I'll be honest, I'm more convinced that this is how it is:
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Can we go back to 2019?
Submitted 2 months ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to memes@sopuli.xyz
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AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 2 months ago
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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
caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They were still bad days, but more along the lines of “this is the worst year of your life so far”
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 months ago
Pre 2016 would be better.
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 2 months ago
You are not wrong. In this graph it seems like 2002 - 2012 was calmest period in a really long time.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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?
Rothe@piefed.social 2 months ago
No thanks. 2016 was where everything really went to shit faster than usual.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I remember 2019 being pretty decent though
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I remember lots of fun and good, because I was young and graduating college and meeting my wife. But also here in the US the economy was doing increasingly worse, there were street fights with fascists, and the future was scary. Covid was a turning point, but it was like a bad storm in a house in disrepair
oeuf@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
vogi@piefed.social 2 months ago
ok boomer /hj
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thank you fellow oldster
CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 months ago
I want 2011-2012 on repeat
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I liked 2005 better
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 2 months ago
According to the graph I posted, it actually seems like 2005 was the calmest year since 1946.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wow! it was a gut feeling, but turns out it was good!
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Idk for me 2013 was shite, surprisingly despite everything getting worse 2026 might end up being my best year so far
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months 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):
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months 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.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months 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.