Every ten years, now even less.
1990 - Oil Price Shock / End of Cold War, reduction in defense spending
2000 - Dotcom bust
2008 - Housing Market crash
2020 - COVID
2025 - Trump just being a fucking dumbshit who wants to tear down everything other people built
You will never find a more wretched hive of GIF and compression artifacts.
Millennials:
Yup. I've been busy, oh you know, managing having fucking cancer and having necessary surgeries.
I only fucking wish I had money to spend to rebuild my life before it all goes to shit.
I hope, sincerely, the next time one speaks on ‘protecting the children’ they act like it.
These people care way more about appearing like they give a shit than actually, you know, giving a shit.
...and they had the audacity to call liberals and leftists "Social Justice Warriors" who didn't actually stand for the principles they espoused.
Every accusation is a confession.
Depends on what season this is from. Can't really say the Simpsons Did It rule applies to the last fifteen years or so.
Edit: Not even real womp womp
That’s what’s behind the economic shock therapy now underway. It’s similar to the disaster economics that the U.S. used in Chile and post-Soviet Russia, and Javier Milei is inflicting on Argentina today. But it’s inflected with the fervor of a Cultural Revolution—ironically more reminiscent of Mao than Pinochet with its war on intellectuals and its bestowing glory on farms and factories. The goal is to destroy the professions that make resistance possible—this is why you start with law firms instead of HMOs—then tighten the screws once people are desperate enough to submit. When the unrest comes—and it always does—so do crackdowns.
This article fucking nails it. They don't care if they lose a lot of the talented people to Europe. The people who don't have the capacity to leave will be forced to fall in line anyway.
It's why the only way to fight it realistically is to build parallel systems outside of capitalism. Begin building a new community built on bartering labor to support one another. It will allow enough people to bail on US capitalism to send their plans into a tailspin. Of course, there will be violent pushback against this, so like the Black Panthers who first pioneered their own parallel systems because US capitalism punished the black community for existing, we must have people ready to protect the new systems that have been built. Fighting fascism is more complicated than just buying guns and taking them on. It's going to have to be a combination of building systems we can rely on other than capitalism as well as building groups who can and will do their best to protect those systems.
We will have more Fred Hamptons, and they must be willing to accept that they may be assassinated just like the original Fred Hampton.
You know, you're right. I had this weird false memory of there originally only being three of them and that the yellow, green, and black rangers came later. I just checked Wikipedia, and she was for sure in the first episode.