Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started
cobysev@lemmy.world 1 day ago
2016 was the year that a bunch of celebrities started dying all at once. The world has never been the same since.
TBF we don’t have the same culture of celebrities that we used to. Hollywood is an industry that beats dead horses and only hires the same 26 people over and over for everything. The kids these days only know about minor internet celebrities which aren’t recognized by the general public.
Celebrities have always lived and died but they’re rarely replaced any more.
The kids these days only know about minor internet celebrities which aren’t recognized by the general public. … Celebrities have always lived and died but they’re rarely replaced any more.
That we don’t recognize them doesn’t mean they are legitimately celebrities. The landscape is changing, music and Hollywood don’t make all major celebrities anymore.
Don’t confuse yourself for the “general public”. That’s a mistake entertainment producers have made since forever, and it’s often the end of their careers.
When I was a graphic designer, I had to keep up with the trends or become irrelevant. My personal tastes be damned.
Yup, the fabric of reality began to unravel when Bowie passed.
His space man persona was the real Bowie all along. And he was here to hold the fabric of reality together.
Have you looked at the celebrity obituaries lately?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, that’s the only logical explanation en.wikipedia.org/…/2016_United_States_presidentia…
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Harambe is just the start. It’s the tip of the iceberg. See, we’re living in a false reality timeline. And it goes back WAAAAAY farther than 2016.
Back to the future, set in 1985, first film came out in 1985. Sets up BTTF 2. Still set in 1985. Written I think in 1983. Shot in 1987. That’s important. Because inntially they wanted to write/shoot/release all 3 movies as 1 movie. So when they wrote BTTF 2, the writing can only attributed to 1983. Do you know what was in the news in 1983? Donald Trump wanted to buy the struggling Cleveland Indians and relocate them to Miami. At the time Miami had no MLB team. That’s important.
In BTTF 2, Set in 1985 and 2015, we see the Miami baseball team lose the World Series to the Chicago Cubs. Again, set in 2015. So that Miami team had no name, because in real life they didn’t exist, but news outlets expected Cleveland to move to Miami long before the movie would be released. And Biff in 2015 is CLEARLY based on 1980s trump. It’s not really trying to hide who Biff really is. Real life, the deal is never signed. Trump never buys the Indians. So the Miami team is a representation of the Cleveland Indians losing the world series to the Chicago Cubs. Filmed in 1987. Gotta remind you of that. Then in real life, 2016 go look at the world series results. One year off. One year. Literal same exact result.
Then there’s the Barenstein bears spelling. I’m at a point where I don’t even know what the right spelling is and which one is the false memory. I spell it Barenstein Bears, but everyone knows what I’m referencing.
Terminator had a woman named Sarah Conner give birth to John Conner. An unborn child who would go on to lead a machine army that destroys the human race. The timeline that John Conner sets off to destroy humans is 2029. Right now in real life Boston Dynamics is in talks with ICE to deliver robot attack dogs. Not that police dogs were ever sympathetic and refused to attack whomever the cops told them to attack, but now cops don’t have to hold any responsibility whatsoever because if a robot attack dog kills someone, ICE can point to AI, and the AI companies can say “You can’t blame us for what they do with our tech”. So nobody is responsible. It’s 2026. That kinda sounds like start of a robot army. And remember the dates and exact details are almost a mirror image of all these plots into real life, but not exact. The Cubs beat the Indians in 2016, not 2015. Nobody knows when the Barenstein Bears switch happened.
Idiocracy is a film in which fascism through stupidity descends upon the country. Again, minor details not lining up, but overall you can look at the film and say "Is this a documentary about a time period that Mike Judge couldn’t have known was on the horizon?
There are more examples throughout history, but you get the idea. Everyone says Harambe was the shift. Everyone thinks that something happened when Harambe died. But think about the story from a realistic standpoint. If Harame happened today, would it even make news? A human child enters a gorilla enclosure. A gorilla gets shot. I’m not defending the killing, but I am saying it’s not the massive story it was made out to be. I’m sure throughout the decades it’s happened before and you never heard of it, because it’s not news. Nothing actually happened. Yet everyone is convinced that it’s a pivotal event in history.
What I’m suggesting is that all of this, has been us on the bad timeline. Somewhere in history someone fucked us all. Someone played with a time travel device. Created a rift which created this false timeline. Then they saw how fucked up shit was, and they left. They went back to the real timeline.
All of this? It’s not the real timeline. We’re an offshoot. We don’t matter. We’re real people, but this isn’t the real timeline. Somewhere out there Bernie Sanders won the 2020 election, trump is in jail, And AOC wins the 2028 election. While Mamdani respects the constitution, so unfortunately he’s not going to become president even in the real timeline, but he’s ok with that. Because if someone in that kind of power could disrespect the constitution, then what other power abuses would they be ok with? Can you imagine having a president who doesn’t think about the American public at all? Can you imagine someone who cares so little that they show up to a presidential debate, with an election looming in 30ish days, and admits they don’t have a plan? They only have concepts of a plan? They would be openly admitting that they intend to completely improvise running the country, with a handful of half thought out ideas. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine the country STILL voting him in? That seems like it would be the dumbest timeline.
And that’s where we are. None of this matters. None of this is real. But for us, we’re stuck here. SOMEONE has been planting hints everywhere throughout history. Here’s one that I’ve never seen anyone talk about. Elon Musk has been for decades funding SpaceX. His grand plan is to leave earth and live elsewhere.
HOW???
How the fuck are you going to leave Earth, and live anywhere else? Yes there are other Earth like planets that support life that we’re found, but they’re thousands of light years away.
Now for anyone who doesn’t know, a light year is not a measurement of time. It is a measurement of distance. A light year is the distance you would travel going the speed of light for 1 year. In order to reach these other Earths, you need to travel the speed of light for thousands of years. So we know when Musk leaves earth, he’s not going to those planets. So where’s he going? Is it possible that he knows how to leave this timeline, and return to the main timeline, but lacks the technology to do so? So he just funds SpaceX so that he can leave?
Here’s another fun thing to think about. Throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, home tech really exploded. Microwave ovens. Electric refrigerators. Rockets. Lasers. Radio broadcast bandwidth that would allow the VHF frequencies for television. Air bags in cars. TV dinners. All this news stuff that completely changes the way Americans live their life. It’s all tech that was developed during WWII with the innitial idea of being used during the war. Most of it developed by nazis. Elon Musk is a self identifying nazi who even did the hitler salute twice during trumps inauguration in 2025. Once to the front camera, then he turned around and did it again. Removing all doubt that it was a mistake. He wanted the camera to see it, and then he did it again so the people behind him could see too. Is it possible that some technologies from the war never made it to use in our daily lives?
Kind of really seems weird that WWII starts out with hitler being some kind of political machine, and military powerhouse threatening to take over the entire world. Yet ending 6 years later with hitler being a meth head that is getting invaded from both sides. A reality he saw as a threat, so specifically made a non-aggression pact with Stalin. Only to then attack Stalin. Think about that. "I know russia would crush us if the west were attacking from the west, while russia attacks from the east. That would end in my defeat. I should get Stalin on my side, so I can divide France, England, and America if needed…right after I attack russia real quick.
That does not feel like a natural sequence of believable events, yet that’s our history. I think whomever has access to the time travel timeline jumping came in, dumped a bunch of tech from the far future in nazi hands. The nazis won, and then after hundreds of years of oppression traveled back in time to give the allies the win so the nazis fall.
And since their timeline isn’t a dumpster fire now, they have no reason to come back and check on us. How are we doing after they affected our lives? Bad. Though I will admit I am glad they killed the nazis.
But this means we gotta live through fascism again, this time from the USA instead of Germany. Once the USA goes full world domination and starts invading countries, maybe in a few hundred years someone will come back and coarse correct again. Because right now, it feels like we’re on our fourth or maybe fifth timeline. Musk threatens to change things if he can find his way out. No telling what changes that’s going to bring, but I can tell you he’s not going to give a fuck either way. If him leaving means the rest of the world is covered in life ending lava, he’ll still do it and not give two fucks.
So yeah. Basically we’re the runoff unwanted timeline, and we keep getting fucked over by fascists, and have to live through this bullshit for centuries, until the good timeline gets mildly inconvenienced by fascism for a short time. Then they’ll come back, some details will mildly change. Maybe people misremember lines from movies. “Luke I am your father”. Nope, never happened. Or maybe it did. In the original timeline. Maybe our memories won’t let everything go, but we don’t remember a lot of how things should be. Pretty soon all plantlife will refuse to grow because we’re planting it in soil, and using Gatoraid to grow it, because of money. Water is just the stuff in our toilets. You want to grow food from toilet water??? Thats CRAZY talk!!! Everyone knows you use Gatoraid with electrolites, and pesticides to kill off the bad bacteria. It makes you violently shit, but you’re alive!
None of this matters. We live in the dumbest timeline.
chunk6235@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Still reading through your comment, but I had to stop cuz this really bothered me:
Your propaganda is weak, Cyberdyne. John Connor was the savior of humanity and stopped the machine take over multiple times, and only had one alternate timeline version that worked for Cyberdyne after he got turned into a machine
Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 23 hours ago
Listen. I am fucking, trying. You, keep forgetting, we set this off.
We, are you. The machine, worked, but it worked in all dimensions.
Ponder that for a moment.
Can’t fix it the way you think, or it re-jigs. It doesn’t even matter what I say to you, really.
You’re gonna forget about the hyacinths and the mauve hallway with the mural at the end. You’re just gonna wheel yourself right in, and then you’ll turn it on again.
Ugh. At least we still got style and good sense, keep that part up.