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the parallels to the 1920s are making me a little nervous, ngl. pandemic, rising fascism, aftermath of a newly imposed world order breaking down into open conflict, looming catastrophic economic crisis, etc etc. all in all, very but i'm sure things will straighten out by the 30s and all will be fine

I don't know what's next, but lazy historians will view the last few years as the obvious precursors to it.

The response (or lack thereof) to COVID in the west has served as a great example of what will happen with climate change on a shorter timeline. If there are some immediate one-off events that can't be ignored (raging forest fires, flooding, hurricanes, etc) they will be responded to, but viewed as unavoidable. General reduced QoL will be accepted due to propaganda. No meaningful action will be taken by the powers that be, which will drive people to the political extremes. Due to the multi-billion dollar fascist propaganda complex and general background radiation of a century+ of the Red Scare, the majority of these people will become fascists.

Also the economy being increasingly built on obvious scams seems bad.

Hot take: The arc of history is bending in the right direction when you look at the world on the whole, but we are nearing the peak of the stress curve and it's going to be very ugly when it snaps, particularly in the imperial core. There is a big conflict on the horizon between democracy and the forces of reaction which could erupt before the decade is out.

The biggest wildcard of course is what can and will be done about climate change. Climate change notwithstanding I think the future is bright for the global south as us influence collapses

It's been shit.

The world gets worse every year and the only people who are happy are the ones who are happy to ignore it, or take joy in knowing they're causing misery with their actions.

Climate change looms and despite China's significant efforts to mitigate it, america and the west have decided to drive the entire planet off a cliff because it's just so damn exceptional being crackers that we'd rather destroy the planet than let the brown people fix our mistakes.

My kid was born early in the 2020s which has kept the scales pretty tipped but overall not great if you discount that

Gloves are off, the illusion of reaching a more civilized time at the end of history is thrown in the trash, anything is possible.

This is the decade where cracks in American hegemony spring all the way through: societal failures in 2020, military/diplomatic failures in 2022, economic/technological failures in 2025.

But nobody seems to want to pop the balloon by bringing on the major conflict and upheaval. Everyone knows the guard rails aren't there, and they're stopping short.

Everything that seemed upbeat about information tech is ruined. Energy scarcity and the Great Simplification are rushing at us ever faster, and this is largely a good thing because it will save us from the technocrats and place a clear restrictive barrier to what capitalism thought it could achieve. A check on human ambitions and hubris will be one of the most defining moments in human history.

The time is ripe for a distributed entity that values equality, ecology, good design, and appropriate technology to position itself for a boom. The more you plant in spring, the less you starve in winter.

"twenty thousand years of this, seven more to go"

The Rotting 20s indeed

I hate it here.

But I hated every decade so what's new.

Still not sure if my retirement plan of "die in my 40s in the 2030s during the water wars" is going to happen or not

The proof is in the pudding and we've only ate half of it, so I can't exactly judge.

It's interregnum times.

Hmmm

The golden age of the Internet and social media of the 2010s is long past. There was a special moment when people across the world could share hobbies and interests instantly. Most of us were on Reddit at one point for similar reasons. Twitter became the world's open air forum.

Corporate media has created a walled garden out of the social media/Internet era. If it's not on Facebook, Twitter, Google/YT, or tiktok, 99.99% of people aren't going to see it. And if it is on those, and it's any way controversial, it will be censored or shadowbanned.

While there have been many labor struggles to organize, overall, labor organization is floundering (see: media censorship) and is not any closer to presenting itself as a unified force (see: Occupy)

I think 2026 will be an important year because it will be the test of whether the activists from 2020 learned anything from that year's unrest. Our enemy has no conscience and cannot be reasoned with. The opposition party doesn't meet even the most barebones definition of the term. In 2020, we watched thousands of well-meaning protestors be brutalized by local, state, and federal forces. Some fought back and burned or occupied police stations, but what is there to show for that now? Tactics will need to be changed. The surveillance state makes action feel impossible. Many, many people will be victimized if they fight back.

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The Democrats won't save the West, neither will China. Truthfully, we probably won't either.

The 2020s will be looked back on like the American 1850s: the road to unavoidable conflict

I thought that Australians getting evacuated from New South Wales beaches Dunkirk style from climate change induced wildfires during 2020 New Year was peak. Then months later we got Covid, Bernie campaign died and shit keeps spiraling into even more peak fire

The bourgeoisie works overtime to instill class consciousness in the proletariat.

better than the 2030s

God bless the dead but they got it easy

No sir, I don't like it

Both the far right and left are organizing. Liberals have failed to offer a convincing alternative for over a decade. Covid, cops, and ICE have intensified violence felt within America. Soft power is dying. The economy is set to crash at some point due to AI underdelivering and wiping out a lot of debt-ridden companies

If china feels pressured to return to internationalism to protect their trade partners the following decade could look very different

Every subsequent decade will have even more horrifying climate disasters

It's gonna keep getting worse before it gets better. I just hope it actually does get better.

Weeks and weeks of decades happening but not a single damn lesson learned from it for TPTB.

I read the Long Twentieth Century after Sean and the Trillbilly Boys talked about it in 2020. And everything is on track. Which means we are fucking cooked.

Good: some treats that came out this decade were nice?

Bad: most were absolute hypercapitalist shit. The world is falling apart. Seems like everyone just forgot about global warming. Hope is dwindling. Anger is rising.

The Time of Monsters

3/10

We got some interesting flavors of Mountain Dew, but overall very lackluster

Overall? not great

Personally? also not great

The focus on personality, celebrity, and media are seemingly more important to everyone more than strict, achievable goals. It's a great time to be an opportunist. Everyone is chasing unreality. The attention economy has become incredibly real and is dominating politics. No movement exists to counter it, only those that want to dominate or capitalize on it.

Point of no return is finally here

my depression has been bad enough I don't remember most of it, so that's probably a bad sign.

Better than the complete vapidness of the 2010s, but not great

Shit

Life is not a gift.

Idk I’ve had brain fog for all of it

pretty good

It's pretty bad, bad enough I've started to see some leftist groups speak truth to power, but sadly that's all I see them doing and idk why is nobody organizing something more, with potential to improve the lives of neglected cities under capitalism, and like... actually reach the working class.

I am definitely not qualified to lead anyone(I'm not trying to be sarcastic here it would be dangerous to even let me speak to a crowd, let alone lead one that'd be a disaster of epic proportions) and surely there's 10 times better leaders who also wish to improve the lives of people, but where are they hiding? I'm trying to find them and pitch them some ideas of how to reach the people most oppressed under capitalism, but so far no luck and it's kind of depressing, but I suppose as things get worse they might start to appear.

Not to be a downer, but it's not great so far.

i deeply regret not opting out