Maduro in chains. George Floyd 2.0 in Minnesota. Russian tankers seized by the US navy. Putin dropping hypersonic missiles on Lviv, 70km east of the EU border. Trump threatening to invade sovereign Danish territory, and implying he might do the same to Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, even Canada. Protests raging through Tehran, with the regime potentially on the cusp of collapse. War in Aleppo. That's just off the top of my head.
Are we actually witnessing the world collapse into total chaos or am I just renewing my feed too much?
um i can think of at least one other time from this decade
At some point, people realize that COVID wasn't going to become the mutaba virus from the movie outbreak, and so it burned through millions upon millions of people like a wildfire, hugely destructive, but at least bounded in its destruction. Civil unrest can explode into something like Syria, or the troubles in Ireland, or a hitherto unknown internal conflict with AI powered drones being given kill orders based on llm's summarizing the output of people's social media. The American civil war killed more Americans than every other war that America was involved in combined. That was in the age before machine guns and tanks. Things feel different because they are different.
We still dont yet know the full consequences of everyone getting covid dozens of times and continuing to get it forever. Life spans still haven’t recovered anyway.
You hit the nail on the head. AI will allow unprecedented logistical infrastructure for another Holocaust, this time on American soil. I am advising all of my relatives to splurge on luxurious items now and not worry about long-term financial planning.
People didn't know at the time and government and media did very little to quell the fears. There were studies showing people overestimating their chance of dying by a factor of 100 or more
Every time some 20-40 year old got covid in my office, everyone would be relieved when they returned as if the probability wasn't more than 99%
That one was at least precipitated by something tangible and uncontrollable, ie covid and lockdown
This is just nuttiness in what should and could be an otherwise normal time with challenges to be overcome, as always. The chaos and evil is forced and artificial, and brazen in a way that I think is uniquely disgusting compared to how people with these beliefs used to behave before, not that dogwhistling is much better but still
Covid was indeed uncontrollable which is why lockdown was a retarded solution and a massive own goal for every country that implemented it (except for the 1% who of course all got richer).
What makes this moment special is that essentially every thing you listed is not just a major event but also maybe a precursor. I feel like I'm currently waiting for 30 other shoes to drop....
A lot of big news literally just doesn't come up on here anymore, like the Iran protests, it's pretty funny really
That bar fire in Switzerland as well (not funny)
Every six months or so 300 people die in a nightclub fire in some random country
those european dance troops who choose to break dance to We Will Rock You by Queen need to have their pyrotechnics at the end of the show, ESPECIALLY in bars with relatively low ceilings. do you not give a fuck about art and entertainment?
It was caused by champagne fireworks so they say
This isn't a politics sub I don't want to hear about it
A bar fire isn't big news
it is when it kills 40 people in a western country
Maybe national news in the country it happens in. In a world of 7+ billion it's not international news
it was for about a week in britain
admittedly absolutely nothing at all is happening here at the moment
We didn't start the fire!
But, seriously people...
Arab Spring, Brat Summer
nuclear winter
fall of Liz Truss
Bardot, Budapest
It’s all definitely an interesting combination, but we need the US to start operations in Greenland and the EU to fight back if we really want to get wild and crazy.
China invading Taiwan seems more likely
The “something actually happens” contingency, as I like to call it
Never going to happen
The EU cannot and will not fight back against the US. I mean, they literally can't.
How are the Jets going 3-14 not even on the list
That’s not a crisis, that’s gods plan
that's not crazy, but the 0 interceptions all season though...
It’s not crazy but it is a crisis
Not a crisis, just same ol' Jets baby
Don't forget the rise of Geese.
Cameron Nuclear Winter
and before this the brown shooting, reiner murders, terrorism in aus all in one weekend.
>brown shooting
Mossad sleeper cell
>reiner murders
Mossad sleeper cell
>"terrorism" in aus (stopped by a so called terrorist!)
Mossad sleeper cell
Quite literally not a single relevant media source ever said he was a terrorist.
Yeah they just tried to blame the actions of the shooters (both confirmed IDF soldiers) as Islamic terrorism, and Israel immediately blamed the attacks on Iran. Thank god Ahmed saved Muslims from another wave of persecution
Where did you find the information that they were IDF soldiers?
Again, I don't know what the fuck you've been reading but nobody in Australia has heard of this schizo theory, and I work with a bunch of 18-24 year old rural boys who are thoroughly brainrotted by TikTok
Cause your rural boys don’t watch the news, they’re too busy scheming their next pint
What is Aleppo?
IDK what’s in it but my dog loves the stuff
australian vernacular term for a leper
It’s a spice I use to cook Syrian food.
Is maduro a crisis? He seems pretty happy about it himself
Saw him in Williamsburg yesterday. Looked like he was having a great time
It’s only a little more unhinged than his first term
First term had George Floyd 1.0, coronavirus, Russian invasion of Ukraine, MOAB dropped in Afghanistan, the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, war with Syria, Hong Kong protests, the arrest of Jeffery Epstein, and Jan 6th and probably a bunch of other things that no one remembers because there’s too many things to remember
Though this does seem like a whole lot all at once
Edit: Russian invaded in 2022, my bad
Russian invasion of Ukraine? In Trump's first term?
You’re right my bad. Shits been a blur.
besides 2020 and Epstein's murder trump 1.0 was a snoozefest compared to this moment and the past year in general
I was always anti-Trump, but like the first three months of Trump 2.0 it was like "wow, another thi— another thing! another thing! How much random stuff can he just do in direct sequence?" I'd forgotten how relentless and overwhelming his flood of crap.
You and 77 million people apparently. I can still remember viscerally the week after Biden was sworn in how everything was just so much quieter and less chaotic. Like my muscles actually un-knotted themselves.
Your body finally went out to brunch. 💅💅💅
this is straight out of r/politics lol wtf
I'm sincere though. My main impression of DJT's first administration(besides the constant churn of people quitting or being fired), is just the constant never ending chaos for 4 years. It was honestly traumatizing. I absolutely can't understand how other voters calmed down and seemed to either forget what that was like, or chose to ignore it when voting. I hate it. Every day I'm tenser again.
Make no mistake, I think he's probably on the short list of worst Presidents ever. But literally a few months feels like years, and I'd forgotten that.
The MOAB was mostly a meme story. We had been dropping bombs on random cave complexes in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan for 15+ years at that point.
Yeah it was sensational for the sake of being sensational, he really wants the chaos.
He wants buildings to get burned down in Minneapolis today just like he did in 2020
He wants to make sure he’s got an excuse to establish militarized police forces throughout the country before anyone finds pictures of him fucking a dead toddler with his buddy Jeff or whatever
The difference is that most of those weren't a direct product of Trump's presidency.
Yeah and these were spread over four years whereas the stuff I mentioned was all in the last 72 hours
Ok but his response to all of them was absolutely atrocious. The dude tear gassed peaceful protestors in DC just so he could get a photo op holding a bible at a church. He makes everything worse.
Russian invasion of Ukraine was Feb 2022.
Yeah my bad
War with Syria? That was under Obama.
Or do you mean war with ISIS?
Is Assad ISIS? We bombed Shayrat Airbase in 2017. Just because it happened under Obama doesn’t mean it didn’t also happen under Trump. Just like Obama takes some responsibility for the wars Bush started.
Wow, you're regarded
> George Floyd 1.0
Dry run for the culture war of today, exacerbated by escalation of terminally online activity due to COVID lockdowns
> Coronavirus
Affected the whole world, and in terms of pandemics it could have been much worse. Most who died were already unhealthy, nowhere near the needed population decline to cause civil unrest like your Plague Inc scenarios.
> MOAB in Afghanistan
Nothingburger in middle east
>Drone strike on Qasem Soleimani
Nothingburger iran assassination
> war with Syria
Nothingburger in middle east 2
> HK protests
Nothingburger, did you really think HK was gonna overthrow the CCP? Besides, HK is a shithole compared to the Shenzhen-Guangzhou Bay Area, it's the Oakland of China L(MAO)
> Jeffrey Epstein
we know trump is a kiddy diddler. nothing happened. nothingburger
> Jan 6th
Nothingburger
Why do people insist on using this stupid fucking word
Because they’re stupid fucking people
All because he's a pedo and is distracting from the fact. Mad really. They should just keep asking him first and forthright about the Epstein files before the rest of the news.
We didn't start the fire, it's been always burning since the world's been turning
I've been offline tik tok, instagram, and reddit for about two weeks so i had no idea.
if the world was collapsing in total chaos i think people not permaonline would hear about it.
You only get your news from social media?
or online sites, because i dont watch tv.
Exactly
You're too online for your own good
I'd like to think that I'm pretty online and have friends that are too, and no one cares about half this shit. The average person much less so
When it rains it pours as the saying goes
When sorrows come, they come not in single spies but in battalions
I’m watching Mad Men rn and it’s a good reminder that life has always been nuts
uranus is in gemini
No it just means you're young and/or just started paying attention
Shut up this is vague meaningless gibberish. Paying attention to what?
come back to this post in 5 years
No idea what you're confused about, I wasn't even insulting you
What am I supposed to have "just started paying attention" to? Are you suggesting every 2-3 day period has this many events packed into it? Or are you just being smug and snarky for its own sake?
Neither, I'm saying this level of eventfulness happens periodically
Go outside and smell the wind for five minutes then log back on
Wah wah wah get offline
yeah minnesota is not a good place i guess
I think we're in the Chinese Century.
China is going to sit and watch its loosely aligned allies fall one by one.
Hard times for the "nothing ever happens" crowd 🙂↔️
Please consult the graph. Most happenings are nothing.
When I am
a) Drafted to war
b) Propositioned by Billie Eilish for four days of outrageous sex
Please change the "happening" chart to "something".
Until then, nothing ever happens.
nothing ever happens to people who don’t leave their parent’s basement
White liberals continue to be the worst people on the planet, because unless something directly hits them in the fucking face then it doesn't matter.
Lol go outside
I am outside, barefoot on the grass
2 shot dead at a funeral in Utah last night
No. Its just the media that overhelms you.
I genuinely can't keep up, especially as I'm half Persian and attempting to keep track with what's happening in Iran.
I don’t want to go down with the ship.
There's also an unusual level of chatter coming out of China and Taiwan. Hopefully it's a nothing burger but Beijing is really agitated rn
China is barely able to contain its joy. Their greatest obstacle to world domination, the USA, is about to self destruct without them lifting a finger.
Anything to sweep the Epstein shit under the rug
It's actually orchestrated by Keir Starmer, I've barely heard his name at all these last weeks. He was on the brink in November
Oh no there was that debacle with the Egyptian guy, forgot about that
forget keir starmer, not heard much about the french prime minister roulette. theyve probably had another 3 under our noses
I don't think there's much I can do about the war in Ukraine, so I'm mostly focusing on local matters. My 1 year old learned how to identify colors this week, and I made some good progress on the built-in bookcases I'm building.
Why are you downvoting me for this you deeply annoying people?
Well it's a little dramatic. When you look back to history, there are always momentous events happening concurrently. It's a big world out there. I think people who think the world is collapsing are usually just doomscrolling too much
Too many political posts and not enough photos of pet bunnies
It's a pretty conservative sub, so they're not exactly bothered by it as much as they are cheering it on
It’s crazy
what is aleppo
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social media has been around for over 20 years at this point
This whole flood the zone thing is gonna backfire hard. It's an effective disorienting strategy for plebs but with the governments resources stretched thin they/we are incredibly vulnerable.
The Minnesota ICE shooting absolutely will not have the same effect that the George Floyd incident did
Give the song We Didn't Start The Fire a listen
> Maduro in chains
CIA regime change nothingburger
> George Floyd 2.0
What came from George Floyd? Some billionaire starting a culture war and getting loaded off donations. Nothingburger
> Russian tankers seized by US navy
"Russia" and "navy" in same sentence. LOL nothingburger
> Putin drops missiles in UKR
Slavshit nothingburger
> Trump threatening invasion of Greenland
One option. Far more likely he finds some of jeff's old tapes in denmark or whatever to 'acquire' Greenland. Snowshit(?) nothingburger
> Implying more invasions
So we go from the GWOT sandshit nothingburger to the GWOD (Global War on Drugs) nothingburger. Crazy
> Mass protests in Iran
Nothingburger
> War in Aleppo
Sandshit nothingburger
The GWOT nothingburger really did a toll on some of the veterans I grew up with, especially with that opioid epidemic nothingburger and the homeless crisis nothingburger
Maybe nothing ever happening in your life has more to do with you than anything else
> Drug addictions
Skill issue
> Homeless crisis
In America? No way!
Gamer
I have a greenland paddle, so it pains me to say it, but Trump invading Greenland, and then the next day getting sent to prison would benefit everyone on planet Earth, except maybe the 50 thousand or so who try to live in Greenland.
But if I didn't have a greenland paddle, I wouldn't be able to paddle more than 10 miles in one sitting. It's truly a remarkable paddle. The sea kayak and greenland paddle is probably one of the greatest inventions of mankind when it comes to silent sports and outdoor recreation.
You forgot the most important crisis of all: I got a temporary ban for telling some guy to kill himself, resulting in the average post quality of this sub plummeting.
Trump not taking orders from Putin anymore?