Will the 2020s be better?

[Trig.Point]

We can get a glimpse of how things are going to go by looking at countries like Greece and Venezuela.

There's a trend where idiotic policies are put into effect and when they end up making things worse, instead of reversing them the powers that be start blaming those that opposed the policies in the first place. The populations don't just sit up and realise that what's been done is crazy, instead they acquiesce in the decision makers doubling down.

 

[Dom Cruise]

"Deep Thoughts" is sarcastic on this website. I remember a thread asking if people missed the 2000s, and the responses were a load of people waxing nostalgic over being a child and not having to deal with those dang dirty adult responsibilities. There was little attention given to the actual sociopolitical culture of that time.

My personal hope for the 2020s is that the term "SJW" gets retired. People in this thread are describing the threat of a socialist dictatorship, which is hard to take as a serious threat if it's primarily associated with Anita Sarkeesian rather than Fidel Castro. Also if anyone thinks "SJWs" were the primary social issue of the 2010s rather than immigration, climate change, and wealth inequality they're as hopelessly out of touch with the general public as Carl Benjamin.

Heh, I'm the one that made that thread.

But I understand the seriousness of the situation, I under that what we're really up against is a socialist dictatorship.

True, but @Dom Cruise did already mention that 2020 will likely just be a continuation of 2010's "Current Year" nonsense, especially with the election going on right now.

We most likely won't see any real signs of a cultural shift until 2021 or 2022,

I'm cautiously optimistic about the 2020's personally, especially once the 2020 Election is over and done with.

2020 will be the grand finale of this current cultural moment, once it's over things are going to change, it's anyone's guess how exactly but I can't emphasize enough that the one constant is change, that's the lesson the differences between the 2000s and the 2010s have taught me.

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

This is what I really hope for is just that things will be different, I'm sick of the status quo.

To be clear, every decade has it's stupidity and it's things that suck, the 2000s were not lacking for stupidity and suck, but the difference is that back then they affected the things I care about, namely nerd culture and video games, less, could be more safely quarantined and ignored.

If these faggots would just at least fuck off from my hobbies and focus on other things, that would be an improvement at least.

 

[Red Hood]

What do I look like, a prophet?

 

[GM 229]

This decade was fucking re.tarded. Everything about it just got stupider the longer it went on. Either shit shapes up soon or we go full clown world, boys.

 

[DK 699]

Here are my personal predictions for the 2020s:

>2020 elections
I think it could go either way. On one hand the DNC is a fucking shitshow. The Neolibs and the Progressives don't really have much to unite behind other than hating Trump. Honestly their whole situation is such a mess. They don't know what they're doing and because of that it's hard to predict their actions. They could coronate Biden, but then he would get MeToo'd, the progressives would hate him because he's a straightwhiteman, and it would basically be HRC 2.0. If the progressives have their way then it would alienate the moderates and possibly drive them towards Trump. Meanwhile in Trump's camp the situation isn't much better. While he hasn't caused an economic recession or another war (which is still a huge win for him) he hasn't really done much good either. The Latinos are still increasing their numbers, big tech is going to try to sabotage his campaign even more than they did before, and he hasn't done a great job on 2A or shifting our foreign policy away from sucking Israel's cock. He also hasn't really done anything to help Appalachia or the rust belt. It's very possible that his base is far more jaded and far less energized then they were in 2016.
>US politics in general
Trump will win 2020 or he will lose, but once a democrat gets in (whether this happens in 2021 or 2025) we will start to see a lot of bad things. The government will capitulate to the illegals. Massive amounts of central Americans will come into this country and get citizenship. 2A will be destroyed and crimes against hate-speech, hate-gestures, hate-facts, and hate-thoughts will become the norm.
>US economy
There will be some sort of problem. Don't know what it will be or when it will come, but it's coming. These things happen every ten years or so, right?
>The SJW stuff (entertainment)
I think it's all just going to keep chugging along. Some people on this thread think that a woke MCU is going to bring the whole thing down. I don't think so. Look at what happened in YA. Look at what happened in western animation. Look at what happened in western comics. Look at GooberGobber. This is just the way things work now. Anime and Manga will not be effected for now, but once westerners start getting involved that's going to change real fast.
>The SJW stuff (education)
Not changing. Trump could have done something about higher education being a bunch of leftist factories, but he didn't.
>Big tech
They're going to keep getting away with it. There isn't the political will to stop these people. Like the gilded age captains of industry they have more money than God, but unlike them they have the power to control information. How do you kill such a thing? Bad times ahead for KF, 4Chan, 8Chan, and anyone else in the same boat.
>Global Affairs
Russia, Europe, and the USA will become less powerful while China, India, and states in west Africa become more powerful. Boogaloos in South Africa and Venezuela. China will build up it's military so that it can compete with America in the pacific ocean. If America cannot outspend them in terms of conventional assets (planes, Aircraft, carriers, air defense) and wunderwaffles (Rail guns, direct energy weapons, AI) then they will have big problems containing China. China will continue to salami-slice it's way into the ocean while gaining influence in Africa and the Islamic world. If Putin dies there will be another war in Chechnya.
>Other
Police in Ukraine will find a basement full of dead women; prostitutes, aspiring models, students; they will be of different backgrounds, but they will all have two things in common: That they were once gorgeous and that they were force-fed to the point of morbid obesity. The man responsible for this will be long gone by then.
>The silver lining
There will be plenty of retards to laugh at.

 

[Y2K Baby]

2010's weren't bad. 2020 is a repeating digit which is badass so they'll be at least twice as based as the 1010's.

 

[queerape]

Woke culture will be passé, that's a given, but it can be replaced by something better, or something much, much worse.

 

[Syaoran Li]

@tsundereaddict To be honest, I don't think a woke MCU will bring the whole thing down either, at least not all at once.

But if a woke MCU film fails at the box office, it could be a "beginning of the end" sort of scenario. Not a coup d'grace, mind you. It would be something that sends a message to the big suits in Hollywood that something is up and the SJW shit will harm the gravy train, and they will respond by gradually shifting gears.

As for the video game stuff, if Cyberpunk 2077 does very well and doesn't go full woke, then that could have another "beginning of the end" effect. Same if Sony's censorship policies hurt the sales of the PS5.

I think the SJW stuff will continue on for at least a few more years, but a new cultural shift will happen sooner or later at some point. It wasn't that long ago that we thought the Religious Right would always be around in America. Now they are completely dead nationally and slowly dying out regionally.

If Trump wins in 2020, even the Democrats will slowly realize they can't go as hard left as they are doing right now and will once again change their strategy. Doubly so if AOC and the rest of her squad get kicked to the curb, and given how badly AOC fucked over her own district, it wouldn't be that unlikely to have a somewhat more rational Democrat to go and primary her out of office based on that alone.

If another Republican gets in in 2024 like what happened when Bush Sr. followed Reagan in 1988, then there is no doubt that the Democratic Party will go in a more populist approach like they did in 1992. It will probably be a different platform than Bill Clinton's, but it is highly unlikely that it will be as left-wing as The Squad or even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

@tsundereaddict To be honest, I don't think a woke MCU will bring the whole thing down either, at least not all at once.

But if a woke MCU film fails at the box office, it could be a "beginning of the end" sort of scenario. Not a coup d'grace, mind you. It would be something that sends a message to the big suits in Hollywood that something is up and the SJW shit will harm the gravy train, and they will respond by gradually shifting gears.

As for the video game stuff, if Cyberpunk 2077 does very well and doesn't go full woke, then that could have another "beginning of the end" effect. Same if Sony's censorship policies hurt the sales of the PS5.

I think the SJW stuff will continue on for at least a few more years, but a new cultural shift will happen sooner or later at some point. It wasn't that long ago that we thought the Religious Right would always be around in America. Now they are completely dead nationally and slowly dying out regionally.

If Trump wins in 2020, even the Democrats will slowly realize they can't go as hard left as they are doing right now and will once again change their strategy. Doubly so if AOC and the rest of her squad get kicked to the curb, and given how badly AOC fucked over her own district, it wouldn't be that unlikely to have a somewhat more rational Democrat to go and primary her out of office based on that alone.

If another Republican gets in in 2024 like what happened when Bush Sr. followed Reagan in 1988, then there is no doubt that the Democratic Party will go in a more populist approach like they did in 1992. It will probably be a different platform than Bill Clinton's, but it is highly unlikely that it will be as left-wing as The Squad or even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

The only thing I disagree with is the potential for violence. Outside of LA there just wasnt the lunacy there is now in 1992. And tbh the LA riots are apples and oranges to a lot of todays flashpoints with the exception of Gud Boyz Dinduin' Nuffin

 

[CheezzyMach]

@tsundereaddict To be honest, I don't think a woke MCU will bring the whole thing down either, at least not all at once.

But if a woke MCU film fails at the box office, it could be a "beginning of the end" sort of scenario. Not a coup d'grace, mind you. It would be something that sends a message to the big suits in Hollywood that something is up and the SJW shit will harm the gravy train, and they will respond by gradually shifting gears.

As for the video game stuff, if Cyberpunk 2077 does very well and doesn't go full woke, then that could have another "beginning of the end" effect. Same if Sony's censorship policies hurt the sales of the PS5.

I think the SJW stuff will continue on for at least a few more years, but a new cultural shift will happen sooner or later at some point. It wasn't that long ago that we thought the Religious Right would always be around in America. Now they are completely dead nationally and slowly dying out regionally.

If Trump wins in 2020, even the Democrats will slowly realize they can't go as hard left as they are doing right now and will once again change their strategy. Doubly so if AOC and the rest of her squad get kicked to the curb, and given how badly AOC fucked over her own district, it wouldn't be that unlikely to have a somewhat more rational Democrat to go and primary her out of office based on that alone.

If another Republican gets in in 2024 like what happened when Bush Sr. followed Reagan in 1988, then there is no doubt that the Democratic Party will go in a more populist approach like they did in 1992. It will probably be a different platform than Bill Clinton's, but it is highly unlikely that it will be as left-wing as The Squad or even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

Honestly I don't think there's going to be a hard dropping of woke shit rather it'll be gradually phased out as these corporations realize no one's buying it. * Like what seems to be happening at Marvel Comics * and Gen Z/Alpha become the primary market.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Honestly I don't think there's going to be a hard dropping of woke shit rather it'll be gradually phased out as these corporations realize no one's buying it. * Like what seems to be happening at Marvel Comics * and Gen Z/Alpha become the primary market.

Pretty much. If a woke MCU film tanks or the PS5 takes a massive hit because of their censorship policies, then we will see a shift away from woke SJW garbage, but it will be subtle, incremental, and fairly gradual.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Pretty much. If a woke MCU film tanks or the PS5 takes a massive hit because of their censorship policies, then we will see a shift away from woke SJW garbage, but it will be subtle, incremental, and fairly gradual.

Basically it'll be like how PSAs and 90s era diversity/tokenism were dropped from cartoons by the late 90s-mid 2000s.

 

[I Love Beef]

This decade was fucking re.tarded. Everything about it just got stupider the longer it went on. Either shit shapes up soon or we go full clown world, boys.

Ugh. Tell me about it. Your son starred in a shitty followup trip to Wally World....

 

[Dom Cruise]

This decade was fucking re.tarded. Everything about it just got stupider the longer it went on. Either shit shapes up soon or we go full clown world, boys.

And what's sad is it started off with so much potential, I definitely remember there being good vibes from 2010 to 2012.

 

[Red Hood]

If we're lucky the mainstream and outrage media and social media giants- Twitter and Facebook- will be brought to answer for what they've allowed to fester in culture.

 

[DK 699]

@tsundereaddict To be honest, I don't think a woke MCU will bring the whole thing down either, at least not all at once.

But if a woke MCU film fails at the box office, it could be a "beginning of the end" sort of scenario. Not a coup d'grace, mind you. It would be something that sends a message to the big suits in Hollywood that something is up and the SJW shit will harm the gravy train, and they will respond by gradually shifting gears.

As for the video game stuff, if Cyberpunk 2077 does very well and doesn't go full woke, then that could have another "beginning of the end" effect. Same if Sony's censorship policies hurt the sales of the PS5.

I think the SJW stuff will continue on for at least a few more years, but a new cultural shift will happen sooner or later at some point. It wasn't that long ago that we thought the Religious Right would always be around in America. Now they are completely dead nationally and slowly dying out regionally.

If Trump wins in 2020, even the Democrats will slowly realize they can't go as hard left as they are doing right now and will once again change their strategy. Doubly so if AOC and the rest of her squad get kicked to the curb, and given how badly AOC fucked over her own district, it wouldn't be that unlikely to have a somewhat more rational Democrat to go and primary her out of office based on that alone.

If another Republican gets in in 2024 like what happened when Bush Sr. followed Reagan in 1988, then there is no doubt that the Democratic Party will go in a more populist approach like they did in 1992. It will probably be a different platform than Bill Clinton's, but it is highly unlikely that it will be as left-wing as The Squad or even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

Nah, I think you're wrong. Most normal people don't really care about the woke stuff. We've had two woke star-wars films that have under-performed and nothing has changed. I also don't think that comparisons to the religious right are useful. They don't have a strong hold over news media, IT, and the entertainment industry.
I don't know if the Democrats would have the balls to primary AOC out of her district. The progressives would probably see that as a soft coup and that would further the divisions inside the party.
Finally, I don't think another Republican will get in after Trump (or at least it's very unlikely).

 

[Overcast]

Honestly, I think that varies from an individual to individual basis.

There are kids and teenagers who grew up in the 2010's who more than likely lived really good and meaningful lives who will wax nostalgia and say that this decade was the best time of their life. Pretty much the same with every decade, regardless of what world events have or are happening.

I don't think there's much point in wondering if the next decade is going to be better or worse. What you get is what you give as the old saying goes. Just focus on making your own life better and enjoy the time you have with those you love.

Of course, that's probably not going to satisfy the "big picture" people. And I mean that in a nice way.

 

[Pitere pit]

As another recession is coming in, I think it will be worse, but will be a wake up call on our culture. Rate me optimistic but this actually happened.

With the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the next shitstorm, people in my country forgot about everything woke. Before 2008, we had subsidies on gypsies kids to just go to school, nig-nogs were coming to just beg on supermarkets, selling bootlegs in a blanket on the floor, and muslims started to demand halal menus on our schools.
But after 2009, these plights were almost forgotten to the common pleb. no longer they would buy DVDs from niggers, gypsies were seen again as the bastards they are, the Church were glad to help muslims, but the people disliked it.

We started to focus on far more important issues, like how we can save our healthcare or public education. Even some leftists laughed at helping gypsies, some of the serious commies considered them as a plague. 3 years later, we chose a conservative government full of corruption, but they took care of our southern border. People didn't give money to gypsies or nigger beggars, even South Americans and Eastern Europeans disliked them, they were (and still are) seen as hardworkers, they do blue-collar jobs and they adapt to our culture without any issue, sure they drink a lot, but they are far more integrated to our country than even niggers, chinks or gypsies are.

The 2020s will be very bad, but will be a period where society will test how valuable they are. In a economic depression nobody will care about how virtue signaling you are doing, they will only care about if you have some job to some parents in order to feed their kids or you know where to get meds and food. Wokeism is going to die, but as some spurt is created, it will come back, and thus, the circle will be closed again.

 

[DK 699]

As another recession is coming in, I think it will be worse, but will be a wake up call on our culture. Rate me optimistic but this actually happened.

With the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the next shitstorm, people in my country forgot about everything woke. Before 2008, we had subsidies on gypsies kids to just go to school, nig-nogs were coming to just beg on supermarkets, selling bootlegs in a blanket on the floor, and muslims started to demand halal menus on our schools.
But after 2009, these plights were almost forgotten to the common pleb. no longer they would buy DVDs from niggers, gypsies were seen again as the bastards they are, the Church were glad to help muslims, but the people disliked it.

We started to focus on far more important issues, like how we can save our healthcare or public education. Even some leftists laughed at helping gypsies, some of the serious commies considered them as a plague. 3 years later, we chose a conservative government full of corruption, but they took care of our southern border. People didn't give money to gypsies or nigger beggars, even South Americans and Eastern Europeans disliked them, they were (and still are) seen as hardworkers, they do blue-collar jobs and they adapt to our culture without any issue, sure they drink a lot, but they are far more integrated to our country than even niggers, chinks or gypsies are.

The 2020s will be very bad, but will be a period where society will test how valuable they are. In a economic depression nobody will care about how virtue signaling you are doing, they will only care about if you have some job to some parents in order to feed their kids or you know where to get meds and food. Wokeism is going to die, but as some spurt is created, it will come back, and thus, the circle will be closed again.

Which country are you from, if you don't mind me asking? I'm guessing Romania; maybe Hungary or Czechia.
I think that you might be underestimating the will power of the leftist outrage media. Times are good now and they aren't really making much money, but they still do it. I think that it's a combination of being true believers and not having any other marketable skills. I also think that many of them will have wealthy families that will back them up when hipster welfare (Patreon and ad revenue) dries up.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Which country are you from, if you don't mind me asking? I'm guessing Romania; maybe Hungary or Czechia.
I think that you might be underestimating the will power of the leftist outrage media. Times are good now and they aren't really making much money, but they still do it. I think that it's a combination of being true believers and not having any other marketable skills. I also think that many of them will have wealthy families that will back them up when hipster welfare (Patreon and ad revenue) dries up.

The thing about SJW ideology in its current form is that it's actively hostile to new leaders (the ideology having reached the point in its cycle where the figureheads start to fight each other for control) and that, well, even if you assume it's completely terminal and that the entire leadership can rail on and on and on until the end of their natural lives... they aren't immortal, and most engage in life-shortening practices. And ideologies like this die from the top down at speed: without leaders, the mob will just gravitate to the next mob ideology.