My late 30s were robbed by a pandemic. My early 40s are being stolen by an extreme political ideology fucking up the entire world. When will I be allowed to enjoy my life without god damn billionaires and "unprecedented events" getting in the way? - ThreadSky

americanfietser.com • 20 days ago

My late 30s were robbed by a pandemic. My early 40s are being stolen by an extreme political ideology fucking up the entire world.

When will I be allowed to enjoy my life without god damn billionaires and "unprecedented events" getting in the way?

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dvdham.bsky.social•20 days ago

Time to start stockpiling spare bicycle chains, tires, and inner tubes for during the war.

americanfietser.com•20 days ago

My belt drive could survive the Reconquista.

petterimommo.bsky.social•20 days ago

Chains are more efficient (you´ll need those calories) and don´t perish.

jgnat.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ask the Silent Generation. I figure we play the hand we are dealt.

Pleasure, the buddhists remind us, are in the fleeting seconds of the “now”.

danhogan95.bsky.social•20 days ago

Add the housing meltdown in 2008. That was my early 30s.

sistermister.bsky.social•20 days ago

Same

voteless.bsky.social•20 days ago

I think we must be around the same age. I get a little sick thinking about the (climate, political, basic human survival) hellscape awaiting my kids when they enter adulthood around 2040.

ashface00.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been asking myself this same question

goodnotbad.run.place•20 days ago

soviet-republic born child combo:
•Chernobyl disaster +
•total poverty of 90-s +
•seize of power by agrodictator after the only a half of decade of independence +
•pandemia +
•revolution +
•congression +
we not even ever try what called to live normally 🤷‍♂️
but we don't give up neither should you ✊

goodnotbad.run.place•20 days ago

*coagression (mean attack of ruzzians from the territory of Belarus)

sundance.bikesky.social•19 days ago

Constant slide my whole adult life

Best we had it was high school

ldbp.bsky.social•20 days ago

I feel this. We have been making plans for retirement in a few yrs and now that is going to be f**ked up b/c a country I don’t live in and can’t vote in is populated by a large group of people who have nothing but hate inside them.

mynameisalexp.bsky.social•20 days ago

Same.. anyone's guess where we will be in 5 years time

daringcoyotes.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’m figuring our 40s are fucked. Hoping for less fascism in my 50s. Considering I am only 41 this is admittedly a pretty pessimistic outlook.

aarneleinonen.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stop reading news and close the app. Majority of people are rather happy in ignorance.

(Personally I get satisfaction being aware more than I wish happiness)

mburley.bsky.social•20 days ago

Fight facism by enjoying life. Now’s all you got, stop waiting.

normaalbike.bsky.social•19 days ago

Think how bad it is for people that haven’t discovered cargobikes and the sanity they interject. Keep doing what you’re doing, it makes a difference.

hobopedestrian.bsky.social•20 days ago

Based on the last century excepting the 1990s? Never.

randyhermanlaw.com•20 days ago

Before that, your 20s were stolen by the Great Recession. It's been all downhill since 2001.

americanfietser.com•20 days ago

2001 felt like the turning point into the continual shit show.

carsten-diekmann.bsky.social•20 days ago

That year I started working a regular 9-5 job, so yeah, that's when the shit started.

randyhermanlaw.com•20 days ago

The high point for America was from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11. 1991-2001.

dormarkrid.bsky.social•20 days ago

My thirties by a historically deep recession, my 40s from the pandemic, and my 50s from an internal Russian takeover of the United States government that will likely destabilize the entire world economically and militarily.

Growing comfortable with discomfort over here.

nickbarnhiser.bsky.social•20 days ago

I turned 45 late last year. I’m coming to the realization that with my life effectively half over that if I remain in this country and city(Phoenix) I’ll probably never live to see some of the basic “quality of life” things that other countries have had for a long time…

nickbarnhiser.bsky.social•20 days ago

…basic gun laws, safe walking/biking infrastructure, universal healthcare, climate change mitigation. Now we have this administration and all the hate and division. I also have small children and I don’t know if I want them growing up here. We are seriously considering a Europe move in the future.

robgalanakis.bsky.social•19 days ago

We moved to Portland from Europe because we wanted to get close to all those things, cannot say enough good things about this city. Europe ain't roses.

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