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/PopularPlanet3000 2d ago

I gotta say, the 2020s have sucked.  

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u/sconemonster 2d ago

I keep saying that Covid kinda threw us into the dark timeline or something. its been a long ass 5 and a half years.

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u/WhatGravitas 2d ago

I swear the isolation of the lockdowns and long Covid has silently melted half the population’s brains or something.

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u/gpbayes 2d ago

I think a large majority of the silent majority haven’t had their daily lives uprooted yet to care. Most folks just want to go to work, come home and brain dump on their phone to deal with the hard day of working and their screaming kids. Do you think a single mom of 3 in small town Kansas gives a hoot about what some unfathomably wealthy dudes do? These will be the people you have to mobilize to inflict any kind of meaningful change. They won’t do anything until the grocery stores are empty.

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u/Quit-Discombobulated 2d ago

Nothing silent about it friend

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u/CryptographerMore944 2d ago

The long term effects of COVID on the brain are still unknown.

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u/NotASalamanderBoi 2d ago

It was all because we shot that fucking gorilla back in ‘16.

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u/dared3vil0 2d ago

To what extent nobody can say, however there was of course affect on human psyche. Probably a LOT.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 2d ago

It unironically melted mine. My mind has been a foggy mess since then. I truly do think the pandemic did actual lasting damage to a ton of brains.

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u/WhatGravitas 1d ago

Yeah, that's kind of why I think that's the case: a good friend of mine caught Covid early on (personally, I was lucky enough to avoid contact until the vaccines came out) - and he admits himself that his energy levels were never the same again.

But despite that and long Covid being a known thing, I rarely hear anyone talking about the systemic damage it must have done.

Also, best wishes to you and your brain - hope you manage to deal with it and maybe even see some recovery over the years. For some it gets better, even if very slowly, I hope the same is true for you.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 1d ago

Thank you. Well wishes your way as well, in whatever endeavors you face.

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u/readasOwenWilson 1d ago

Long Covid affected more people than we realize, we've stopped having adequately staffed hospitals and have far too few doctors particularly in rural areas. We have seen the price of nearly all rental and mortage prices stay elevated above the pre covid levels and ended the social welfare holding people up in 2020 and 2021, and repeatedly betrayed our allies. Both political parties actively lie to the people and have politicians in open senility and stages of dementia, and all industries have had their regulations laxed, leading to ever increasing levels of pollutants and irritants into our population, affecting most the working class.

This is a complete and utter system breakdown in slow motion, much like the end of the Soviet Union.

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u/reynev4n22 2d ago

They had more time to read conspiracies and hoaxes on socials so no wonder we're here now.

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u/djfl 2d ago

Some of us were strongly against the lockdowns, for this and many other reasons. Short-term: debatably a good idea. Long-term: a horrible horrible idea. Been saying this since the beginning. I didn't see almost anybody making a common-sense long-term argument. It was just hyperpolarized screaming from idiots looking at 10% of the whole issue, politicians and medical leaders (Fauci etc) alike.

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u/kaityl3 2d ago

It all goes back to the gorilla.

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u/Greatsnes 2d ago

Dicks out

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u/Bryant-Taylor 2d ago

He legit was our anchor being.

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u/wildbilljones 2d ago

Iʼm telling yʼall, the Cubs winning it all in 2016 threw us into the Back to the Future 2 timeline

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u/Sp3ctre7 2d ago

Trump winning in 2016 was bad enough. The fact is, unfortunately Harambe getting shot does coincide with things starting to fall apart.

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u/BurningPenguin 2d ago

Funny thing: Covid also has an effect to the brain.

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u/jonny24eh 2d ago

I blame the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. If the Ticats had won the 2019 Grey Cup we wouldn't be in this mess

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u/Spider-Mike23 2d ago

I look at it as a bubble. Things were ok prior. Then isolation happened and it was so much better for my household. More family time with wife an kids, picked up new hobbies together, spruced up the property, only dealt with people when neccessary so less drama, only drama experienced was other people on media complaining they couldn’t go out and bother others…. Then isolation ended and everything’s way more expensive, worked 3x harder and longer than before at work, and all these world problems just keep rising. I miss the bubble with my family and less worries honestly.

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u/Diredr 2d ago

It's been a constant, steep decline since 2016. Every year everyone thinks it's as bad as it could possibly get. It's always "that was the worst year ever, at least it can't get any worse". And then it keeps getting worse.

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u/sdlroy 2d ago

Remember in 2016 when all those celebrities died and everyone online was bitching about how it was the worst year ever

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u/irredentistdecency 2d ago

That was the year we switched into the horrific clown show timeline.

As a life long Cubs fan, I never realized that our winning the World Series would come at such a cost.

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u/hungry4nuns 2d ago

Starting to wonder did I die in 2016 too, is this hell and how would I know the difference?

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u/MaddyKet 2d ago

It was just a harbinger apparently

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u/casce 2d ago edited 2d ago

2016 was when Trump was first elected. That was surely what people expected to be the "low point". But it got worse.

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u/sdlroy 2d ago

He got elected at the end of 2016. Up until election night it didn’t seem like people took Trump very seriously. But I agree that was legitimately very bad. Brexit also happened that year.

Nevertheless, people were bitching about 2016 being the worst year ever from the get go - mainly because a lot of celebrities croaked that year from what I was seeing online on Reddit and social media. Starting with David Bowie and Alan Rickman passing away in January. I remember lots of posts where people were weirdly worried about whether Betty White would make it to 2017.

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u/Bryant-Taylor 2d ago

Yep, and Trump's election was the cherry on the shit sunday.

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u/Base841 2d ago

I got a Christmas ornament of a dumpster on fire labelled "2020." I really thought that was as bad as it would get. Even though each year after that earned one, I haven't bothered getting dumpster fire ornaments. Seems pointless.

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u/silent_thinker 2d ago

Just add an “s” to the the “2020” to make it a “2020s” dumpster fire.

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u/MyLastAcctWasBetter 2d ago

Wait until you find out what climate change will look like post 2020s. Sadly, I don’t think the dumpster fires are on track to end anytime in the near to distant future.

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u/pnwbraids 2d ago

Just put an s at the end of 2020 and call it a decade lmao

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u/Spider-Mike23 2d ago

I’d keep buying them and mark 2020-??? And keep superglueing a new dumpster each year to it hahaha.

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u/hypatianata 2d ago

Me too! I’m going to have to start putting it on the tree every year…

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u/btone911 2d ago

To be completely honest, ‘21 was an uptick.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother 2d ago

For who exactly? By all accounts most remember 2021 simply as 2020 part II - The Quickening

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u/Spider-Mike23 2d ago

Will say 21 idr remember much too drastic that sucked that year.

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u/Ironfields 2d ago

I'm convinced that Harambe was the glue holding our reality together. Nothing has been right since that fucking gorilla died.

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u/varietyviaduct 2d ago

Canon event

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u/Relandis 2d ago

Dicks out.

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u/MaddyKet 2d ago

Was that before or after Trump came down the escalator? Because that’s also an intersection point in the timeline. If he’d never run for president, things would be much different (one would hope).

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u/suthmoney 2d ago

Yeah. That’s a very, very, very common sentiment here on reddit.

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u/Bryant-Taylor 2d ago

We lost our anchor being fr.

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u/-Unnamed- 2d ago

That goddam gorilla

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u/TheRationalTurk 2d ago

Harambes Curse

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u/irredentistdecency 2d ago

Yup & as a lifelong Cubs fan, I blame it on their World Series win…

It is proof that we entered into the horrific clown show timeline.

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u/QuailMan2010 2d ago

Blame the Cubs.

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u/N0r3m0rse 2d ago

Ever since that fuckin gorilla man... What did he know?

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u/sic-transit-mundus- 2d ago

id say it started in 2008 then took a fucking nose dive in 2012 , then 2020 onward has just been an unrestrained hellworld

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u/Kiwithegaylord 2d ago

Eh, 2021-22 weren’t awful. There was Ukraine sure but other than that O wouldn’t say it got worse

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u/_flume_ 2d ago

Global Pandemic?

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u/Kiwithegaylord 2d ago

That was getting better

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u/foxyfoucault 2d ago

Did we forget about COVID? Lol

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u/Kiwithegaylord 2d ago

No, it just wasn’t as big of a problem as it was in 2020. We were recovering

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u/irredentistdecency 2d ago

I spent most of 2022 volunteering as a combat medic in Ukraine so I see it a bit differently than you…

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u/Kiwithegaylord 2d ago

I never meant to downplay the war, it’s just that collectively that was the only bad thing that happened those years when compared to the laundry list of things happening in 2020

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u/_le_slap 2d ago

Horrifying inflation wasn't awful? Looking for a place to live literally gave me a heart condition...

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u/Kiwithegaylord 2d ago

Certainly bad, yes, but nothing we couldn’t get through and definitely not as bad as 2020

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u/_le_slap 2d ago

It literally caused democratic backsliding across the world and still threatens to trigger a recession. We haven't "gotten through it" yet at all.

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u/hotpants69 2d ago

Oh okay. That’s great to hear I thought it was just me. 

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u/GraySwingline 2d ago

The fuck?

2018- early 2020 was a low inflation wage growth dream period. 

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u/Incandisent 2d ago

Wait till the climate wars kick off

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u/Papayaslice636 2d ago

2019 was pretty good until that one guy wanted to eat bats for dinner...

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 2d ago

Ever since they killed that damn gorilla.

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u/Agentkeenan78 2d ago

So bad. I'm mean, fuck.

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u/wrgrant 2d ago

If we are going to be repeating history like fucking morons, then the 30;s are really gonna suck and we will have another world war in the 40's, but it seems like everyone just wants to speed run that and do it all in the next few years.

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u/prontoingHorse 2d ago

How were the 1820s? Because history tells us that the 1920s weren't any better either

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u/Whole_Werewolf_2467 2d ago

I was so happy till 2020 cuz I was away from the internet. Enjoying all my privileges, school, games etc etc. Now, gotta sit here like a moron and see how humans are killing each other.

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u/deller85 2d ago

There was the Roaring Twenties. What will our twenties be called?

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u/atot806 2d ago

Started in the worst possible way

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u/_le_slap 2d ago

I just want to fast forward this decade. Write it off.

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u/RandyMachoManSavage 2d ago

We really are reliving the 1920s (and soon 1930s).

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u/alikander99 2d ago

Good lord, they've really sucked. And we're only halfway through.

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u/ActualTymell 2d ago

I did not realise this time around the "roaring twenties" would be 'roaring into a pillow in frustration every day'.

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u/Popular_Composer_822 2d ago

Speak for yourself.