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    sigh

    Dustin’ off this one, out from the fucking meme archive…

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ

    Millenials:

    Time for your third ‘once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster’! Wheeee!

    Gen Z:

    Oh, oh dear sweet summer child, you thought Covid was bad?

    Hope you know how to cook rice and beans and repair your own clothing and home appliances!

    Gen A:

    Time to attempt to learn how to think, good luck.

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      2028 days ago

      Time for your third ‘once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster’! Wheeee!

      Wait? Third? I feel like we’re past third. Has it only been three?

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        Dot com bubble, the great recession, covid. So yeah, that would be the fourth coming up.

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          You can also use 9/11 + GWOT in place of the dotcom bubble, for ‘society reshaping disaster crisis’

          So uh, silly me, living in the disaster hypercapitalism ers, being so normalized to utterly.world redefining chaos at every level, so.often, that i have lost count.

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            528 days ago

            That is more American focused though. Sure I heard about 9/11 but I was 8 and didn’t really care because I wanted to go play outside.

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              328 days ago

              True, true, sorry, my America-centrism is showing.

              Or well, you know, it was a formative and highly traumatic ‘core memory’ for me.

              And, at the time, we were the largest economy in the world, and that event broke our collective minds, and reoriented that economy, and our society, down a dark path that only ended up causing waste, death and destruction.

              Imagine the timeline where Gore won, not Bush, and all the US really did was send in a specops team to Afghanistan to get Bin Laden, as opposed to occupy the whole country, never did Iraq 2.

              Thats… a lot of political capital and money that could have been directed to… anything else, i dunno, maybe kickstarting a green energy push?

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      029 days ago

      Wait for Gen X to pop in as usual and seek attention with some “we always get ignored” bullshit.