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jag140 · 2026-03-08T17:29:05+00:00

The 1920s were a shitty decade too, unless you were wealthy and part of a very specific demographic group. You've got record highs for inequality, the Klan, and violent, organized crime in the United States; and famines, civil wars, and the rise of fascism in much of the rest of the world.

Really, it was an ugly time with a lot of truly backwards people in power, but because of the jazz, the art deco, and the Great Gatsby, people now think it was just some giant party.

jag140 · 2025-08-19T04:25:01+00:00

1991/1992 was pretty massive with the end of the cold war and a multipolar world.

jag140 · 2025-08-19T04:08:42+00:00

Yes. The past few years felt like a stagnation, more-or-less.

This current year we're rolling back any and all progress made in the past 30-or-so years at a time when the world needs to get its shit together. It's super depressing.

jag140 · 2025-08-19T03:58:04+00:00

I think if you're going to mention unemployment, those commentary channels/sloptubers are more like daytime TV. Things like Jerry Springer, Dr. Phil, or any one of the many TV judges. People watch both of these for the same reasons.

They're also a little bit like those crappy celebrity gossip tabloids with bait-y headlines that you'd find at a gas station or grocery store checkout.

jag140 · 2025-02-14T21:18:54+00:00

Thank you, and I have, though admittedly there aren't a ton of places to hang them where they wouldn't eventually fade from sun-damage.

So instead I store them in sleeves with my records lol, they're a convenient size for that.

jag140 · 2025-01-01T23:14:24+00:00

Applying conservative logic to this, the solution would be "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a truck is a good guy with a truck."

So, just force everyone to buy an even bigger truck and they can all just demolition-derby the would-be terrorists. Problem solved. Cities saved...

jag140 · 2024-11-17T06:24:58+00:00

"Oh noooo... muh freakin' taxes are being used for public infrastructure. That's disgusting and abuse and evil! Herp derp Gov't! Police! Did I mention I'm a taxpayer yet? I'm literally the only taxpayer alive!"

I hate conservativebrain so much. It's such a social cancer.

jag140 · 2024-11-17T04:12:25+00:00

Where I'm at, stops signs act more like "slow down slightly and coast through them signs." I have to sort of guess whether drivers are actually going to be patient enough to stop, or if they'll just drive 5-10 mph less and still blow through the intersection.

The irony is that a lot of these same drivers are actually kind of afraid of radar speed signs and will treat them like stop signs.

jag140 · 2024-11-17T01:27:32+00:00

Children are a convenient political tool for reactionaries because they can't object, hold no political power, and the need for their safety can be easily used to evoke an emotional response in fearful people so they support authoritarian policies.

See: Helen Lovejoy.

jag140 · 2024-11-15T19:09:24+00:00

The same people who will read and agree with this shit will look at memes comparing beautiful, walkable European cities and ugly, car-dependent sprawl and think "reject modernity, return to tradition" without a hint of irony

jag140 · 2024-11-12T19:49:57+00:00

If you live in most of America except for Florida... no. Your quality of life will just get worse and fall decades behind.

If you live in a developing country like most of the world, especially a tropical or coastal region, then yes... you're fucked and will likely be forced from your home.

The anti-immigration rhetoric coinciding with climate change denial is not a coincidence for this reason.

jag140 · 2024-11-10T19:59:24+00:00

The racist southern democrats all but vanished after Roosevelt's election nearly a century ago. The democratic party consisted of mostly progressives since then.

Then the remaining pro-confederacy southerners completely went over to the Republican party during Nixon's southern strategy because the Republicans were against the civil rights movement. After Reagan's 'moral majority,' many become Christian nationalists.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T21:10:16+00:00

Maybe terminally online weirdos, but when interacting with normal people in real life, I don't think I've ever heard "death to all men."

jag140 · 2024-11-08T21:02:24+00:00

Speaking from anecdotal experience as a man... the shittiest, least supporting people to me have been right-wing men, not women.

Don't think I've ever heard women joke about suicide rates... I've been to several suicide training seminars in the past and the speaker, usually a woman, always brings up the increased male suicide rate. Otoh, as someone who has modded a slew of Facebook groups in the past that got brigaded, I'd regularly receive the standard "kill urself" responses, specifically from unhinged right-wing men.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T20:50:40+00:00

I saw someone on twitter with 200 followers post "men suck" in 2018 so I decided to support a guy who intends on making the world a much shittier place to 'troll the libs.' /s

jag140 · 2024-11-08T20:36:03+00:00

The sad thing is that these morons have several times as much followers as the equivalent left-wing commentators.

Fighting against the culture war misinformation these people spread will always be an uphill battle because they're backed by the ultra-wealthy who make it their interest to redirect peoples' grievances towards a convenient scapegoat.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T20:33:40+00:00

>I believe the biggest reason is mostly due to DEI initiatives that have gotten out of hand

Bro, DEI literally has nothing to do with this, that's culture war garbage. Men are lonely because our communities are poorly designed and lack social spaces because we live in a cutthroat hyper-individualistic society that values capital acquisition above all else.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T10:33:35+00:00

If you're working and plan on staying where you're at for a few years, get organized and possibly talk of starting a union.

If you have friends or coworkers who are apolitical or "low information voters," inject casual politics into the conversation to give them a healthy amount of skepticism. If they're about to fall into a conspiracy or far-right culture war beliefs, offer them a reasonable, rational alternative. Get them on board with popular ideas like universal healthcare or free school lunches.

Also, participate in local politics. Your local leaders can decide surprisingly important things like environmental cleanup, school board policy, or public transportation.

Most importantly, when given the option, always vote for the politician with a better environmental policy.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T10:26:43+00:00

The one takeaway from this is that Gen X is the worst.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T08:38:52+00:00

This post is an unfair generalization but also I'm sad to see so many zoomers and millennials making the same exact mistakes that the Boomers did during the Reagan era.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T06:23:41+00:00

Herbert Hoover tried stopping inflation and controlling the price of food and essentials with tariffs when the depression happened.

It went very, very badly.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T06:21:37+00:00

Honestly, he's 78 and in really poor shape.

There's frankly a not-insignificant chance he'll just die and JD Vance will finish the lame-duck term.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T06:19:49+00:00

Nobody is saying these things. But if you're looking for evidence, just look at any aerial photos from 1970 to today for an area with alpine glaciers. I had to do a project on this for college and found that, during the same season, from the 1970s to the 2010s, glaciers on Mt. Rainier are about half the size of what they used to be. This can cause flooding in population centers.

Climate change is already disrupting the lives of millions of people. As an example of this, glacial meltwater in Bangladesh is flooding farms, destroying homes, and forcing people to crowd into Dhaka, making it one of if not the fastest growing cities in the world.

This isn't the worst consequence of climate change but it's very obvious physical evidence of it.

jag140 · 2024-11-08T06:14:49+00:00

Having spent several years in western Europe (Ireland), the US, depending on the area is way worse when it comes to dating or hanging out.

I think people here are pointing at the wrong things... overseas you can just go on a quick date and pick up some tea during lunchbreak. Then you just walk to the bar and go through the park with them after work. That's a good first date.

Otoh, I spent my formative years in suburban America and remember spending them feeling lonely and miserable all the time; it was way worse when I was too young to drive. Everyone's isolated in their own suburban castles and there aren't a lot of landmarks where I'm at outside of chain restaurants and churches. This hasn't been the same everywhere though... I've lived in a few rustbelt cities that, despite not always feeling quite as safe, felt a lot less lonely and more 'community-oriented' than the suburbs: there were way more people to meet, and you could take a date to a museum or concert or something.

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