Will the 2020s be better?

[Cedric_Eff]

I think it’s going to be okay here in Japan... until another major disaster occurs here (large scale earthquakes, tsunami, eruption, etc...) and wipes out a large number of people.

 

[Black Waltz]

who knows

 

[Rancid Flid]

Unless Trump wins the next election, the USA will probably end up waging a huge war against China (on behalf of the globalists) & most of you will be killed by nuclear bombs or taken as slaves by the Chinks & end up doing hard labour or being worked to death in a sweatshop making cheap butt-plugs & dildoes.

 

[Tookie]

President Warren will surely get things back on track.

 

[Mage]

All I can say is to keep your expectations low, and you'll never be disappointed.

 

[HoneyBadgersOfOats]

The SJW shit of the 2010s will progress for a long while however I'm seeing some changes with people overall getting tired of SJW shit. Lot of Zoomers aren't exactly down with Social Justice though the wind can blow either way depending on how many of them go to college or not. We might see some changes with this new generation due to factors like many companies now are ditching the 4 year degree requirement for some of their positions because the new hires their getting out of college are fucking retarded half the time. Even my company's corporate HQ has lifted some higher education requirements.

More men are also converting to Islam, atheism is plateauing, and their not exactly down with a whole bunch of social justice groups. It will be interesting to see demographic changes and certain minorities become the majority in voting blocks. I think we'll be going from one frying pan to another most likely if certain trends continue. The SJW environment can't last, and SJWs don't really reproduce like people that practice Islam do so it won't last forever. 20-30 years from now I believe it will be either completely dead or it's influence won't have the grasp it once had.

As for music and general pop-culture I think it will be worse but we might experience some 90s tier edge due to how many people are getting fed up with the SJW bullshit.

 

[wateryketchup]

I just want superhero movies to go out of style

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I just don't want to be old.

 

[Rancid Flid]

White people will become minorities in more towns & cities all over the Western world. Canada, the UK or even the USA might see it's first Muslim leader. (Maybe 2nd in US ?)

 

[Neozeonian]

我准备好了

 

[Clop]

Well Mega Man Zero and ZX series are getting a release on PC in January so it can't be all bad.

 

[Recoil]

It may not be better but it will be different and probably very funny.

 

[SmileyTimeDayCare]

It's going to be fantastic.

The progressive movement is going to totally melt down over the next 10 years leading to a swing to a more conservative world.

 

[QI 541]

Well Mega Man Zero and ZX series are getting a release on PC in January so it can't be all bad.

Re-releasing GBA games on the PC, what the hell?

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

what possible signs of improvement can you see?

the future will be pure shit.

 

[ZeCommissar]

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

I do think the pendulum is going to swing back in the favor of conservatives politically across the west, but do not be fooled. This doesn't mean that we are going to have ultra-nationalism or anything (hopefully) but that we will nudge to the right a bit more as people get tired of the current political climate. Things are going to get really interesting in the next election however, so I can't wait to see that.

I am not too well versed in economics yet to really make a good opinion on it, but what I can say is if things keep getting worse in the future on that front (at least in the USA), then that will lead to more extreme political parties like we saw in the first half of the 20th century.

Finally we have to think about the whole immigration/migration to Europe and other places as well. Will it actually destabilize the continent into ruins like many claim? Probably not, but there will be some more violence.

Unless superpowers start flinging nukes, it's not going to be any worse than what has happened before in human history.

 

[Bessie]

Next decade's forecast is mostly autistic with a high chance of gay.

Mainstream Media will flail and wheeze and distort the truth as usual. It's all death rattle at this point, and it'll be a nice sideshow.

Tech Giants will continue to be manipulative, ideological cunts. The Surveillance State will help them along the way. As usual, people won't notice or care as long as they get to stream their favorite shows and jerk each other off on social media.

Politics will be impassioned but utterly worthless. Corporations will pander predominantly to the left, but the "right-wing" corporations won't have your back either.

Women will abandon the #MeToo name, but the basic pattern will continue. Ambitious young thots will trade sex for opportunities and then call it rape years later. Men will continue to "believe" women with all of their dicks hearts until the lynch mob is aimed at them. Women will continue to "believe" women, trusting that one day they too can wield the power of mass hysteria.

The technology that could finally void female reproductive hegemony (sexbots and artificial wombs) won't be available to plebs during this decade. If any such tech comes close to fruition, feminist lobbies will preemptively ban it. Prohibition 2.0. Get your sexbot blueprints and 3D print your own bootleg life partner. And gun.

Speaking of guns, we're kind of fucked. The Age of the Drone is upon us.

As for music and general pop-culture I think it will be worse but we might experience some 90s tier edge due to how many people are getting fed up with the SJW bullshit.

I certainly hope so.

Personally, I will grow even more bitter about missed crypto opportunities. At least I'm not in debt.

As for Kiwi Farms, I predict that yet another troon-shaped tumor will arise and earn a new subforum. Null will finally snap and sink New Zealand for good. Only the majestic kiwi bird will be spared.

 

[Rancid Flid]

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

I do think the pendulum is going to swing back in the favor of conservatives politically across the west, but do not be fooled. This doesn't mean that we are going to have ultra-nationalism or anything (hopefully) but that we will nudge to the right a bit more as people get tired of the current political climate. Things are going to get really interesting in the next election however, so I can't wait to see that.

I am not too well versed in economics yet to really make a good opinion on it, but what I can say is if things keep getting worse in the future on that front (at least in the USA), then that will lead to more extreme political parties like we saw in the first half of the 20th century.

Finally we have to think about the whole immigration/migration to Europe and other places as well. Will it actually destabilize the continent into ruins like many claim? Probably not, but there will be some more violence.

Unless superpowers start flinging nukes, it's not going to be any worse than what has happened before in human history.

You might be right about the conservatives, the trouble is though, many of them are actually liberals now & not the good, old fashioned traditional liberals either but progressives. I can only really speak for Europe on this but many of the parties & people that get called far-right here are actually the traditional conservatives or even liberals.

Economics has become a strange fantasy world where only a small percentage of money actually exists as hard cash, most of it is just numbers on a computer screen that's created out of thin air & the banks have the right to charge us interest on it. Most Western economies are in huge debt, I don't see how the US or UK will ever be debt free or even reduce these debts significantly & being in debt has become 'normalised,' particularly amongst the young & students.

Europe is changing, too quickly in some areas. Churches are closing, mosques are springing up, sometimes in old churches. Laws are changing so that what would have just been considered an opinion or criticism at one time is now often labelled as hate crime & people get sent to prison for having the wrong opinions.

Mass migration & the rise of AI will have a negative affect on wages & the amount of jobs. I hope I'm wrong but the future, in Europe at least, is not looking too promising. There is already a large gap between what people can earn & the cost of buying a home, so many young people in the UK now will never own a property.

 

[Syaoran Li]

You might be right about the conservatives, the trouble is though, many of them are actually liberals now & not the good, old fashioned traditional liberals either but progressives. I can only really speak for Europe on this but many of the parties & people that get called far-right here are actually the traditional conservatives or even liberals.

Economics has become a strange fantasy world where only a small percentage of money actually exists as hard cash, most of it is just numbers on a computer screen that's created out of thin air & the banks have the right to charge us interest on it. Most Western economies are in huge debt, I don't see how the US or UK will ever be debt free or even reduce these debts significantly & being in debt has become 'normalised,' particularly amongst the young & students.

Europe is changing, too quickly in some areas. Churches are closing, mosques are springing up, sometimes in old churches. Laws are changing so that what would have just been considered an opinion or criticism at one time is now often labelled as hate crime & people get sent to prison for having the wrong opinions.

Mass migration & the rise of AI will have a negative affect on wages & the amount of jobs. I hope I'm wrong but the future, in Europe at least, is not looking too promising. There is already a large gap between what people can earn & the cost of buying a home, so many young people in the UK now will never own a property.

Yeah, Europe is fucked any way you slice it.

I am a little more cautiously hopeful for the United States since Americans practically run on the pendulum effect for the most part. However, this optimism is a cautious optimism.

I do think America is headed for another recession at some point in the early or mid-2020's and it will likely be related to student debt and the tech industry.

The clickbait mills such as VICE and Buzzfeed are already suffering and they may end up being the canary in the coal mine, but the question is whether this recession will be a mild one like the 2001 Recession that roughly coincided with 9/11 and the Dot Com bubble bursting or will we be royally fucked over like in the 2008 Recession. I'm hoping it will be a mild and brief recession like the former, but I would not be surprised if it is an intense and long-lasting one like the latter.

Politically, I think Trump is likely going to get re-elected in 2020 as of this time given that he is the incumbent and we aren't in any wars or major economic downturns, but anything can happen between now and November 2020, so I'm not going to make any real in-depth estimates or predictions until the Democratic primaries are over and done with.

If Trump gets re-elected in 2020, we'll probably see a bit more REE'ing from the woke crowd that will likely continue until 2024, but I think it will gradually dissipate between Inauguration Day 2021 and the 2024 Election and any major TDS from the MSM and the corporate bigwigs will likely end by the time of the 2022 Midterms.

Trump's election in 2016 was a black swan event that nobody on either side really saw coming and I honestly think that the neoliberal corporatists and their allies in the MSM and the DNC thought his election was a fluke, especially with the popular vote outcome.

That's why I think they are doubling down on all the things that got Trump elected in the first place. They were totally blindsided and they think it was a random fluke. If the Democrats lose 2020, then that will probably force the real big shots to rethink their strategy.

The Zoomers and their overall tendency towards individualism and dislike of woke moralist bullshit will also play a role in how the 2020's will play out in America. We're probably going to see a return to more "edgy" pop culture like we had in the 90's. This will be more likely to happen if one of the MCU films flops at the box office.

If pop culture really does go edgy in the 2020's, it will be a breath of fresh air after a decade of bland Marvel capeshit and pretentious hipster bullshit. I'd expect an upswing in violence and nudity/fanservice in anything carrying an R or TV-MA rating in the 2020's if that happens.

Escapist entertainment will likely also be popular in pop culture, but it will manifest in a very different form than it did in the 2010's. What kind of form it will take is hard to tell at this point, but I think we'll see a new brand of escapism in the 2020's. Call it a hunch,

Silicon Valley will likely be as scummy as ever, but if the DOJ does fuck over Google and their near-monopoly, we may see a brief return of the free-wheeling "wild west" internet culture similar to the online culture of the 1990's and 2000's while Big Tech is reeling from the aftermath.

Of course, much like with Standard Oil and Ma Bell, a bunch of new companies will merge and form a new oligopoly in due time. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

As for socially and politically, the United States will still suffer under the current SJW Leftist paradigm in the early part of the decade and won't really slow down until the end of the 2020 Election cycle at the absolute earliest and will more likely die down around 2021-2023 depending on the outcome of said election cycle.

We're probably not going to see a right-wing takeover either, at least not a far-right one. We may see an upswing in the secular and semi-libertarian "South Park Republican" brand of conservatism for a while, but overall I think we'll head in a more centrist direction as the Zoomers start becoming more of a presence in our culture.

I'm not sure if the 2020's will be a good decade or not, but the 2010's have set the bar pretty low as is. What I do know is whether or not the 2020's will be good or bad, it will definitely be a hell of a ride.

 

[MagneticTowels]

Well Mega Man Zero and ZX series are getting a release on PC in January so it can't be all bad.

Unless it has Denuvo