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What one thing are you surprised isn't getting talked of anymore when at one point, it was everywhere? (piefed.social)
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Looney Tunes, for me. When I was growing up through the 90s and 2000s, Looney Tunes was about as large as life itself. Bugs, Daffy, Taz, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian .etc were staples anywhere in culture. However, it felt like some pendulum swung another direction because there's solemn mention of Looney Tunes in the past 10 years.

And I'm trying to not say that Looney Tunes has faded away, it still has made shows as recent as 2020 that lasted until 2024 and a movie that was this year. But I'm saying that it's cultural relevance has taken a backseat and it doesn't help that its parent company, WB, has been treated as nothing more than just an asset to be acquired while those who acquired it, aren't doing a lot with the name to bring it back to its former level.

It's kinda like how Tom and Jerry were huge (still are to an extent) but its cultural significance as of late, has largely taken the same backseat where you don't hear as much from them as you used to.

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[–] 46 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Climate change. It's an existential threat which no one seems to actually care about enough to do anything. In many cases leaders are intentionally doing all they can to make it worse. The world has gone insane.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    I think there's two issues. First, it's that people are so drained, because there's been next to no progress (negative progress recently) because the elites can keep themselves from being regulated.

    Second, the media has stopped covering it to the same degree because more and more are purchased by those same elites. They want to bury it, so they give it minimal space.

    Basically, we're fucked, but there's also almost nothing an individual can do about it. The only hope is for an absolutely massive movement that would need to overturn society as a whole pretty much at this point.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 hours ago

    The world has gone insane.

    I used to care a lot about it. then the scientists were silenced. then discredited. then the protestors were targeted. then the government said it's all a hoax.

    now? now I collect information. information about where specific people plan to go. how long they expect to be there and what kind of personnel they will have with them. then? then, I wait. I wait for the opportunity after all the chaos.

    you see, we don't have to survive global climate change. we just have to survive long enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 15 hours ago

    Agree, it's a daily thought for me but no one cares. I've made my home as stable against it as I can, but I see everyone else just not giving a fuck. Honestly I'm not having kids because of climate change, all experts point to death and destruction and I see no need to bring children into that. The people who downplay it have no scientific experience and a lot of backers who want to keep the status quo.

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