What was the worst year to be alive in all of history?
Probably a peasant in Pompeii as you were chocking to death on the smog of a volcanic eruption
>>184089982063, the year of "The Event"
>>184089981200 BC during Sea Peoples invasions in the Bronze Age collapse must've been pretty depressing
>>18408998Probably the (one of the) year(s) of the black plague.
>>184089982020 because of covid-19, without question
>>184089982026
>>18409014Bait used to be believable
Stalingrad sounds pretty horrible
Probably while the black death was ravaging Europe. Apocalyptic.
>>18408998Some time in the 1500s, pick a year. Shit century.
>>18408998536 is the meme answerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/536
It used to be last year, now it's this year, soon it will be next year.
>>18408998probably during the world wars, other bad shit was too localized. A lot of violent death and conscription and massacres on both sides.Possible exception for an older example was 536, volcanic winter back then meant a lot of starvation, and it's not like late antiquity was generally fun without that either
>>18409009Not really, able-bodied adults were not in tons of danger from the plague. Enough to disrupt the labor workforce, but not "worst period to be alive" bad.
>>18409202WW2 was also localized, even among the participants themselves. The Eastern Front was the largest and bloodiest theater of war in the history of mankind, but once gain that's localized.
>>18409026Stalingrad doesn't differ from other urban battles which destroyed cities. It's the scale of reinforcements poured into it which inflated the death count.
>>18409058See >>18409207 the vast majority of deaths were infants(who already had a high mortality rate in pre-industrial times) and the elderly.
>>184089982016 because of Brexit and Drumpf
>>18408998Honestly all pre-industrial times are horrific from a modern perspective. Child mortality being sky-high, women being 5 times more likely to die during childbirth, vast majority of the population illiterate superstitious and oppressed by the elite, frequent famines, plague outbreaks, and violent conquests.
>>18409228B-but they were le based!! because of le traditroon!!!
>>18409172You act as if it was any different back then.Ever since there's been a society people have been forced to participate in it it's the tradeoff for having it in the first place.Do you think those peasants could have said, "fuck it im gonna do my own thing, and not pay taxes" , and be allowed to do it?
>>18409228The lack of anaesthetic seems horrible to imagine
>People keep mentioning events instead of just year"uhh X year in Y place" no shit retard that makes every year the worst. Pick JUST the year, stop focusing on one specific thing that year and focus on the big picture instead.
536
>>18409207every 3rd person you knew died and you thought you are in the endtimes.
>>18409350Everyone was superstitious back then so thinking you're in the end times is not a particularly profound description>every 3rd person you knew diedAgain you deliberately say "person" to try and portray the plague as if its effects were spread uniformly.
>>18408998right now
>>18409172>2026. And before that, 2025. And before that, 2024. And before that, 2023. And so on.Doomers are so fucking retarded it's unreal
>>18408998What is your background and what region are you in?
>>18409294> lack of anaestheticand antibiotics and the understanding of it in general>>184092172016 was good because we did not know how bad it would get>>184093041943 or so is probably one of the worst globally. if I were to pick a worst year to be randomly spawned anywhere in the world. Most of Europe and Asia at war, plenty of Americans and Australians at war, Africa a shithole, South America going strong but most of it wild backwaters.
>>18409426>1943 or so is probably one of the worst globally. if I were to pick a worst year to be randomly spawned anywhere in the world.Any year post-industrial revolution would be the wrong answer.
>I'm a loser and nobody wants to have sex with me, the current year must be the worst year in all of human history o algo
Does prehistory count? I’d say one of those eras where the concentration of gases in the atmosphere was enough so you could live, but not the right ratio to breathe normally. You’d be struggling for every breath.
>>1840899820th century China reads like a warhammer novel
Mine slave in 1st century Rome that only heard a vague unconvincing rumor of Jesus. No other form of misery comes close.>no sex>unflavored slop for food>no comforts or entertainment>backbreaking labor day after day for years on end>miserable environmental conditions>constant injuries and health issues>no hope of social mobility to normal life>don't believe in an afterlife that will make up for it>end up in Hell suffering for eternity because you technically heard the word of Christ and rejected it
>>18408998The current year.
there's a historian who argues that it was 536 due to a volcanic winter that caused a yearslong famine in basically every place on earth inhabited by societies that kept records (and according to archaeometeorology, most that weren't), as well as the start of the Justinian Plague and Justinian's wars of reconquest.
This year if Trump nukes Iran
>>18408998Post-Covid era certainly isn't the worst but also certainly sucks of all fronts. Politically, economically, culturally, socially, personally etc.
All the sheltered doomers ITT saying "duuuh current yerrr" make me glad that social media wasn't really a thing yet during 9/11 and the GWOT
>>18410306OkName 1(one) good thing about 2026 which wasn't common also to 2000s and 2010s
>>18410329I can't but only because you exist currently while you probably weren't even born yet in the year 2000, oh if only we could go back
>>18410306Not much of an argument from you. We live in a uniquely tyrannical age where the international powers are all of one mind, that being to oppress their citizenry as hard as possible. And they finally have the technology to not only do it easily, but remotely too.There has never been a period of human history like this. War and genocide could at least be fled from. The fuck is anyone supposed to do in the world we live in? We are each of us required to sell our souls to government-backed corporations just to simply exist.>>18410335>if only we could go backLiterally conceding that 2000 was a better time to live than 2026, gg retard.
>>18410493Ever try going outside? I hear there's plenty of grass out there to touch
>>18409004Eh, I'd say the start of the "Information Age Collapse" in 2045.
>>18410493>Literally conceding that 2000 was a better time to live than 2026, gg retard.Nothing gets passed you my autistic friend
>>18410494Yeah cos they didn't have grass during the plague or WW2
>>18410499You're right anon I'm sure it was way better going outside during the plague or during the second world war
>>18410495This thread is about the worst years in human history, you just listed the best year
>>18410500You're making sarcastic comments instead of arguments. If you can't justify your own beliefs then you concede by default.
>>18410503You're actually a retard
>>18410504Concession accepted, cutie.
>>184089981944, duh
>>18408998the jews control all years
>>18409212>Stalingrad was the same as these other really really horrible things, except there were even more people who diedbrilliant analysis
>>18409216OK cool. As we all know, it's not a big deal to people if their babies die
>>18409209Correct. The WORLD wars were localised to this one planet.
>>18409838I've spoken to a woman who's not my mother before, so unfortunately I haven't read a warhammer novel
>>18410539Back when infant mortality was already something like 30-50%? Yeah nah it was different.I know you've grown up in a time and a part of the world where the idea of a child dying is almost so unthinkable that it would devastate you, but historically this was not the norm. People were so accustomed to it happening that multiple cultures didn't even regard children as people before a certain age because the prospect of them dying before then was so likely
1864
>>18408998I'd think 1919 was pretty horrendous.
>>18409929>>18409217not 25 years ago
>>18408998If we're just prioritizing "global misery" I think that mid-late ww2 seems likely. 1943 or 1944 would be solid. >western Europe occupied and wartorn >all of eastern Europe genocided and burned down>middle eastern war>all of east and south Asia either occupied or in war>massive global mobilization efforts and mass death>food and material shortages globallyThe only way you really avoid it is by being in a tiny state or a generally neutral power like Brazil or Switzerland (though being Swiss must've been pretty scary)
>>18410537Yes, literally. The battle of Manila was more horrific than Stalingrad.
>>18410556...why? There was postwar optimism and general recovery. The only real global problem that comes to mind is spanish flu, but that was also in 1918 and 1918 was worse for another big reason
>>18410540No, many areas were spared from fighting, including the mainland United States.
>>18410562Nah that's a total joke. Sure Europe was having a bad time, but even European allies like Australia barely felt it at all. Rationing was about the only aspect of the war that affected them and the country literally ended the war with higher food production than before the war.The rest of the world was even less affected.I know when you're autistic and obsess over war, you think about painting maps and death tolls, but the reality of war is the shit we see today. Parts of Ookraine are being bombed to shit, but even close to the front line people are living daily lives, and much further than that it would be like it wasn't happening at all but for the cost of living.
>>18410566Irrelevant since I think you'd struggle to find many other events with more impact than the world wars. Just because you could avoid black death by being in an uncontested tribe doesn't mean it wasn't a global event
>>18410567>there are worse events than the largest wars everSuch as? It doesn't matter that some of Ukraine is unaffected, this war they're in now is still likely the worst years they've had since the 1940s.
>>18408998those were glorious times friend.
>>18410566They had to fight the RATIONING, which goes against AMERICAN principles such as liberty and panic buying
>>18410569>>there are worse events than the largest wars everYes.>Such as?>>18409172
>>18409294it seems impossible umtil you live in it. When youre in it your mind adapts. I once had really bad tootheache that had me looking at a pair of pliars longingly (went to the doc quickly after that). Your mind looks for solutions. I guess thats the bad part; who you'll become or what you'll do.Ive felt a lot of pain, and Ive had an injury that didnt hurt but didnt heal. Id rather have the pain.
1943 is a good contender given that the eastern front is ongoing, the sino-japanese war is ongoing, the americans are involved, and there's an awful famine in india.I don't know enough about the period but I'd suspect that some year during the Mongol conquests was probably pretty awful for a solid percent of the world's population.
>>18410568Objectively, being in the United States during world war 2 was better than being anywhere during pre-industrial times. Any post'industrial revolution year is the wrong answer.
>>18410590umm, try being black, or gay, or a woman, Chud
>OP asks what the worst year in all of human history was>thread immediately gets filled with sheltered doomers who think being a virgin is worse than having to endure famine or war and people completely missing the assignment by glorifying years they never lived throughevery fucking time
>>18410591women were the real casualties of ww2.
>>18410504takes one to know one babythrown dummy
>>18410597>being a virginPoint to a post ITT complaining of this
>>18409304536
>>18410537Stalingrad sounds like a dreamy vacation compared to a Mongol siege
>>1840899830 Years War Germany. Imagine getting raped by foreign armies for 30 years
>>18410542your sister doesnt count
>>18410565What? Not at all.>1919>widespread food shortages and economic disruption in Europe at the close of the war>fighting still going on on the peripheries like Russia, Turkey, etc>US home front is a chaotic shitshow with high inflation, race riots, communist terrorist bombings, etc
>>18410928Don't forget Spanish flu which made Covid look like a well flu
>>18410948Covid literally was the flu. Did you know the median age of death in Europe was 80?In case you need a refresher on high school math, median is the middle number in a set of numbers. So if your median age of death is 80, regardless of the total number of deaths, you know that as many people UNDER 80 died as OVER 80s died.Do you know the life expectancy in most of Europe? 83. We crashed the global economy for a flu that killed most people within years of their upper life expectancy anyway.Insane when you think about it. And Theres still mind-broken leftoids waddling around with their little masks on
>>18410995>europe did everything right>their stats are goodShocking. Now do USA under Trump's "inject bleach" policy.
>>18410495>silicon chip culture>as ifit was bad compared to what came after but still pretty decent all things considered
>>18409350>every 3rd person you knew diedThats not true, it was mostly babies who died
>>18409339>>18410546Why? Be more specific, don't just give a random year
>>18408998Bronze Age collapse probably. All the shittiness of premodern agriculture plus warfare and civilisational collapse on top.
>>184089982027
evwey day iq the worar day to be alive, tomorrow it will be even worse
>>18411297i fucking fucking hate 2020s i fucking fucking hate 2020s from the deep of my heart
>>18409353>>18411085>>18409353Did some Youtube slop channel make this talking point or something? The fact that the labour force was severely disrupted should tell you it wasn't just the elderly and young
1680s- 1710s fucking sucked with great famines in Northern Europe and France and plague epidemics in Central and Eastern Europe
>>18411018Nigga you don’t change the median age of death with your pandemic strategy. Not without wild measures such as completely quarantining specific age groups, which didn’t happen anywhere in Europe.The US number is probably very similar, I don’t fucking know, I only said Europe because that’s the one I’ve seen data for
The current year is the worst year in human history. As I sit in my comfy air conditioned bedroom in front of my laptop typing out this very post to dozens of random strangers living all over the world at the speed of light and sip on a beer that is ice cold thanks to modern refrigeration, I can only think to myself that I truly must have it far worse than the peasantry of the Medieval era, for they had based and trad castles o algo. Indeed, while they plowed fields in exchange for protection from barbarous hordes by what must've surely been a most merciless Crown, and whose many attempts at offspring have died, giving way to only the most genetically fit, I find myself merely working a sheltered job as a cashier working for what is but a smidgen above the minimum wage of my country. Oh how I wish to toil away in the fields for less, oh how I wish to have instead lived in a squalid shack at the edge of town rather than my current suburban abode, oh how I long for the days before modern refrigeration, where the only methods of food preservation was drying or soaking in a potent brine, where even the beer was not as plentiful and often watered down, where the only means of one's own personal transport was that of the mighty horse that often needed feeding and cleaning up after and could nary go beyond 20mph
>>18411398>As I sit in my comfy air conditioned bedroom in front of my laptop typing out this very post to dozens of random strangers living all over the world at the speed of light and sip on a beer that is ice cold thanks to modern refrigerationWow youre so right anon, who cares about 24/7 surveillance of citizens, the restriction of acceptable thought via mass censorship, the fact that theorizing mass immigration as population replacement will get you imprisoned across Europe and Canada, as long as you have bread and circuses right? Seen anything good on Netflix recently?
>>18411464You are typing this on a machine with a cable literally running outside of your house to some random server God-know's-where. You don't actually give a shit about mass surveillance, if you did you wouldn't be using the internet, performative retard.
>>18411469You’d have to be a genuinely retarded motherfucker to think that technological advancement negates social illsI could be typing this from a fucking colony on Mars and it wouldn’t matter if I lived in chattel slavery
>>18411470Why can't you just admit that all your outrage is performative? Why do you pretend to give a shit about mass surveillance?
every year from 1939 to 89 was the worst year in history
2026
>>18411470We're talking about the WORST year in HUMAN HISTORY anon, not current societal ills that bother you. Take your autism to /pol/
>>18411472>NOOOOOO JUST CONCEDE THAT NOTHING MATTERS DUDE WEED LMAOFat reddit faggot.I care about the fact that on an unprecedented scale corporations are the servants of government, controlling what is acceptable to think. I care that there is no escape from the system, that everyone must be cataloged and have their lives accessible at any time to police and state. You don’t care as long as you’re entertained. You are a livestock animal that cannot comprehend the urge of other animals to live beyond the pigpen>>18411506I’d say that living in an age where the highly educated have to beg to be employed or face homelessness because the governments of every prosperous nation decided that it was faster and cheaper to import infinity migrants to secure votes instead of raising a younger generation in conditions that they would be appreciative enough to vote for again is a pretty bad world to live in actually
>>18411512I have a feeling that you suffer from Cluster B personality disorders, and would probably be miserable no matter what year it was
>>18411515>squeeeee I’m a fat piggy and will tolerate any amount of humiliation so long as my trough is full of slopHappy for you bud, but the humans are trying to discuss their own quality of life. Livestock have no input
>>18411556You're trying to derail this thread and turn it into /pol/shit. This was about the worst year in human history. Not about current issues. Nobody thinks our current age is perfect, but this is far from the worst, get your head out of your ass.
>>18411559>which year in history was worst?>”the current one and here’s why”>REEEEEEE POLITICS! NO FAIR NO FAIR NO FAIR THIS WAS MY SAFE SPACE!!!!!!Get a grip.I seriously think you’d be happier fucking off to reddit, smoking some of that dank kush, and watching Rick and Morty. This site isn’t for you and you clearly arent happy with that fact
Itt the room temp IQ of posters on display. OP asked for the worst year and people are bringing out extremely localised events like pompeii or Stalingrad, lol.
>>18411472tf does that even mean? why wouldn't anybody care about that?
>>18411565>Accuses others of wanting a safe space>has a crashout when other people won't validate his bad takes on current events
>>18411722>crashout>unc is chopped fr fr no capPoint to the “crashout” my views were challenged, I defended them, and the response was pissing and crying about /pol/I know you think that accusing a person on the internet of feeling an emotion is an automatic victory for you, but it ain’t. If you can’t compete in the market place of ideas you have no business posting at all
>he's still crashing outFucking yikes dude, this is some advanced autism
>>18411310No one said it was just them, but the vast majority of deaths were them.
>>18411726nta but you come across as a mouth breather. can't articulate why he's wrong so you resort to le zany reaction images and canned zingers that have nothing to do with his posts
>>18410564No, it was not you dumb fuck.
Not a specific year but one of those native american societies where ~80% of the people died from an old world plague must've been horrific
>>18410928Yea from German Austria to the Russian Far East there wasn't a single functioning government that year kek and don't even look south down at what's going on in China during that time.
>>18410928>fighting still going on on the peripheries like Russia, Turkey, etcNO, it was not. You are confusing 2 different wars
>>18411982Yes it was you dumb fuck. You think le numbers somehow mean that the urban fighting was different in nature or something. Stalingrad didn't feature the deliberate massacres of civilians that Manila had so it was less horrific, other than that it was the same fight with the city reduced to nothing but rubble and fighting often reduced to brutal close-range engagements. Stalingrad just had more reinforcements sent in which inflated the death count.
>>18411988anyone that has had the misfortune to be exposed to filipinxes in a prolonged capacity would support the jap massacres at manila
>>18408998Post WW2 probably one of the years between 1973 and 81, but I don't know enough about the period to pinpoint one.
>>18411988no, it wasnt you dumb fuck. Stalingrad was much more significant, and more more bloody. Fucking contrarian gooklet, nobody gives a flying fuck about ''muh paciffic war'' anyway. It was a series of glorified skirmishes on a bunch of isolated islands.
>>18411996>stalingrad was much more significantI guess that makes it more horrific?>much more bloodyNot in the nature of the battle, purely by raw numbers of reinforcements poured in to replace losses. But Stalingrad didn't have the massacres of Manila, so Manila was more horrific.>nobody gives a flying fuck about ''muh paciffic war'' anywayWhich makes it not horrific? Are you even aware of the topic we're discussing or did you think it's a debate about "significance"?
>>18411565>>REEEEEEE POLITICS! NO FAIR NO FAIR NO FAIR THIS WAS MY SAFE SPACE!!!!!!Why are you typing like a spastic retard?
>>18411999>Stalingrad didn't feature the deliberate massacres of civilians that Manila hadlying cretin
>>18411726Imagine being so assblasted you can’t even reply to the guy you’re mad at
>>18412003Because he is a spastic retard, and he's still crashing out for some reason
>>18412085>>18412003FYI replying to yourself is a bit of a no-no on this site. I know you’re excited that you’re “anonymous” here and think you can’t get caught but uhhhhh you can
>>18412087Meds.
>>18412089Hello yes it is my first day on the Internet and I don’t know how to right click and inspect.
>>18408998Tai Ping Rebellion. Famine leading to cannibalism + widespread plague, in addition to the military deaths.
>>18410568Eh, you’re really not convincing m8. I’d much rather be a nobody in WW2 America than a nobody during the Black Death.
>>18408998I'd say living in Delhi during 1398 would've felt pretty miserable.
Good job to the leftoid faggot crying about politics who got the post explaining why the present is the worst time in history to be alive.Proved every single point in that post correct.
