I added the hard mode modifier because it'd actually seem :sus-soviet: to talk about anything else if those were included. You can call it your least favorite decade for other reasons than direct materialist or sociopolitical or socioeconomic reasons, too. Maybe you didn't like the fashion, or the propaganda on the air, or something.
Mine is the 90s. Fuck the 90s. The 90s saw not only the collapse of the Soviet Union but also saw the start of the "End of History" delusions and the rise of Silicon Valley. Being alive and politically aware at the time was terrifying, especially when seeing the unprecedentedly brutal crackdowns on protestors in the late 90s and the pre-G*merGate chud explosions that happened in the Woodstock sequels in 1994 and 1999.
That was also the decade that saw the expansion of the "petulant misanthrope is actually right about everything" trope in fiction, and launched Adam Sandler's career. It was also the decade that saw gayness as a punchline, tokenism as a cynical marketing ploy, yet also banked on condemning "political correctness" at the same time, taking one insincere step forward and at least two steps back.
It was also the age of :billdawg: :hillgasm: and that's terrible too.
At a personal level, the psychological trickery and market manipulation put on TV and in the newspapers and newsmagazines was disturbing to me then as well. A weather report had to have a lip-smacking demonstrative statement about the yummy tall venti mocha java that the talking head just enjoyed, and they had to remind each other to stay hydrated with portable "Aych-Two-Ohhh" from planet-defiling plastic bottles, and this was also when recycling was seen as a Pontius Pilate tier hand-washing of all environmental sins and so people both ignored unsolved environmental crises and also sneered at people that still cared about them.
Fuck the 90s.
That's a fair argument. It's only 2 years in, but it doesn't look likely to get better.
this one bro it fuckin sucks at least in the 90s you could go out and eat meals with other people indoors without catching a new and poorly understood disease
at least in the 90s you could go out and eat meals with other people indoors
With so much "recyclable" plastic everywhere, on everything. Because it's "recyclable," there was more of it everywhere than ever before, but the problem was solved, surely, and caring about the problem was seen as excessive, even "ecoterrorist." :eco-porky:
At the rate things are going, I wonder if the Chudpreme Court will decree that unleaded mandates are "unconstitutional" too. :doomer:
Personally it was the 80's because Reagan, but objectively I would say the 50's. The McCarthy led crushing of the political left and dismantling of the New Deal along with the new "ideological" warfare in Korea.
i would go for 1910s because there are few worst vibes than the world war 1 situation, it sucks, war is now the worse it's ever been, there are horse dying and horse poo everywhere because cavalry was still a thing, also you are dying in a trench because of some freak called like archduck franz getting absolutelly peppered by a student and bonus: america is now in play, and becoming an actual thing that matters in global affairs dogshit decade all around
I did say the last century or so, buuuuut maybe there's some wiggle room. That was a decade more than a century ago. :chomsky-yes-honey:
my brain went "the last century is the 20th" and that is it no more thoughts needed
Hot take - the 60s. It started off so strong and then ended with the whole fucking civil rights movement getting assassinated, the whitewashing and commodification of what might have been the most rainbow anticapitalist movement in American history, and the realization of American imperialism and colonialism in full force. Big sad.
That's also the decade that saw the youth-driven revolutionary potential of the United States rise, crest with a deluge of drugs, then crash and recede into conformity forever after for that generation. :hst-pissed:
some decades just came in sucking ass and went out sucking ass but the 60s had so much potential and fell so far :kitty-cri-screm:
Agreed. You know it sucks when Hunter S. Thompson, self-volunteering test subject for just about every drug known at the time, declared that those aforementioned drugs distracted and inhibited the revolutionary potential of those he hung out with. :hst-pissed:
The 90s are the neolibs' favorite decade
That alone makes it a strong contender for the worst
Some of them have never emotionally or subjectively left the 90s. They see themselves as the eternal winners of the Cold War, as perpetually young and hip and universally praised disruptive innovators of the cool new Silicon Valley project, and take any evidence to the contrary as those damn SJW wokescolds and cancel culturalists trying to interrupt their eternal frat parties.
The end of history shit is the peak of their hubris
Thankfully their precious "rules based order" ain't looking healthy
It didn't help their "rules based order" that their own ruling class could ignore those rules whenever convenient.
Say that you want to flagrantly violate international law without saying that you want to flagrantly violate international law
One of their leaders, the grossly overpaid writer of Harry Potter fanfiction, was bloviating recently about "helping" reservation territories by pushing techbro medical facilities onto them so the techbros and their sycophants could try a little harder to live forever.
Obvious answer is the 40s, literal nightmare world, whole continents destroyed, the earth is the plaything of a deranged racist empire, decolonization was just a new word, everyone's racist, sextist, partition-obessed and anti-communtist, there's lead in everything
The only words you can use to describe the fashion is utilitarian conservative or Nazis
The 70s
70s in South Africa had the border wars, anti apartheid resistance was struggling, everyone in jail, depressed decade.
Those clothes and that furniture looked so synthetic and uncomfortable, too.
The only good thing about the 90's: Hugo Chavez got elected in 1999 and Mandela in 1994 :chavez-salute: :mandela:
the current one. this will forever be my answer until things get better
Late 80s and 90s when neoliberal reforms were being implemented across the third world
1910-1920 love to see half the dudes you know die in ww1 and everyone else gets spanish flu or polio.
