My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)

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      Basically at long as taco is in the office it will be miserable.

      The bad things is that in first term there was that there were still competent people around him. This time he fired everyone and replaced with lackeys. Unless he is stopped, US might not recover from it.

      Just looking at the recent meeting in Bejing shows how quickly USA is losing its power. And it’s been only 7 months.

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      It was kind of a meme that 2016 sucked. Then Trump got elected at the end and everything magically got better for everyone and we all lived happily ever after.

      (Do I really need to include the /s here?)

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    hhhooo boy…let me tell you about how it felt to live in the world before September 11th 2001…

    it was freaking amazing.

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    It was 2014. That was the final year of that Obama high where things really felt like they were turning a corner before we were slowly confronted with a world where Donald Trump might actually be president, and the only one standing in his way was somehow Hillary Clinton, a woman that Republicans had been preparing to beat for literally 20 years.

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      Its whatever best year you remember. From my perspective, its been sharply downhill since 2000.

      Those older than me often say it went to shit during the Reagan years. Its been slowly getting worse for a long time.

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      This is actually the right answer. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, and we’re all still in the middle of what is essentially a no-declared-sides WWIII now. 2015 was good, but things had shifted in the world a bit. Countering China was starting to become a huge deal suddenly for the US, and China moved into the South China Sea and did some currency revaluation that was all aimed at their 2029 and 2049 CCP anniversary goals.

      Also, I was in fucking phenomenal shape.

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      You may not have been paying close attention. Obama was astoundingly better than Trump, but invasive spying on citizens was allpwed to remain legal under his watch, and he extended what was allowed. Drone striking questionable targets started under him as well. There’s more, but those two are the highlights usually brought up.

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        The worst the obama administration got was a typical couple of weeks of the Trump administration. It is so much worse now it’s unthinkable it could have gotten this bad when looking from the perspective of 2015.

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          Your mistake is viewing trump not as the obvious fash continuation of the state/capitalism but as some kind of unique magical monster.

          That’s how we got here.

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            Trump is a unique magical monster. There isn’t anyone else that can act the way he does. He has a personality disorder that cannot be copied by any average intelligent person. There isn’t anyone else with near that type of wealth and social immaturity. No other adult has ever acted like he does that didn’t have a mental disorder.

            Others try to copy him but are easy to see through as they cannot bring themselves to act like he would. Ramaswamy tried but is just too mature and of normal intelligence. You need a child(with a disorder) in an adult body with 100% total and complete confidence in itself. A complete narcissist.

            There has never been anyone like him before as anyone with his type of childlike behavior would have been dismissed.

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        Drone striking questionable targets

        if you want to bring up warcrimes, the world has never been normal, especially not the US, they’ve been up to some heinious shit since before we were born

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        But he spoke well and smiled a lot, especially when fake-drinking that Flint water. What a hero.

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        Steve Bannon gave birth to GamerGate through WoW guilds.

        Insert small to large dominos meme where the small domino is some disheveled guy playing WoW at 3 AM talking about how women suck and the large one is Donald Trump recreating concentration camps, J6, or whatever dystopian bullshit else that has happened in the last few years.

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    To me it was 9/11 that started the insanity… Either way, if you look at movies from the 80s and movies from today, you clearly see the humanity lacking from todays movies.

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      Yeah its been a wild ride since 2001. I’m not even American but it felt like the whole world kinda shifted gears after that.

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      Let’s be real- it was the US’s response to 9/11 that started the insanity. There was absolutely a way forward, but no- some shitheads gave the Americans a bloody nose and the US decided to try to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart for two decades while threatening anyone who pointed out that this was a bad idea.

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    It says 2019 to trick the viewer into commenting “no 2012” or 2016, since no real human thinks everything was great until 2019. It’s bait for interactions.

    This is an ad for McDonald’s

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    The real insanity stems from everybody having a random lingering covid symptom that’s just annoying enough to drive you insane, but not bad enough to kill you. 5 years later, I still get phantom burning smells that I can’t even compare to anything I’ve ever smelled before. It’s torture.

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    Fall of 2012. Obama wins again. Weed is legal in some states. Gay marriage. Nuclear powered tank lands on Mars. iPhone 5.

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    I feel like that about 2016. I’m telling you, it all started with Harambe. It all went downhill from there XD

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    My ex wife cheated on me on December 28th, 2019.

    I took a whole bunch of pills two weeks later that apparently are not lethal in any amount.

    However, since then, I am all but convinced we live in hell, because never once in the past 5 and a half years has anything gotten better.

    I’m sorry y’all. This might be the bad place.

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      I am sorry to hear what happened to you. I hope you find out of your personal hell. Sometimes it’s better for your health to distance a bit from social media and their doomer memes.

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      I’m sorry but it’s been hell here on Earth since at least 2015. Your own legitimately terrible events were individual symptoms of the larger pestilence. Either that or a lot of us were already in hell before you got here.

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    It was obviously a very slow change starting in 2012. The mayans knew what was up!