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naraburns  nihil supernum  16d ago (text post)   26869 thread views

U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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Brexit, Trump's first term, invasion of Crimea, the Great Awokening, Arab Spring (leading to the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis).

♪♫ We didn't start the fire! ♫♪

I've heard that The 1975 intended this song to be a "We Didn't Start the Fire" for Millennials, your mileage may vary on whether they pulled it off.

Also Elevatorgate, Gamergate, Atheism+

I was thinking of those under the "great Awokening" umbrella, along with the Ferguson riots in 2014. August 2014, as I've noted before, was a busy month.

Noted. It basically started with Trayvon Martin in a real sense.

Would I be right in saying there were no riots after Trayvon Martin's death? I honestly don't know either way.

I don't think there were violent riots, only protests, but the whole scandal was a harbringer of things to come, especially the ludicrous levels of media bias on display.

If you were paying attention to fringe left-wing politics, the Great Awokening dates back to the failure of Occupy in 2011. Trayvon Martin is when it got big enough that the establishment left wanted to play ball with it. Gamergate was when it became obvious that there was no adult supervision and that wokestupid twentysomethings were, at least in left-wing spaces, in charge.

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