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Should be a wild four years.

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I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis said:
When people talk about "things" in regards to the world like this, what specifically are they talking about?
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To elaborate a bit more on this, when I was visiting family we had a party and stayed up late into the night talking and drinking around the fire. We had almost every generation there. Boomer, Gen X, early Millennial (myself), and Gen Z. I brought up the line from the Sopranos where Tony said "It's good to be in something from the ground floor, and I came too late for that, I know. But lately I've been getting a feeling that I came at the end. The best is over" and how I kind of feel that way with America. How I got in at the very end and managed to catch the last gasps of the prosperity and feeling that the previous generations enjoyed. All the mystery is gone in the world. We're constantly tied to our phones and technology. Any mistake we make will follow us FOREVER. There's not restarting somewhere else from scratch. Most parents these days raise their kids on tablets and TV. Even in neighborhoods with lots of kids, they aren't running around outside every weekend and during the summers. There aren't big families anymore where you are all close in age and really bond with your siblings. All the white people now have one kid or two spaced out so far that they never really develop strong relationships. My grandfather used to be able to support a stay at home wife and four children on a military salary. My mom was able to put herself through college working nights at a cocktail bar and not go I to massive debt for the privilege. I think everyone alive on some level knows that something is very wrong and it's driving us all slowly insane. Look at the levels of SSRI use, the shocking levels of mental illness being reported in women, the mass shootings, etc, etc. TL,DR shit sucks and idk of it will ever get better.
 
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Dragged Into Sunlight said:
I was in the lounge on a college campus cackling with laughter watching 538 update and all the students around me wailing. It was a wonderful night.
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I still played WoW at that point and my guild was mostly Canadians. We were doing a mythic dungeon and I was laughing the whole time as results came in.
 
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It's been said before, but holding on to hate will age you, big time. Constantly being angry and tense, always looking for offenses and microagressions, putting yourself in a victim mentality 24/7 takes its toll outside and in. Some people thrive on hate but it's usually someone who benefits from it--grifters, politicians, media, etc. Regular people who refuse to be happy and have a constant diet of everything's bad/nothing's good and remain that way are going to succumb to the stress--illness, premature aging, mental breakdowns.
 
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Looking at all these new about tariffs, here's my prediction

>announce tariffs with basically all your closest trade partners
>consumer prices are going to rise rapidly
>we'll see a small shift in the big picture
>Trump will announce that tariffs have worked, the US has now improved X percent it's foreign trade balance, objectives were achieved
>everyone rejoices
>consumer prices are not coming down to pre-tariff level, permanent increase of 10-15 ish %
>???
>profit for Trump and his Jew buddies
 
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The Ugly One said:
I read every single source you provided. I provided you more sources than you provided me. What, exactly, is the double standard?
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I've already listed the Union states, by name, that allowed slavery during and after the Civil War. This is something that you, and others, have outright ignored and haven't responded to. Instead, you call me a "Lost Causer", which is wrong, and that I support slavery, which is even more wrong. I have nothing else to say to you because you made it clear that you're not interested in arguing in good faith. I am only make this response out of courtesy, little as you deserve it.
 
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In my opinion, existentialism is about radical responsibility: to yourself, to set examples, and even to society, as you progress from one to the other.

Stop making excuses for yourself.
Stop making excuses for your behavior.
Stop making excuses for not reaching your potential.

Stop making excuses for other people.
Stop making excuses for their behavior.
Stop making excuses for not reaching their potential.

Show people what happens when you stop making excuses for yourself.
Show people what happens when you stop making excuses for your behavior.
Show people what happens when you stop holding yourself back and reach your behavior.

Nihilism is best defeated with agency. Yeah, clean your room, then go work out and learn something.
 
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Balanced Boomer said:
Wait, it's been confirmed, beyond a doubt, that China was completely responsible for COVID?
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No, the CIA released a statement a few days ago saying 'covid was "more likely” to have come from a lab than a natural reservoir like a bat or other animal at the wet market. The conclusion did not come from new evidence—merely a fresh look at existing data—and the agency has “low confidence” in the findings.'

Doing so 5 years after the facts and amidst rising tension between the US and China come across as weak and opportunistic to me, even if I agree with the statement.

Best source I have is APnews, couldn't find the raw declaration.
 
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Slowly. If you keep drinking every day, you will work your way up to it. Take my advice and quit while you still have your life together. No one ever says "my life improved so much when I started drinking alcohol."
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Y'all making me feel foolish over worrying about my 2-3 cans of beer a day habit. Haven't had any since the first of the month, but I'm not planning on never drinking again, and damn do I miss the stress relief and taste, even if it makes me less productive overall.
 
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You know what else?

Back in the day, I can believe FDR loved this country. I can believe Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, and Clinton loved this country and wanted the best for it.

I don't believe for a God damn second that Hillary, Obama, Harris, AOC, Omar, etc ever loved this country but rather see it as a means to an end or something they want to transform into what they believe the country should be. I think they resent everything the country used to stand for. They resent the people who built it and shaped its culture. They resent the generations that came before them.
 
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Dragged Into Sunlight said:
I brought up the line from the Sopranos where Tony said "It's good to be in something from the ground floor, and I came too late for that, I know. But lately I've been getting a feeling that I came at the end. The best is over" and how I kind of feel that way with America. How I got in at the very end and managed to catch the last gasps of the prosperity and feeling that the previous generations enjoyed.
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Funny to think that quote your referencing is over 20 years old now.

 
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Dragged Into Sunlight said:
TL,DR shit sucks and idk of it will ever get better.
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I find it helps to contextualise our current situation in the broader scope of time. The past 30-40 years to the present are just a small slice of our overall history, and just a little before our present things were a lot better than they are now, but a little before the good times things were also bad. I think that we can get back to the prosperity and times of hope our parents/grandparents went through again, we just have to reach the end of this cycle of hopelessness and depression. I think the uncertainty of the future leaves quite a lot of room for hope.
 
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