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Post by y2kbaby on Feb 2, 2021 8:04:23 GMT 10
Late last year, the Professors/Historians and Historical Authors at Ivy League and Oxbridge University took part in a survey by CBT therapy and self-care app Bloom ranking on what they believe were the craziest years in American History. 2020 ranks at no.8 worst year in US history. Behind the years of 1929, 1968 and 2001. Do you guys(and girls) agree with the list? Or do you disagree with it? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9096543/2020-EIGHTH-worst-year-live-history.html
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Post by sman12 on Feb 2, 2021 8:29:00 GMT 10
I heavily disagree with 2001 being seven on that list. 2001 pretty much had only one paradigm-shifting world event that everyone knows about: 9/11. 2020 however had MULTIPLE. COVID-19, the brink of US having an all-out nuclear war with Iran, worldwide racial unrest, unprecedented hurricanes and wildfires, etc.
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Post by y2kbaby on Feb 2, 2021 8:35:13 GMT 10
I heavily disagree with 2001 being seven on that list. 2001 pretty much had only one paradigm-shifting world event that everyone knows about: 9/11. 2020 however had MULTIPLE. COVID-19, the brink of US having an all-out nuclear war with Iran, worldwide racial unrest, unprecedented hurricanes and wildfires, etc. That's true, 2001 should be ranked at 8. And 2020 should be ranked higher at either no.6 or no.7.
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Post by smartboi on Feb 2, 2021 9:21:50 GMT 10
Seems odd to have 2001 rank above any year during World War 2.
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Post by John Titor on Feb 2, 2021 10:04:06 GMT 10
aside from 9/11 2001 was a great year aside from the boring part of the first 6 1/2 months
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2021 10:21:24 GMT 10
I heavily disagree with 2001 being seven on that list. 2001 pretty much had only one paradigm-shifting world event that everyone knows about: 9/11. 2020 however had MULTIPLE. COVID-19, the brink of US having an all-out nuclear war with Iran, worldwide racial unrest, unprecedented hurricanes and wildfires, etc. That's true, 2001 should be ranked at 8. And 2020 should be ranked higher at either no.6 or no.7. It should be above all those 1960s years. It's easily the worst year since 1945.
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Post by ItsMichael on Feb 2, 2021 13:41:12 GMT 10
I've recently seen on not just this resource but from different people or other resources that 2001 is highly regarded as the worst year for America simply because of 9/11. While I do agree that it is the worst event to ever happen on American soil, it doesn't make the entirety of 2001 such a terrible year. I honestly think that America during any point of the 1930s was the worst time because of the Great Depression which America suffered far worse than the aftermath of 9/11. In fact, I would say that last year is a contender for being the worst year for America with corona coming around, impacting the economy heavily and seeming that normal life never existed that year except for the first two months.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Feb 3, 2021 1:47:24 GMT 10
I agree with everything apart from 1929, 1962 and 2001.
1929 was only bad if you were involved in stocks, it was actually a fine year economically for the VAST majority of americans. It wasn't until fall 1930 when banks started to fail in large numbers that lead to the great depression (this was linked to the stock market crash back in 1929 but, that's not my point).
1962 had the Cuban Missile Crisis, even though this caused a lot of fear and paranoia, it wasn't much worse compared to some other years during the height of the cold war era. Also, do consider that this was only one event that only lasted a short amount of time too.
2001, I definitely disagree with the most. Unlike 2020 though, we could still actually go outside and live normally. People were a lot more optimistic in 2001 too, especially compared to 2020. Also, 2001 was a pretty good year for pop culture (specifically the latter months). Plus, 9/11 was one event (a very impactful & tragic one) but, 2020 had tragedy after tragedy (with most of them being very impactful, especially covid-19).
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Post by John Titor on Feb 3, 2021 4:18:56 GMT 10
2020 was worse than 2001 in every way. Nothing was redeemable about 2020, aside 4 maybe some music. 2001 outside of 9/11, was a pretty kick ass, laidback year in terms of pop culture. 2001 (skipping Jan - late May 2001 AKA Long in the tooth era ) and 9/11 is a top 5 tier year of the 2000s and pop culture in general. There is no denying this, you were constantly being bombarded by new Sh*t, Sum 41, Michelle Branch, Shakira, New Britney, Neptunes......... Gamecube, Xbox, Grand theft auto, lord of the rings, Harry Potter......... ETC ETC and ETC I was there LIVE as well as Slashpop and slowpoke and Jaydawg .. .it was simply..........amazing
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Post by Captain Nemo on Feb 3, 2021 8:11:44 GMT 10
1873, because of the Panic of 1873
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Post by y2kbaby on Feb 3, 2021 11:08:58 GMT 10
Seems odd to have 2001 rank above any year during World War 2. Or all of the 1930s in general. Not trying to knock 2001 nor the event, but there are other years as bad if not worse than 2001 as a whole.
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Post by TheUser98 on Feb 10, 2021 23:32:24 GMT 10
1873, because of the Panic of 1873 What's so shocking about the Panic of 1873?
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