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Post by John Titor on Apr 15, 2019 3:42:35 GMT 10
Anyone feel this ?
Seems pretty light so far
Even Lil Nas X's seems like a lighter trap country song. ( We have been leaning towards a lighter pop culture since 2017 btw)
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Post by Telso on May 17, 2019 18:43:23 GMT 10
Popular music definitely feels a lot more bright and lighter compared to the previous years specifically. I wouldn't say 2017 was "light" though, quite the opposite. Literally one of its biggest singles was the US suicide line, it easily blows any 90s year out of the water when it comes to darkness.
And yeah, I'm getting increasingly sick of how InThe00s' tries its darnest to make 2019 look like a dystopian wasteland, while it's mostly a harmless year so far, even politically somehow.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 21:17:04 GMT 10
Politically? Are you kidding? If you're paying attention to world affairs (or even domestic news), this is not a "light" year politically. It's possibly the darkest since the 1930s.
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 17, 2019 22:04:31 GMT 10
In terms of pop culture, I don't see how 2019 is any 'lighter' than previous years. Sure, you've got "Old Town Road" and "Me" hovering around the top of the charts at the moment, however this year has also witnessed the emergence of a "dark, alternative" scene which has been popularised by Billie Eilish and she's arguably the biggest name in music right now. I wouldn't consider 2019 to be a 'light' or a 'dark' year.
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Post by Telso on May 18, 2019 11:40:08 GMT 10
Politically? Are you kidding? If you're paying attention to world affairs (or even domestic news), this is not a "light" year politically. It's possibly the darkest since the 1930s. Whatever it is happening in world affairs, it sure is a lot better than the constant "impedding Korean nuclear war due to Trump's idiocy" I've constantly kept hearing about despite paying only occasionally attention to world news last year.
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 18, 2019 17:16:38 GMT 10
Whatever it is happening in world affairs, it sure is a lot better than the constant "impedding Korean nuclear war due to Trump's idiocy" I've constantly kept hearing about despite paying only occasionally attention to world news last year. I agree. The Late 2010s have witnessed a lot of turmoil in regards to world affairs, but I think that the political and social tensions have considerably eased off over the past six months or so, IMO. Brexit is obviously still a huge issue though.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 20:58:31 GMT 10
Politically? Are you kidding? If you're paying attention to world affairs (or even domestic news), this is not a "light" year politically. It's possibly the darkest since the 1930s. Whatever it is happening in world affairs, it sure is a lot better than the constant "impedding Korean nuclear war due to Trump's idiocy" I've constantly kept hearing about despite paying only occasionally attention to world news last year. By your own admission you have no idea what's actually been going on this year, so I'd say any argument you make on behalf of this year is a nullity by default. Don't ever argue from ignorance, kids.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 21:03:18 GMT 10
Whatever it is happening in world affairs, it sure is a lot better than the constant "impedding Korean nuclear war due to Trump's idiocy" I've constantly kept hearing about despite paying only occasionally attention to world news last year. By your own admission you have no idea what's actually been going on this year, so I'd say any argument you make on behalf of this year is a nullity by default. Don't ever argue from ignorance, kids. Arguably the argument from ignorance has its weight because it might demonstrate to the extent with which the media sensationalizes things.
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Post by rainbow on May 19, 2019 0:06:49 GMT 10
I feel like early 2019 was politically quiet and then just recently Alabama banned abortion and now it’s literally all over the place and politically insane IMO
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Post by Telso on May 19, 2019 3:51:20 GMT 10
Whatever it is happening in world affairs, it sure is a lot better than the constant "impedding Korean nuclear war due to Trump's idiocy" I've constantly kept hearing about despite paying only occasionally attention to world news last year. By your own admission you have no idea what's actually been going on this year, so I'd say any argument you make on behalf of this year is a nullity by default. Don't ever argue from ignorance, kids. Where did I say I had absolutely no idea of what was going on? Last time I checked, "occasionally" doesn't mean "never" last time I checked. And yes, so far news have more been "shit happens" type of usual stuff rather than all consuming "empedding doom/fall of civilisation coming" which is an improvement, although obviously not an fully ideal one arguably. Also when arguing it's sometimes would be useful to get off the high horse, kids.
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Post by Cassie on May 19, 2019 5:42:15 GMT 10
2019 still seems the same as the mid-late 2010s years: soulless and culturally bankrupt.
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 19, 2019 10:26:46 GMT 10
2019 still seems the same as the mid-late 2010s years: soulless and culturally bankrupt. I think that's something we just have to learn to accept, unfortunately. I can't see things changing when streaming and virtual reality both become even more entrenched in society.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 21:15:01 GMT 10
By your own admission you have no idea what's actually been going on this year, so I'd say any argument you make on behalf of this year is a nullity by default. Don't ever argue from ignorance, kids. Where did I say I had absolutely no idea of what was going on? Last time I checked, "occasionally" doesn't mean "never" last time I checked. And yes, so far news have more been "shit happens" type of usual stuff rather than all consuming "empedding doom/fall of civilisation coming" which is an improvement, although obviously not an fully ideal one arguably. Also when arguing it's sometimes would be useful to get off the high horse, kids. It's not a high horse, it's facts. If you pay attention to the news, you know fascism has been spreading like wildfire the last three years and it's reaching a fever pitch now with additions in places like Germany, Brazil, and Israel. The clock is ticking on the environment as the very nutritional content of our food is degrading, the Monroe Doctrine has been broken for the first time in nearly two centuries by Russia's involvement in Venezuela, anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish violence are at their highest rates around the world since before the Holocaust, China is actively committing genocide and apparently nobody cares, war with Iran seems imminent, the rule of law in the U.S. is eroding as the federal branches are abdicating their responsibility to check each other, nuclear war with North Korea is still on the table, and a combination of automation and the student loan debt bubble threatens to plunge the global economy into the worst economic depression in human history, possibly worse than even the Great Depression. I feel pretty safe in my conclusion of impending doom. Things are very, very not good right now, and it's not simply a matter of "media sensationalism." These are facts on the ground now.
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Post by Telso on May 22, 2019 10:10:20 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 11:45:18 GMT 10
I mean yeah, go ahead and ridicule it as hyperbole, but I don't feel like you have any standing to talk when you barely pay attention to begin with.
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