From a foreign policy standpoint, sovereignty (border), economic (inflation), and safety (crime)

Not to mention tHe COVID variants are starting to reverse all the progress we made between Feb-May

Everything is jacked up.. it makes me feel like we’re on the brink of something major happening

Thoughts?

unvaccinated people vs vaccinated people
it was planned all along

when both sides live in a completely different reality, war is inevitable. But the delusional side will just scream false flag the whole time so they're gonna get smoked.

Yeah.. it’s so sad to watch people bicker about their health

Both sides make great points but there doesn’t seem to be any silver lining

The Biden administration, Dr Faucci, and The CDC haven’t helped things either

Looks like that in a bunch of countries though

Not just the US

Been like that for a while though.

I can’t remember inflation being this high

The economic crisis that is brewing really scary.

America always been f***ed up. It’s just more obvious now.

Everyone knows the system doesn’t work and everything is s***, but we’ve all silently agreed to keep our heads down and chug along like normal. I thought this virus would be the catalyst for populist change but it seems like the Culture Wars are too powerful. Anxious to see what finally does it. Gonna have to get much much worse

Trump and fox news as well. Brainwashed the braindead idiots even more

What’s worst that could happen

Man we’ve been in worse places lol imagine living during WW1 and the Spanish Flu period and then getting hit with the Great Depression 9 years later

Not like this bro... Not like this

Never once heard a "great point" from anyone on the right. Every take I hear is straight brain rot.

I mean it has only been not f***ed up for white people before this, now its more f***ed for everyone. America has always been a horrendous place for people of color.

It's the 70s all over again

most american exceptionalism is a retroactive myth, and in reality everything seems like it's on the verge of breaking because a new generation is reaching adulthood, and in between every transfer of generations there is not just an inherent set of crises which revolve because of global instability but also due to forced heightened awareness; things are contrasted by media and current event awareness vs nostalgia. There have been major crises virtually ever 4-5 years for decades upon decades now that have shook the country, or even shook the world outside the US's frame of reference.

cant wait for the Balkanisation

no

Told yall

still not as bad as 2008

Hmmmm

Why do you say that?

ive had this convo in other threads here a few months ago but a lot of people really dont remember just how bad the recession was in 08 and what its knock on effects were. I'm not saying things aren't bad now economically, but 08 was a whole different beast. I think since most people were younger it's kind of hard to grasp just the extent of it. First off, people were losing jobs left and right, like the job market was getting obliterated - "layoffs" were among the main discourse back then and like EVERYONE was scared of losing their job across all sectors; that's definitely one major difference (rn its the opposite, employers are scared of losing employees or their employees unionizing, would have been a far cry back then).
Second off, it cannot be understated just how bad the financial crisis was in terms of the actual financial sector. People would wake up and wonder which bank was gonna disappear that day. And I know (esp myself as someone who hates banks) that sounds awesome, in reality it was more like "holy s*** im gonna lose my entire savings and retirement" for a lot of people. The debt situation was also insane, way worse than now, and in reality there was very little reaction from the government early on, just scrambling to get on top of things. The government isn't much better now, but there have at least been some attempts at reconciliation (under trump & biden), things like student loan pauses, PPP loans, etc. are still more than was done at the beginning of 08. That's not even really it, I just can't overstate how bad 08 and its following periods were. Commodity prices skyrocked worse than now, the credit crisis was insane and really effected a lot of people (in a much more direct way than the stock market stuff now), and this s*** tanked the entire world too, arguably worse than currently. Go to the 08 financial crisis wikipedia page and look at the massie list of financial/governmental institution emergencies.

oh also the housing market collapse was insane, like you had middle to upper-middle class families suddenly living in tent cities overnight

its almost like the government is terrible at everything