I feel for you guys that didn't get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.
Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here's what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I'm British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):
- 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
- 2008: subprime mortgage crash
- 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
- 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
- 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn't realise at the time but this was the trial run.
- 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
- 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
- 2020: COVID
- 2021: failed Coup in the US
- 2022: Putin invades Ukraine
- 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country's wealth out of existence in a day.
- 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
- 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist
- 2026: Trump starts invading other countries in an effort to distract everyone from the mounting evidence he is a disgusting human trafficking pedo
