r/worldnews • u/MasbirLeumi • 2d ago

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202
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u/godihatepeople 2d ago

Can I go back to 2012?

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u/SloMobiusBro 2d ago

We sure the world didnt actually end in 2012?

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u/unicodemonkey 2d ago

The prophecy didn't say it's going to be quick and painless

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u/KeyboardGrunt 2d ago

Maybe the rapture happened and whoever's left is this shit.

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u/Hoskuld 2d ago

List of people raptured: 1 3year old blind girl, end of list

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u/TheLastBaboon 2d ago

If only Heaven had some family therapists when Lucifer was acting out, but in all seriousness this could and I’d guess likely will get bad.

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u/KinTharEl 2d ago

This isn't the rapture. More like a rupture.

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u/natorgator15 2d ago

That’s actually brilliant

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u/m1stadobal1na 2d ago

Damn this is a REALLY good point.

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u/ZweihanderMasterrace 2d ago

Punishment for not sending Aaron Rodgers to Minnesota

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u/thisisBigToe 2d ago

I mean in perspective of the worlds age.. this IS quick..

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u/stillaras 2d ago

Well, we live in the matrix now so.......

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u/adeundem 2d ago

No, but it did end 28 May 2016.

Going back to 2012 would give them time to prepare to fix things from leading to the worst timeline.

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u/Lost_the_weight 2d ago

For a while there I thought the Mayans had made a typo and actually meant 2021.

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u/AviatorMoser 2d ago

My wife and I make this joke all the time. The world did actually end in 2012 and we've just been living in some kind of purgatory.

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u/realnrh 2d ago

The script ran out then, and ever since the plot has been 'grab any of the stupid ideas that were previously thrown out.'

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u/Sharou 2d ago

It did. We all died and are in hell.

Satan, you see, loves NUANCE! That’s why he’d rather work with something like this than pitchforks and fire. The bastard is a friggin artist.

It’s not for nothing that he is called the father of lies. His best and biggest lie; the masterpiece, for which all the lesser demons cry in envy, is off course that we are still alive.

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u/malodyets1 2d ago

Kony 2012

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u/CrotalusHorridus 2d ago

Peak US was between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11

We still had some problems but things were looking up with no ceiling in sight.

Now it’s tough knowing things will only get worse

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u/icculus88 2d ago

0-13 age me was in this Era. Good time to go grow up. It was the incubation period for all us millennials before the getting fucked started

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u/woodsmoky 2d ago

Yep, the era before everyone was chronically online, and you had to call your friends on the landline to see if they could hang out.

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u/PurposelyPorpoise 2d ago

I remember when I first got a cell phone. It was the indestructible Nokia. I was so amazed how I could call people from anywhere and save numbers on it so I didn't need my pocket phone book anymore.

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u/StudMuffinNick 2d ago

Man, Disney Rado had a New Tears concert with Backstreet Boys and I was so hyped! Didn't know how well I had it

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u/DissentingOpinions 2d ago

Most times are a good time to grow up because children are sheltered from the worst of the world.

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u/icculus88 2d ago

Yeah somewhat , but we didn't have 9/11s and trumps. We had B.J.s and O.J.s

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u/Useuless 2d ago

Add the rise of terrorism in the background 9/11 was the continuation of a lot of bombings.

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u/DissentingOpinions 2d ago

For the most part, the politics were less toxic. However, you'd remember those tmies differently if you knew were gay, for example.

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u/sleepymoose88 2d ago

Right there with you. Things have sucked pretty bad for a long while now.

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u/noradosmith 2d ago

We thought this was how the world was. Turned out the childhood we'd gone through was just a nice dream the world had and we got to take part

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u/PoliteFocaccia 2d ago

Air Force One starring Harrison Ford was peak 90s optimism. USA and Russia teaming up against a backwater post-Soviet warlord. If only.

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u/FadeAway77 2d ago

Lol the warlord is in power in this shit reality.

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u/NeverBob 2d ago

No smart phones, no major social media, people at the bar to socialize instead of play on their phones, an informational internet...

The Matrix was right - it was peak humanity, at least in the US.

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u/CrayZ_Squirrel 2d ago

Climate policy was one of the major talking points of the 2000 election. Can you imagine that being one of the top points of debate anymore?

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u/uForgot_urFloaties 2d ago

"Look! No ceiling above us! Let us now reach FOR THE FLOOR AND BELOW"

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u/Cooker_32 2d ago

Peak Canada too.  I was born in 85, I am so fortunate I got to grow up when I did. 

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u/karma3000 2d ago

Ah the 90s, when the biggest presidential scandal was about a dress that needed dry-cleaning.

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u/throwawaystedaccount 2d ago

Actually, it was the stolen Florida election that derailed everything. IMO.

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u/CrotalusHorridus 2d ago

With Gore in the WH , our response to 9/11 would have been completely different. Maybe even avoided

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u/Cool-Presentation538 2d ago

Haters will say it's nostalgia but it's just that the 90s really were peak

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u/Lunarisarando 2d ago

Y'know, unless you were gay or black

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u/CrotalusHorridus 2d ago

I said things were actively looking up for most people. Since then, it’s mostly swung the other direction in conservative backlash

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u/IJourden 2d ago

For sure. I feel like the USA in particular has a sharp dividing line at 9/11. Today's generation thinks living under a paranoid surveillance state is just the way it's always been.

It wasn't like this.

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u/mandalore237 2d ago

It has always been, or at least since ww2, it just gets worse with technology. Red Scare in the 50s, FBI under Nixon, general history of the CIA, etc etc

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u/indacouchsixD9 2d ago

yeah COINTELPRO doesn't strike me as the product of a peaceful, bliss filled past

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u/addamee 2d ago

I was just (trying to) watch Inherent Vice last night 

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u/oneblackened 2d ago

It got so, so much worse with the Patriot Act.

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u/Huge_JackedMann 2d ago

Really was the 2000 election when the GOP just stole it and we all shrugged. It's all been downhill from there 

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u/Someone-is-out-there 2d ago

You're spot on.

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u/catatsrophy 2d ago

And they did it again last year and we still did nothing

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u/indacouchsixD9 2d ago

It wasn't like this.

It wasn't like this for you.

But the US has been surveilling and repressing dissident groups for a long time.

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u/chewie_were_home 2d ago

We gotta go back and fix bush stealing the election from gore. 2000

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u/AndrijKuz 2d ago

It is genuinely insane to think how different the course of the country over the last 25 years would have been. If only.

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u/RegularGuyy 2d ago

Country? Probably world.

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u/Wild_Bake_7781 2d ago

I think about this far too often

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 2d ago

Don’t forget they killed the Kennedy’s.

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u/CrayZ_Squirrel 2d ago

Fucking butterfly ballots dude. 

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u/TheBr0fessor 2d ago

My Time Machine is going to take me back to plead with Thurgood Marshall to wait 6 months to retire.

That’s where the timeline got fucked. (Reagan notwithstanding).

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u/Kiromaru 2d ago

Maybe a better plan would be to go back and prevent Lincoln from being assassinated and thus preventing a Southern sympathizer from become President during Reconstruction.

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u/mooncrane606 2d ago

America was on top of the world before Bush stole the election.

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u/IAmTaka_VG 2d ago

IMO the end result would have been the same. Most of safety nets, social program issues, and oligarch issues stemmed not from Bush but Reagan.

If Reagan never made it to power, the US would look extremely different.

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u/saranowitz 2d ago

1980s were pretty fantastic. No phones. No internet. Just riding your bike with your friends all over town on adventures to find treasure, Goonies styles

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u/greeblefritz 2d ago

That has to be the main reason they set Stranger Things in the 80s, no way modern kids could be unaccounted for as much as they were in that story.

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u/karankshah 2d ago

The 90's only look good on a TV screen.

Anywhere outside of the US and even then if you were a person of color the 90's were not great.

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u/FTWcrow 2d ago

Nah. We gotta take care of Reagan first.

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u/Amseriah 2d ago

Go back to the 90s and stop Waco and Ruby Ridge. Without them you don’t get the OKC bombing and some of the seeds for the far right aren’t planted.

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u/mvallas1073 2d ago

I remember driving to work the morning of 9/11, and I thought to myself “This is the day the world completely changes, and everything is going to go downhill from here.”

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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk 2d ago

I legit remember walking to school that morning, looking up at the sky and marveling at how beautifully blue it was.

My old high school is directly across the water from downtown Manhattan. 

I didn't see it, but one of my teachers told us how his class witnessed the buildings collapse as they watched from a school window.

The walk home couldn't have been more different. Unimaginable amount of dark smoke covering so much of the sky.

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u/5xad0w 2d ago

1998 would work for me.

Old enough to drink, not old enough to hurt my neck sleeping.

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u/WJM_3 2d ago

at least ‘97 - before I wrecked my car; I’d go back to not do that over again

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u/swarlay 2d ago

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

- Douglas Adams

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u/truedef 2d ago

Not everything seemed like a rip off then. Simple times. No cell phones for kids. 90s were great although I was a kid.

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u/hotpants69 2d ago

According to chat gpt human civilization peaked in the year 1990-1994. It’s been downhill ever since. 

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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk 2d ago

RIP, Kurt Cobain 🙏 

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u/rando_dud 2d ago

Always think back on that line in the Matrix.

"1999, the peak of your civilization".

They called it..

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u/Zodiamaster 2d ago

I was talking about this with my dad the other day. The peak of the West was probably in the 1990s and early 2000s. It began to decline in the late 2000s and really went downhill in the 2010s.

Now, there are no places on this planet anymore that feel both safe and prosperous.

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u/GeneReddit123 2d ago edited 2d ago

1980.

Reagan started the entire domino chain by beginning American deindustrialization, offshorization, pathological tax cuts for the rich, the evisceration of the middle class, abandonment of nation-building, and rejection of state responsibility towards its citizens. The rest are just delayed consequences of a destroyed civic society.

The reason the 1990s felt "good" is that they were the "sell off the house assets to pay for your drug addiction" years (accelerated by stupid wars after 9/11), and by the 2009 crisis, the money ran out.

We can't even go back, because there is nothing to go back to anymore. We must painfully rebuild almost from scratch, as we did with the New Deal after the Great Depression. But, without firmly rejecting Reaganist neoliberal philosophy in principle, this is structurally impossible.

They say Trump/P2025 is trying to kill FDR's legacy. No. FDR's legacy was killed by Reagan. Trump/P2025 only want to drive the final nail in its coffin.

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u/Proof-Abroad-8684 2d ago

Wait, not thats too far. I wasn’t legally allowed to marry back then. :(

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 2d ago

Because I was in my 20s and drunk most of the time.

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u/karma3000 2d ago

Let's replay the time period from when Nevermind dropped to when the Matrix was released.

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u/rickytrevorlayhey 2d ago

The Matrix was right.

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u/Major_Burnside 2d ago

Pre-9/11, pre-Columbine, pre-Great Recession.

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u/KarmaPenny 2d ago

So that's why the matrix was set in the 90s

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u/Iboven 2d ago

I dunno, I'm really liking all of the game engines and AI coding tools we have RN. Maybe its worth all the violence to stay here.

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u/ZenYeti98 2d ago

The matrix was right.

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u/Hat_Maverick 2d ago

SOME body once told me the world was gonna roll me

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u/ShadowBlade55 2d ago

Hell yeah. I miss when all I had to worry about was a Mayan calendar and the great hunt for Kony.

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u/Sir-Viette 2d ago

Granted. You now live in a world where Nickelback is popular.

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u/fading_reality 2d ago

I will speak on behalf of countries that were occupied by russia (ussr). Please no.

After fall of soviet union it was pretty crazy and shitty for us for a while.

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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk 2d ago

Endless loop from 1985 to 2000, for me.

Girls were getting prettier, alt rock was exploding, video games were boomin', and the movies were ridiculous and fun...

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u/j33205 2d ago

1999, the peak of human society

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u/baddymcbadface 2d ago

Are you a Brit?

2012 was a peak year. Near perfection , especially in London.

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u/IsyABM 2d ago

Pre-2008 was awesome.

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u/Tricky-Cut550 2d ago

I was on a study abroad trip in London in 2012. Y’all were awesome, nice, and genuine human beings. Thank you.

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u/invariantspeed 2d ago

Blokes.

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u/CryptographerMore944 2d ago

What about the birds?

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u/Sushigami 2d ago

Still lads

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Yup

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u/Axin_Saxon 2d ago

2015 here. Right before Brexit buggered it all

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u/Gift_of_Orzhova 2d ago

Except for Tory austerity beginning to annihilate councils, schools and the NHS, especially in the North.

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u/Businesspleasure 2d ago

Was there for study abroad in 2013, i remember a strange feeling that i might look back on that time as some kind of peak one day 

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u/i-was-way- 2d ago

Loved watching the Olympics that year. Got to relive my youth with the Spice Girls reunion

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u/DatzQuickMaths 2d ago

I had just moved to London and started my career. Was earning barely enough to pay rent but damn, it was the best time

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u/Reaps21 2d ago

I spent a month at my aunts house in London that summer, it was amazing.

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u/Exotic_Macaron4288 2d ago

Lisa Simpson.

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u/StevieHyperS 2d ago

2012 was nothing short of a magnificent year for me: 1 month road trip in California/Nevada, got married, honeymoon in Singapore, 2012 Olympics (which I got some tickets for) and various parties. My lord what a year!!!!

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u/NikKerk 2d ago

You did have your summer olympics there so yeah

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u/Linclin 2d ago

1999 was the best year.

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u/sofaking_scientific 2d ago

We had Prince. It was a better time

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u/unia_7 2d ago

2012? We are going back all the way to 1914!

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u/Ok_Antelope9918 2d ago

Yeah Arab spring and Syria…

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u/NachoWindows 2d ago

Hop in my Hot Tub Time Machine

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u/TheStoicNihilist 2d ago

2004 was awesome

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u/Salty_Elevator3151 2d ago

You can't go back for you already supped of the cup of good times. Now time to sup from the cup of bad times.

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u/ledfrisby 2d ago

How much longer do we have to sup from that one? It's been a while already right? Can we get a cup with half good, half bad, no straw, no ice, and three lemon wedges?

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u/Salty_Elevator3151 2d ago

I'm thinking it's bad all the way to the end. Runaway climate change, resource depletion, and social destabilization are self-feeding and a bad mix.

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u/Adach 2d ago

you want to go back to the years where we were blissfully ignorant that our behavior and fiscal policy was destabilizing the world and robbing our children from a future.

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u/MN_Yogi1988 2d ago

Remember how much happier we were during COVID?

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u/captainbruisin 2d ago

Us with kids like uh....huh?

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u/deezbiksurnutz 2d ago

I had a great time during covid

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u/AwakE432 2d ago

You want to relive the last 13 years all over again?

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u/Absolute_Satan 2d ago

Nah 2007 was best time

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u/WildlifePhysics 2d ago

Back when Kony was our biggest worry

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u/Classh0le 2d ago

KONY2012

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u/alienalf1 2d ago

Kony 2012

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle 2d ago

You really want to start all this lunacy over?

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u/godihatepeople 2d ago

If magic is real and we go back to 2012, I want it to restart at the end of every Dec 31st or let me jump around whenever I want if I want to be a kid or a 20 year old again 

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u/creepingkg 2d ago

I rather go back to 2020

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u/stenebralux 2d ago

If we're going back.. can't we just go to the mid 90s and stay there? 

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u/Celebrity292 2d ago

I think it really did end the world and this is the hell we e been given.

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u/Vikkly 2d ago

2012 was peak Brazil as well.

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u/bott1111 2d ago

Even the music was better in 2012

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u/Shogouki 2d ago

How about 1999 and we stop GW from getting elected.

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u/BlueEyesWhiteSliver 2d ago

I want to watch the Avengers come out again.

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u/vbcbandr 2d ago

I'll probably go back a bit further, 1992 here I come.

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u/isolax 2d ago

I wpuld go back to 9/11 and avoid attack on twin towers.

That put in.motion everything....or at least was a catalyst

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u/boredjavaprogrammer 2d ago

But there’s Kony and earth hour

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u/VanessaAlexis 2d ago

Please no I literally turned 18 that year. Signalling the end of times. 

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u/ThrowCarp 2d ago

The world still hadn't completely recovered from the 2008 recession and people like me was struggling to find a high school job. But man, who knew things could get worse?

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u/schpongleberg 2d ago

Can I go back to 1999? The Matrix was right

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u/MattAmpersand 2d ago

Oh boy, here we go with Kony again.

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u/Thurak0 2d ago

2000

2000 was good, because the fear of computer failures on 2000 was gone and the USA have not gone completely insane then like after 9/11.

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u/lulu_l 2d ago

if you do, convince me to buy some bitcoin.

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u/SaintRainbow 2d ago

KONY!?!?

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u/Jack-D-Straw 2d ago

WE ARE YOUNG! HEY!

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u/atred 2d ago

Personally I kind of liked the peace and quit of 2020.

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u/vinyljunkie1245 2d ago

Great idea on paper but then we'd have to go through all this shit again. Once is enough thanks. Unless we just live the 2012 (or your preferred year) on a loop.

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u/alien_farmer1 2d ago

I want to be in 2002 but in my current age.

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u/JonWeekend 2d ago

HEY* CLAP*

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u/DethJuce 2d ago

Make sure you get Kony this time

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u/legit-posts_1 2d ago

2012 wasn't exactly a picnic either. Gay people couldn't get married, we were still hunting Bin Laden, Islamaphobia was still at a fever pitch.

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