When did Clown World officially start?

[JambledUpWords]

So, it’s popular to say it was around 2015 when gay marriage was fully legalized in the US, but there are some other contenders:

• The Agricultural Revolution: It placed different people in hierarchies as societies became larger and more complex due to advances in farming techniques
• The Edict of Milan: Legalized Christianity
• The Fall of the (Western) Roman Empire: Split up a once (mostly) unified Europe and led to the rise of feudalism
• The Rise of Islam: Forever changed the landscape of the Middle East and parts of Asia, with some even conquering Spain for a time
• The Fall of Constantinople: Muslim takeover of Turkey under the Ottomans helped change the main religion of Turkey from Christian to Muslim
• The Reformation: Caused new Christian sects to pop up around Europe and it led to more wars that destroyed nations
• The Thirty Years War: Bloodiest war in Europe up until World War I, mostly over religious differences
• The Colonial Era: The beginning of slaves being shipped to the Americas and directly resulted in race relations we see today
• The Enlightenment Era: Called the “Age of Reason”, but also resulted in helping create modern capitalism (both the good and not so good elements of it)
• The French Revolution: Beginning of the Jacobins, which were proto-communists
• The Industrial Revolution: Caused more people to leave rural places for cities for work
• The American Civil War: Ended slavery, but Reconstruction failed and it ended up creating more tensions in the United States with Jim Crow Laws
• The Progressive Era: More monopolies formed in this era and overall more support for large government in this time under Woodrow Wilson
• World War I: Destroyed the status quo of previous centuries as it ended many monarchies, but also resulted in the League of Nations (proto-UN) and the Treaty of Versailles, which was a big motivator for Hitler to take power
• The Russian Revolution: Where communism really took hold and later spread to other nations
• World War II: The aftermath of it helped lead to the creation of the European Union later on, in addition to the spread of globalism as means of establishing dominance abroad
• Rise of Communist China: Resulted in the CCP we see today and the effects of it have been disastrous for the people of China
• The Cold War: Led to creation of the CIA and all that it entails
• The Civil Rights Act: Signed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson and to some, helped make race relations worse
• The Stonewall Riots: Beginning of the modern gay rights movement
• The Vietnam War: France’s mistake that the US was asked to help with and made things worse on the home front as a result
• The Nixon Presidency: Opened up trade with China and brought an end to the gold standard, with money now being based on petrol
• The Carter Presidency: Helped create an oil crisis, hostage situation in Iran, and rising inflation
• The Reagan Presidency: Helped spread neoliberalism while destabilizing nations in South America with the War on Drugs
• The Clinton Presidency: Along with previous presidencies, interfered in the Middle East that ultimately led to the 9/11 attacks
• The War on Terror: Instigated under Bush and both parties in Congress. Led to more government spending
• The Great Recession: Caused a housing and employment crisis
• Occupy Wall Street: In the beginning was more about class issues, but resulted in more idpol going mainstream as a way to break it up
• The Black Lives Matter Movement: Helped make race relations worse, but it at least made cops more accountable with body cams (that are now racist for some reason)
• Gay Marriage Legalization: Happened in 2015, but it is a common year people refer to as the beginning of Clown World
• The 2016 Election: Resulted in Trump becoming president and the media being put into a tailspin
• Coronachan: Made authoritarian governments even more authoritarian and made for more restricted freedoms
• The 2020 Riots: The time when many cities started to get burnt and people were worried of an actual civil war happening again
• The 2020 Election: Resulted in Biden becoming president and all that it entails

Depending on your perspective, Clown World could have existed for a very long time, or perhaps it is more recent. I’m not entirely sure myself.

 

[Gog & Magog]

When Adam listened to his wife and ate the fruit like a dumbass. Everything's been wrong ever since!

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

Clown world began when the first human started to complain

 

[Smug]

Spoiler: on a tangent

I think to call it 'clown world' it can't just be that there are regimes run by idiots, those happen sporadically throughout history. Let's say 'Clown world' refers to the sheer insanity we see today (or at least the timeline in which the 'clown world' meme is a thing). You can likely only access 'clown world' through the specific timeline where Nazi Germany is defeated at the hands of both Russia and 'the west', so that ideological subversion of the west can be carried out wholesale by both internal and external malicious agents while the U.S. is still high off of recent victory. In many other timelines you'll run into nuclear war instead. You also need the internet to be invented and proliferated globally in sync with the west's ideological subversion, so that the effect of the ideological subversion goes viral.

tl;dr we are in one of the clowniest timelines possible. Honk honk, motherfucker.

Edit: homosexual marriage legalisation, obviously. If it's never legalised, then the TRA thing doesn't get its turn to gain momentum.

 

[scallion]

When they shot that god damned gorilla!

 

[Crysocyan]

Six thousand and twenty-six years ago.

 

[FatalTater]

This thread needs a theme song. Something by Cole Porter maybe.

Anything Goes (1934)

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

Clown world began when the first human started to complain

This.

It's always existed just without 24/7 information from the internet you'd never know.

 

[Johnny Salami]

It all started when they killed that fucking Gorilla....

 

[Fomo Hoire]

> Assuming Clown World time is linear

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

It's a clown's world, and we've all just been living in it.

 

[Wesker]

Probably when homosexual Obama put men in the ladies room, and inverted reality became the government status quo ever since.

 

[Catler]

I'm split between two choices.

1) The collapse of the USSR when the US no longer had any meaningful competition and started losing its collective mind.

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

 

[Quijibo69]

I'm going to say when they started the LHC. We go to a worse alternative dimension every time they turn it on.

 

[Butterschmalz]

That one is easy. After the battle of Stalingrad 1942.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

2011-ish.

 

[Zyklon Ben's Poison Pen]

When the Internet went mainstream. It connected isolated islands of autism.

 

[Drkinferno72]

When apple released the smart phone in 2007

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

 

[Climaxing Sunset]

The insanity began when fag marriage was legalized in 2015 and Trump was elected in 2016. Trump didn’t commit to any of his promises and the media went all out with fake news. By 2020, things only got more insane. Now we’re near 2023, we have yet to see what 2023 has to offer for us