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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 6:58:51 GMT 10
It felt a dumb and empty era in retrospect. Late 2016 to early 2018 just felt a dying and blander version of the mid 2010s but with more trump and alt right influence. So many figures involved in the pro Trump and alt right have simply gone away, banned or changed by late 2018- largely due to how silly the whole thing was. Strongly agree with this. You pretty much described why I didn't like 2017 and still don't now. It was just a bland time in pop culture and I hated the political scene. The whole alt right thing was just stupid too, I remember hearing a lot about those dumb far-right youtubers that were really popular at the time such as Info Wars. I even knew people that were into the alt right, they all acted like a parody of themselves (wearing MAGA hats, always saying libtard, snowflake, triggered....). Overall, It felt like the alt right were really trying to push themselves into power and reverse any social progression we had made from 2004 - 2015. I may end up writing a complete perspective on 2017 and posting on this board. In my opinion, it was the last "normal" year before Trump and the alt-right had corrupted everything. Early in the Trump era, people were still shocked by the small things Trump does that defies norms and conventions. People still assumed that progress was linear. People were still asking "How bad can Trump be?" People still thought the 2008 Great Recession was a once in a generation economic crash, not knowing that we were just a few years from something many times worse. 2017, especially the first half, was probably the best time for my personal life during the entire 2010s aside from 2010 and 2011. However, I remember getting a bad feeling in my stomach that summer. It really felt like something big was coming. It really began when Trump started agitating North Korea and nuclear war, for the first time since the early 1990s, became no longer unthinkable. And I definitely agree the Trump era is all about reversing the social progress made from 2004-2015.
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Post by slashpop on Sept 2, 2020 14:38:23 GMT 10
Strongly agree with this. You pretty much described why I didn't like 2017 and still don't now. It was just a bland time in pop culture and I hated the political scene. The whole alt right thing was just stupid too, I remember hearing a lot about those dumb far-right youtubers that were really popular at the time such as Info Wars. I even knew people that were into the alt right, they all acted like a parody of themselves (wearing MAGA hats, always saying libtard, snowflake, triggered....). Overall, It felt like the alt right were really trying to push themselves into power and reverse any social progression we had made from 2004 - 2015. I may end up writing a complete perspective on 2017 and posting on this board. In my opinion, it was the last "normal" year before Trump and the alt-right had corrupted everything. Early in the Trump era, people were still shocked by the small things Trump does that defies norms and conventions. People still assumed that progress was linear. People were still asking "How bad can Trump be?" People still thought the 2008 Great Recession was a once in a generation economic crash, not knowing that we were just a few years from something many times worse. 2017, especially the first half, was probably the best time for my personal life during the entire 2010s aside from 2010 and 2011. However, I remember getting a bad feeling in my stomach that summer. It really felt like something big was coming. It really began when Trump started agitating North Korea and nuclear war, for the first time since the early 1990s, became no longer unthinkable. And I definitely agree the Trump era is all about reversing the social progress made from 2004-2015. I mean I might play devils advocate here. But do you think some portion of the social progress was just not authentic? With or without trump and his influence what we got was an almost puritanical aspect to meetoo and the modern feminist movement, attempted enforcement of gender pronouns and hook up dating apps partly replacing modern dating ( for all orientations) but just essentially promoting more sexual objectification and one night addiction than ever before. I think we still have a long way to go. I still feel If you were in the right area in 1990-2000 it was more authentically open and liberal in some ways than today. Not to mention the same progressive circles were not tainted with the collectivist social media culture of today and dating was better because people were forced to get to know each other in real or use actual matchmaking services.
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