Oxycontin crisis, satanic panic, Columbine and the proliferation of the modern school shooting crisis, all the tobacco execs lying to congress about nicotine being addictive and facing no consequences, and the open and acknowledged deployment of weapons of war in space thus opening us up to a brand new version of the Cuban missile crisis… In Space (space space space)

My biggest tinfoil hat take is that the fent was put there on purpose to punish drug culture, as the public discovered that many drugs that are scheduled aren’t really as harmful or addictive as we’re told when done in moderation, and they hated that they were losing control of the narrative that the police state is for your own protection.

So they decided to poison dissenters so they could say “See? Told you so.” I don’t think they quite realized how many opioid soccer moms were trying to cope at that point, but I wouldn’t expect much competence from a government that was willing to purge their own citizens for the crime of “going to a rave occasionally”.

Don’t forget all the climate stuff happening exactly as predicted like twenty years ago.

And we need to start calling it, sucking up economics.

Also to add to your list.

• Patriot act, establishment of the surveillance state.
• Obama betrayal to the Oligarchs.
• You will own nothing and be happy.
• 2008 recession and ongoing housing capture
• America exiting the rules based international order.
• Climate denial turning into climate-“fuck off, we are a death cult”
• Growing wealth chasm.

10 things we are so passionate about here’s what you’ve done for each, please correct me if I’m being too cynical of you personally, but this applies to most so:

Nothing

Nothing

Nothing, and how easy is it to get the ball rolling on union stuff

Nothing, consumed said media

Actively posting our worthless thoughts, we are ruining the internet rn

Voted for citizens united candidate or didn’t vote at all

Nothing

Nothing, maybe made the internet worse about it

Nothing

This is my favorite: nothing but with a sense of superiority for pointing it out

I don’t want you to take this as a personal attack but I feel like that’s what we as a generation are accomplishing in regards to your list.

These things are not some helpless thing we are assigned forever. We can be the change.

Purely as an excuse to post this video, Fascism never really went away… https://youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0

Every 100 years there will be a rise of facist, and only the Avatar can stop them.

Not to mention BSE, we got that the head-end of that one as well. And of course the planet literally burning.

'88 here. 9/11 sits at such a clear demarcation line for us. Happened in 8th grade where you’re still straddling the fence that’s childhood, while still capable of grasping the enormity of what was unfolding.

Though I also grew up in the rust belt, so there was always the sense that you were riding a wave that had long since crested.

There seems to be no opting out…

This version gives me Christopher Lee vibes, and we all know how much Saruman loves floods.

I changed jobs in late 99, so I got to go through all the Y2K bullshit in one job, then do it again in the new one.

One dude at my old job had his panties in a bunch because he said all the U.S. Navy ships were vulnerable and he said WW3 was going to start, but he was generally an idiot anyway, so that was par for the course.

In the new job I had to certify that DEC impact printers were Y2K certified. Which way basically me putting stickers on all of them saying they were certified because they weren’t smart enough to care what the date was.

My boss at the new job required us to be onsite on January 1st, which was kind of a drag, but that’s the way it goes. There was nothing for us to do. He stopped at a deli on the way in and picked up an absolutely fantastic pile of food for us, so it just became a casual brunch and we just kind of hung around eating and chatting until he was satisfied that nothing was going to go wrong.

I’d kill to know what the deli was. I was too young and stupid to save the name.

Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.

I know that it is one of the most senselessly self destructive acts that one can commit, and that many people think it smells bad, and that it is a representation of class struggle and poor education, but I miss when all of the Cool people that didn’t give a fuck hung out outside of a workplace swapping stories whilst killing themselves at similar rates.

I guess people could stand around and look at their phone for fifteen minutes part way through their shift, but it doesn’t hold the gravity of wincing against a sheet of sleet and recalling the harrowing tale of the Nor’ Easter of ‘95. Or that one time Sheila kicked you out of the apartment for No Reason during the Nor’ Easter of '95.

If I see someone out on a 15 they have their headphones on because they have their reality so bespokely edited that their world is filled with carefully selected music or bantering friends they will never meet.

The shrooms are wearing off, so I should stop yelling at clouds soon.

You just triggered me. ToT