This is all joke and fun until you realize we are heading towards the 30s
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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and we totally passed up girls wearing flapper dresses...
You're just not hanging out with the right women.
probably 😭
being middle aged and married, i need that shit to be in the open!
I'm 52, married and up until a few years ago I did dance nights regularly. Charleston, swing, salsa, tango, etc with women half my age was a regular thing. It doesn't have to be weird if you don't make it weird. They were lovely and we had a blast.
PS: Dancing (Ballroom, hip hop, etc) is a great way to make sure you don't lose mobility with age. Once you hit ~45 keeping, your mobility starts to be an constant effort.
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Now with climate change!
But didn't we have climate change back then? The Dust Bowl..?
Oh yes, it's going to be just like that, except much worse!
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Yeah, but shit was so bad we elected FDR who put in motion the things we coasted off of up till about the 80s when we forgot what it was like without that stuff.
Like, trump might be making things happen faster than scheduled. But I'd rather have AOC in 2029 than 2033....
It doesn't matter if we think accelerationism was the dumbest gamble in history, it's already happened.
World War 3 to begin in 2039
Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Think about that one.
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Yeah but this time we're doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
Let's just hope there's a new FDR to come with it. Sure would love to see that one.
Well, AOC is often only referred to by her initials
I wish AOC could be the new FDR
Every head in the room turns to watch the monkey's paw curl
Oh no, does that mean shes going to intern Japanese people and be extremely racist?
Yeah but this time we're doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
Efficiency!
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We might get there early
Don't worry, those of us left are going to see marvelous things once we hit the 60s.
but that also means we will live to see the 40s, and the current nazis hanging upside down.
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Its like before but this time with robots
It's like before but this time you have to subscribe.
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Nah, it won’t be the same.
100 years ago we didn’t have ecological collapse.
America was about to have the Dust Bowl and China a drought that caused a massive famine, so we definitely had some localised ecological collapse
or nuclear weapons
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What you mean? People on the 20s were clearly traumatized by a recent pandemic, pushing for worldwide economic protectionism and isolationism, revolting against and dehumanizing people that practiced "sexual dissidence"...
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana,
The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
History doesn't repeat but it sure as shit rhymes.
Battles never end, they just get hushed up. Dystopian tactics; throw a blanket over it and pretend it doesn't exist because society is perfect for the rich and the powerful.
And they continue to forget it's all a numbers game and we outnumber them by a magnitude. Tl'dr they're fucked.
But that's where complacency and escapism becomes a large tool against the numbers. Its much too hard to get up and revolt when their favorite show is going to be on at 8 or X streaming service got a new movie. Only a fraction get up to protest when the rest sit back back and mumble under their breaths to their screens.
We need a major fuckup to get them off their couches, you know, something like policing the internet, or crashing the market and causing disgusting inflation rates. Oh wait. Its a shame that we've waited until things got this bad.
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The 1920's was also started with the type of weird kind-of-flu epidemique.
They had some years of crazy partying between end of ww1/the spanish flu ine the late 1910d and the great depression and fascism really got hold in the end of the 1920S tho, so couldnt we at least get some of those years first?:(
The poor weren’t at those crazy parties, they were organizing and fighting for workers rights. The rich are in fact having crazy parties right now, if my rich Snapchat friends are anything to go by.
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It’s going to take the young to fight the fascists in America. Hope they are ready.
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Time's a flat circle
...and here comes the 40s
the world wars were basically two halves of the same conflict, the only real difference between the two was the whole Russian Revolution that brought a third communist faction into the mix,
and dont kid yourselves, The Soviet Union was a co-belligerent of the Allies, not a part of them. you aren't allied with someone when you're formally at war with them until the mid1920s, watch them kick off a war by partnering with nazi germany, and then have a little ceasefire for 4-5 years between 1941 and 45 when nazi germany betrayed them. and go back to pointing guns at them
Russia sees itself as "other" to the rest of Europe, for those who dont read history, you need only visit a news site to see how that is still the case today
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We didn't even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.
There's no way this motherfucker couldn't just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he's just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don't fucking comprehend that's not the God damn solution to everything!?!
Fuck I hate these dumb fucks so God damn much
God, I bet all of history's previous dictators are just shaking their heads while they burn in hell because this guy is such a fucking joke.
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Ugh, we learned nothing.
Capitalism leads to imperialism and fascist. Fascists are the useful idiots of empire. A collective suicide in a exponential function. It will end the human race and most life on earth..
Don't forget the eldritch horror.
Any day now, Elon will announce that the real reason they need ~~Greenland~~ Ultima Thule is so he can perform a ritual to awaken Azathoth and end the simulation.
At least we believe in science and modern medicine
Twenties gonna twenty.
Lots of circumstances are thankfully different. China's not in a Civil War. America is limited by geography, where as Germany had lots of choices on who to invade. There's no external cause for America's economic woes, where as Germany was having their economy drained by outside forces (eg. France, Britain).
No, this won't be as bad as WW2. Or rather the decisions are more distributed, so it's less likely to be.
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I woke up the other day and thought, "What if Putin launched a nuclear war on the US? And the current administration knew beforehand but did nothing other than leave the country in advance of the bombs making impact?"
Now that Trump is sinking us on education and science, China will have or maybe already has the superior military, tech wise. They will be able to pop over and take resources. They’ve surveilled, remember the balloons? Not high tech per se, but if you consider the means as a camouflage on immediate threat and a +10 to hide in plain sight it makes more sense.
Remember. China stopped selling chips to our defense contractors right after Trump, this time around. Why?
Many of the things Trump is doing that are making headlines right now are helping tank the military. I know, we want shrinkage on what we dole out to defense contractors. That’s not this. What Trump is doing is lowering the quality by reducing tech and the education to pull from to run, develop, and innovate that tech. China never stopped working on those things.
Consider the world game here. Climate change is here and that makes the new long game a resource consolidation to try to be last country standing as things crumble. Resource consolidation IS why Trump is going on about Greenland and Canada.
And they stopped selling us rare earth minerals. We won't even be able to build anything more complex than a toaster
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-hits-back-us-tariffs-with-rare-earth-export-controls-2025-04-04/
Edit: source
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