• Well, it's 2026 ... Will The Weirdness Trends Continue ?

    From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.history on Thu Jan 1 00:25:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    Face it, the past 20 years have been WEIRD in the
    historical context - weird and in many ways more
    dangerous.

    The cold war has turned warm. Nutters too often run
    the asylums. Old nobodies are suddenly major players.
    No such thing as 'sensible moderates' anymore - you
    will get lynched for being sane. Great Britain has
    become an Islamist slum and the EU is revealed to
    be a bunch of mostly-broke chickenshits. Canada
    has gone kinda full commie and looks for excuses
    to 'euth' people. USA seems on the brink of some kind
    of multi-way civil war. Everyone is hooked on Fentanyl
    or zoned-out on "Soma" - er, THC Gummies. Birth-rates
    have fallen WAY below 'sustainable'. Debts are WAY up.
    Fanatic baby-burning terrorists become heroes. Every
    "-ism" is getting swapped for some other, equally
    bad, "-ism".

    In short, very very WEIRD - and not very encouraging.

    Last time something similar was going on was the
    early 1900s ... and then there were two world wars.
    Can't be a third, but SOME people don't seem to
    realize that anymore.

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