Time: 2000's named the "Decade From Hell"

[FlameOfCallandor]

Kent State 1970, while technically a resounding military victory for the U.S. Army National Guard, did not have the last effect of stomping out the hippie movement in its entirety.  Much like we saw later in Iraq, the larger groups broke off into smaller ones, creating small pockets of mostly underground and unbeatable resistance.  Many entered society posing as hard working, contributive society members, but in reality they realized it was from within the inside that they could do the most damage, much like the Algerians who fought against the French.  Today, there are thousands of hippie sleeper cells waiting to be activated.

actually the reason you dont see the ones still around is because theyre all attending nude weddings (my relative is having one fml), organizing nude canoe trips, and are either psychologists or scamming people with in home group therapy sessions (some even involve praying to dolphin skulls and pretending they are seaweed, its on the last season of penn and tellers show i couldnt make this shit up if i tried)

I saw that episode of B.S.

SMH

[The Fake Shemp]

How can anyone argue that the 60s were worse?

We landed on the moon, dealt with an International doomsday crisis head-on and came out unscathed, civil fucking rights and the decade turned out to be a defining turning point for a generation. Artistically, it's one of the most important decades of the past century.

The fact that it was a more heated time, with spurts of civil unrest is irrelevant. That civil unrest was good and resulted in a positive direction for the country. We did not erupt into civil war.

Vietnam sucks, but it pales in comparison to the global beating we have taken for two wars in foreign countries.

This decade has been total fucking shit from across the board. Time is right. It's a shitty decade, I hope it burns in hell.

[Fresh Prince]

Hippies
Baby Boomers

[Mupepe]

Big ol' 70's bush
Shaved pedobait bush 

for real real.

hell, at least just keep a lawn there.  trim it nice, baby.  give me something to grab onto while i'm licking that goodness.

[Mupepe]

How can anyone argue that the 60s were worse?

We landed on the moon, dealt with an International doomsday crisis head-on and came out unscathed, civil fucking rights and the decade turned out to be a defining turning point for a generation. Artistically, it's one of the most important decades of the past century.

The fact that it was a more heated time, with spurts of civil unrest is irrelevant. That civil unrest was good and resulted in a positive direction for the country. We did not erupt into civil war.

Vietnam sucks, but it pales in comparison to the global beating we have taken for two wars in foreign countries.

This decade has been total fucking shit from across the board. Time is right. It's a shitty decade, I hope it burns in hell.

I got my dick sucked my two chicks at the same time this decade.  Fuck all that other bullshit.

[drew]

ooh landing on the moon ahh

we found water on the moon and can make black fucking holes now

[The Fake Shemp]

How can anyone argue that the 60s were worse?

We landed on the moon, dealt with an International doomsday crisis head-on and came out unscathed, civil fucking rights and the decade turned out to be a defining turning point for a generation. Artistically, it's one of the most important decades of the past century.

The fact that it was a more heated time, with spurts of civil unrest is irrelevant. That civil unrest was good and resulted in a positive direction for the country. We did not erupt into civil war.

Vietnam sucks, but it pales in comparison to the global beating we have taken for two wars in foreign countries.

This decade has been total fucking shit from across the board. Time is right. It's a shitty decade, I hope it burns in hell.

I got my dick sucked my two chicks at the same time this decade.  Fuck all that other bullshit.

Great, Mupepe got his dick sucked. Let Madoff out of jail, and let the good times roll!

[Fresh Prince]

Also just because you got your dick sucked by two chicks in the 00's doesn't mean that it wouldn't of happened in the 60's if you were around then hell it would of probably happened more often.

[Madrun Badrun]

but I was in college in the late 90's so it was a lot easier to convince a girl to have sex with you back then. 

I'm so glad I'm going to be in school until I'm 30!

[Himu]

How can anyone argue that the 60s were worse?

We landed on the moon, dealt with an International doomsday crisis head-on and came out unscathed, civil fucking rights and the decade turned out to be a defining turning point for a generation. Artistically, it's one of the most important decades of the past century.

The fact that it was a more heated time, with spurts of civil unrest is irrelevant. That civil unrest was good and resulted in a positive direction for the country. We did not erupt into civil war.

Vietnam sucks, but it pales in comparison to the global beating we have taken for two wars in foreign countries.

This decade has been total fucking shit from across the board. Time is right. It's a shitty decade, I hope it burns in hell.

I got my dick sucked my two chicks at the same time this decade.  Fuck all that other bullshit.

[demi]

What decade did PC gaming begin to decline and irrelevant? I like that one.

[Mupepe]

How can anyone argue that the 60s were worse?

We landed on the moon, dealt with an International doomsday crisis head-on and came out unscathed, civil fucking rights and the decade turned out to be a defining turning point for a generation. Artistically, it's one of the most important decades of the past century.

The fact that it was a more heated time, with spurts of civil unrest is irrelevant. That civil unrest was good and resulted in a positive direction for the country. We did not erupt into civil war.

Vietnam sucks, but it pales in comparison to the global beating we have taken for two wars in foreign countries.

This decade has been total fucking shit from across the board. Time is right. It's a shitty decade, I hope it burns in hell.

I got my dick sucked my two chicks at the same time this decade.  Fuck all that other bullshit.

Great, Mupepe got his dick sucked. Let Madoff out of jail, and let the good times roll!

You guys are just focusing on the bad.  The 60's didn't have Xbox 360.  Totally worth it.

Also just because you got your dick sucked by two chicks in the 00's doesn't mean that it wouldn't of happened in the 60's if you were around then hell it would of probably happened more often.

I only operate in certainties. 

[The Fake Shemp]

There are some that would cite the Xbox 360 as further damning evidence for calling the '00s the Decade from Hell.

[Mupepe]

Yeah, but we know they're not getting their dicks sucked by anybody.

[demi]

Mupepe knows how it is. Ya'll some lames. PC gaming for unkempt fatbeards, console for popular people.

[drew]

There are some that would cite the Xbox 360 as further damning evidence for calling the '00s the Decade from Hell.

gentiles?

[Don Flamenco]

Richard Lewis must be upset.

also, 00s have been very mixed for me.  but the 90s were absolute shit pretty much the whole time. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I got laid this decade and I make more money than I ever did last decade.  I can't complain too much.

[drew]

i was a kid in the 90's and the only way i could have gotten laid was by being molested and was too young to get a job, so i cant really count that

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The more I think about it, the shittier the name.

It reminds me of their masterstroke Person of the Year for 2006.  I imagine the 1910s, 1920s, 1940s, and 1960s were considerably worse decades, even if we were strictly looking at it from a jingoist perspective.

[Barry Egan]

the holocaust didn't occur during this decade.  Time's owned. 

[Van Cruncheon]

Early 30's with wife and young kids seem like the most idyllic time to me.

bolded for the lawlz

[The Fake Shemp]

the holocaust didn't occur during this decade.  Time's owned. 

To be fair, all Hitler did was kill people nobody liked.

... In reality, while World War II was violent and cost millions of lives, it undeniably changed the course of human history, made America a superpower and is probably the only righteous war in human history. How many other wars can literally and accurately be defined as good versus evil?

And good won.

Post-World War II, America was like the end of The Lord of the Rings, except not as gay.

[Barry Egan]

that was like, the worst commentary on history since drewsy's post 1 page ago.

[Himu]

the holocaust didn't occur during this decade.  Time's owned. 

To be fair, all Hitler did was kill people nobody liked.

... In reality, while World War II was violent and cost millions of lives, it undeniably changed the course of human history, made America a superpower and is probably the only righteous war in human history. How many other wars can literally and accurately be defined as good versus evil?

And good won.

Post-World War II, America was like the end of The Lord of the Rings, except not as gay.

[The Fake Shemp]

I guess you're right, Chipopo. World War II did not change the course of human history, America never recovered economically and became a third-world country, and World War II was a pointless war. Hitler would have been a pretty benevolent leader had we left him to his own devices.

Pay no attention to what I said, we're obviously living in a Harry Turtledove novel. :'(

[CajoleJuice]

I was thinking of The Man in the High Castle. I didn't even know this other guy

Worldwar & Colonization Series

Science Fiction/Alternate History — Aliens invade in the middle of World War II

[Fresh Prince]

Young children I consider 4 to about 8, still cute, can talk, always learning etc.

Drewsy is correct. Guess what? Most of the important shit done in the 60's wasn't done by baby boomers.

[The Fake Shemp]

If there is a case to be made that the '40s was a worse decade than the one we're about to exit, it's that Harry Turtledove was born in 1949.

[Himu]

Drewsy is correct. Guess what? Most of the important shit done in the 60's wasn't done by baby boomers.

What'd they even do in the 70's?

[Barry Egan]

It's not that you've constructed the events incorrectly.  Just that you would insinuate America's getting to play the good guy as somehow counterbalancing the atrocity of the Holocaust that's pretty ridiculous.  

[CajoleJuice]

It's not that you've constructed the events incorrectly.  Just that you would insinuate America's getting to play the good guy as somehow counterbalancing the atrocity of the Holocaust that's pretty ridiculous.  

[Fresh Prince]

Fucked the world up!

[Himu]

Made disco popular.  

Yes...but they also did this.

I'm so conflicted.

[youtube=560,345]8a_hBR9YuNw[/youtube]

[Fresh Prince]

Hippies suck.
Baby Boomers suck.
Gen Y suck.

Disenchanted Gen X

[Himu]

I'm Gen Y.

[The Fake Shemp]

It's not that you've constructed the events incorrectly.  Just that you would insinuate America's getting to play the good guy as somehow counterbalancing the atrocity of the Holocaust that's pretty ridiculous.

Uh, what?

I didn't even bring nationalism into the argument that it was a righteous war; World War II was a victory for pretty much the entire globe. All I stated was that it made America a superpower, which it did. The Holocaust was pretty awful (and I say this as someone who has actual family members lost to the Holocaust), but yeah, that's more or less a historically significant event related to World War II and not the decade as a whole.

It was tragic, but the Atomic Age and all the events that came with it are far more important to human history than the Holocaust.

[drew]

what the fuck are the borders between gen x and y anyway?

theyre gonna run out of letters pretty soon, shit.

[Himu]

I dunno. I think last year for gen x is 1983 or some shit. I was born in 85 lol

[The Fake Shemp]

I think, honestly, we'll be known as Generation Apathy.

Historians are already trying to coin this current generation as The (New) Lost Generation.

[Barry Egan]

my response to your post was in jest anyway. But regardless of whether the holocaust was the most significant historical event, it's still a better example of "hell on earth" then anything that's happened this decade, which is what this thread is about.  

[drew]

I think, honestly, we'll be known as Generation Apathy.

and by that time theyll be known as generation dying off like flies lmao

[Fresh Prince]

what the fuck are the borders between gen x and y anyway?

theyre gonna run out of letters pretty soon, shit.

Who cares to me it's about mind state. I think 1982 is the border between X and Y. After Z it'll be omega

Y is the 'me' generation. Living somewhere between adolescence and adulthood. And raising fucked up children. omg

[drew]

my parents were a football player and cheerleader high school couple from the 50's

i got lucky

[Madrun Badrun]

It's not that you've constructed the events incorrectly.  Just that you would insinuate America's getting to play the good guy as somehow counterbalancing the atrocity of the Holocaust that's pretty ridiculous.

Uh, what?

World War II was a victory for pretty much the entire globe.

Eastern Europe says hello.

[The Fake Shemp]

I said pretty much. Eastern Europe had it coming.

[The Fake Shemp]

my response to your post was in jest anyway. But regardless of whether the holocaust was the most significant historical event, it's still a better example of "hell on earth" then anything that's happened this decade, which is what this thread is about.

I disagree. We bested the regime directly responsible for The Holocaust, thereby putting an end to it. It was also isolated, as it did not impact much of the globe.

Whereas we have made great strides this decade to make the world a worse place to live for most of its inhabitants - economically, physically and environmentally.

[Madrun Badrun]

The Holocaust was also isolated, as it did not impact much of the globe.

The middle east says hello.

[The Fake Shemp]

Auschwitz was located in Dubai?

[The Fake Shemp]

And before you get any further, Arvie - I'm well aware you're referring to Israel.

... However, a Jewish state was already in formation prior to the Holocaust (or World War II). Zionism can trace its roots to the 1800s. Jews were flooding into Palestine before and during World War II; it's not as if they were air dropped into the region as a direct result of the Holocaust.

Israel's origins are deeper than basic elementary education, which usually consists of teachers telling students that Europe loaded Jews in wheelbarrows and dropped them off in the Middle East so they could have their own country.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#Zionism_and_the_British_Mandate

The rise of Nazism in the 1930s led to the Fifth Aliyah, with an influx of a quarter of a million Jews. This caused the Arab revolt of 1936–1939 and led the British to cap immigration with the White Paper of 1939. With countries around the world turning away Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, a clandestine movement known as Aliyah Bet was organized to bring Jews to Palestine.[40] By the end of World War II, Jews accounted for 33% of the population of Palestine, up from 11% in 1922.[51]

It's true that Israel was already forming, the holocaust made things a lot worse than it otherwise would have been.

[Boogie]

Vietnam sucks, but it pales in comparison to the global beating we have taken for two wars in foreign countries.

Uh, no.

[Madrun Badrun]

Over 60 million people died in a bullshit war.

It wasn't a bullshit war.  In fact it was pretty much a great victory for good for pretty much everyone.  How many wars do you know that are actually just?  And America became a superpower in it.  It was pretty much the best war ever. 

[Barry Egan]

my response to your post was in jest anyway. But regardless of whether the holocaust was the most significant historical event, it's still a better example of "hell on earth" then anything that's happened this decade, which is what this thread is about.

I disagree. We bested the regime directly responsible for The Holocaust, thereby putting an end to it. It was also isolated, as it did not impact much of the globe.

Whereas we have made great strides this decade to make the world a worse place to live for most of its inhabitants - economically, physically and environmentally.

Can you get a little more concrete in your examples here?  It sounds like you're just projecting some future catastrophe that won't even occur in this decade. 

[The Fake Shemp]

Over 60 million people died in a bullshit war.

Trolling.

... Arvie, as per your Wikipedia post, that was the fifth wave of Jews entering Palestine. That means there were four more waves of Jews entering the Middle East. All the Holocaust did was speed up the process. The British had already pulled out due to conflicts with the people who believe in the development and protection of a Jewish nation in the '20s.

Uh, no.

Totally. Vietnam was an unpopular war at home, as was Iraq (and still is), and we suffered far more causalities in the battlefield, but it still pales in comparison to the hit in global credibility with foreign nations that we have taken with Iraq and Afghanistan (p.s. thanks for pulling out, Canada). I mean, American at least had the audacity to frame the Vietnam war as a war against communism, which was evil, right?

Whereas we were seen as pretty much aggressors and bullies this time around, much moreso than with Vietnam. A lot of heinous stuff America did during Vietnam wasn't really revealed until after Vietnam.

[Flannel Boy]

Young children I consider 4 to about 8, still cute, can talk, always learning etc.

Drewsy is correct. Guess what? Most of the important shit done in the 60's wasn't done by baby boomers.

This is true. Even the Beatles weren't baby boomers.

[The Fake Shemp]

Can you get a little more concrete in your examples here?  It sounds like you're just projecting some future catastrophe that won't even occur in this decade.

Uh, let's see. We pretty much single-handedly ruined the global economy (which may still get worse before it even attempts to get better), we destabilized two separate countries (and have created a general landmine of issues in that region), furthered an agenda that has already led to obtuse climate change and threatens to severely impact the entire globe, and failed to address the needs of developing countries, while making exorbitant amounts of income off of them.

Western civilization!

[Saint Cornelius]

This whole thread just makes me want to fly out to some houses, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back stylee

The worst thing about this fucking decade has been the rise of the internet, and the entitlement it has created amongst white nerdlingers

[Saint Cornelius]

And also the Wii lol lawl Nintendo lol

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, Corny is right. The Wii is like the gaming equivalent of the Holocaust. That alone should net this decade the gold for worst ever.