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OldBaldy1701E

(8,762 posts)
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:21 AM Apr 2025

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

(29,460 posts)
1. Looks like Krasnov fixed the market
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:28 AM
Apr 2025

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

(8,762 posts)
2. One has to wonder what threats he is using to get his way.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:31 AM
Apr 2025

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

One or the other, eh?

Walleye

(42,044 posts)
3. They are afraid of the relentless maga flying monkeys
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:42 AM
Apr 2025

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

(8,762 posts)
11. That is one of my main questions.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:18 AM
Apr 2025

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

(42,044 posts)
4. The most influential thing on the baby boomer generation happened before we were born
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:43 AM
Apr 2025

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

Blues Heron

(7,324 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 2025

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

ShazzieB

(21,420 posts)
10. Yes, he should know better!
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:17 AM
Apr 2025

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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