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I remember just a few months ago bars and clubs being super packed and now there's hardly anybody at them. What's going on?

Edit: I'm in the Los Angeles area

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

All in all, this doesn't surprise me. Things are getting very bad

And we're still in the good times. My therapist asks me why my scores for happy/hopefulness are low and the anxiety/depression scores are high every week, and I can't help but gesture wildly at the state of the world.

Fucking figures that I'd get 2008'd again right as I start getting my life together.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Man I feel you. I started therapy a little over a year ago and mental health has improved a thousand fold, but I feel like it's too late and the country is only a few years away from falling completely.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The system requires these shocks so that owner class keep growing their pie at expense of working people. Sure mspt survive but everytime many are cornered into poverty

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Shock Doctrine, or "disaster capitalism". Naomi Klein.