Is 2017 any better than 2016?

[nintendofan85]

I actually feel that the last five years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017) were very rough years when the issue is politics. Ever since the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the aftermath, our country started to go to hell. And Trump's campaign for presidency in 2015 made it even worse. But it did move that direction very slowly, up until 2016 when it became more rapid.

Yeah, around the spring of 2013 I noticed people start increasingly become more sensitive about political issues. And, of course, by August 2014, you saw Black Lives Matter appear once the events of Ferguson started taking place, and there were several other events (such as what happened in Baltimore in April of 2015) that obviously made this clear during the second half of 2014 and first half of 2015, but from the start of Trump's presidential campaign in June 2015 onwards, it's clear how sensitive politics can be among the American public and even worldwide (see what happened in the UK with Brexit last year through now), and ever since Trump got elected in November and then took office this past January, it just become clearer and clearer.

 

[-Apples-]

Yeah, around the spring of 2013 I noticed people start increasingly become more sensitive about political issues. And, of course, by August 2014, you saw Black Lives Matter appear once the events of Ferguson started taking place, and there were several other events (such as what happened in Baltimore in April of 2015) that obviously made this clear during the second half of 2014 and first half of 2015, but from the start of Trump's presidential campaign in June 2015 onwards, it's clear how sensitive politics can be among the American public and even worldwide (see what happened in the UK with Brexit last year through now), and ever since Trump got elected in November and then took office this past January, it just become clearer and clearer.

Every year, the intensity seems to get worse. What I learned last night is that the left wing is very aggressive when it comes to shoving their policies down. They pull intolerance cards, even when there is no intolerance issue going on, which is moving us more leftward. But now their intolerance cards are becoming useless since it's been overdone, they have been reduced to violence. This is why the Trump era is going to be rougher than the Obama era (even when Christians are being persecuted, whites are being accused of having a special privilege others don't have because of their skin (even when it clearly shows that work ethic and morals have declined under Obama), when political correctness is going rampant, and when the government has overstepped their bounds in the past eight years). Honestly, calling people names to agree with you is no longer convincing, and violence is going to make it even worse. I told someone last night that the Republicans may be the party of intolerance, but the Democrats are the party of violence. This is even more shameful. No offense to those on this site who appear to be Democrats by US standards since I know most of you oppose violence, but the political violence is mostly coming from the left, especially when they are not getting what they want or are getting what they don't want.

Not trying to throw this discussion off topic or troll liberals, but I'm trying to prove my point on why 2017 is worse on the political issues.

 

[Kitsuragi]

i mean, sure. things have been pretty great this year for me. did a lot better in school this year than last, only thing different is last year i wasn't single. thats probably the only upside to last year. this year has been pretty great to me so far!
and i dont care about politics at all so none of it affects me. i'm just tired of hearing about it lol. i cant wait till we get a president that my mom likes so i dont have to hear her complain about trump all the time, yeesh

 

[Locket]

I personally liked 2016 better, cause all I've gotten this year is anxiety. It was more peaceful last year too.

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

Nah.

 

[Twisterheart]

For me personally, 2017 has been a lot better than 2016. A lot of bad things happened last year, so it was just a really stressful time.

 

[Dim]

It's not so much as the current events going on, I just feel more depressed and angry this year compared to last year. No year is good for me to be honest. It's the same thing every year. It's just a matter of what year I feel less depressed in. I guess 2013 was that one year...

 

[tybalt_cake]

I think its going better than 2016 , atleast on the January - July part.
Im expecting to be more stressed on August - December 2017 , lets hope not.

 

[candxur]

2016 was a pretty bad year for me, I was still a train wreck over stuff that happened in 2015 (im no longer a train wreck, just a wreck now), my dog (the happiest dog I've ever known he was too pure for this world) worked out how to open the doors and ate a ton of chocolate and unfortunately didn't survive, I was stabbed in the back, again, and I decided to start dating a guy when I knew it was just going to go horribly (and it did)

however so far through 2017 I've been in a depressive blur so it still kinda feels like january/february to me, but I did pass the 1 year self harm free mark so that's a big plus, I broke up w the guy and it felt like a huge weight had been lifted, my friend and I had drifted apart but this year we've managed to patch things up and we see each other roughly once a week, my chronic headaches are almost gone (I pray that they stay gone), and next month I'm going to see me favourite poet (and probably cry through the whole thing bc god damn he has a way with words)

so although I haven't really been mentally conscious for 2017, it is definitely better than 2016

 

[timecapsule]

No. Definitely not.

 

[SilkSpectre]

It's pretty miserable personally and globally. Hopefully things turn around towards the end of this year!!

 

[-Apples-]

I think its going better than 2016 , atleast on the January - July part.
Im expecting to be more stressed on August - December 2017 , lets hope not.

I am wondering. What is actually going to happen in the second half of this year or in 2018?

EDIT: I actually rememebred back when 2017 was right around the corner, I believed it was more about the solar eclipse happening in the United States (which hasn't even happened yet). But it turns out to be the darker days in the world, even when my favorite baseball team is doing better than ever, when Nintendo finally launched the Switch and has a few worthy titles, and that some of the 2016 craze (like those Harambe memes) finally died down.

 

[Irelia]

yeah I mean I hated this year but it was better than last year at least

 

[Stalfos]

This has actually been a great year for me personally. Grandaddy releasing their first album in 10 years. My favorite hockey team won the championship after the most thrilling final ever (sudden death in game 7). My favorite football/soccer team won promotion to the premier league. Nintendo's announcement that we're getting two new Metroid games (the Legacy edition for Metroid: Samus Returns that they're releasing in europe looks awesome). It's been 14 years since they've released a classic Metroid, so that's pretty big. New album by Fleet Foxes.

And there's more goodies to come: Sonic Mania, the first real classic Sonic game since the mid 90:s, and it looks glorious. New album from Grizzly Bear which sounds like it could be their best one yet. The SNES classic (the SNES is my favorite console ever). Ok, ok. I'm probably not gonna be able to get my hands on it but I'll deal with that then.

So far pretty much everything has been going my way this year so I'm very happy. <3

 

[visibleghost]

no lol everythingis still Bad. lol. ive been more lonely than in 2016 (well, half of 2016 lol) and im not getting sny better w anything. then there are some things im not sure if it's good or bad lollll
tbh it's mostly just the same idk nothing has rly changed