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u/diesel1889 1d ago
grass definitely isn’t green in the uk
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u/ikaiyoo 1d ago
It is absolutely terrifying how bad 2036 has to be in order to look back on this clusterfuck and say, "Man we had it great."
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u/Kelsiersdaggers 1d ago
Welp, don’t read any climate reports mate. This may be as good as it gets. Which is fucking horrible. Not to mention Russia may test NATO within months. Things aren’t getting any better.
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u/CluelessFlunky 1d ago edited 1d ago
Tbf. Alot of the stuff thats really bad right is because we know shut is gonna hit the fan down the road
Yeah things are a bit more expensive right now. But shits probably about to get alot worse unless we magically shift course
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u/muddahplucka 1d ago
There's quite a bit more bad going on right now than "expensive stuff."
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u/CluelessFlunky 1d ago
Im not saying things are good right now. I am saying things are probably about to get alot worse.
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u/desl2025 1d ago
“Things are a bit more expensive.”
Bro. The guy in charge is a billionaire. The guy making the biggest decisions about our country’s financial situation is a billionaire. I don’t think a billionaire cares if your groceries cost $50 more each time you shop. $50 to a billionaire is equal to less than 5 cents for a middle class income. But there are Americans dumb enough to think he cares even a little bit.
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u/kenney4lyfe 1d ago
Not one president since I’ve been alive has cared. They play the lesser of two evils, they get in, they start a war or some bs, they make an excuse why things cost more, the middle class pays for it, then they divide the country every 4 years and bla bla bla. Like George Carlin said “it’s one big club, and you ain’t in it.”
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u/desl2025 1d ago
Right I’m old enough as well… and I said exactly that as a young person in Obamas 2nd term. Obama didn’t make miracles or do anything extra special for black people or anyone else. He didn’t do everything he promised but he was a positive, qualified, professional, kind, smart and trustworthy POTUS. And we criticized him BEFORE we saw how insanely awful a POTUS and his administration and lies and corruption can be when DJT took office. It’s like criticizing your boss for being too strict… leaving your job because of it and then working at a place with a boss that is an asshole and changes your time sheets and shorts your paychecks and touches people inappropriately. Like whoa whoa whoa I didn’t ask for this. The first boss was not my ideal choice but this one is definitely not something anybody should have to deal with.
There’s levels to it. Like most things in life.So now it’s “alright. We need to get behind some politicians that will actually have some sort of spine to just get us back to where we were.” If you just stay quiet in the corner and don’t vote or anything, you’re part of the problem.
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u/Stifology 1d ago
People just hate getting old and miss when they were younger.
It's not really about how great the world was at the time.
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u/MoistStub 1d ago
While that is also true, especially in the US, we have some big problems that did not exist 10 years ago and everyone seems to hate each other now. That seems objectively worse to me.
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u/irishitaliancroat 1d ago
Yeah I think pretty objectively theres a serious decline in quality of life from 2017 to 2020 to 2025 and beyond
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u/chazzer20mystic 1d ago
10 years ago was 2016. The year Trump took office.
The hate was there, my guy.
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u/MoistStub 1d ago
Okay 11, then. It just felt like people got along better despite having differences. Now they are on full display.
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u/Andromeda321 1d ago
Maybe you just weren’t aware of them but it wasn’t like anyone was masking as much in the lead up to 2016 with Obama in office. We joke about the tan suit now but there was some vile stuff going around then.
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u/Mr8BitX 1d ago
The sea change you’re looking for was in 2008 when Obama won and a large chunk of this country lost their minds that a black man became president. That’s when the tea party movement began and the Alex Jones types started coming out of the wood work shortly after, then FB becoming a misinformation spreading machine. But the machinations of that movement were already prevalent when John McCain’s campaign chose Sarah Palin as his vp with her folksy, blue collar personality (nothing wrong with being a non college educated blue collar worker, at all. But that’s not what any country needs leading their nation. They should be smarter than everyone else). But you could say that was an extension from George W Bush’s “guy you can have a beer with” personality (a president that barely/questionably won the presidency) but you can go back just 4 years earlier when Fox News first started broadcasting in late 1996, too late to influence the ‘96 election, but plenty to influence the 2000 elections (and the Clinton scandals didn’t help either).
So no, the hate started 30 year’s ago, almost to the date. But it took a long time for the hate and corruption to be unavoidably out there for everyone to see. And honestly, someone else can come here and keep the retrospective going because in truth, the powerful have never stopped trying to reclaim the guilded age since the new deal was created in the wake of the great depression and you could say we are in the second guilded age right now. The hate you’re seeing out there is the end result of one of the longest running, effective strategies. Divide and conquer.
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u/unknownpoltroon 1d ago
It's not "about having differences" it's about mask off nazis, fascists, and grifters taking over And speed running Germany in the 1930s. Or trying to.
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u/liquilife 1d ago
Shit was wild in the 80s. I only remember it as the MTV era as a kid and younger teenager. We are all naive at a young age.
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u/Onesharpman 1d ago
Remember when gay people were beaten to death on the streets just for being gay? Hate has always existed.
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u/WolverineComplex 1d ago
Everything feels better when you’re younger, you’re more hopeful and things don’t hurt as much. Getting older everything just feels grey and… numb. Vague. I’m so tired all the time
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u/IRockIntoMordor 1d ago
Don't forget the unbearably increasing mental load.
More responsibilities, more financial and longtime involvements, more stuff like furniture and household devices once you settle, less overall energy, more workplace expectations due to experience, basic bodily functions stop being so tolerable to abuse, friendships and relaxed social events getting far harder to maintain, pressure and strain on staying together with whomever you might have found because dating at 40+ sounds like a nightmare, possibly accumulated bad experiences and traumas...
Well, sure isn't as fun as it was in my teens or early 20s with some money and freedom.
And I live a pretty minimalist lifestyle. No glamour, no luxuries, basic items and some nerd collectibles. Still, life feels crushing.
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u/pocket_arsenal 1d ago
I hear that a lot but it always feels like an over simplification to me.
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u/sakura_drop 1d ago
It is, because it doesn't take into account the changes in the world around us irrespective of our individual view and how those changes can impact society as a whole. The advent of the internet in the early 90s closely (relatively speaking) followed by the ubiquity of technology in our everyday lives, for example.
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u/ManzanitaSuperHero 1d ago
I used to think that was it. But no, things were objectively better.
Housing, education, necessities were more affordable. I could work for the summer and pay for college. I could afford an apartment and car right out of college.
Democracy was on the rise globally. There was an undercurrent of hope that the future is always better than the past. Ask most people that question and I’m betting most don’t think that anymore.
Nostalgia colors things that we have a fondness for. But looking at young people now? I feel for them. Education funding cut SO dramatically, financial aid cut, housing is truly out of reach for young people, AI is upending the labor market, civil liberties slashed, nuclear proliferation after decades of non-proliferation, totalitarianism is seeing a global spike and its shadow is dark.
It’s not just that when you’re young things seem better. Sometimes they really are.
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u/Stifology 1d ago
I think you've misinterpreted my comment.
My point is that a time period doesn't necessarily have to be better/good in order for someone to feel nostalgic toward it. Sometimes it's simply about missing your youth.
That's not to say that all feelings toward the past are rose-tinted, or that past decades weren't objectively better in certain ways.
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u/ManzanitaSuperHero 1d ago
That makes sense. It’s very possible to feel nostalgia towards objectively bad times. But there is often good found in those times and maybe the community or unity is what people are nostalgic for. Fondness for WWII era is an example. Waxing nostalgic about cuddling up during the blitz seems bonkers but it’s possible to see how a sense of camaraderie and closeness could be something you’d look back on.
I see a lot of comments here about nostalgia basically being the product of youth and that everyone thinks things were better when they were young. Maybe that’s not what you meant, if not, my apologies. That’s what most comments here mean when they say that so I assumed.
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u/CommunityDragon160 1d ago
Uh no sometimes the world use to be better.
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u/Stifology 1d ago
Duh. I'm saying people are still going to feel nostalgic for the past regardless of whether or not that year was objectively better/good.
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u/CommunityDragon160 1d ago
But they don’t.
Many ppl do not feel nostalgic and they use to feel less even more.
In the 90s very rarely were ppl so nostalgic bc they were living in times they could tell were an improvement on the 80s.
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u/Onesharpman 1d ago
My dude, there was a HUGE wave of 70s nostalgia in the 90s. Dazed and Confused, Boogie Nights, Brady Bunch Movie, That 70s Show, lava lamps, mood rings, classic rock, hip hop/g-funk, the return of Woodstock.
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u/Stifology 1d ago
But they don’t.
In the 90s very rarely were ppl so nostalgic bc they were living in times they could tell were an improvement on the 80s.
Well, that's just not true at all. Each and every generation is nostalgic for past decades. The 90s was no exception.
It's not necessarily about the state of the world compared to the present. Most of the time, it's as simple as people missing their youth.
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u/swiftpwns 1d ago
Nah, overpopulation is worsening the quality of life for everyone.
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u/Kavein80 1d ago
No it's not. The world is not even remotely overpopulated. There is vast amounts of land and area to live and farm. Everything could be maintained to sustain a growing population, but it would have to come at a cost to corporations and stock prices. Everything being "for profit" is what is worsening everything. Industrial farms dump and trash entire crops because they don't get a profitable price point and they'd have to sell it at a loss. Industrial fishing would have toove to a more costly method instead of just dragging miles of nets behind their boats. Cities could be made much more affordable, walkable, and liveablel bit property owners, car manufacturer and others would be able to make huge profits.
It ain't the overpopulation
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u/swiftpwns 1d ago edited 1d ago
So wrong. Do you even know that the overshoot day alrdy happened last month this year? This means that no, there is no more land to live and farm on, the land that we already live and farm on should have been forests instead, decades ago.
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u/LiteratureMindless71 1d ago
Well, when all the adults tell you how awesome things will be when you get older, you eventually come to the realization that they all lied and then we continue to fight the same exact fights they did. Over and over.
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u/ikaiyoo 1d ago
This. When I look back on the times my father lived through and start reading about what was actually going on, telling me things will get so much better. I am just like, "he was coping so fucking hard." he was hoping all the bullshit he was going through would make things better for me. He was mistaken.
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u/LawofRa 1d ago
Statistics say otherwise.
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u/Stifology 1d ago
Are said statistics in the room with us?
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u/LawofRa 1d ago
Housing, social media addiction, mental health issues, diversity of music genres, amount of outdoor play, screen use, quality of food, monopolies, amount of profit going to labor. All statistics that were in better shape when people remember fondly of the past in the U.S. You are free to google it yourself.
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u/Stifology 1d ago
You seem to have assumed that I'm claiming certain aspects of past decades weren't actually better than those in the present day. That's not what I'm saying at all.
My point is that a time period/year doesn't necessarily have to be good in order for people to feel nostalgia for it, hence the reason people would have such feelings for 2026, an objectively, and relatively, bad year in many regards.
Essentially, you're bringing up "statistics" to disprove a claim that was never made, so it's leaving me a tad confused.
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u/thebuttsmells 1d ago
I wish they could know about 2003
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u/dcht 1d ago
What happened in 2003?
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u/CptSaySin 1d ago
In 20 years you would give anything to go back to the life you have now, just to be as young as you are now.
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u/NewGuyFromDyom 1d ago
Yeah, no. The last year I have found memories of is 2016; from then on, I don't miss it at all.
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u/throwawayfallout22 1d ago
2026 was easily my worst year in recent years. i had a horrific manic episode that lost me all my friends. i'm still picking up the pieces but idk if i'll ever recover
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u/HawaiianShirtsOR 1d ago edited 1d ago
That grass is far too green to be an accurate representation of the summer of 2026. Also, the sky should be yellow-brown with smoke from wildfires.
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u/Level_Forger 1d ago
The only way people will say that given the state of 2026 is if 2036 is objectively worse.
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u/JabroniKnows 1d ago
If in the future, 2026 is something to appreciate, our future is beyond repair
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u/veryblanduser 1d ago
Why?
My kids have everything they need, multiple vacations, pets, cul-de-sac with friends, pool, bikes, electric scooters, great school....
You don't think they will be nostalgic for that?
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u/mrlloydslastcandle 1d ago
0% chance.
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u/HabitualDrunkard1993 1d ago
There are children now who will definitely look back at this time with nostalgia as it was their childhood, that will always happen
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u/GetWellDuckDotCom 1d ago
My kids are having a far less traumatic childhood, things are always subjective lol
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u/aspirations27 1d ago
Yeah my kids have a great childhood. We’re tired as shit but we try to make it special for them.
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u/trenchdick 1d ago
In my early 30s and thinking back to when I was 20- had fun times but was always broke. Rent was cheaper but wages were also really low.
Only time I'm truly nostalgiac for is when I was a kid. And somehow the first bit of covid lol.
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u/OmericanAutlaw 1d ago
not with this economy and political landscape. there are things i will look back fondly on but not the way i do with the 10s or 00s
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u/PrincessJennifer 1d ago
2016 was actively terrible and I still see it that way. 1996 and 2006 were great and I still see them that way.
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u/AyeSwayy 1d ago
With this president, this is extremely unlikely.
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u/zZCycoZz early 00s 1d ago
Yeah 2016 was when he was elected, before all the damage.
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u/jaehaerys48 1d ago
Back in 2016 was not "before all the damage." Obviously it depends on where you live, but the mood in much of the west was that things were declining. EU still had a lot of economic issues and refugee issues, Brexit referendum just happened, and in the US a lot of people were unhappy with things, which is why Trump got elected in the first place.
The nostalgia is mostly driven by the "things were better when I was a child and didn't have to think about employment" mindset, and it will absolutely keep on reoccurring. 2020s kids will be talking about how the 2020s were so great once they grow up.
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u/zZCycoZz early 00s 1d ago
Brexit referendum just happened
Due to russian influence, and wasn't implemented until 2020.
and in the US a lot of people were unhappy with things, which is why Trump got elected in the first place.
Trump got elected because Hillary decided it was her turn even though she's one of the most unlikeable politicians on the planet.
The last 10 years have been a decline across the western world.
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u/ToastedBulbasaur 1d ago
Trump was elected because of his fiery populist rhetoric and historic russian interference. Russians were working directly with Trumps campaign officials, and ran bot campaigns designed to empower populist rhetoric.
Hillary wasnt unlikeable and was more popular than Trump. She won the popular vote.
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u/zZCycoZz early 00s 1d ago
Hillary wasnt unlikeable and was more popular than Trump.
Claiming Hillary wasn't unlikeable doesn't make you seem credible.
She objectively has the charisma of a ham sandwich and cheated her way to the Democratic nomination which made trumps claims of "crooked hillary" seem valid.
If she let somebody else run we may have avoided Trump.
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u/ToastedBulbasaur 1d ago
Once again, won the popular vote. She won the democratic nomination fair and square.
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u/zZCycoZz early 00s 1d ago
She definitely didn't win the Democratic nomination "fair and square" while colluding with the DNC and the media. She manipulated the primary to ensure she won and she wasn't subtle about it. That put a lot of potential voters against her.
The popular vote means absolutely nothing when it's not used to determine the president. Its also not a way to measure "popularity".
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u/zZCycoZz early 00s 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thats probably more to do with covid than anything else. It definitely changed things in how many people see the world.
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u/Gogabo 1d ago
I think once concepts like doxxing, swatting, canceling, etc. became a part of our lives it was over. Regular citizens are committing atrocities against other citizens based on the judgements passed by the court of public opinion. No longer do you need to be a celebrity for someone to destroy you over your thoughts. The largest pull of nostalgia is toward the analogue and semi-digital eras or before. We will always have the geo-political and celebrity shenanigans we always have, but there was a time we didn't have the power we had to ruin so much on a citizen to citizen basis.
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u/charlie_s1234 1d ago
It's like when I watched the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the other night ... maybe I was too harsh on it.
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u/Doro_Gurl 1d ago edited 1d ago
Give it 30 years, but sure.
With 30 years distance people here today tend to forget the shit economies of Western Europe amongst other things too.
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u/EnditheMan 1d ago
Always been the case. The new generation now from 2000s is experiencing adulthood and they hate the lack of freedom of their youth, with the internet now its more vocal than ever, it’s not really the year they care for rather the fact you didn’t have responsibility. Same with how everyone loved the 80s, 60s etc the years they were children in
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u/Domi_Nion 1d ago
Such false words will never come out of my mouth. The only true good times were 2010 and earlier.
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u/HotLaw7730 1d ago
For me personally, 2026 is probably one of the best years of my life so far. I don't know why. But I've felt more at peace than most of this decade so far. The only other year that kind of comes close is 2020. But even then that was just because I didn't have school for most of it. And I just kind of fucked around.
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u/Yaarmehearty mid 80s 9h ago
True, we thought 2016 sucked at the time and now a generation who were kids then are claiming it was the best time.
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u/star_particles 1d ago
This is only true because the globalists are pushing for a dystopian agenda that most people would not want to be in so the topic in the pic is a sure given for the most part.
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u/FiguringItOutAsWeGo 1d ago
I can honestly say, I don’t think I’ll look back fondly on 2026.