Guess What’s Next? @2020bingo - Tumblr Blog

I know we’re all scared, fatigued, and exhausted, but I think the memes and jokes about how 2020 is the Worst Year Ever and how the world is going to hell and how it’s the apocalypse are starting to wear us down and make things feel even more hopeless.

Full offense but where’s the “I’m gonna punch God in the face” energy? The “I refuse to die until things are better and that is a threat?” No more “the world is ending and everything sucks” memes, the new meme is going to be Punching The Universe In The Throat. I don’t care if none of us feel it, we need it. If y’all are feral then act like it!!! Bite depression and apathy in the junk! Be so hard to kill animal control doesn’t know what to do!

headspace-hotel

I just. I literally cannot stand the thought of memes about how 2021 sucks, and about how 2022 sucks, and about how 2023 sucks, an unending Shitty Pessimism Wheel of Depression spiralling on and on and on until the foreseeable future with no possible escape.

How will we survive that? Aren’t y’all just absolutely exhausted, past your bones and into your very SOUL, at the thought of continuing to make and share and SEE memes about how the world is a garbage fire until it, you, or memes themselves finally are surrendered to the flames?

Will we still be here in 2027 like “2027 is the REAL shit year and the world is ending and we’re all going to die!” Will the “bad timeline” joke format still be plodding along its helpless way a decade from now? Will we still be beating ourselves like flagellant monks with the corpses of apocalypse related meme formats in 5 years? Is it not plausible that we could begin queuing now memes for 2021 and 2022 complaining about how the world is shitty and on fire? Isn’t the thought simply the most damning, hopeless thought your brain has ever conceived? Doesn’t every cell of your body recoil at the image?

I simply cannot take this. My sanity is going to unspool if I stare into this future any longer. We HAVE to change the narrative. We cannot do this forever, we CANNOT, WE MUST NOT

#2020 #this fucking year #2020 bingo #official last post

ladytp

mood

exeggcute

pandemic episode of malcolm in the middle: malcolm struggles to reconcile his commitment to quarantine safety measures with the fact that all the girls his age are so lonely and isolated that they're suddenly willing to go on dates with HIM, of all people. reese discovers that egging neighbors' houses still counts as a "socially-distanced" activity and has the time of his life. dewey does some mental calculus and realizes that he gets fewer wedgies per day from his brothers than he does from the school bully and decides he'll keep these lockdowns in effect at all costs, so he starts calling in fake pandemic data to local health districts to bump the numbers up. lois gets in a physical altercation with a non-masker at the lucky aide and starts duct taping people's mouths shut, which craig finds both alarming and oddly alluring. (craig then immediately gets infected from licking his hand to slick back his hair in a bid to impress her.) hal works from home but, after slacking off on the family computer all day, is driven to obsession by the thought of becoming the digital solitaire world champion.

cloacatak

Amazing

michaelgovehateblog

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

primarybufferpanel

May we live in very uninteresting times

gaycism

fantastic news!

firebringer-moth-deactivated202

All the more reason to wear masks! :)

approximately-one-cabbage

#come on millennials #we’ve got at least one more industry killing in us

watering76

eunwoosfav

so here´s another b99 calendar based on this post

redbelles

2020: The Year From Hell

inspired by: this & this

ruinsmami

2020 is almost over and all I gotta say is what the fuck was that

spicypolitics

It was the culmination of 70 years of calcified post-war conservative politics (and yes I count neoliberalism in that), unchecked capitalist greed, and near complete civic disengagement by the largest generation in recent history (cough boomers cough cough).

As this year comes to a close, as a COVID vaccine looms, as Biden prepares for inauguration, it’ll be tempting to just put all of this behind us and move on. Please don’t. Because that’s exactly how we fucking got here.

2020 has been written on the pages of history for decades. All the signs and the evidence that all of this would happen—and all at once—has been there. Shouting at us. For decades.

Nobody wanted to hear it, few were even willing to consider things were as bad as people warned, and everyone was too busy with life to take the time out to do anything about it—because “work”, because “finances”, because “school”. We put off dealing with things until they exploded in our faces with such force they nearly blinded us. And now we are faced with escalating problems alongside more “work” and worse “finances” and harder “school”—all which are more stressful and trying than they’ve ever been. And the problems still need addressing—more pressing now than they were yesterday or the day before.

And It didn’t have to be that way.

We could have dealt with income inequality and corporate malfeasance and voter suppression and poverty/social welfare and all these related issues back in 2011, during Occupy Wall Street—that big reaction to the subprime mortgage crisis, when activists were screaming from rooftops about how all that shit was going to get worse if we didn’t deal with the root of the problem properly now.

Remember how instead of bailing out families so they could pay off their mortgages (which would have cost a shit ton less) we bailed out the auto industry and Wall Street? Remember how people lost their homes? How banks went after people who didn’t even have mortgages with them??

Look at how corporations have behaved during the pandemic (Amazon engaging in price fixing on essentials), look how the stock market has become emboldened by receiving absolutely no punishment for the “Great Recession” (betting on fucking water futures as resources dwindle and Flint continues to suffer), look at how corrupt police departments across the country have consolidated power over their communities after decades of hero worship and blank checks. Look at how they protect corporate property while killing innocent black people.

We could have dealt with these issues back in 1999 during the WTO protests, which were concerned with one of the very problems we’re dealing with now—economic globalization and the suppression of labor. But like Occupy those protests were suppressed and destroyed, and ultimately forgotten—and by the time 9/11 rolled around no one wanted to hear a word of sentiment which questioned American politics or could be construed as anti-American because 2,996 deaths and Never Forget.

Today, COVID-19 killed 3,054 Americans. Just today.

So when 2021 rolls around and we talk about what a shitfest 2020 was and “what even was that??”, the answer is plain on the pages of history. How and why we ended up here—it’s all there waiting for you to connect the dots. And every time you reduce 2020 to just some awful, wild, miserable year you are supporting the false and self-serving narrative of the people who dragged us here in the first place.

So I’ll repeat:

2020 was the culmination of 70 years of calcified post-war conservative politics, unchecked capitalist greed, and near complete civic disengagement by the largest generation in recent history. It didn’t come from nowhere, and there are clear cut roots to these problems and ways to fix them (and a long legacy of activist thought and discourse on these issues). But that means you can’t “go back to brunch” or “check out of politics” or “focus on X” to the exclusion of other things.

Take that with you into 2021.

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unclefather

verifiablebot

i was going through a tag and found this, which i reblogged back in december.

hits a little different now

silver5906

Mmm... Yummy.

11|05|2020

caffeinewitchcraft

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roach-works

terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.

desolationsuperfund

All the naysayers going “you know it’s not just 2020 and that the events of this year are actually the result of decades and 2021 won’t be magically better” Ahhh yes, strawman naysayer in my head and on my fb tl, I see you are very intelligent. But pal, it’s absolutely not the point at all. Hope has nothing to do with logic. We need celebrations the most when there is seemingly nothing to celebrate, which is why, even when everything is dark and bleak and we can’t even be together with the people we love, we put on our silly little party hats on december 31st, say “good riddence 2020 you absolute trash bastard” and perform this silly little ritual of giving a big ol cheers to whatever fresh new hell is coming next