Nothing will ever be as good as 1996 was.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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People have to want things to get better. If people vote blue in November then we will have an opportunity to make things better. If the fascists take power, they will kills millions of people.
Nope not where I live (us) as someone who is heavily a minority, it's just going to get worse and worse because of Amerikkkas direction into Nazism 2.0
For me personally? Most likely worse, so far 2024 has been good with unusually few issues. I expect 2025 to regress to the mean amount of misfortune.
Significantly worse. But WWIII won't start properly until 2029
I'm an optimist, so better!
Yep
Yep.
Bad things are gonna happen regardless. Good things are going to happen regardless. There's the things in the news, the things in your community, the things in your friend and family groups, and the things that happen to you on your day to day.
While it's important to focus on the problems we face and the changes we can make, we also need to focus on the wins no matter how small. Mere pessimism isn't enough. Mere optimism isn't enough. Mere anything isn't enough because life isn't that simple.
Take time to mourn, but fight against the waves of despair that want to drown you.
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
It songs the tune without the words
And never stops at all"
Worse, based on trends over the last couple decades.
2024 is good for me so far, but I’m going to finish my bachelor’s degree in 2025 and still have no real clue what I want to do after (very likely something that has nothing to do with the degree though). So it’s completely up in the air lol. But hopefully I’ll find something I actually want to do and enjoy.
* shrugs * Depends on what happens during it, I guess. I'm a chronic worrier and anxiety haver, but even I feel that this question is a bit too premature.
For anyone worried about the future, I recently stumbled upon this video which hopefully can put things in perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGmdvdXoJ-8
I don't know, I just want to socialize more, even if that's while fighting at the front.
I think it will be better. I think trump will lose. I’ll graduate in December, I just got married, and we’re going to move out of my in-laws house sometime in the spring trading suburbia for a coastal urban city. I’m going to make new friends and have kids and ask them questions which will prepare them to be good and thoughtful citizens and whatever else they choose to become.
At this point you may, and rightly so, assume that mine are rose tinted glasses. However as a hobbiest student of history I’ve come to the conclusion that the world is always on fire. Humanity tends to have a bias towards bad news, and there is plenty of bad news around, but cynicism only incentivizes inaction. If we want to give the world the best chance for happiness in our time, to honor the legacy of those forebears who strove to build the better world of today, then we have to acknowledge the good.
This doesn’t mean ignoring the bad, or giving up on the better, but we have to immerse ourselves in the electrifying notion that civilization has moved over the past 200+ years gradually, with new and terrible acts of inhumanity along the way, toward better lives for the average human. We have a duty to fight for that trend so that we in our old age can scoff at the perceived slights of our progeny as our parents and elders do now. The disconnect between the generations in some ways can stand as a testament to the progress that has been achieved.
They don’t make cardboard like they used to so I’m going to get off my soap box before it sloughs into a pile of microplastics.
Unless you are already retired, and often even then, for you personally it has an extremely good chance of getting better, even if only slightly. More life experience often translates into ability to convert new things heading your way into less suckiness. Pro-Tip: lean into that for even better results - get married, or perhaps divorced, ditch Windows if you haven't already, etc. Don't let life pass you by - enjoy it!:-)
But the trajectory won't be as high as it would have been previously for someone a few years ago, and for all of us overall that trajectory will be objectively worse. Especially minorities bc fuck them all, apparently - says the Leopards Surely Won't Eat My Face Off party. Oh well - anyone who thinks life is supposed to be fair hasn't been paying attention (especially since the late 70s with the advent of corporations that can shirk legal duties that the rest of us cannot, like they can die and in so doing offer massive payouts to the board members at the expense of the customers, etc.). On the other hand, as the suffering increases comes the possibility of finally waking up and doing something meaningful - apes together strong. In the meantime, refer back to the first paragraph, for now.
The good thing is that we’ve had these types of corporations before in the guilded age and eventually we passed laws to break them up and instilled labor laws, while these protections have atrophied we can build them up again.
If we only would do so... but with globalization and automation, it seems that the interests of the wealthy no longer align with democracy, hence the latter looks more poised to give way than the former.
It will be good for me because my jelquing will finally pay off.
The glass will go from half-full to half-empty.
...seriously, I don't think that '25 will be meaningfully better or worse than '24.
Your year will largely be what you make of it. I'm hopeful I'll have a good one. Good luck and have fun with your journey.
Better, I heard there still working on TF2 comic 7 and then I can die happy