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"What the fuck was that year? It feels like 2020 and 2008 had a baby. It feels so recent yet soo distant"
"Dems had a candidate in 2016 and 2020 that appealed to young men."
"I see that meme a lot. "I miss 2016". Mainly from younger millennials and zoomer. 2016-2018 by far were the worst years of my life."
"I have the same weird feeling I did in 2015 pre Trump and 2019 pre pandemic."
"Prior to 2016 my parents stayed pretty apolitical aside from voting for whoever the news said was pro life"
"Lived in Ithaca in 2016-18. Can't believe it's almost been a decade."
"You remember that back in 2016 his election was already supposed to be the big backlash to 'SJW' ideology right?"
"maybe weeks before Election Day. 2016 doesn't seem real anymore."
"I know deep down that no one truly knows what's going to happen (see 2016 and 2020 for recent reference)"
"honestly, if it had came out 10 years later, in our era of looksmaxxing and tiktok bp edits, it would've been a massive hit."
"The site has been riding the high of 2016 for so long, with no notable successes since then"
"Was their perspective genuinely that unique and cutting edge back in 2016?"
"I remember in 2016, during Trump's campaign, the idea of the 'alt-right' that was pushed in the media"
"I feel like a 2016 atheist YouTuber screaming about blue-haired feminists."
"remarkable how different I feel about Trump 2024 than 2016... no need for performative bewilderment... life is much shorter than I imagined it was going to be 8 years ago"
"Hialeah, Florida (94% Hispanic) and Westminster, California (47% Asian) both voted for Clinton in 2016 and Trump in 2020"
"2016 to about 2022 was peak virtue signaling. Trump election, me too, Brett Kavanaugh, Covid, George Floyd etc."
"These were everywhere on tumblr and twitter in like 2016"
"2016: A clear wave of populism is brewing, especially with Trump entering the scene. During the Democratic runoffs, Bernie is clearly winning over the electorate."
"Before 2016 I'd go there for some political news because occasionally I'd find some decent articles but after the election it's like the floodgates opened"
"6 YEARS LATER so many films and television shows continue to re-litigate the 2016 election. This movie sounds like it was written in January 2017."
"In 2016, FSU and U of F had acceptance rates of 58% and 42% respectively, now it's 21% and 23%"
"My life has been absolute shit since 2015/2016"
"a phase that all true internet kids got done and dusted between 2012 and 2016"
"prior to the 2016 election, one of the top admins (I think spez) was editing pro-Trump posts and comments to make the poster look dumb"
"For example, NPR, the Atlantic, Pop Sci, Reuters, and CNN all eliminated their comment sections around 2016-2018."
"2019 feels pretty dated already, 2016 and before just feels like a different world."
"very, very begrudgingly voted for Hilary in 2016."
"This wasn't recent. It was about 2016 or 2017."
"Trump wasn't nearly as savage/funny compared to 2016"
"Usually it starts with Trump running in 2016"
"The buzz surrounding it completely fell off by late 2016 if I recall, right around the election"
"recently I found my old vape from 2016 - you know the whole steam punk style rig, lights, huge handheld son of a gun"
"This is all comes immediately on the back of a period going back to Covid, maybe even 2016, when the same outlets seemed agressively aligned against the very notion of conspiracy theories as having an explanatory value for interpreting world events."
"they should more make shows like war & peace (2016)"
"If you went back to 2016, it would've at least been filled with 'aww they grow up so quick' or 'God bless and protect these two children'"
"The media is turning him into 2016 Trump, aka the villain we can all gawk at and be grossed out by."
"I'm Australian and since the 2016 primaries I've been following events in the US with sporadic attention"
"Trump from 2016-2021 - There's still a bit of buzz going on because of 1/6 but this is nothing compared to while he was in office"
"All of punk music basically became a marketing arm for the DNC after 2016"
"Probably my grandfather before he died in 2016, so at least eight years, maybe more."
"In 2016, I remember people being excited for change."
"Apparently it was super well respected and a gateway to better jobs and opportunities, but it kind of dropped off (I blame the 2016 election)"
"Remember the 2016 clown sightings?"
"It sucks that they all have to go back to intelligence operations run for all the same banal reasons or the greater qanon/blueanon 2016 election stuff."
"Now the Pepe nerds have arrived and they're fully sincere, and we're back to relitigating the controversies of 2014."
"I don't think that level of surreality has been matched in the political infotainment complex. It felt like a WWE match"
"Bonus Ep. 7 from October 2016. Hit me like a brick out of nowhere when she tells a story about her Russian friend Anna going to the ballet."
"After 2016, the Democrats did zero post-mortems, arguing instead that it was Russia's fault"
"I've been looking for used cars this past week and any car I can find after 2016 is like 10k minimum."
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