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OldBaldy1701E

(7,705 posts)
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:21 AM Apr 8

I find it very interesting that the term 'doomer' is a thing now.

Some of us were born this way. It is called 'depression'. There is nothing new about it.

Hell, there are times when I am sure my life was over the moment I came out. Based on where I am now, I'd say it was prescience, not being a 'doomer'.

So I guess the question is: 'Doomer', depression, or just a decided awareness of reality?

I guess we will find out. Assuming that I survive to see it.

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gab13by13

(27,793 posts)
1. Looks like Krasnov fixed the market
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:28 AM
Apr 8

Up 700 right now. 800 now, 1,000 now.

I’m a doomer too, I caught it way back when I thought Merrick Garland wasn’t doing enough.
The non-doomers tried to calm me down saying I didn’t know what was happening behind the scenes.

Sometimes there is a monster in the closet.

Do Town Halls.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,705 posts)
2. One has to wonder what threats he is using to get his way.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:31 AM
Apr 8

Or, the programing is working better than the oligarchs had hoped.

One or the other, eh?

Walleye

(39,779 posts)
3. They are afraid of the relentless maga flying monkeys
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:42 AM
Apr 8

Justice Barrett rules against them one time and online they are calling her Amy Commie Barrett. The poor Republican snowflakes can’t take being called names. Even though that’s all they ever do.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,705 posts)
11. That is one of my main questions.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:18 AM
Apr 8

So far, all of their bluster has been online and never seems to amount to more than some hooters standing around an abortion clinic or blacklisting some brand over something idiotic (only to return to the brand once the hubbub dies down).

Why are we still so afraid of them? Because they might say something bad on Facebook?

Walleye

(39,779 posts)
4. The most influential thing on the baby boomer generation happened before we were born
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:43 AM
Apr 8

Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We grew up with doom hanging over our heads. Then we turned out to survive this long, dirty trick.

Blues Heron

(6,814 posts)
8. Its just gaslighting, just alert on them and hopefully the offending posters will be gone
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 08:32 AM
Apr 8

Dont let the bastards grind you down. (illegitimi non carborundum)

ShazzieB

(20,347 posts)
10. Yes, he should know better!
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:17 AM
Apr 8

I wonder if they even did the duck and cover stuff at the swanky private school he attended as a child.

Not saying that would explain anything, just wondering.

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