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Nope
I just pray I die before I see the worst of it
I just pray I die before I see the worst of it
Will the 2020s be better?
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To everyone in this thread proclaiming that the future will be a nightmarish hell and that death would be preferable to life:
What are you still doing here, then? Guns are readily available, and failing that there's always the old fallbacks. Why aren't you putting theory to practice?
What are you still doing here, then? Guns are readily available, and failing that there's always the old fallbacks. Why aren't you putting theory to practice?
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It'll be the same shit different decade, but heres hoping we dont have another cringe decade
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It may sound like a "conspiracy theory," but I don't think the 2008 recession ended, and it will likely continue in the 2020s. It may even get as bad -- if not worse -- than when it started.
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My guess for a big event to happen in the next decade? Some gamer finally snaps and goes on an sjw killing spree at a convention. Breaks a shooter high score at around 70+ kills with 30-40 injuries.
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Even if that particular event doesn't happen, there certainly will be more rampages as long as "Current Year" continues.
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I find such a thing unlikely, but not impossible if you reverse the roles and lower your expectations on the number of casualties.
I'd say that could happen, but with the roles reversed where an SJW snaps and shoots up a convention full of gamers or weebs, especially if Trump wins. Although given the Left's dislike of guns and physical ineptitude, I think the SJW getting a body count on the level of guys like Stephen Paddock or Brenton Tarrant is highly unlikely.
The STEM High School shooting in May didn't even legally qualify as a mass shooting, as only one person was killed and the injuries were in the single digits. And there's a reason why Antifa hasn't managed to score a kill despite their best efforts and murderous intent, unless you're counting the Dayton shooting, which was more of a mundane spree killing done by a guy who had ties to Antifa.
Then again, Connor Betts managed to reach double digit casualties (albeit just barely) so anything's possible. Especially if a Trump reelection causes some SJW soyboy or unhinged violent troon to snap and start murdering random gamers at some convention. Weebs are also a likely target as well, given how most SJW's hate anime too.
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Judging by how 2019 is, Sorry to break it to you but it's gonna get a lot worse.
Here's a Play-by-play of what's to Possibly come in the 2020s:
-Whining Brats Will try their damnest to get their way, and i'm not talking Politics.
-More Tumblrinas Controlling our Media
-Somewhere is gonna get Flint, Michigan'd and [Insert President Here] Can't do Jack about it, no matter what side.
- [Insert Beloved Celebrity Here] Dies of some sort of Disease.
- GSN will Continue to Rerun Steve Harvey Family Feud into Oblivion
- We will all be living in Giant Bubbles because of some weirdo who couldn't respect personal space and caused danger.
- A Major Automaker will go Bust.
- Minimalism Takes Over to the point where it's just black text on a white screen, No Product Detail just a Company Name, 30 Seconds and Done.
- Y2K Culture will be Back in Style because everyone is tired of Minimalism (Finally something Positive for once.)
- Fools will try to Raid the White House, Get Arrested and Lulz Ensue.
Sadly, Humanity is doomed and all we can do about it is sit in our homes and shun the real world.
Here's a Play-by-play of what's to Possibly come in the 2020s:
-Whining Brats Will try their damnest to get their way, and i'm not talking Politics.
-More Tumblrinas Controlling our Media
-Somewhere is gonna get Flint, Michigan'd and [Insert President Here] Can't do Jack about it, no matter what side.
- [Insert Beloved Celebrity Here] Dies of some sort of Disease.
- GSN will Continue to Rerun Steve Harvey Family Feud into Oblivion
- We will all be living in Giant Bubbles because of some weirdo who couldn't respect personal space and caused danger.
- A Major Automaker will go Bust.
- Minimalism Takes Over to the point where it's just black text on a white screen, No Product Detail just a Company Name, 30 Seconds and Done.
- Y2K Culture will be Back in Style because everyone is tired of Minimalism (Finally something Positive for once.)
- Fools will try to Raid the White House, Get Arrested and Lulz Ensue.
Sadly, Humanity is doomed and all we can do about it is sit in our homes and shun the real world.
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I think an economic crisis is the real wild card.
IF the Democrats take over in 2020, TPTB that are holding off the coming economic recession/crash (because they saw how their attempt to float a "crash the economy to punish Trump voters into voting Democrat in 2020" threat to the public be rejected with such fury that carrying out the threat would lead to a day of the rope for you know who among the elites) could conceivably let it play out after a Democrat takes over explicitly to kill the Democrat agenda.
Because when the Democrats take over, the base is going to hold them to carry out EVERY crazy as fuck scheme/scam they have been promising (raising the minimum wage, student loan forgiveness, medicare for all, universal basic income, etc). Shit the elites DON'T want to happen.
It would be in their best interest to, the moment the Democrat candidate is announced President, to hit the buttom to let the crash happen in all of it's destructive impact and take EVERYTHING with it. Create such hell and devestation that the Democrats will be effectively neutered worse than Hoover and keep them from doing any serious damage.
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Speaking for Europe, all eyes will rest on Germany, I think. The majority of the European populace, although still positively inclined to it, is already expecting the EU to dissolve within the next 20 years. Germany still is the most important pillar of the EU and a guarantor of its stability, but in the recent weeks and months, a lot has been happening, perhaps most noteworthy, the genuine chance for an economic recession to occur very, very soon.
Germany is the vanguard of the climate movement, the populace is absolutely nuts about it, especially young people. Fridays for Future protests are full to bursting, some students are literally guilt-tripped or even forced to attend by their teachers and climate legislation is being thrown around and passed at a breathtaking pace. It's a full-blown hysteria and people are falling for it hook, line and sinker. Citizens are genuinely in favour of higher taxes, while the average German household already has terrible net worth compared to the rest of the EU and is taxed higher than almost all other EU countries. Key industries are being deliberately hamstrung to appeal to the Green mainstream; the power industry is being purposefully sabotaged with the forced shutdown of all remaining nuclear plants within the next few years and the foreseeable end of coal power, the power grid already is dependant on buying power from foreign countries for ludicrous prices to avoid rolling black- and brownouts, all to appeal to the Green mainstream; the cost of living is exploding while wages are stagnant, power prices are the highest they've ever been, car taxes are likely to double (!) by 2021, on top of fuel prices likely going to increase by 8-12 cents per liter (currently a liter of gas costs roughly 1,40-1,45 Euros). A "Yellow-Vest-effect" caused just by the worsening economic predicament alone is both entirely possible and already being discussed among more rational circles, although nobody obviously listens to those.
A Green government is entirely possible nowadays and far-left ideas and ideologies like socialism and communism are gaining tension in the wake of the climate hysteria again. There's genuine apologetics happening for the GDR and socialism in general. MPs of far-left Die Linke were wearing Antifa badges during government sessions and were applauded.
You'd think Germans blindly following an idea while silencing and debasing those who disagree would worry people, but that just isn't the case, I suppose.
The threat of TARGET 2 is still looming in the background in case of an economic recession, of course. Let's not forget that.
Social ramifications following the refugee and demographic crises are becoming more and more apparent. Most refugees live off NEETbux and do not intend to change that while Baby Boomers are arriving in the pension system in force and there aren't enough young people entering the workforce, on top of the continuing academisation, ~35% of students are allowed to attend university nowadays, people shy away from apprenticeships, especially in the crafts, as almost all these jobs are poorly paid. The welfare state is already groaning under the pressure. Poverty for pensioneers is an increasing social problem. There are German cities where the non-German population of 6-years and under already exceeds 70%, in one city even 80%. Mafia-esque crime families from the Levant essentially are in control of the criminal underworld and even have the police in a headlock in some cities. A report from the former head of the German intelligence service speaks of open security hazards with 300.000 people being unidentifiable within Germany, but none of the mainstream media actually reported on it. Working- and middle-class people feel increasingly unsafe and there's news of refugee criminality every day. It's increasingly happening right in front of our doors. Recently, some dude was robbed by a group of "Arabic-looking" individuals 50 meters away from my flat, just an example. More and more people are worried to stay out late, especially alone. Looking at the crime statistics makes you shake your head. Last year 50% of rapes were carried out by 10% of the population, just think about that. As Germany is an essentially postsecular society, the increase in Muslim population will have noticeable effects on mainstream society too. People neither care about nor are interested in Islam or religion in general and there will be a tough awakening for them some years down the line, most likely not this decade though. But this is a can of worms waiting to be opened in another thread.
MSM is, to the surprise of nobody, essentially far-left and outlets are constantly stumbling over each other, trying to get the most gaudy and exaggerated story about climate, how refugees actually aren't an issue or how perceived "nazis" are threatening our democracy and most journalists openly support the Green party. Trust in media is low. Internet denizens need to understand that Germany is a thoroughly post-modern nation and society. Our ideas of things like free speech don't exactly line up with what people of other nationalities, especially Americans associate with these terms. The Overton window is despicably tiny in this nation and it has been continously shifting to the left for the last two decades. Will the AfD and general sentiments among the population change that in this decade? Who knows.
Politically, we're entering an increasingly Weimarian landscape. The old stereotypical left-wing workers' party is falling apart, with far-left Greens and Linke taking what's left of them and the old stereotypical "Christian"-conservative party hemorrhaging voters who turn to support right-wing AfD, that the established parties categorically refuse to work together with. Media and established parties are doing nothing to analyse the AfD's gains or coming up with a viable strategy to combat the sentiments leading to support for that party and right-wing ideas in general except playing by the old "nazi" book, further disenfranchising the party's supporters and fence-sitters.
The average joe is getting fed up slowly, but surely. If a genuine recession hits us and the climate hype doesn't die down or they even push the throttle down even further, everything might happen. Just the car legislations will put people on edge. Literally everybody drives here because of what a (very expensive) joke public transport is. Genuine communists going for round two a hundred years later? More or less harmless mass protests that will get shouted down by media and FFF cultists? A mix of Green pseudo-socialists and actual socialists taking over? A Green RAF-esque movement forming and conducting terrorist attacks (this is being discussed, believe it or not)? Average dudes killing Muslims, blacks and troons on the streets? Germany turning into a third-world nation by 2030 when all climate goals are missed and our industries are gone? Germany going even more 1984? All-out civil war? Just letting this country rot further without anything happening?
Whatever happens, the EU will feel it and it won't be nice. It might not be a major world player in 10 years anymore.
Tl;dr: Germany as major player and stability factor in the EU will go through massive social and perhaps economic shakeups that might result in the EU's end within the decade.
Germany is the vanguard of the climate movement, the populace is absolutely nuts about it, especially young people. Fridays for Future protests are full to bursting, some students are literally guilt-tripped or even forced to attend by their teachers and climate legislation is being thrown around and passed at a breathtaking pace. It's a full-blown hysteria and people are falling for it hook, line and sinker. Citizens are genuinely in favour of higher taxes, while the average German household already has terrible net worth compared to the rest of the EU and is taxed higher than almost all other EU countries. Key industries are being deliberately hamstrung to appeal to the Green mainstream; the power industry is being purposefully sabotaged with the forced shutdown of all remaining nuclear plants within the next few years and the foreseeable end of coal power, the power grid already is dependant on buying power from foreign countries for ludicrous prices to avoid rolling black- and brownouts, all to appeal to the Green mainstream; the cost of living is exploding while wages are stagnant, power prices are the highest they've ever been, car taxes are likely to double (!) by 2021, on top of fuel prices likely going to increase by 8-12 cents per liter (currently a liter of gas costs roughly 1,40-1,45 Euros). A "Yellow-Vest-effect" caused just by the worsening economic predicament alone is both entirely possible and already being discussed among more rational circles, although nobody obviously listens to those.
A Green government is entirely possible nowadays and far-left ideas and ideologies like socialism and communism are gaining tension in the wake of the climate hysteria again. There's genuine apologetics happening for the GDR and socialism in general. MPs of far-left Die Linke were wearing Antifa badges during government sessions and were applauded.
You'd think Germans blindly following an idea while silencing and debasing those who disagree would worry people, but that just isn't the case, I suppose.
The threat of TARGET 2 is still looming in the background in case of an economic recession, of course. Let's not forget that.
Social ramifications following the refugee and demographic crises are becoming more and more apparent. Most refugees live off NEETbux and do not intend to change that while Baby Boomers are arriving in the pension system in force and there aren't enough young people entering the workforce, on top of the continuing academisation, ~35% of students are allowed to attend university nowadays, people shy away from apprenticeships, especially in the crafts, as almost all these jobs are poorly paid. The welfare state is already groaning under the pressure. Poverty for pensioneers is an increasing social problem. There are German cities where the non-German population of 6-years and under already exceeds 70%, in one city even 80%. Mafia-esque crime families from the Levant essentially are in control of the criminal underworld and even have the police in a headlock in some cities. A report from the former head of the German intelligence service speaks of open security hazards with 300.000 people being unidentifiable within Germany, but none of the mainstream media actually reported on it. Working- and middle-class people feel increasingly unsafe and there's news of refugee criminality every day. It's increasingly happening right in front of our doors. Recently, some dude was robbed by a group of "Arabic-looking" individuals 50 meters away from my flat, just an example. More and more people are worried to stay out late, especially alone. Looking at the crime statistics makes you shake your head. Last year 50% of rapes were carried out by 10% of the population, just think about that. As Germany is an essentially postsecular society, the increase in Muslim population will have noticeable effects on mainstream society too. People neither care about nor are interested in Islam or religion in general and there will be a tough awakening for them some years down the line, most likely not this decade though. But this is a can of worms waiting to be opened in another thread.
MSM is, to the surprise of nobody, essentially far-left and outlets are constantly stumbling over each other, trying to get the most gaudy and exaggerated story about climate, how refugees actually aren't an issue or how perceived "nazis" are threatening our democracy and most journalists openly support the Green party. Trust in media is low. Internet denizens need to understand that Germany is a thoroughly post-modern nation and society. Our ideas of things like free speech don't exactly line up with what people of other nationalities, especially Americans associate with these terms. The Overton window is despicably tiny in this nation and it has been continously shifting to the left for the last two decades. Will the AfD and general sentiments among the population change that in this decade? Who knows.
Politically, we're entering an increasingly Weimarian landscape. The old stereotypical left-wing workers' party is falling apart, with far-left Greens and Linke taking what's left of them and the old stereotypical "Christian"-conservative party hemorrhaging voters who turn to support right-wing AfD, that the established parties categorically refuse to work together with. Media and established parties are doing nothing to analyse the AfD's gains or coming up with a viable strategy to combat the sentiments leading to support for that party and right-wing ideas in general except playing by the old "nazi" book, further disenfranchising the party's supporters and fence-sitters.
The average joe is getting fed up slowly, but surely. If a genuine recession hits us and the climate hype doesn't die down or they even push the throttle down even further, everything might happen. Just the car legislations will put people on edge. Literally everybody drives here because of what a (very expensive) joke public transport is. Genuine communists going for round two a hundred years later? More or less harmless mass protests that will get shouted down by media and FFF cultists? A mix of Green pseudo-socialists and actual socialists taking over? A Green RAF-esque movement forming and conducting terrorist attacks (this is being discussed, believe it or not)? Average dudes killing Muslims, blacks and troons on the streets? Germany turning into a third-world nation by 2030 when all climate goals are missed and our industries are gone? Germany going even more 1984? All-out civil war? Just letting this country rot further without anything happening?
Whatever happens, the EU will feel it and it won't be nice. It might not be a major world player in 10 years anymore.
Tl;dr: Germany as major player and stability factor in the EU will go through massive social and perhaps economic shakeups that might result in the EU's end within the decade.
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While being an irrationally zealous Japan fangirl or fanboy isn't exactly healthy, I suspected that "weeb shaming" (which began in the 00s) was rooted in identity politics. And of course "woke" don't like anime -- it's produced by a culture that isn't as "woke" as the "woke" (so much for their professed tolerance lol).
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Sure. I hope it'll be the decade where AI kicks off and we can transcend the limitations of our minds and biology and reach for the stars.
For them, liking stuff from other cultures is "cultural appropriation". Yet, not liking stuff from other cultures is "racist". Huh.
Pal, you sound like Alex Jones. Just calm down.
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I think the status quo can continue to hold itself up shakily for maybe another decade, but by 2030 shit will seriously go down. I just lament all the bad optics around actual viable solutions for a lot of problems and how people are just getting jerked further away from the center by increasingly outlandish ideologies.
I see WW3 looming, and it reminds me of something my great grandfather (allegedly) told either my father or grandfather shortly before he died. He said that he really regretted not being able to be there to help with the world heading into (or in) war (or trouble. I was told this a long time ago.)
Maybe that 94 year old man could see farther than I could at the time, but you know, I think he was right all along.
I see WW3 looming, and it reminds me of something my great grandfather (allegedly) told either my father or grandfather shortly before he died. He said that he really regretted not being able to be there to help with the world heading into (or in) war (or trouble. I was told this a long time ago.)
Maybe that 94 year old man could see farther than I could at the time, but you know, I think he was right all along.
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woke logic: "no culture is wrong"
also woke logic: "Japanese need sensitivity training!"*
*(Dobson / Tom Preston said something like that.)
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The recession itself may or may not have ended, but one thing that didn't end is that the recession took away people's confidence in our economy and really our confidence in the way our entire society works, that's a legacy of the Great Recession that over a decade later absolutely hasn't gone away.
Because it was never really about the nitty gritty details of economics that so rattled people, it was just about the fact that something happened that none of the "experts" saw coming, history later repeated itself with Trump, that's what makes people so angry and deranged, it isn't just about Trump, it's about the fact that all the "experts" said there was no way he would win and he still won.
That fear of unpredictability is what's driving so many Americans insane, we fooled ourselves into thinking we had everything figured out, even though unpredictability has always just been a fact of life.
So yes, in some way the 2008 recession really did never end.
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If things like the Rosanne reboot, Dave Chappelles Netflix special, the Kingsman and John wick movies, and now the joker movie are anything to go by, sjw culture is losing ground in the mainstream culture. Maybe not for reasons we'd want the only reason it's losing any relevance is because"go woke go broke" isn't a hollow threat. Ghostbusters 2016, Star wars post 2015, the hustlers movis and X-Men dark pheonix all lost money and Hollywood is finally starting to notice that.
I guess in the end the love of money may be the root of all evil, but it defeated. A worse evil and is the lesser of two.
I guess in the end the love of money may be the root of all evil, but it defeated. A worse evil and is the lesser of two.
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We are experiencing the collapse of society. It is slower than you would expect. Rome fell over hundreds of years. Over many generations. Institutions cease to function. Wealth inequality destabilizes society. Traditional gender roles become androgynous. Rome burned due to mass migration of Goth refugees. Lies become mandatory. Things fall apart.
It will get much worse.
It will get much worse.
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Personally I'm curious if the 2020s are going to be the Neo 70s or Neo 80s.
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Movies losing money means very little in the greater scheme of things beyond Hollywood.