This, exactly.
I'm not saying definitively that an extinction event asteroid won't hit the earth in 2021, but I like our odds.
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Do you think your 2021 will be better or worse than 2020?
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This, exactly.
I'm not saying definitively that an extinction event asteroid won't hit the earth in 2021, but I like our odds.
Better for the simple fact that the US has a competent leader again.
Even if Biden accomplishes jack shit due to GOP obstructionism and his own centrist delusions, it's very important to have a calm voice of reason in the driver's seat; someone who will listen to experts and condemn rather than encourage racism and division.
The COVID crisis will take fewer lives than it would have if the orange egomaniac were allowed to continue playing games with life-saving aid. Now he'll have less time to turn the vaccine into a tool for leverage and self-promotion. And maybe, just maybe, Biden will be able to supplant enough Trump cronies to partially restore the government's ability to combat climate change and serve the interests of the 99%.
Even if Biden accomplishes jack shit due to GOP obstructionism and his own centrist delusions, it's very important to have a calm voice of reason in the driver's seat; someone who will listen to experts and condemn rather than encourage racism and division.
The COVID crisis will take fewer lives than it would have if the orange egomaniac were allowed to continue playing games with life-saving aid. Now he'll have less time to turn the vaccine into a tool for leverage and self-promotion. And maybe, just maybe, Biden will be able to supplant enough Trump cronies to partially restore the government's ability to combat climate change and serve the interests of the 99%.
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COVID still raging, aftermath of brexit, argument incoming about taking the kids out of school, recession looming.
Im not optimistic.
Im not optimistic.
Might be alarmist, but I kind of really fear the amount of people already talking about how 2021 will be great because everything will go back to normal. It won't. Normal isn't on the program utnil 2022, at the earliest.
I'm being optimistic going into the new year, this is the year I get to marry the girl of my dreams, so no bad vibes here.
The aftermath of things that happened in 2020 will be felt in 2021. And who knows what 2021 will bring to the table. The world has been steadily going down the gutter.
It can always be worse. Things get better slowly over time but the universe can come along and fuck you in the ass real surprise like at any moment and ruin your whole year.
You know shit doesn't wait to pop off depending on our arbitrary Gregorian calendar, right? It's time we take responsibility for our stupidity instead of blaming shit on the year #. Are humans still fucking stupid? Yes. Our shit will continue to pile up until the odor starts bothering us and then we blame it on the fucking year again.
We will continue being shortsighted and stupid. Nothing changed from yesterday.
We will continue being shortsighted and stupid. Nothing changed from yesterday.
It's going to be a lot worse and I hope that at the very least the people expecting it to be better are preparing for the possibility of the alternative
Looming recession has been a concern for the last 5 years.
That said, US interest rates are already at or near 0. We have essentially no wave to inject recovery short of sending everyone 2000 twice a month for a year.
When the recession does hit it could be devastating in terms of recovery
2021 is in the same broken country(USA) and the same broken system with a fresh coat of bullshit. The working class and minorities will continue to be oppressed, climate change will continue to accelerate and people will refuse to take the vaccine. Business as usual, and unfortunately it can only get worse.
It seems like it's been super popular to call each year that passes the worst, but 2020 is the first year (in America) that really warranted such a title. We have a vaccine now that is presumably safe and effective, as well as a new president who almost certainly by default will be better than the last one. Barring a new 2021 pandemic that kills another 2m people and destroys countless other lives and businesses, it's pretty easy to guess that 2021 will be an improvement.
As an aside, I would also like to mention that 2020 gave us the BLM protests. I don't think I can properly articulate all the emotions I felt seeing BLM explode like that, or the significance I hope this year plays in the history of America. I will simply say that I have been incredibly proud and humbled by the protesters, and I think 2020 is the year a lot of people woke up to how things really are in this country.
As an aside, I would also like to mention that 2020 gave us the BLM protests. I don't think I can properly articulate all the emotions I felt seeing BLM explode like that, or the significance I hope this year plays in the history of America. I will simply say that I have been incredibly proud and humbled by the protesters, and I think 2020 is the year a lot of people woke up to how things really are in this country.