I found r/stupidpol and I was like “wow this place is absolutely horrible” and went looking around to see if there was any place online talking about how bad r/stupidpol was and I found a thread on here
I (also early 20s) did the same thing where I speedran from centrist who was actually just right-wing to lib during my teen years and then Israel + 2024 US election made me totally break (I had my head up my ass with the "I don't really care about politics
You can see what we have nostalgia glasses for already. I have seen a lot of online nostalgia for 2016 which is funny because I distinctly remember everyone saying 2016 was the worst year ever while it was happening (it also was a year that kinda sucked for me, personally). I personally have seen the most nostalgia about the music and the general "vibes" of the era (I fucking swear, if I have to see another post about "Summer 2016 will never be replicated"). A big example of the type of music I'm talking about is the 2016 XXL cypher with lots of rappers who were coming up at the time. Again, I remember everyone making fun of this back then, but now it's something that some zoomers look back on with nostalgia as an era where mainstream rap felt fresh and exciting. I thankfully see less nostalgia about the online culture back then from us Zoomers. The less said about LeafyIsHere, the better. I always see the same posts about "Life was simpler when [insert thing from 2011-2017]" but I think that's just a universal thing with generations where we're just nostalgic because we were kids/teens. Seeing the rise of Trump in 2016 and then living through COVID while we were still in school probably broke some of that childhood innocence for some of us and could be one reason why so many of us seem nostalgic for 2016.
Those goddamn trans people and their pronouns! I (gamer who totally doesn’t care enough about gender to make “Two Genders” my literal Steam name) am the only sane one here!
I decided to join in on the trend of adding a bunch of fake job listings and OMG! The results are HILARIOUS
We get so many applications and tbh, we don't even look at 99% of them (you can thank DeepQuantumDiffusionLLM for filtering them out!). The ones who make it through are a real hoot though! Always talking about "PhD" this and "masters degree" that. I've even made a game out of seeing how quickly I can reject a candidate when I'm doing interviews. The kids call it speedrunning. My current fastest time is 2 seconds after they didn't make proper eye contact with me during our handshake. I can't believe I didn't try this sooner!
I was writing up a different reply when I realized that for all the talk by Democrats about "reaching across the aisle" and working on "bipartisan solutions," I don't think I've ever heard of Republicans saying anything similar about working with Democrats. I think this is probably another example of the Democrats and Republicans being functionally the same and rather than "capitulating," the Democrats are just going mask-off about it. It'd be nice if the Democrats at least made it look like they're trying to fight it though.
Thanks for the post! Lots and lots of interesting stuff in there. Side note: does anyone know any good places to get physical copies for some of these books? I'll see if I can check these books out from a library but I might want to keep some of these books later on. Or I might just get one of those tablet book readers idk
I found r/stupidpol and I was like “wow this place is absolutely horrible” and went looking around to see if there was any place online talking about how bad r/stupidpol was and I found a thread on here