Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Media bias. Trump is outrage and outrage moves views and views are profit. Trump is the greatest thing to happen to the media - regardless of side. We’re also more connected today than we ever were before so this media gets to everyone in an instant.

    Are evil people really winning globally more than they were in the past? Well… no. We’ve seen more shit in the second half of the 20th century than we are now. There’s still 25 years to catch up though. Heres some shit thats gone down fro 1950-2000.

    • Cold War - though it does seem like we are moving back to this state, we’re far from living like that
    • Korean War, Vietnam War, Kuwait,
    • Cuban Missile Crisis,
    • Basically every Arab nation against Israel - wars galore,
    • Suez crisis,
    • Iranian revolutions,
    • Sino-Soviet Split,
    • India-Pakistan,
    • Soviet-Afghan war,
    • Numerous African civil wars in the 60s, 70s and 90s (till ongoing),
    • South African Apartheid,
    • Numerous south American dictatorships (+ CIA interventions in south America backing right wing dictators),
    • Falklands war - the fucking UK went to war with Argentina in the fucking 80s!
    • All the shit in Yugoslavia (wars, genocide),
    • “The Troubles” in N. Ireland.

    A lot of these have been resolved.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      Must include that if you’re here on Lemmy you were probably on Reddit before, and the latter has been a campaign for doom and gloom for close to a decade at this point. When you surround yourself in folks suggesting the sky is falling, you start to believe the sky is falling.

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      Virtually all of your examples involve US hegemony instigating and winning, the same group doing the current stuff. Why does a war ending count as becoming less evil if it’s always by the same instigator and they keep winning, jumping from conflict to conflict? Have you considered that the evil keeps winning and suppressing the good through compliance or murder?

      What is we compare the most intense 25 years of the 20th to the current 25 and label the instigators?

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Virtually all of your examples involve US hegemony instigating and winning

        Hmm, I disagree. There are some but I purposely wanted to include the ones where the US was not in change in order to show its been a shitshow everywhere. They obviously had a hand everywhere, since they are considered a superpower but them leading the show every time? That’s a stretch.

        Ive also given examples I personally thought were extreme that happened in that century to paint a picture that it’s been pretty bad for a while now and you can draw your own opinion on whether is better now or not. I don’t wish to compare these events to today’s but I can acknowledge they were there and that they were also, pretty fucking bad.