2011 was our last year of normal

Its been always downhill from what I remember. I m an older millennial and shit was crazy in the 90s too. All the shitty tattoos and piercings, coloured hair and rap music is a product of the 90s. Loveparade in Berlin was peak Sodom and Gomorrah. People fucking in public and open drug use. I guess Robocop could save Detroit, huh?
 
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Pretty soon even the spastic sheeple on this site are gonna realise whassup!


I made the mistake of running this software pre 2012, and now I'm stuck here with all you other retards until the next timewarp. Thankfully, I'll be fucking dead by then, and so will all of you.

It's been nice not knowing you!


Keep in mind kids, just in case you think I'm not kidding, that this big mushroom-brained mastermind was perfectly serious. He used to pack out mid-sized gig spaces wherever he went.

"Nazi Germany"...

Enough said.

This is your brain on drugs.

This is your brain on mushrooms.

Not even once!

He got one thing right though.

"Moon Landing"

Say no more.


I actually miss the old drug-addled fucker.

"George Bush"

"Ronald Reagan"

"Fall of the Roman Empire!"

I rest my case.


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TBF OP, you make a good point. It's a point many other people have made, many times. It was around that time it started to go pear-shaped, and for many of the reasons you state. But there were other deciding factors. Pretty soon after that came [CURRENT YEAR] and that really was the beginning of the end. Most people agree this was around 2014/2015.

It's a fun thing to argue the toss over though, no doubt.

I might just wack up the old Timewave 0 on the old Dos laptop or on a VM just to see if it takes me back to a better time...
 
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I agree, OP.
I have a theory that mass formation psychosis started with Kony2012, and each social media "thing" has used Kony2012 as a template.

Everything from Trump Derangement Syndrome to George Floyd, #IStandWithUkraine and Covid hysteria stems from this shitty ad campaign.

Does anyone remember how fucking insane this was? It's crazy to think this was ten years ago. It's not like Facebook was much different back then which makes the elapsed time seem not so far in the past.

Most people had facebook, twitter, and Instagram for a few years prior, but this was the first "movement" that turned people into frothing lunatics who co-opted a social media campaign as their whole personality.

I was a few years out of high school so I still had most classmates added on Facebook even if I didn't talk to them. The fights I watched about Kony2012 were insane and mirror the kinds of fights you saw over Covid vaccines. Friendships permanently severed because you "didn't showed you cared enough" about some nigger-tier warlord who it turns out, hadn't been a problem in the region since 2006.
 
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TypicalSemite said:
I agree, OP.
I have a theory that mass formation psychosis started with Kony2012, and each social media "thing" has used Kony2012 as a template.

Everything from Trump Derangement Syndrome to George Floyd, #IStandWithUkraine and Covid hysteria stems from this shitty ad campaign.

Does anyone remember how fucking insane this was? It's crazy to think this was ten years ago. It's not like Facebook was much different back then which makes the elapsed time seem not so far in the past.

Most people had facebook, twitter, and Instagram for a few years prior, but this was the first "movement" that turned people into frothing lunatics who co-opted a social media campaign as their whole personality.

I was a few years out of high school so I still had most classmates added on Facebook even if I didn't talk to them. The fights I watched about Kony2012 were insane and mirror the kinds of fights you saw over Covid vaccines. Friendships permanently severed because you "didn't showed you cared enough" about some nigger-tier warlord who it turns out, hadn't been a problem in the region since 2006.
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I think 2008 was when everything went to shit and entered the big point of no return but I'll agree that 2010-2012 is when TPTB began stepping it up and eventually leading us into Current Year.

The bailouts in 2008-2009 angered a lot of people and it was clear that backlash was brewing. It had to be co-opted and corrupted so it couldn't pose a threat to the corporate uniparty.

I've thought about the whole era from 2010-2012 in the context of what came later and these are some of my own personal thoughts and theories on it. It's long-winded and spergy, so I'll spoiler it.
First off was the Tea Party, which initially began as a populist lolbert movement by libertarian types who were pissed that the megacorps got a bailout but nobody else did. Even a lot of Randroids that were big into "muh private company" were pissed about the bailouts.

So it got quickly co-opted and went from lolberts to the usual mix of fundies and neocons with guys like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity pushing for a mix of batshit looney pseudo-theocratic lolcows like Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry and Reaganite style neocon grifters.

The Tea Party fell very easily since the GOP was even more cucked back then and the Reaganite/Bush Uniparty faction was even more dominant in the American right since the Evangelical fundies were still largely on the same side as the neocons and the majority of the trads/fundies didn't completely split from the neocon snakes in the grass until after 2014.

The shit about "Obama's secretly a Muslim socialist from Kenya" that made the rounds on conservative talk radio comes off as an alpha test run for stuff like Trump Derangement Syndrome when I look back on it in retrospect.

The Obama Derangement Syndrome espoused by the conservative pundits at the time made for an even more potent combination when combined with more liberal media touting "You can't criticize Obama on anything at all or you're racist!" rhetoric.

It didn't seem as bad as TDS because it was a lot more limited in its scope but it was just as retarded and batshit insane, even if it was less damaging and more limited in its reach. It was a very early test run.

Because most of the Tea Party conservatives acquiesced back to the GOP's main neocon/fundie wing, some of the OG lolberts who left the Tea Party due to the lolcows and neocon shills joined up with the liberals, moderates, center-leftists, and leftists in 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street movement's early days.

Occupy Wall Street was a legit grassroots movement that sprang up overnight across large swaths of the country due to social media. At the same time, the Arab Spring was still reeling and while some of that shit probably had suspicious CIA involvement, social media did play a major role in its spread.

Occupy was more big-tent than the Tea Party and the plebs were using social media to organize it. This scared the shit out of TPTB and something needed to be done to neutralize it. It was too big-tent and left-leaning/secular to be openly corralled back into the Establishment like what eventually happened with a lot of the Tea Party supporters. Thankfully for the bigwigs, Occupy was also way too decentralized and disorganized for its own good.

And this is where the early SJW's from the colleges and places like Tumblr and the punk and hipster subcultures enter the picture, as they were often embittered Millennials who got brainwashed while in academia and were already pissed about the 2008 Recession.

Those corporate bailouts soured a lot of Millennials on the idea of capitalism, especially when combined with conservative pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity condemning any efforts to offer even temporary economic relief to the poor as "socialism" and being generally hyperbolic about "muh big government" to a spergy and near Randroid-degree.

The anger towards the insufferable Religious Right of the Bush years made that sentiment even stronger. Iconoclasm was in the air as Bush's cadre of neocons and fundies often would drape themselves in nationalistic and patriotic imagery following 9/11 which made the academic intersectional leftism even more appealing for the college kids. They were the perfect vector for co-opting.

All of a sudden, the most viable form of populist opposition at the time got compromised and co-opted via "the progressive stack" and general intersectional IdPol. Yet, so many of them were (and still are) convinced they're actually fighting the Establishment instead of just serving as their unaware useful idiots.

Meanwhile, Obama quietly repealed the Smith-Mundt Act while the increased major crackdowns on online piracy in the early 2010's did a lot to help fine tune the wider propaganda efforts of our corporate oligarchs.

Kony 2012 was very likely one of the first major test runs for the new propaganda machine in a purely online context. Kony himself was a wackjob that no sane person would support but was ultimately a nobody even in Uganda by 2012. For the corporate oligarchs and the Uniparty, using Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army as the focus of a propaganda test run was practically a victimless crime.
 
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The 2008 recession basically sucked up the worlds economy for good. We know. It was never going to be like before after that. However, there was social and culture changes starting after 2011 that lead us into clown central which is what I was talking about.

The tent cities and wage stagnation etc. are being blamed as a consequence of continued neo-liberalism (in its more advanced state) however those policies have been with use since the Thatcher-Reagan era before most of us on this forum were even alive. We were literally born into a 'supply side society' however many of us note growing up and it never being as bad as it is now? how could that be. Whatever has happened causing the horrors, social imbalances and piss poor race relations we see today seems to have taken place arguably in 2012 . Seems like a cursed year. Maybe the world didn't end but our society did.
 
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It felt so different in 2011 compared to now, the economy was shit though it's not as shitty as it is now. SJW's and Troons are an isolated thing at the time because their messages weren't amplified until the middle of the decade and the only way they'll ever get to you is if you preach the being a faggot is a sinful way of life. At least that's what I heard with all the negative responses against Caiden Cowger back in 2012 when he make statements against LGBT. Even though 2011 seems like a normal time, honestly more people lack the understanding of the structure of the government and are under the impression that the government actually cares about them although preaching against faggotry wasn't as much as a bannable offense on big tech sites then as it is now. I assume this was to serve an illusion of living in a free society. Many of these people who are now protesting the high energy costs and government restrictions would've called you crazy if you told them this was happening 10 years ago. People either roll with the horrendous implementations their government enforced on them or they realize they done fucked up. It's getting to the point where even the most extreme of SJW's and Troons are starting to get shocked of the world they let themselves in. That's why a lot of people start killing themselves in masses.
 
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I think the current malaise is pretty much just the inevitable result of everyone being able to publish their thoughts freely on the Internet. Of course everything seemed a lot more sane when you didn't have to hear the opinion of every jackass on planet Earth.
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2007 was the introduction of the Iphone, and that really just ruined the internet. At first, anyway. It took a bit more time for shit to start going downhill everywhere else.
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Wasn't it the wide rollout of 3G/4G? Smartphones were a thing before 2011 yeah, but plans were pretty expensive and even then they were mostly associated with business. I got my first Samsung smartphone in 2012-ish and I had an iPod Touch before than and even then I mostly stuck to wifi.

By 2013 you could definitely feel things had changed. Suddently everything was in your pocket, but it was still untainted because large corporations hadn't permeated it yet (Buzzfeed etc. were still just taking off). 2013-ish was also when Instagram, Snapchat and Vine all came about, and you can't understate how big they were in making social media a more mobile experience
 
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I tend to think it was earlier, like before FB and Twitter were launched. Like I didn't go around the net screeching nigger for lulz like I do today, but that wasn't because I had a bunch of wokescolds that would dox me if I did. I just legit didn't care about race. Then all the woke racists called it to my attention why I should have been all along. Thanks, I guess? God, I hate this timeline.
 
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I feel like there was a lack of faith in institutions during the Bush presidency that occurred. The elite and mainstream went from supporting a bullshit war. To realising it was bad. Team politics ramped up. Then Obama was the great hope. The adults in charge. Yet he was just a facade. A pretense and no one could really reconcile him being a disappointment and not much different. So they gave up hope of anything better. The main stream and elites became Obama. They were a facade. This got worse and worse. They become more and more desperate to cling onto a facade, a pretense of what is really going on.
 
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