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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:03 PM Author: Cream Kitchen People were happy in the 1990s. Now they’re not. What year did it switch?
I think I noticed a lot of people starting to complain around 2015 but I don’t remember the exact timeline and I’d like to get the bort’s thoughts |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:05 AM Author: Alcoholic Copper School fuck off you tranny pedo retard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365834) |
Date: October 21st, 2025 9:07 PM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Community Account circa 2012, we were halfway through obama and it was clear the rapture was not going to happen and shit was still just going to hell, we all recognize on some level that we are living in a decaying empire, most people probably can't articulate it but they have a sense that tracks very well with what, historically, is almost certainly happening to us right now and the fucking retards we put in charge think they are too smart for bad things to happen to them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365098) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:11 PM Author: Cream Kitchen I suspect the societal misery has more to do with social media being in our faces 24/7 (apps, notifications, constant “breaking news”) and no longer something you just do on the computer for a couple hours a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365112) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:28 PM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Community Account that is a factor in the downfall of western civilization certainly, but a thriving society wouldn't be subject to that in the first place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365144) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:24 PM Author: spruce costumed ticket booth queen of the night many thriving societies are also addicted to social media, try again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365264) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:44 PM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Community Account wtf society do you think is thriving? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365304) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:42 AM Author: passionate gas station So you’re miserable because you perceive us to live in a decaying empire? Who gives a flying fuck? Everyone on here has a cushier life than all of their ancestors except maybe their parents (and most xo poas are still better off than their parents) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365719) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:20 PM Author: Carnelian Parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366310) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:15 PM Author: emerald dysfunction french chef Post 9/11. Maybe 2004 or so. After that, the dam broke. It's been weird ever since. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365119) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:48 PM Author: Cream Kitchen I often have these moments where it hits me that my kids will never understand what it was like to live in pre-9/11 America :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365186) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:51 PM Author: Flickering boltzmann ZOG sim took over at that point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365448) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:19 PM Author: vibrant hilarious reading party Well, 9/11 and Obama 2 Would be the obvious choices here but yet "Sopranos" back in '98 contained The same theme of American decay |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:21 PM Author: Cream Kitchen why was Obama 2 worse than Obama 1? I notice a lot of you guys cite 2012 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365127) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:22 PM Author: emerald dysfunction french chef It's like a disease advancing from an early to a terminal stage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365134) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:28 PM Author: Cream Kitchen ok but did you guys think there was a chance he wouldn’t win a second term? he’s the most popular president of the past quarter century. Shouldn’t your “oh fuck” moment have been 2008, not 2012? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365146) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:32 PM Author: sticky home He was terrible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365153) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:44 PM Author: Cream Kitchen non responsive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365178) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:53 PM Author: emerald dysfunction french chef Yes. McCain was the clearly superior choice; however the nation was caught up in hypnosis/psychosis of 'transformative change' (aka I want to say I voted for the first black president) after the sort of drudgery of the Bush II era, that Obama coasted to a win. It was a storm of naive Millennials voting with the Leftist Boomer Radicals solidifying their Long March into the institutions.
IIRC, we knew before Obama was elected he launched his political career in Bill Ayers's living room. I guess it was a lesson in 'you get what you vote for'. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:39 PM Author: clear pervert wrinkle > the leftist boomer radicals
all three of them |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:24 PM Author: vibrant hilarious reading party Obama 2 there was no "HOPE" around Campaigning, and we still were in Iraq. The social pressure ramped up then as well. "Smith-Mundt Modernization Act" on Google |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:28 PM Author: peach exhilarant location . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365145) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:13 PM Author: iridescent university water buffalo Falling Down came out in 1993. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365237) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:13 PM Author: vibrant hilarious reading party Decline of The West was 1922. The malaise is more specific ITT |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:36 PM Author: .,....;...,.:...;...,.... D-Fens owned a house near the water in Santa Monica that would probably no be worth $4-6 million (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367318) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:21 PM Author: Multi-colored turquoise gay wizard Once the iphone and facebook came along. Nothing has been fun since (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365128) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:23 PM Author: peach exhilarant location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365136) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:35 PM Author: Navy nursing home police squad This is the obvious answer.
Screens / social media has had the biggest effect on our happiness ever.
WFH is a great example of this. Almost everyone prefers WFH, but it's also pretty clearly awful for your mental health.
It's easier t owatch something on Netflix than to go to the movie theater. It's better to get food delivered to your porch and eat it on your couch that to go to a restaurant. Everyone prefers to text their friends than call them. You meet people on dating apps instead of going out to bars.
All these little improvements in our life have made us miserable. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:36 PM Author: overrated corner bbw where is the evidence that "people" are miserable though? when I scroll through Instagram and shit like that people generally give off the appearance of being "happy". so much so that I feel alienated, like not even of the same species. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365160) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:44 PM Author: peach exhilarant location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365176) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:52 PM Author: Navy nursing home police squad Is this a serious Q?
Everyone posts fake pictures of themselves having fun and then looks at everyone else's pictures and wonders why their own lives aren't like this.
What you're describing is happening to you is happening to everyone. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:54 PM Author: overrated corner bbw I know this is what your intuition tells you, I get that. But we must consider the possibility that we are only projecting our own misery on to others afaik. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365200) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:57 PM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Community Account you for sure aren't, life is hell, everyone wakes up having to piss and having shit to do they don't want to do, happiness is a story people tell themselves, not a real thing that they experience, you get moments of joy but it all goes back to the slog for everyone, some people just lie better to themselves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365204) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:00 PM Author: overrated corner bbw no one is more anti-life on this beautiful chatbort than me champ. but intellectually I understand that what I think is only what I think, and nothing else. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365211) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:02 PM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Community Account oh I agree they think different things, but they don't experience them, they just tell themselves a different story about the same shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365215) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:11 PM Author: hairraiser generalized bond Now that’s what I call intellectual honesty 👍 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365230) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:44 PM Author: overrated corner bbw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365431) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:41 PM Author: clear pervert wrinkle > everyone wakes up having to piss
if you don't have gonorrhea, pissing first thing in the morning is a pleasurable experience, not an unhappy one, wtf |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:45 PM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Community Account I mean your physical state when you wake up is one of discomfort, which it is, you have to get out of bed and put shit on and then go piss, there is no way to spin that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365314) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:48 PM Author: clear pervert wrinkle Oh yeah, 100% agree, which is why I'm confused by the losermo arguing that WFH makes us miserable.
So much of life's problems go away if you WFH. |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:44 AM Author: passionate gas station Brother you are the prime example of a projector who wants to drag down everyone with him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365723) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:10 PM Author: hairraiser generalized bond Good point OYT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365229) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:40 PM Author: clear pervert wrinkle > Almost everyone prefers WFH, but it's also pretty clearly awful for your mental health.
I didn't realize they let fucking retards sign up for this site. WFH is amazing. I did it so many years before retiring, and I'd wake up late, work from bed, go to a cafe, chat people up there while casually working, if i had a meeting i'd head back home to call, but basically i was just chilling, playing with my kids, fucking my wife, never having to drive a car, working out in the middle of the day, and going to bed early and getting 8+ hours of sleep every night. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:56 PM Author: chrome love of her life fanboi That’s great. I spent a huge chunk of my 20s in covid lockdown and have no wife to fuck so I just spend my WFH time fantasizing about killing myself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365338) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:14 PM Author: vibrant hilarious reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365364) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:01 AM Author: Outnumbered insane rigpig pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365748) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:15 PM Author: hairraiser generalized bond It makes Women and extroverts and yes retards go insane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367181) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:34 PM Author: impertinent heady deer antler faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365285) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:23 PM Author: sticky home Obama's second term (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365135) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:29 PM Author: Cream Kitchen same question to you
https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&mc=15&forum_id=2#49365146 |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:25 PM Author: overrated corner bbw what makes you say that people are miserable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365140) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:30 PM Author: french titillating native volcanic crater annoyed? probably 2012 or so. truly miserable? i think 2021. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365149) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:45 PM Author: Cream Kitchen was Biden’s landslide win over Trump a tough moment for you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365179) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:46 PM Author: sticky home You're just a lib troll (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365180) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:49 PM Author: Cream Kitchen granted but I’d still like an answer to the question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365187) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:09 AM Author: Alcoholic Copper School eat a dick you tranny loser (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365846) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 9:59 PM Author: Onyx tanning salon factory reset button how has nobody said 2008
during the 9/11 aftermath and iraq it was all just disappointment and an almost quaint mocking frustration with american leadership as a pastime, mostly about things that were a distant reality for 95% of the population.
2008 was the first time we saw real anger. and we never turned back. if we had a republican president libs would have gotten violent. obama being president kept them merely demoralized. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:18 PM Author: hairraiser generalized bond 2008 was much worse than 9/11 but millennials eventually staged a comeback and are ow richer than Gen X (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365247) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:28 PM Author: Onyx tanning salon factory reset button yes but people never stopped being miserable cunts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365278) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:44 PM Author: clear pervert wrinkle > 2008 was the first time we saw real anger
Only someone who wasn't an adult in 2003–04 would say this. There was legit fury over the invasion of Iraq. I was at uni at the time, and we blocked the roads and the city sent vehicles to run us over. Basically it was an ur-MAGA moment where crazy people thought they could commit vehicular murder on behalf of the gov't employer. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:51 PM Author: violent casino In a just world, they would have sent steamrollers to make hippy pancakes out of you and your friends.
EDIT: in retrospect, you and your faggot friends were right, an irrelevant fact. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:00 PM Author: Outnumbered insane rigpig pocket flask I’ve hated this planet since around age 7 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365209) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:15 PM Author: Cream Kitchen what year? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365240) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:29 PM Author: Outnumbered insane rigpig pocket flask 90-95 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365279) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:08 PM Author: Jet market (Kurdt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365354) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:18 PM Author: mint personal credit line whorehouse Tipping point IMO was around 2014 or 2015 when the smartphone reached mass proliferation. It's not the 24/7 social media feed so much as the fact that the smartphone removed all of the so-called "friction" from life.
But what tech frauds call "friction" is actually the texture of life.
You see ads for products or services that promise to "take care of X so you can go back to doing what you love." But now there is a smartphone-based service for everything that used to just be part of living a normal life. And all that people seem to love doing is endlessly scrolling. But not because they actually love it, rather it's because the smartphone has removed so much of actual life from the world. And what remains is but a husk.
It doesn't mean a person can't be happy, but it requires a meaningfully concerted effort to replicate a more analogue life. |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:10 AM Author: primrose lascivious bawdyhouse Titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365848) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:27 PM Author: orange set roast beef titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366328) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:21 PM Author: Mind-boggling weed whacker round eye 9/11 and then obama
anybody answering stuff other than these is not being Honest |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:23 PM Author: spruce costumed ticket booth queen of the night this year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365260) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:42 PM Author: chrome love of her life fanboi It does seem to just keep getting worse. I am simultaneously depressed and relieved about no wife/children. I cannot imagine raising children in 2025 they are absolutely fucking COOKED. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365300) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:47 PM Author: clear pervert wrinkle This is something that occupies my thoughts a lot, and I'm worth eight figures (barely). I can't imagine what it's like to be a middle classmo rn. It must be completely hopeless. As it is, I'm not sure my net worth won't be entirely wiped out in ten years from social upheaval, the collapse of America, etc. Like it or not, even a globally diversified portfolio is fucked if the largest consumer breaks out into civil war. Global depression for a generation, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365323) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:44 PM Author: hyperactive locus Uh, 30,000 BC. You know, that garden of Eden thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365305) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:50 PM Author: chrome love of her life fanboi I think 2017ish or so was the point of no return when the entirety of women’s collective unconscious was fully blown out by Tinder and IG. Women have always been capable of nastiness etc etc but there was so many good traits balancing out the other end. Your average person today just has so few redeeming qualities and their high powered perceptions are laser focused on the faults & inadequacies in others.
It’s obvious evil is in full control of this realm and automation will not be done kindly, but needfully. haha |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:55 PM Author: Mind-boggling weed whacker round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365336) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:43 AM Author: peach exhilarant location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365885) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:52 PM Author: violent casino There was a bunch of shit percolating for a while, but Covid & BLM riots was the end point.
Also, a great argument could be made for the year they started passing out smartphones. |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:54 PM Author: impressive irate jewess 1914 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365333) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 10:57 PM Author: violent casino probably cr on a grand scale, but consider that Smashmouth's hits "Walking on the Sun" and "Allstar" came out in the late 90's, meaning that was still recently some joy left in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365339) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:45 PM Author: Slap-happy theatre People were white in the 90s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365434) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:46 PM Author: pink dilemma AI black pilled me on a lot of thinks like indian h1b fraud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365435) |
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Date: October 21st, 2025 11:49 PM Author: aquamarine piazza this is easy 1/2 became miserable at the end of 2016 when trump won the other 1/2 became miserable at the end of 2020 when biden won now each half hates the other the libs are the ones to blame, but that's a different conversation |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:36 AM Author: hairraiser generalized bond It’s insane how dumb you are lmao 2014 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365711) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:41 AM Author: Cream Kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365717) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:51 AM Author: aquamarine piazza fixed. glad you've only been an irate miserable faggot since 2016 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365904) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:28 PM Author: orange set roast beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366331) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:56 AM Author: Glittery sound barrier 2010ish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365610) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:45 AM Author: disgusting supple regret 2011-14 ish. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365725) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:06 AM Author: trip locale 2020 is when the levee broke-- rupture in the lining of the Western technocratic society (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365756) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:08 AM Author: Alcoholic Copper School 2008 - post Obama getting elected clearly was the tipping point your retard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365844) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:10 AM Author: trip locale 2020 was when u actually looked behind the curtain to see a thin veneer of civilization covers an atavistic impulse governing all human behavior (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365847) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:59 PM Author: Alcoholic Copper School you stalked the box (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366412) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 9:58 AM Author: Narrow-minded scarlet hospital feces 2012 seemed significant in real time. Combo of Trayvon Martin and the election where Obama got to run as a populist/anti-rich candidate despite having pussed out on going after anyone post-ITE and having a cabinet handpicked by Wall Street, and Romney playing into it completely with the 47% audio left the country feeling like the total neolib victory was complete, racial and identity politics were a perfect tool to divide and distract and any hope that the Reagan coalition corpcon/christcon alliance could reassert itself and potentially restrain the neolib sellout of the heartland was lost. Things obviously got angrier post summer 2015 but 2012 seemed to be what set it all in motion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365910) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:38 PM Author: peach exhilarant location and Romney playing into it completely with the 47% audio left the country feeling like the total neolib victory was complete
can you explain this further? i know about the 47% comment, but what do you mean here exactly |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:01 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Obama was an obvious fraud running an “eat the rich” campaign message as a desperation pivot in the wake him getting his ass kicked in the 2010 midterms and public outcry and backlash to rumored austerity plans that he was entertaining in order to get a deal out of Simpsons-Bowles. Occupy Wall Street starts in the summer of 2011 just as his negotiations with Boehner fall apart and its becoming clear that the GOP nominee will be a private equity CEO and centamillionaire. So the Obama campaign decided to pretty blatantly lean into class war messaging and tried to co-opt OWS. Romney was already well suited to it, but the leaked audio of him addressing a room full of rich donors effectively saying that the poorer half of the country were lesser Americans who don’t have a stake in the government working well was about as perfect a piece of oppo as any campaign has ever been gifted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49368639) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:09 AM Author: Contagious Friendly Grandma its the phones.
hard to say exactly 07-12 when they became ubiquitous, and of course "phones" can be kids on tablets or employment on desktops. so theres nuance, sure, but within a handful of years mankind converted its existence to virtual
been long enough since the matrix movie that its kind of goofy and stale to still talk about, but we really did that shit, we really chose a matrix existence - and only since most of us were in law school
but its as remarkable, and more sudden, than almost any other development in our species - so there is no understating it. ITS THE PHONES |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:29 PM Author: orange set roast beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366333) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:33 PM Author: mint personal credit line whorehouse It all starts and ends with the phones. The phones led to complete and total information proliferation - at speed - which hollowed out countless industries. Completely wrecked the fabric of life and turned people into constantly agitated dopamine slaves (in large part because they have nothing else to do with their time, it's all hollowed out.)
If internet access only existed on a stationary computer, humanity would legitimately be saved (even if fraud stock valuations would come down.) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Carnelian Parlor 2013 or 2014
-Obama clearly not going to be a transformative president but instead sps
-Shitlib 'privilege' rhetoric etc. going mainstream
-Capeshit becomes ubiquitous and all the IP crossover stuff begins going hyperbolic
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:29 PM Author: dashing boistinker I think for most it was sometime between 9/11 and 2008 housing crash. So Bush presidency. Obama gets blamed a lot but he was just along for the ride. Neoliberal economics proved to be a failure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366335) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:34 PM Author: Ocher stage i watched a mum and daughter walk into the breakfast place the other day both holding their giant phones they skipped the line and ordered via the screen
both insanely obese and no energy looked depressed af ordering
sat down at their table no talking to each other just pulled out their phones and started scrolling
order came in they gulfed it down and went back to their phones
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:39 PM Author: mint personal credit line whorehouse Many such cases. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366363) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 6:52 PM Author: Ocher stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367149) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:37 PM Author: orange set roast beef as others have mentioned, proliferation of cell phones around 2014 started a downward spiral for individual, internalized misery
but i think it was around 2020 when people looked up and got a peek behind the curtain and realized it was fraud and lies all the way down. american institutions were hollow, our leaders were utterly corrupt and incompetent, and the nefarious ((actors)) we had thought might possibly be in charge were far more powerful, and far more evil, than we ever realized. we were lied to constantly for decades. it's hard to accept that American brainwashing was just as cunning and heavy-handed as the regimes we were taught to despise for doing the same. |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 2:06 PM Author: peach exhilarant location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366427) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Shaky salmon haunted graveyard 1979 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366441) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Stirring gaped hall partner ITT: bros who need to read some history. Griping about Obama and Trump when your ancestors lived under actual kings, many of whom were profoundly inbred to the point of retardation and deformity, but who nevertheless possessed arbitrary authority to torture and execute opponents, and most of the populace supported this system because it seemed safer than the alternative of being raped and enslaved by the next king over or even further immiserated by proto-Commies. Oh no I can’t stop poasting on my phone and my stocks went down, all is lost! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366448) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 2:34 PM Author: Cracking Theater Stage Azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366474) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 6:43 PM Author: mint personal credit line whorehouse Having an insane and inbred King would basically be irrelevant to the average prole hundreds of years ago. If anything the average person would be closer to nature and have no idea what a "culture war" or tranny was.
I remember reading something, maybe it was on XO, that the average person in the pre-industrial period would take in less information in their entire lifetime than can be found in the average daily edition of the NY Times today. Ignorance is bliss. |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:41 PM Author: Stirring gaped hall partner Material conditions of proles were godawful. Short lifespan, constantly ill, teeth falling out, sharing a tiny house with huge family and farming barely enough land to support same. The fact that they were also completely lacking in knowledge of anything better does not eliminate the objective shittiness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367207) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 2:18 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hominid Scrolling phones. I was a happy MFer with my trackball blackberry. Everything after that is ass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366451) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 5:41 PM Author: Provocative startling legal warrant library 2007 and the lolsuit and XOs mass exodus followed a few years later by the social mediaization of all online interaction and the death of the original internet
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:26 PM Author: Azeri GINI coefficient End of Crowvid 19 and the return of State Mandated Faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367297) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:43 PM Author: screenman stimulus-response loops have most of the world trapped in the virtual
all automated through a sophisticated system of operant conditioning, variable rewards, and personalized algorithms
We need to decouple from the machine
*CMD + T XO + Enter*
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