Can’t believe that the devil put all his energy into 2016.
It’s like he had an assignment due jan 1, 2017 And forgot until now
Positive parts of 2016
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– the rise of old friends senior dog sanctuary
– Hamilton
– pokemon go
– female ghostbusters
– i don’t give a fuck im outta here Obama
– captain america civil war
– girl, black guy and latino guy leads in new star wars
– deadpool
– lemonade
– literally???! Nothing??? Else????WELL ACTUALLY SINCE YOU ASKED:
– 500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.
– We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention.
– This therapy could cure radiation sickness.
– The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions, which required a super-majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop) and got MORE than that from both lay and bishop.
– The Liberal gov’t changed the Canada Child Benefit so that it’s actually helping people who NEED THE FUCKING HELP. (I am sorry if you are a six figure income you do not actually fucking need this make some fucking lifestyle adjustments for fuck’s sake.)
– Highway of Tears is finally getting some regular fucking bus service.
– Eastwood donated a bunch more land to the Carmel River restoration project.
– We have developed gene-therapy for autoimmune disorders.
– Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING.
– Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.
– Canada is actively attempting to increase and improve refugee resettlement.
– This guy got to see his kids again.
– Net Neutrality has been upheld by the appeals court. (No that fight isn’t over BUT THIS IS STILL A FUCK OF A GOOD THING.)
– We may have cured MS. (LET ME REPEAT: WE MAY HAVE CURED MS.)
– New short-treatment-period cure for HepC is huge success.
– Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened.
… . and this is just what I came up with in a pretty lazy google search in an hour, including distractions where I went down the research rabbit-hole for a bit because holy crap some of that stuff’s NEAT, guys!
And I know I’m missing stuff, because I wanted a citation for every single thing I put on there.
Yes, there have been some really bad things that have happened in 2016. There have also been a number of huge fucking miracles, and SIMILAR bad things have always happened, just about every damn year – maybe not to you, or maybe they didn’t make the news, and maybe you just don’t remember any of the good because of that whole massive Negative Bias problem that human brains have, but?
A lot of good shit happened. A lot.
And like I do actually get the sudden overwhelmed feeling of EVERYTHING SUCKS? but that mindset is, at this point, literally our worst enemy. “Everything is terrible somebody do something” helplessness is what will in fact consign us to everything BEING terrible.
Everything is not terrible. In fact there are new ways, every single month, wherein new opportunities and miracles are happening and no that does not balance out the bad shit but it gives every reason to FIGHT the bad shit, and to get past the bad shit, and to make sure the bad shit ISN’T the overwhelming stain.
So.
are u trying to tell me this week taylor swift, selena gomez, asap rocky, and jeffree star all got cancelled, mcr came back to life and then died again, ted cruz, a republican nastie, scammed all the other republican nasties, donald trumps wife plagiarized word for word a michelle obama speech then cited my little pony as an excuse, leslie jones joined, then left twitter because of racist scum, then made a grand return, and now the first one direction member has officially announced solo plans suggesting the band may be over for good. And it’s only fucking thursday.
Have we tried unplugging 2016, waiting 10 seconds, then plugging it back in?
Sometime yesterday I saw a friend say on Facebook that it felt like the country was starting to come apart, in a way that felt reminiscent of 1968. This is someone my age, with no living memory of that time. As Adam Smith famously said, there’s a lot of ruin in a nation. I shy away from these kind of remarks and that kind of thinking. But this year is shaping up to be at least something like that, the erratic and unbounded presidential campaign, the normalization of words and actions that all normally agree are beyond the limits of acceptance.
2016 is feeling more and more like that bit in movies where the time traveller accidentally kills a bug and when they return the world is Not Quite Right
