Can we go back to 2019?

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel for you guys that didn’t get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.

  Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here’s what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I’m British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):

  • 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
  • 2008: subprime mortgage crash
    • 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
  • 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
    • 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn’t realise at the time but this was the trial run.
    • 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
    • 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
  • 2020: COVID
  • 2021: failed Coup in the US
  • 2020: Putin invades Ukraine
  • 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country’s wealth out of existence in a day.
  • 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
  • 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is a pointless nitpick in a meme community but (in my defence, this “meme” was srs to begin with): Liz Truss’s “experiment” never actually happened and the damage to the economy was reversed some time ago already.

    It now serves as a useful warning about the Tories and their reliability on the economy.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The damage wasn’t really reversed, rather overcome.

      If the world (not just the UK) didn’t see the massive increase in bond yields over the years following the mini budget, we would still very much be in the hole. The Bank of England had to intervene to buy an unprecedented number of bonds at not great prices, if they weren’t able to sell them for profit, we would still be directly facing the consequences.

      If the bank didn’t have to intervene, we would be better off today because we’d have that growth without the hit.

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• AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I'll be honest, I'm more convinced that this is how it is:

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah it really has got worse. It like when you get ill and it starts off with a mild sore throat and you feel like shit, then 2 days later you’re sneezing and coughing your guts out and wishing you could go back to when it was just a mild sore throat

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• oeuf@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1990sImage

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• Rothe@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No thanks. 2016 was where everything really went to shit faster than usual.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember 2019 being pretty decent though

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• 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pre 2016 would be better.

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  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    You are not wrong. In this graph it seems like 2002 - 2012 was calmest period in a really long time.

    Source: reliefweb.int/…/conflict-trends-global-overview-1…

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wasn’t really around when the US did their post-9/11 thing… but shouldn’t there be more deaths in that period?

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• QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From a Finnish perspective, the 2010s were a rather peaceful time, world events didn’t really affect my day-to-day life. But from 2020 onward every year has felt like survival.

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ok boomer /hj

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image For others boomers like me, so that you don’t have to look it up

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you fellow oldster

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    • vogi@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      guess that makes me a boomer :)

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I liked 2005 better

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  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    According to the graph I posted, it actually seems like 2005 was the calmest year since 1946.

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    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wow! it was a gut feeling, but turns out it was good!

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• CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want 2011-2012 on repeat

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  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The year of Call Me Maybe. I get that you choose that.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Idk for me 2013 was shite, surprisingly despite everything getting worse 2026 might end up being my best year so far

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