers will die so that’ll help the world some. The issue is their stupid children.
Idk. I think it will continue on the same as it is. Probably get worse, get slightly better, get worse, then a big world war or something, then the water wars.