What happened in 2008 that made everything go to shit?

People around my age (29) seem to all agree that shit started getting fucked right around 2008.

What happened? Did CERN activating cause a shift in time or some shit?

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Recession.

And the rise of smartphones/ipads.

i moved out of my parents basement in 2008
im sorry
ill go back

Facebook, twitter, Obama, etc.

Obama.

What exactly did the recession do

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Autism becoming more common or probably people labeling themselves with it to seem unique and like a special snowflake.

It wasn’t 2008 it was 2001

Everything was already shit In 2008 unless you made a bunch of money selling your overpriced shmuck who was about to get stuck holding the bag

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession

Obama

That retarded singularity started expanding our global awareness, now we are pissed all the time cause we hated other people.

I graded

2008?

that's when Barack had more "flexibility"

(you)

Literally the recession you spazzy cunt
Enjoy the rise of the right whilst it lasts because it sure as shit wont last. The only real reason people are moving to our side is because of the recession. Follow every major recession in history and this is what happens.
Extremism on all sides rises, then (((they))) get the financial system back under control, people's living standards start rising again and all the retards forget anything happened and go back to the cuck parties.
We still have some momentum. We'll keep growing till 2020 then we'll implode (by we, I mean far-right groups)

Can confirm, life turned to shit on November 5th 2008. Not Obama related for me.

I tried Salvia for the first time in 2008. Nothing's been the same since....

Obama was elected

I'm about to be 31 and I think it went to shit around 2005-2006 myself, but i can see why some would think 2008 was a turning point. maybe it's just because we're older now and have a shittier more realistic view on life, i mean I don't see young people complaining about life, they seem complacent being sucked into their online social media.

i was fucking this younger girl (19) a couple weeks ago. we were dating for a couple of weeks, i took a peak at her phone when she went to shower and she would show these random guys on snapchat nudes of her and just dirty shit also through her facebook messenger and kik. i confronted her about it and she acted like it was no big deal "im just bored and having fun" she says. i broke it off right then. i mean the entire young generation is just degenerate as fuck unless you can cherry pick someone that's not. i'm rambling though. i'm thinking about giving up on society, i'm kind of scared to even stick my dick into something honestly in fear of catching an std

Can confirm, I got dumped by a girl after 2 years and a half that year

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Things began really going to shit across the West in the 1990s when the UK and US and other Western nations began adopting policies of mass immigration

In the US in particular these policies helped contribute to the retarded housing bubble and lack of real jobs due to foreigners taking them all, so when the 2008 recession happened there wasn't anything to fall back on in terms of new market growth resulting in long term underemployment and crappy wages with an artificially growing population (government policies caused the US population to grow by 27 million from 2000 to 2010, without both illegal and legal immigration and the children born to those immigrants the population would have grown by 10 million or less)

The policies that fucked things up were already in place for more than a decade at that point, but it was in 2008 that things came to a head.

Obama then proceeded to make things worse because it turns out a 48 year old president who talks about "hope" and "change" without being able to properly illustrate what his policies are probably isn't smart enough to run the country.

Rise of the Internet + Smartphones/Tablets

Children + Technology = Brats
Niggers + Technology = Police brutality "all the time"
Average people + Technology = Anonymity/LGBT popularity/Sup Forums

The recession hurt millennials the most. Companies werent willing to take on the risk of hiring new blood and fetting them up to speed. In order to bridge the financial burden, the boomers slowed their retirement rate until they werent able to physically work anymore. This slowed the availability of higher paying jobs which compounded millennials woes.

Combine this with drastically increased debt levels of all kinds and the necessity of increased inflation in order to negate these debt levels with a zero percent increase in wages has choked off the prosperity of two generations of americans.

2012 is exactly halfway between 2008 and 2016.

>Recession
>Social media
>iPhone and tablets leading to more dump/crazy being online and shitting everything up
>Obama and the following rise of SJWs and socialist on a global level
>Holding a job became a gamble
>Normies startet to like "Nerd culture", to be part of the "different people"-club, resulting in the vidya/movie shit show we have today.

Things have been looking up since 2008. Acceleration!

Crushed the last vestiges of the White Middle Class. It's been downhill ever since. So much money was lost in the form of pension plans and retirement portfolios. The Boomers and early Gen-X got utterly skull fucked by the banks. I came home from Crusade when my enlistment was up after doing 3 tours of Iraq and 1 Afghanistan in 2008 to no job prospects and had to go homeless for 18 months. The Great Recession dealt a deathblow to the established white families and snuffed out the potential of early millennial.

Facebook is it. Only thing that was suddenly used by everybody and ruined everything. Started 2008-11

The left thought they had it in the bad from then on. They played their hand too openly and hard and got arrogant about what they were driving underground to grow.

The great recession cleaned out right wing white people very disproportionately, certain (((people))) got very rich buying it up like a financial coup, the EU was expanding, nobody could openly question the decline of whites, and Obama got in. The left assumed that with no money and a shrinking white population from here on out, they would never lose again.

no bro, its started after sept 11th, then people started to notice after 2006. 2008 it was in full swing.

Naw

The CERN shit happened in 2012

the stock market is at record highs, unemployment is at the lowest point in decades, and home prices are sky rocketing. your theory makes no sense

>Rise of the Internet + Smartphones/Tablets
this
this is the end of humanity as we once knew
we are turning one with machine and smartphones are the first step

2005-06 is when things got real sour

2001 (really 2002 because it started September). We were still living off of the 9/11 war ferver

But by 2005 the war in Iraq was a disaster the econemy was stalling and in general the shit mood we are still
I’m began.

It wasn’t long before Obama, the recession and the Middle East continually getting worse like some never ending shitstorm

The rot of Western society started far, far before 2008. Everything started going to shit in 1914.

It was 2007 with the writers strike that crippled television and seemingly the world with it. They stopped hiding after that and with 9/11 being such a rousing success lulled the masses into the current trance state they are in. Then Obama showed up offering lies and shit colored skin the normies lost all sense of reasonableness. It was always meant to be this way though, trump is the capstone of the America saga. It's all downhill from here fellow burgers.

Yep, now those jobs were filled with foreign CEO's and sheit and the millenial high class feels like they are being robbed of their birthright.

Mein fuhrer.

>Normies startet to like "Nerd culture", to be part of the "different people"-club, resulting in the vidya/movie shit show we have today.

This is what I hate most about entertainment. Normalfags who would've ostracized you for reading Marvel or comics in general are now making it as an identity piece since they are shallow pieces of shit themselves and have no character.

2008. Coincidently it is the year you started to pay for your own shit.

Older-user here (36). 2008 was very bad, but things really started in 2001 with the "dot bomb" tech recession.

The economy... never really recovered after that. The one supposedly "good" year was 2006, and it was obviously completely built on a foundation of sand -- or, more accurately, sub-prime mortgages, $0 down payment houses, and easy credit. When housing prices stopped going up, it all came crashing down.

When 2008 hit.. a lot of people lost all hope. Things hadn't truly recovered after 2001 and 2008 made it painfully clear that things wouldn't get better for a long, long time.

Apparently we are now at record unemployment but... do things look better to you?

I hate them.

Sounds like another bubble

social media turned everything into a conformity experiment

this, so much.
and the popculture spreads like a metastasizing cancer to the entire world.

2008

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1kz6hNDlEEg

Obama and I am a little younger than you and it was after 2001. 2008 was 1 peak of suck but I don't think it is done sucking yet. There hasn't been a big enough HAPPENING from the public yet

To me shit got fucked around 1992.
I was having a great time as kid, then something changed. It was horrible. The world wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't nice anymore. The vibes turned sour and gross.
I was around age 11. I remember wondering at that age if somehow I'd wondered into an alternate reality somehow.
I think the 80s had just ended is all. But I didn't understand that at the time.

We can't fight back you binded our hands.

We were savages and shit.

Obama was elected.

Obama directed the DOJ to sue the banks over the 2008 financial crisis.

The settlement money from those lawsuits went towards left-wing groups. (billions of $$)

Those left wing groups started putting out huge amounts of propaganda. That is what created the SJW craze.

this is what happened little guy

>clinton era
>around time of LA riots
>race baiting and shitskin racial incitement escalates
>affirmative action era
>"rap" turns to "gangsta rap" to further incite negroids
>also around the time of another recession

You have a point there.

Facebook, 9gag, KnowYourMeme...

The way they shoved politics into every aspect where it isn't needed is what pisses me off the most.

>shit started getting fucked right around 2008.
>What happened?

40 year cycle.
Oldfags know that 1968 was an absolute shitstorm. Pic related doesn't even have room to show RFK being assassinated after calif primary!

That's the year i finished school.

>nearly a decade ago

Actually yes the last 18 months have been the first real time of growth since probably 2001

There is major construction almost everywhere, companies are adding so many jobs they are openly complaining that they can’t find people for them.

Even retailers are saying they can’t fill retail spots for the holiday season

This is good means rising wages

If we can achieve 80’s growth of 4-6% annually it will be amazing but I’m not sure if we cann

This. A nigger president.

>Niggers + Technology = Police brutality "all the time"
Good point, they might not be able to put such a video/event in the right context

I'm roughly your age, but I don't consider 2001 to be a disastrous year in general. My only concern about the events of 2001 is that maybe TPTB decided in that year it was time to start seriously bleeding the country dry, that it's fulfilled its usefulness in the greater scheme of things. But you could just as well say that happened when NAFTA passed.

I agree with the whippersnappers that the late 00s was the problem, and I'd chalk it up to the first generation that received a lifetime of leftist indoctrination in the media and higher education reaching positions of influence for the first time.

There was a moral purity in them, that they wanted removed one way or the other.

>lil wayne , solja boy ruined rap
>cell phones ended friendships I remember everyone was glued to their smart phones for years and they still are .
>obama it became racist to criticize the president
>war became cool cause the president was black
> lady gaga , justin biber , katty perry , pumped on the radio 24/7

I am 28 and I feel like shits been going to shit since 08 I always thought it was just me until I came to pol in 2015 and found there are thousands just like me .

2008-2009 was another baby boomer induced catastrophy.

Their never ending greed and selfishness, along with their pandering to minorities who couldn’t get legitimate loans, is what caused one of the worst economic meltdowns in history, throwing gen x overboard and burning the economy to the ground right as millennials began entering the workforce.

It sealed the fate of gen X and millennials, and guess what, the same policies that caused the recession are still in place.

2008 was more destructive than 9/11.

>If we can achieve 80’s growth of 4-6% annually it will be amazing but I’m not sure if we can

I'd like to think that Trump has a lot to do with this, and I'm pleased. I've read it, but work abroad so I haven't seen it personally. My industry operates on a slightly different cycle and is in the fucking gutter right now.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it's not a "bubble" waiting to pop. There were big theories that a huge economic disaster was going to happen last year... like, 17 Sep or something.

Id argue 2012. 2008 was shite but at least it made sense. Gas was $5 a gallon but there were only 2 genders and racism was still racism even if the victim was white.

I remember times where I got strange looks for playing vidya(I was not even a hardcore Autist about it or something). The same people went 100% into WoW,Dota, CS, Consoles etc. a few years later and acted out on faceberg, about being the biggest nerds for playing GTA 5 on launch day. Of course they all watch those super cool Marvel movies every year...

It's worse being a fan of Green Lantern when I can't even bring it up anymore due to The Big Bang Theory.

>housing market crash
sweet cheap housing for young people just starting out
>actually government spends trillions of our tax dollars so boomers don't lose their wealth


>normies on the internet with Facebook and Twitter
ruined internet, now instead of a cool club it's just an extension of real life

>nigger in the white house
self-explanatory

Big Bang Theory

Well I'm IT, so 2001 was hugely bad for us, and companies didn't raise wages for YEARS afterward (and in many cases cut them.)

>I'd chalk it up to the first generation that received a lifetime of leftist indoctrination in the media and higher education reaching positions of influence for the first time.

I'd add the general acceptance of undertaking huge amounts of debt for things they couldn't afford. Fucking huge messes.

>actually government spends trillions of our tax dollars so boomers don't lose their wealth

>b-b-but if you build new housing our home values will go down! Don't do that!!1111 Also fuck my children I got mine lol

The rise of smart phones and social media.

People's friend lists expanded to 600 or more. They became far more likely to know a gay person, criminal, or other person that society usually shits on. This softens their heart and makes then left wing, it also provides everyone a platform to virtue signal.

At the same time it disconnects folks from each other. Fewer good friends and more people they met at a party one time.

I keep my Facebook because I fear social penalty and the awkward requests that were massive around 2009-10.

I used to accept any request but now I don't accept any request unless you have either been over to my house, have invited me over, or have shared a ride somewhere. If we don't do stuff together we aren't friends and I don't care to see the bullshit they post.

After years of beating America over the head for Iraq and Bush the Dems took Congress in Jan 2007, immediately implementing several bad ideas like a minimum wage hike and various stimulus packages meant to "prevent recession"(i.e: hold things together until the right time). In 2008 just in time for the election Chuck Schumer quietly tipped over the wobbly jenga tower his banker friends had built by publically questioning Indybank which caused it's failure, which lead directly to the enormous corrective crash of Oct 2008 and the election of (reformer lol)Obama.

Obama preceded to implement the globalist wet dream control agenda over the now debunked American economy which resulted in all remaining sane and independent economic actors in America retrenching deeply and hunkering down.

Ultimately late 2008 was the flashpoint where every American got collectively poorer but those in direct association with the globalist 1% uniparty(I.E. NoVA/DC/NYC). Every product you rely upon became more expensive, while the quality of those same products was severely reduced due to economic retrenchment and thin margins. Everyone's economic security was reduced, and simultaneously social division was rapidly increased thanks to the full flowering of the odious SJW/MSM complex under Obama. After 8 years of grinding cultural assault and misery the majority population of America felt very little of the optimism and empathy that had existed for so long in the previous less-diverse and more prosperous pre-2008 America.

This.

Worst show ever made.
It more or less killed everything good and interesting that was left or at least raped it to shreds.

Sucked the life out of everything and ensured my generation would be the longest working, be the highest taxed and have the smallest pension for generations to come.

I cant wait for the next recession, because its going to force Europe to wake up and change things.

>no job prospects and had to go homeless for 18 months.
you are literally retarded
keep making the rest of us non useless vets look bad though, im sure you got a lot of pity telling that shit story

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Just a thought, Obama?

The bank Jew banks all gambled on the goy governments bailing them out -- and they did.

The U.S Congress voted through literally trillions in TARP bailout packages. Only a handful of Republican senators like Rand Paul and Sessions voted against it.

After that, kike banks gained an even stronger grasp on the world economy, Soros made fantasy amounts of money on the recession and started financing every anti-white/leftist cause in the West 10-fold.

If they would have let the banks crash, and arrested the Jews, we would not be in this fucking mess anymore.

its always a bubble or on the way back up, whats your point?

The world started to turn shit when you stopped being able to turn in currency for gold. Fuck the Bank of England and fuck the federal reserve.

Also Facebook.

THATS ME. Underwater 30k bought from kike lawyer

Smartphones became more commonplace.

If you want an actual explanation that was right about the time when smartphones began to become tools of globalization, internet connectivity on devices in our pockets has allowed for ideas, both positive and negative, to be spread quickly and mutate quickly.

>the stock market is at record highs, unemployment is at the lowest point in decades, and home prices are sky rocketing. your theory makes no sense

And yet things still dont feel as good as they were before the recession. The wealth was transferred to corporations. Those big money days of pre 08 will never be seen again. Everyone was coining it. 9 yrs on the the Western economy is still on life support. Central Banks cannot raise rates quick enough to head off inflation because the middle and lower classes still havent found room to breathe. Personal debt levels are back to the highest they have ever been. People dont even own houses yet the debt is higher. Think about that.

The truth is we are a rudderless ship.

youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

It may not be apparent to you as an American but the rest of the world has been in dumpster fire recession since 2016.

Only China, India, and the USA have continued to see growth. This is because one group is a reserve currency and the other two have something of value (labor).

Europe is spitting in the USA's eye and is trying to replicate its immigrant success internally. Problem with that is that US immigrants were insane zealots who are were willing to sell it all and become indentured servants just to afford the boat ride over. They did all that so they could go to CHURCH. All the qualified and driven genetics have concentrated themselves in the USA already.

Europe's only true economic relevance is their connection to the USA. This is why s country of 98 iq whites (Ukraine) can earn less per capita than Nigeria. They are a Russian vassal that has little connection to the US.

Ukrainians were smart enough to win the first dota2 international and still pump out global talent and intellect in esports and science, but there is just no money because they aren't in on the game with the world reserve currency.

in 2008 the jews in control began punishing us for not allowing a draft after they did 9/11

they wanted the draft to try and get rid of the few remaining countries that aren't controlled by a central bank

Also related is the effect of millions of genocidally selfish Boomers taking full control of the institutional heights of America and world power circa the mid-90s & early 00s. Think pervert left-wing boomer shill Bill Clinton taking over from creepy yet patriotic and competent WWII vet Bush sr.

On a national scale this led directly to horrendous overt corruption and incompetence, exemplified by the real estate markets in the early 00s with their zero down no papers jumbo loans etc. The earlier generations tended to avoid at least the worst of this sort of stuff because many had experienced extreme economic hardship as children/young people during the depression and knew such risks were not a good idea.

THOSE HATS ARE SO FUCKING STUPID

And the thing is they don't show up in any ancient drawings, heiroglyphs, or anything.

They're literally a relatively modern Jewish invention to identify their Jewishness by.

I think you mean 2001. Pre 9/11 USA was better

this happened

>Crushed the last vestiges of the White Middle Class

That was the goal. No we have bobble heads who spend all day on their phones with no hope of owning any meaningful assets.

you graduated high school. welcome to life

The economy crashed and never recovered.

Obama became the cool dope dealer.... released the burden of life for liberals. The were high on not having to deal with life for 8 years... now they are totally hungover....

>There were big theories that a huge economic disaster was going to happen last year

Large corrections in the market happens every 7-10 years, as has been the case in the last 100 years without exception.

Some retards appear to believe that this time it'll be different, because [insert something retarded].

That is correct, none of their traditions come from the Bible or the Old Testament. Not even the Star of David comes from the Bible... no one has any fucking clue where the Star of David originated. It has nothing to do with David.

They're wicked.

FWIW
>Be me, 2007
>IT in a global med company
>Lead desktop support
>in tech room with my coworkers
>bro exec comes in
>dudes! I'm super excited about blackberries! Which one should I get?
>we were unanimous
>don't
>You will never, ever be left alone.
>people will think you're always available
>will always contact you
>will always expect an answer
>go to tech, don't attach it to yourself

People were dumbfounded that we weren't SUPER STOKED!111 but it seems what we were concerned about actually happened.

cool dude everyone I know is doing fine
I stopped after your first reddit spaced sentence. I dont give a fuck about the rest of the world.