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[–] 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, you misunderstood. You see, the crisis lasts your entire generation

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Exactly. It isn't a "once in a generation crisis" it's a "one generation" crisis. OP must have skimmed over their orientation papers and misread.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago
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    I was just thinking about this today when I was out for a run.

    It's similar to how we keep getting record temperatures year on year.

    I think something isn't working as intended

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced 'average temperatures'.

    https://theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-above-average-temperatures-means-the-climate-has-changed-36175

    This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.

    We've had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Side rant: I fucking hate the phrase "unseasonably warm/cold".

    It gives the impression of a one off aberration that will go back to normal. We haven't had a normal season in decades, maybe we should just admit we broke the seasons instead of tiptoeing around it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    its snowing in my part of canada, it snowed last night, it snowed 2 days last week. time of posting, its april

    my boss said "we're kidding ourselves if we think this isnt normal"

    he's been right on that for the last 2 decades almost

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Weak men created hard times. Thanks, boomers.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The difference now is that this one was completely preventable. Not that it makes it any better.

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    That one was more complex. Lehman brothers didn’t publicly tell everybody that they were going to do a bad thing, then proceed to do the bad thing despite everyone telling them it’s a very bad idea, and then everything turns into shit just like everyone had predicted.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    True, but then it also could've been mitigated better after shit hit the fan.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also, if we had imprisoned everyone involved and seized all their assets Donald Trump probably doesn't win in 2016

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I think you're right, a lot of average people wouldn't be as anti establishment and easily pursuaded by demogoges if they'd taken care of the general population after 2008 instead of the banks...

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Well... you keep on giving the most rabidly ignorant, recklessly greedy bigoted zealots the keys to the kingdom every 4-to-8 years, what did you expect?

    Then when Democrats can't fix everything quickly while under constant zealot attack and sabotage, you reward the saboteurs with the keys to the goddamned kingdom again. All while you proudly proclaim that you've got it all figured out, because you read a blog post or tweet somewhere:
    bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg?

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    [+] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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    I dont mean to turn this into one of those arguments where fight over whether they are a millienial or gen-xer.. But I do recall recentley seeing someone in that age range, posting a message

    "Born just in time to see the end of the fuck around days, and entered adulthood just in time to live the rest of my life in the find out time"

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Limits to planetary growth

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey… if it follows number pattern… the next stage in the crisis should be about ten years away… so that’s cool right?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't remember a once-in-a-generation economic crisis in 2002... I remember the dotcom bust and my dad watching his retirement evaporate in 2000...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    2012 (kinda continuation of 2008) is missing

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    🎶UH OH UH OH, EVACUATE THE TRADE FLOOR UH OH UH OH IT'S INFECTED BY THE CLOWN UH OH UH OH STOP THESE TARIFFS ARE KILLING ME HEY MR ORANGE MAN FUCK OFF AND DIE🎵

    In my head set to https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FrGiD2yompY

    Also fuck the stock market anyway

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The boom bust cycle is a feature of how we do capitalism in the US. It is related to an unsustainable growth mindset.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Isn't it interesting that every single Republican in office during that time had 2 each?

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
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    Also 2016, that was a big one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Dunno about 2002 but '08-present day is 100% the same event

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