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It's kinda strange that we have a whole set of cultural jokes for passively spectating world history as it happens (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 day ago by Wheaties@hexbear.net to c/badposting@hexbear.net
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A quick reverse search suggests that this was initially made with HL3 news in mind. I found (a lot) of very recent reposts of it.

I don't have much more to say, other than to express mild cynicism that the same joke used in waiting for a computer game gets reused for very serious historical events.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Nothing ever happens" is more of like a meta-commentary on how the neoliberal order in place since the collapse of the USSR has seemingly been invincible, despite a million different potentially earth-shattering events that happen to it. Each time, it's managed to absorb the change and then spit out more of the same. Given that the very architects of that neoliberal order (the United States) are currently the ones mounting a contest to it, the days of "nothing ever happens" are now solidly in the past. We are, unfortunately, in the time of "things happen."

That said there is a lot of cynicism around the fact that we in the West, and communists/anarchists in particular, have so little agency to effect these outcomes that we are indeed merely spectating. Probably intensified by the fact that this is a shitposting meme forum rather than a place to organise active resistance or community.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right, the nature of this forum doesn't help. Though I will quickly beat the Organizing Happens Offline drum again.

And I agree that we're squarely outside of neoliberalism's ability to metabolize change into more of the same. But among the frustrating parts of being in the US, we are absolutely gonna talk as though we're still in that era. Each new event is going to be met with, "can't wait till the Trump aberration is over!"; internationally, "Why must [The Other] insist on threatening international rules and norms?!"; and the ultimate catch all, "Why can't [currentYear] just end already?"

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Political discourse in the United States is forever frozen in 2016. It will always be 2016.

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chudjak and nothing ever happens are both from /pol/, it was taken to be used for waiting for a video game, not the other way around.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Oh, yes. I was commenting on the history of this specific image, not the meme it stems from.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Refreshing news feed like nth attempt at a skilltester machine.

WW3 again?! is HL3 even in this thing?

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

begrudgingly changing the link in my bookmark of ?sort=New Hebxear Bulletins