Is America in a recession?
>>540626135No, but russia and iran are shitskin
>>540626135Can I piss on your stomach?
Even 10 years ago I never knew anyone like this.
>>540626135My 401k is doing great
>>540626135I'm nostalgic for this shit now would you believe that
>>540626135America never recovered from 2008
>>540626135does anyone here actually know someone like this in real life? If so, what are they like?
>>540626211rent free + whiter than you
>>540626135america is in stagflation
>>540626211Iran doesn’t have violent niggers Knockout gaming white grandpas daily
>>540626381Op here. What happens next?
The average American needs to be making at least $20,000 more a year than they were just 7 years ago or they are poorer now. That's definitely not a sign of a healthy economy.
>>540626283>Ripe for the wealth tax
>>540626263Ultra hipsters only lived in certain places, most of us were hipster-lites.>>540626341It was good. Getting back into real analog things as much as we could, making an effort at culture, it was a good run until the corpos got at it which they always do. The worst thing about corporations is that they have no values aside from profit, so there's almost nothing you can do to keep them out of whatever you're doing, there's nothing they won't sink to. Even now you can only keep them at bay by including "nigger" and "faggot" in all your cultural material.
i hated these twats and i hate you for reminding me they existed. eat shit and die, nigger.
>>540626135The 2000s were better when this faggotry didnt exist
>>540626135Hipsters were based.
Every single thing went to shit after, idk, 2012.
>>540626135Those hipsters were all just bloody gay Marxists before they went "woke".
>>540626283You got $401,000 in the bank?
>>540626761It's weird how many people agree on that 2008-2012 time frame but still won't accept that the problem is the phone in their pocket and the social media apps.
>>540626283Won’t last until you need it
>>540626875Coordinated action against tech that way, after it's all tragedy-of-the-commons'd its way in, is pretty hard for America.
Consumers are just starting to spend again. If wages rise enough that workers can step up to the basis created by the previous inflation we'll be fine.
>>540626346Hipsters are like boomer yuppies. They have an unwarranted taste for antiques and they are typically ignorant retards pretending to be intellectuals. Gen-x and early millenials with trust funds ended up like this. These are the people that gentrify ghettos by quadrupling rent after repainting a place and opening 50 overpriced coffee shops in niggertowns. Many of them are the worst kind of "progressives" politically, they will tell you niggers are great while simultaneously building their empires by pricing niggers out of town. They are selling $12 lattes, so you should be the one to live with niggers and the spics they hire instead.
>>540626135you hate the millennial, but they had the right ideastarve the modern world, and return to the frugality and self dependence of the past
>>540627243>starve the modern world, and return to the frugality and self dependence of the pastAs an early-model Millennial I can safely say those with that mindset are a terribly small minority. Don't give us all credit for that when for every one who thought that there's 50 shameless consumers who never even dared think such thoughts
>>540626875I don't use phone like that though, it's everything else that sharted and marted.
>>540627243Hipsters bought more shit than boomers, half the meme is items specifically marketed to hipster millennials. Millenials also killed gaming and comics because they are zealous consumers with 0 standards. Every industry catering to them went out of the way to abuse millennial consumers because they were gluttons for punishment that won't stop buying until they lose their tech job to jeets.
>>540627220>early millennials>empiresWellMaybe if their parents are rich
>>540626135white men cant get jobsbutboomers have housing and 419(k) bubbles
>>540626135America is Dead and Invisibly Murdered it's Apple Pie People and the Rich stole all their families Money in Legal Circle jerks by Hospitals and Energy
>>540627446I mentioned that hipsters in particular are trust fund kiddies. Of course that's how they got ahead.
>https://youtu.be/exmUlevMhNQ>lol
>>540627533YupApparently the retard you replied to forgot they gentrified williamsburg with their parents money.
>whiter than youNo you're not Chechen ape
>>540627476>stole all their families Money in Legal Circle jerks by Hospitals and Energyalso antifamily court
>>540626135We are not in a recession, we are in a depression. Covid lockdowns and printing stimulus checks destroyed a recovering economy.
>>540626135Literally me except I'm bald, don't drink or smoke, have no tattoos, pirate all my MP3's, use LED lights and use a bicycle all to save money.Guess it ain't me
>>540626547>rich kids pretending to be working class>pretending a different flavor of consumerism gave them spiritual knowledge>were fundamentally against everything people from the eras they're larping Yeah
>>540626135America entered a recession after the dotcom crash, and officially entered a depression in 2008 and has stayed there.
Men dressed like this ran cool bars, cafes, and other shops. Now we have zoomie toyboys and failsons who cant make eye contact, think streamers are an alternative to having friends, pretend to enjoy rap music, transitioned from cocomelon to anime and never grew up, and wear sweatpants and hoodies. Oh and dont forget, cries about lack of pussy while worrying about age gaps and thinks 18 and 19 are "too young" lol
>>540627670>rich kids pretending to be working classThey weren't really pretending, their parents were boomers who legitimately did not help them often.
Sorry it's all about the Jobcore scene right now
>>540626454the last time this happened was the late 70s (when Iran was also deeply involved).At that time there was the political will to raise interest rates (1981 average 16%) to tame inflation. The economy tanked but they knew that taming inflation mattered.There is plainly no longer a political will for that kind of action.Expect inflation and economic stagnation to continue for years.this precludes a "crash" which would make everyone's lives better. There will be no crash. Things will just keep getting worse.
>>540627960>There is plainly no longer a political will for that kind of action.It's not just that. That is a problem, yes, but it's secondary to a bigger problem -- back then, the US debt to GDP ratio was around 30%. Now it's over 100%. We already can barely afford interest payments on our govt debt; dropping Volcker's Hammer again now would literally bankrupt the government.We fucked ourselves. The one tool we know can solve this problem we can no longer afford to use.
>>540626135Random aside here, but the indie hipster days were great, fuck what you zoomers think.Yes, there were normies doing gay fake shit. But the FLAC blog culture that sprang up online was actually amazing. The early days of What.cd were huge too. It feels like younger people cared more about media as cultural artifacts back then. Streaming has ruined a lot of things to where younger people now barely listen to full albums anymore. It's all background music for them. They don't grant it any proper attention.
>>540628087>bankrupt the governmentNot the first time, just bite the damn bullet
>>540627763>grew up rich>got into good schools>never wanted for anything more than attentionShut the fuck up faggot.
>>540626345this. America has been in a recession and is currently in a recession at least for the majority of people here as evident in the so called "k-shaped economy", which is just a buzzword to say that the rich do not care about social cohesion anymore and are leaving the lower 60-70% of Americans in the dust with steady rising costs and stagnant incomes. the 2008 tax payer bailout was masked several times to creat this split where they can post green lines going up yet the average guy has to tighten the belt and is being fed the cheapest slop. the rabbit hole goes deeper: the culture war was started to distract from the 2008 bailout and OWS. the 2016 election meme war was to get the oligarch president elected who would protect the 2008 bankers. covid PPP loans in 2020 were another way to bail out 2008 v2 and to get people to accept less money and higher costs and tighter belts. the ai boom is the same 2008 gangsters going all in on a pokerfaced chutzpah gamble to mask the ongoing recession. remember when everybody got fired in 2025 because of AI? turns out it was total bs and it was just another way to dump useless adult daycare wagies so they can rehire them a year later but for a lower wages. tldr: we have been in an almost 20 year long masked recession for the majority and an advertised boom for a tiny minority.
>>540626454You enter fagflation
>>540626135CEOs keep glazing their awful companies and investors keep sucking their dicksExcept AI, they just openly say they are going to kill humanity and somehow that gets investors hard as fuck.
>>540626135>Is America in a recession?a depression greater than the great depression anon, keep up
>>540628657No majority in any generation grows up rich, that's not what "rich" means.
>>540626135>the jar doesn't have a handle0/10
>>540626135Hipsters used to go around riding vintage single speed 700C fixie bikes. Now the bikes lanes are clogged with a bunch of gay femboys and kids riding e-scooters and e-bikes. No one looks cool riding an e-scooter.
>>540626135All of those days nuked their t levels with those giga estrogenic ales with extra hops for that bloated bitch tits dad bod look.
>>540626263I did, and most of them normalized just fine. Hipster hate was overrated and so was shitting on the early 2010s. Everyone was fucking, everyone was happy, it was like the 60s again the hipster girls were huge sluts, everyone could get a gf you just had to show up to house parties that were still being thrown, everything felt normal until 2014 or so. 2010-2014 was an all you can fuck buffet of retarded hipster pussy and if I look most of those girls up now theyre married with kids to some guy with a job. It was completely harmless 20 something nostalgia. If you couldn't get laid and get a job at that point time you are such a complete failure its not even funny.
>>540626341me too, because 90% of them were white. now theyve all been replaced with foreigners and the hipsters are too chickenshit to say anything because they all fell for wokeness.
>>540626135the issue with the image is its 50/50 good shit. oh no not quality, local, and or practical shit?!just because fags get into things dosent make it faggy shit.
>>540634550>me too, because 90% of them were white.And experimental music was getting popular. People were trying new things. Music and music subcultures felt engaging and interesting. People actually wanted to creatively express themselves more than they wanted to silo themselves off in subcultures and start endless wars.It was a great time.
>>5406262632010 was 16 years ago, unc
>>540634341That's why I mostly stick to liqour, or an occasional beer with tomato juice.>>540634493I member. But the early 2000s were even better Desu. Yes, shit was well headed south, but most younger people didn't know it yet and still had a lot of hope for their futures. I don't know how to rekindle that hope in the masses, but maybe someone out there does...I will say that a pleasantly suprising of my more "progressive" friends have drifted closer and closer to embracing a third position over the years... but especially recently.
>>540634934*number of>>54063474316 years go by quick. You'll soon find yourself surprised how fast the world can change in just 4 or 5 short years.
>>540626135I honestly miss these guys and would take them over the faggotry we have now any day. They could be insufferable and preachy at times, but their hearts were mostly in the right place.
>>540626135it was a cozy time. pre 2012 identity politics
