2021 is a pretty good year -

[furūtsu]

2015 was underrated.

Powerlevel, but I wish I'd gotten my life in order back then so I could've enjoyed that simpler time. I'm currently at the most mentally and emotionally stable point I've ever been and have a lot going for me in spite of Corona, but the world is going to shit so it feels for naught.

 

[Rei is shit]

2020 was 100% non-ironically an A+++ year for me

 

[Linkola's IT Guy]

I have to agree that 2021 has started out as a pretty good year:
The boomer revolt at the Capitol was hilarious.
The GME thing gave us some good historically-significant autism for the history books, and it was great seeing both sides hating the hedge funds.
While COVID won't be truly "over" anytime soon, the US is now in a much better state and at this rate I will be able to pretend it doesn't exist in a few months.

 

[Just Dont]

2021 is starting to look like the year where degeneracy is at its peak.

I don't think is a good year and only a preamble or worse things to come.

 

[_giantmeteor2024_]

@Tyrell depends where you live. I left the city and I'm taking advantage of technology to spend more time in my community and help others. Its working out pretty great.

I am in a small, semirural community. There is widespread happenings of...

- growing our own food in the back yard, including meat, and selling or donating excess
- high uptake of solar and wind power
- crafts, trades, products, and skills being supplied and bought locally and within our country (a lady I know weaves textiles using renewable, biodegradable wool from her own sheep and cotton, which her daughter then sews, crochet, or knits into clothes she sells locally and online)
- neighbours sharing, trading, or donating instead of buying brand new (we regularly share tools, knowledge, and labour to help each other out)
- very involved community who know and look out for each other
- young families moving here from the larger cities (including mine) because cities are unsustainable to live in
- several remote workers renting here already since COVID (including myself) because it's cheaper than commuting to an office
- small businesses moving from cities to open satellite or pop up stores in high traffic towns like mine instead of paying crazy leases in cities
- individuals starting their own online or local business from within their home so they do not have to rely on being employed to support themselves during times like COVID (there are five in my street alone spanning catering to carpentry)

COVID is already creating a boom in towns like mine. I think communities will benefit from this long term and highlight the importance of self sufficiency in a way that huge cities cannot.

The above requires the income to be able to move into those much coveted semi-suburban/rural communities, at least in the area of the US where I live. You'd have to earn at least six figures to live in an area like that-- unless you were 55+ and could live in one of those nicer retirement communities.

 

[Antipathy]

2021 has been alright for me so far but I'm getting the distinct sense that Clown World is hurtling towards a gigantic fireball/stock crash. I feel that 2021 will be much worse than 2020, but it's going to hit like a truck sometime come June, rather than be shitty whole year long.

 

[_giantmeteor2024_]

2021 is starting to look like the year where degeneracy is at its peak.

I don't think is a good year and only a preamble or worse things to come.

Sorry, having issues multi-quoting. I agree with the above.
Personally, I'm doing OK as I have one of those "essential worker" jobs in an industry that thrives with things like COVID, and where support staff are still required. Thankfully I have no debt at the moment, knock on wood, but I don't have a huge amount of savings, either.

The push for digitization and centralization of everything really petrifies me, especially after witnessing so many people get cancelled/doxxed/attacked from the tech-savvy troonstapo brigade online, and seeing how social media/tech circles their wagons around degenerates who want to-- eradicate age of consent, obliterate laws against sexual assault, obliterate laws that protect children from sexual grooming, obliterate laws that protect people's freedom of speech. My point being, if you disagree with any of the tech/transhumanistic view of the future, you will possibly be "cancelled" without trial, too.

I was not historically a Trump fan, but I was extremely disturbed at how main social media platforms were able to ban Trump fans right before the election. Never in my life would I have believed it if you had told me "This could happen in America!" The ease with which tech at large was able to steer the election was incredibly disturbing to me. Some of the shit people are accusing Trump of, and his supporters of, is absurd. For example, there are a ton of minorities in my community, and many of them are politically conservative-- so there's no way in hell one could claim they're all "racist". I've noticed the tech bias before (and it doesn't always push for the left wing candidate), but this time it was flagrant, and the public at large didn't seem to realize it or find it alarming. Those who found the tech takeover alarming were silenced or deemed "insane neo-notsees". The tech takeover of our government should alarm everyone-- it's essentially handing power over to Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, or the other handful of tech psychopaths out there who think they're God.

Notice how all the MSM sites online are pushing tro0ning out children and "sex work is work!", and how they're hiding the reality of domestic and sexual violence at this point. Asian prostitutes get shot by some degenerate? The narrative is all about "Stop Asian hate! Stop the hate against sex work as work!" and NOT about stopping violence against women, or discussing the dangers of working as a prostitute. There's an honest push to normalize pedophilia at the moment, and it's not just a "Q conspiracy". The fact automation is definitely being pushed to erase more jobs makes this sinister-- as it likely will force women and children into prostitution just to eat. God knows the tech overlords would love to start a "dial-a-hooker" app-- and then pay prostitutes pennies on the dollar while they reap billions.

If you go on sites for benign-sounding organizations such as UNICEF/WHO, you name it, you can find evidence that tech/biomed companies are using children for their own financial gain under the guise of "philanthropy", particularly children in poor countries and communities. You can clearly see in research that transhumanism and it's ideology has seeped into everything. They want to digitize all education of children, they want to insert technology into people's bodies or at least force them to carry a digital ID (it's not a schizo fantasy anymore, it's a real goal), they want to colonize resources in the name of "environmentalism". They're totally moving into third world countries and putting forcing tech into cultures in order to create more profit opportunities for themselves, not benefitting the people of these nations at all in the long run. The way the tech community is stoking the racist fire is really unbelievable. This shit is all super sinister to me, and will end badly. Honestly I regret bringing my child into the world on an almost daily basis.

This isn't like the political situation in the 30s/40s in that it was possible to insulate oneself and one's children against the enemy's propaganda. Nowadays, we can't escape it due to technology-- we can't escape it by choice, and even if we could, many of us are already addicted to it. We can't even identify the enemy, as it seems that we're fighting corporate conglomerates and not specific nations.

 

[knobslobbin]

I'd still sell my left nut for the ability to walk around unmuzzled

You can do that now... left nut intact.

 

[Shiversblood]

Hell yeah good year yesssss gooddd!!! Hello everyone this is a good year hahahaha!!!

 

[serious n00b]

Got vaccines on the way as well which will be tight.

You mean experimental gene therapy?

 

[Mary Magdalene]

Might just be because I finally had time to figure some stuff out in 2020, but it un-ironically was a pretty good year for me.
2016 was my low point, 2017-2019 I just kinda worked non stop on getting an education and figuring out what I want my life to be in the future and 2020-2022 will hopefully be the years I start working towards these goals. Only slightly scared that if the pandemic keeps going, that plan might be a little delayed. @ my shit ass country: get your fucking shit together already