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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (9 children)

What happened in 14?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

more important is what happened after '08: nothing. the future just died. there was a slight delay before knock-on effects went exponential is all

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Robin Williams died :(

More serious answer: Only thing I can think is that's around when the current political divide started. It's when earnest fascists in America started figuring themselves out and learning how to articulate what they wanted. There were also a lot of sudden scary disasters that year, like plane crashes and an ebola outbreak. That's also the year Russia annexed Crimea and there was a ton of news coverage about how Armageddon was gonna happen soon because of it

But it's also more likely a delayed effect of the impact of the 08 recession.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pharrell Williams's song "Happy" came out

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

the real answer

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It became obvious that the 'recovery' wasn't gonna happen. Also it was the start of the 2016 election drama.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah the 2016 election was loooong, took up all of 2015. I remember being depressed that our choices were most likely going to be Clinton or Bush

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

the lego movie

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everyone had a good birthday party 🎉

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Underlying material conditions further worsened

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

That could have been the year that a critical mass of schools started mandatory school shooter "drills" involving the students.

Those have been shown to increase anxiety among the students that participate in them. The biggest company running these "drills" is for-profit and has no incentive to not scare children.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's Obamna's fault, obviously

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I did have teacher in college blame the 07-08 recession on Obama. He argued that Obama was so liberal that all the bankers shat themselves and tanked the economy out of fear for his "radical" policies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol I know a lot of libs that think even tame policies like taxing rich people more or even inheritance tax existing is "communist" policy.