It's all downhill from here
So 2017 is just about over, I guess we should take stock of whatever the hell happened and what's going to happen next. Post what you thought of 2017, and what you're expecting in 2018.
I know a lotta people are saying this, but I have to agree, 2017 fucking sucked. Did a single good thing even happen this year? What a fucking mess.
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I spent half the year unemployed. That was pretty sweet.
2018 = 1914 2.0
personal: graduated uni to full-blown NEET, lost ten pounds and gained it back, got an unpaid internship, became somewhat less depressed
political: witnessed the slow descent of canadian politics into mildly disgusted apathy, socjus continues to rule canpol through intimidation, reactionary movements are building with no plan to effectively counter them, international politics is a cloud of insanity with a silver lining of a minor shift from left-liberalism to social democracy. The aut-right is also starting to atrophy, which is expected but still comforting
prediction: at least one major financial bubble (no bitcoin doesn't count) will pop and shake the world's financial institutions, any anger will get co-opted by reactionaries, liberals or get bogged down in identity slapfights. 60% chance of a major iran-saudi war
also, weed will be legal. woo
Accelerationist candidate was a baboon even if it took long enough for him to start fucking up beyond "triggering the libs"
I have been unemployed since September last year. But I am in graduate school and industry certification classes.
I don't know about you guys, but we're fucked so I am checking out in 2018. The DNC fuck us completely by letting idpol have footing and now there will never be anything but a Trump and Trump clone in power nearly everywhere. We should have never weaponized the mentally ill.
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2017: liberals are still in denial and have only been doubling down on idpol.
We're heading towards war with NK and or Iran.
The far-left is woefully unequipped to deal with the far right.
And a few other things that don't come to mind.
2018: We will live in interesting times.
Making it half-way through undergrad. In stable and loving relationship. Got closer with family. Strengthened strong and fulfilling friendships. Overall depression has decreased. Studies continue to be stimulating.
More anxious than ever before. Worry about state of the world on a daily basis. Haven't felt truly relaxed in at least two years.No clue what I'm doing for the future. Increasingly skeptical of accelerationism.
Social Democracy has begun its comeback. DemCops made it to 10k+ members or some shit. I hear cancer treatment made some serious leaps this year.
Everything else.
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I don't think Trump will get us into a war next year, if not just because the US is wholly unprepared to fight one and won't receive any support in its effort.
North Korea won't fizzle down as much as leave the newspaper. North Korea will do an atomic test over the pacific during the Winter Olympics, and the Trump admin, after playing tough, will decide to continue Obama's Strategic Patience strategy (as they've been doing).
Both parties will continue to splinter and the dems will *barely* be able to get a majority in the midterms. So meet your new boss, the same as the old boss.
There's your first mistake. They were always going to fuck you over dude. They're porkies, it's what they do.
Don't kill yourself user, if that's what you meant by checking out. The world's gonna kill you anyway. Stay around to keep your comrades company. I mean that.