2024 is going great, and I can’t wait for things to get even better in October!

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    9 months ago

    2024 is going great, and I can’t wait for things to get even better in October!

    oh shit we’re all going to die, aren’t we

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        SUCH an underrated city. I spent a day there back in 2022 and it’s so pretty, calm, peaceful, fucking fantastic chocolatiers…

        Actually, as an American, I found all of Belgium highly underrated. Everyone always talks about Paris, Berlin, and Munich as the crazy big tourist destinations in that region.

        I went to Brussels for my birthday in spring 2022, and its easily one of my favorite birthdays to date. Unf. Big Belgium Fangirl here. 10/10 I want everyone I know to visit.

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    GUNS GO OFF … several shots ring out

    Dozens of dead immigrants, Europeans, Middle Easterners, Africans, Asians lie on the floor or are trying to crawl away with bloody gun shot wounds

    Somehow the two Americans are still standing there holding their guns.

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    Y’all Americans on this post need to cheer up. You don’t know what ‘the end’, the apocalypse, doom, or whatever sinister synonym for ‘conclusion’ even is, what a curropt government really is, and less still know what misery feels like (I don’t either). Acting like it’s the end of the fucking world and getting all nihilistic is the most shitty-American thought there is. Stop crying and help? Or just keep watching. It’s not the end of things and nothing that can’t be fixed.

    The meme made laugh my ass off though

    Edit: I’m American :P

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      History can tell us where things will go. But from here it looks like we’re dealing with an attack on our democratic features by the transnational white power movement (or the Christian nationalist movement. There’s lots of intersection.) in order to rework the US into a one-party autocracy, as per the Heritage Society’s Project 2025.

      And in the meantime, the climate crisis looms in the background like an army of frost zombies, one that won’t be put down by simply killing the zombie king.

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        You mean GoT’s fantastic metaphor that was ruined by killing the Big Bad was bullshit? Aw, man 😉

        History can inform our choices and give us possible outcomes but it isn’t a crystal ball.

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          That was after they got non-GRRM writers to finish up Season 8. One of the running themes Martin peppered throughout the SOIAF was to set up and then crush classic fantasy themes that didn’t play out in history. Load-bearing Bosses and magic with no ontological inertia were right up there.

          So I suspect there might actually be a zombie king, and he may even be hard to kill. And killing him will be about as effective in stopping the zombie army as killing an officer in a human army.

          Some people still hope that Martin will finish Winds of Winter and Dreams of Spring and he won’t feel obligated to mirror the TV series. It’s a far reach, but a hope.

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      Just because our corrupt government does it better than yours doesnt mean we dont know what it is. Btfo european

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      Corporate ownership of the government, the slide to fascism, the divide between the common people due to the worsening cycle of right wing extremism, the accelerating climate change, the ever increasing cost of housing, the ever increasing cost of everything–things are going downhill fast and it’s wild to be at a point in my life where I’m finally losing my depression while everything in the world is decaying lol

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    “So Mr President what has your government done for young families and in particular childcare and parental leave on your 4 years that will rally up the democratic base come 2024?”

    “Taxes? Isn’t this the line for Metallica?”

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      I mean, there’s this.

      And this.

      He’s also the president: he can make proposals, he can sign executive orders, but he can’t force funding for those things. He can’t wave his hands and pass laws – those are things congress does, and shockingly every single progressive or pro working class idea he or his party backs gets immediately shut down in congress by the GOP.

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      There has always been a decent sized portion of the population that thinks the end is nigh, society is collapsing, etc

      It’s because imagining a future is scary, people don’t like thinking about things that are as hard to predict and uncomfortable as a good future where things are easier and society smarter because it carries with it the certainly that current beliefs will be over turned and current struggles forgotten - its very unsettling.

      People love to think they’re at the high point of civilization and things will collapse because otherwise things feel kinda pointless and scary - especially the thought of everything we know and care about becoming irrelevant and opinions we carry getting over turned

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    Oh boy I hope they make some sane and sensible rational decisions that we can all agree with on the whole help

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      Thing aren’t ok now. We’re actively funding people that kill civilians and children, all while the people back home living check to check are defaulting on payments, trying to afford ever increasing grocery prices and gas. But the stock market and billionaires are doing good so at least we have that.

      We’re the country of giving up your life and health for the rich.

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      I haven’t thought things will be ok since Bush Jr lol

      It’s been a slow but steady decline into absolute insanity that just recently got turned up to 11.