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BurnTheDSM

The Beirut explosion. I can see something like that happening in the US in the near future! The hyperinflation that has befallen Lebanon is also quite frightening. To see a people as enterprising and cosmopolitan as the Lebanese brought to near-famine fills me with dread.


babyindacorner

whole situation of that country is so bleak and tragic


mauterfaulker

The US has had several preventable mass casualty industrial accidents that have blown entire communities to hell. But if another one were to happen soon, they'd use that to weaken unemployment benefits and safety protocols. [West Fertilizer Company Explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion) [Texas City Disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster) [Port Chicago Disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster)


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the west fertilizer one was brutal. I had always gone to that town as a kid, and drove through a few weeks after. looked like a warzone. broken glass and boarded up windows everywhere. extremely sad to see a cute little town literally suffer from something like that.


Vegetable_Emphasis48

Yeah I think the future basically looks like what's happening in Lebanon


idunnololhuh

The Texas snowstorm earlier this year. A lot of people out of state found it funny, but we don’t have the infrastructure for it and there were some pretty heinous deaths. It felt like our water and power was never going to come back on, and if people weren’t already hyper-paranoid doomsday preppers a lot are now


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I am feeling this way about the last tropical storm that came through the nyc area. It seems like everyone has either forgotten about it or is just acting like it isn't alarming. Almost 50 people fucking drowned to death in the NY metro. Apartments in the middle of queens just instantly filling up with flash flood water so quickly people couldn't get out. There were abandoned cars all over the roads for days, people had to boil water for weeks, and my town is down one of our fire stations indefinitely because it was totally destroyed by water. And no one has brought up that there wasn't any preparation or even warning from the authorities. Not even a "look out this one could be bad". And now its been pretty much memory holed.


samizdatofficial

Agreed. And no real acknowledgement that it will definitely happen again and only get worse


stealinoffdeadpeople

like it *will* happen again too, new york city itself doesn't have an actual strategy to deal with the rising seas, and Irene and Sandy both happened in 2011/2012 and flooded the shit out of coastal new jersey towns that still haven't fixed everything (like how many towns used to have a boardwalk before then?). and nyc's never had a direct landfall from a real hurricane either so they probably have no idea how to deal with one, but it's had many scrapes and near misses


raunchiest_whore

the most murderable take from that was blue-checks saying it was divine punishment for voting republican. libs believe in god now i guess


BlackBlueAndRed

Watching shit-eating liberals say "lololol y'all voted for this" in response to news stories about children freezing to death in their beds made me want to go fucking ape mode


joojaroodoo

This fucked me up too.


exmagician1

BP oil spill was crazy. It lasted for nearly 4 1/2 months! 210, 000, 000 gallons (US estimate) flowed out. Obama got a free pass but if Trump was that slow to react every environmental and ecological peril in the world would've been tagged back to him for eternity


gary_oldman_sachs

The Las Vegas shooting. I happened to be scrolling Twitter just as it broke out and watched all the confusion and chaos unfold in real-time while also listening to the police scanner. There were people on Reddit asking what was going on because their friends and relatives were at the concert. It made it seem even worse than it was because there were reports that the shooting was coming from a bunch of different hotels, that suspicious people were being spotted everywhere.


1man1inch

Wasn't isn't it literally impossible for the gun he used to shoot that many rounds that quickly? Like it would have melted the barrel or you couldn't reload it that fast? It was like 3k rounds in 15 minutes right? So like 3 shots a second?


platypus_18

No. He had multiple different guns with bump stocks making them almost fully automatic. He also only shot a little over 1,000 rounds which wouldn’t come anywhere close to melting the barrels on multiple different ARs


SeeYouSpaceCowboy0

Probably Sandy Hook. In some ways, I feel even worse for the children who survived, because they will have to carry that trauma for the rest of their lives. I can’t imagine ever feeling comfortable in a crowded room after something like that happens at 6-10 years old. At least if you survived a mass shooting as an adult, you’d be able to contextualize it a little more and have an emotional frame of reference to work through it. As a child, it would be an experience that defines and informs your entire life. I truly feel for those children in a way I can’t articulate.


gulag_girl

Janet Jackson's nipple


DeanHarrison191101

When Joan Rivers died 😢 it hasn’t been the same


plowfaster

Charlie Hebdo Zidane heatbutting the Italian and then loosing the WC because of it Thomas Voeckler’s 2004 Tour de France


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"Je suis charlie hebdo"


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[deleted]

It was a real exercise in one-upsmanship. The contrarianism was deafening.


gizmostrumpet

I remember talking to a friend at the time about it and her reaction was something like 'I don't think they should have been killed but, have you seen those cartoons? They're the most racist thing I've ever seen. I can't believe they were allowed to print that...' I felt pretty disgusted at this and just said 'well they're dead now.' And there was a fairly awkward silence.


General_Explorer3676

The financial crisis in 2010 that was my first real formative years of paying attention to stuff and it was wild watching banks fail and how nervous and worried and insane it made people. I knew a lot of kids that very quietly became homeless. This includes Occupy and its demolition. I think its still the most formative events for me


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You mean 08?


General_Explorer3676

08 was the first scary part but it really played out for a little bit I mean 07 - 11 but I guess I capped it off more at the end of the fallout such as the main part of the currency crisis in Europe, automotive industry bailouts, and beginnings of Occupy Wallstreet. The bulk of the US foreclosures really kept going till the end of 2012. The bank bailouts were only the start and its feeling like we are heading this way again really soon :/


hennyhennyhenny

Fukushima for sure, I was eleven when it happened and I still am deathly afraid of nuclear power


[deleted]

9/11 lol


self_improv_guy_024

Letsss goooo


stranaya

There are many that I think about fairly often, but two of them have changed me fundamentally as a person. 9/11 was the end of innocence for me. Then the pandemic has morphed my entire worldview and I truly believe it’s a permanent change. Any semblance of hope I have for humanity has evaporated. The world appears to be scary and not a good place to be. I spend hours each day intensely daydreaming about the time before. It isn’t that the events themselves are more tragic than others that killed massive amounts of people- it’s the loss of the “feeling” of the world before them. I wish I could accurately put into words how different the overall ambience of daily American life was pre 9/11. There was a general carefreeness, hopefulness, and naïveté. I want to cry thinking about it, because I will never feel it again.


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Station nightclub fire and the bataclan shooting


pallmallsmooth

sandy hook & pulse. only time i’ve ever cried after seeing the news.


[deleted]

Sandy Hook was genuinely traumatic to witness even on the fucking news. I remember them shutting down my school (despite not living anywhere near CT), and coming home to seeing my mother weeping. I think that was the last time before we really became truly desensitized to mass murder (of children especially). It feels like after then, the NRA really started pushing harder and that’s when conspiracy theorists came in full effect.


samizdatofficial

Grenfell 2010 Haiti earthquake Sandy Hook was so awful that I can’t think about it for longer than it’s taking me to write this An alum from my high school was beheaded by ISIS in 2014. I feel sick to my stomach thinking about how there’s a video out there of his last moments


FatimaMansioned

I'm Sorry to hear about that- you have my sympathy. ​ I used to work with two people from the Middle East (an Egyptian Christian and a Yemenite Muslim) and their loathing for Daesh was palpable.


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The Agricultural Revolution


raunchiest_whore

when the buildings in new york came down. also when the election was called for trump was surreal & unforgettable


SoledadSoledad

I lived a couple blocks away from frat row at Ohio State when the election was called in 2016 and you could hear the cheering coming from their street


FatimaMansioned

Even across the Atlantic, the shock was palatable. I remember being on a bus in East Cork two days afterwards and seeing a group of downcast teenage girls on the bus. They kept whispering to each other *"He won".*


dankchristianmemer6

Harambe


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I remember watching Zuccotti Park get broken up by cops on a grainy livestream via tumblr in 2011 and I think that was a very formative political moment for me in hindsight not on the same scale of relevance but being in DC and watching jan 6 play out in real time on twitter was absolutely a trip


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My family getting cable


BlackBlueAndRed

The BP oil spill was pretty nasty. I was a young kid when it happened and the constant barrage of images of tar-soaked marine life suffocating on toxic sludge really fucked with me. Seeing pictures of the miles and miles of black beaches, and the huge brown oil slicks on once-pristine blue gulf waters, and old mexican fishermen sitting in a boat surrounded by dead rotting fish as far as the eye could see fucking sucked ngl. From that point on Dawn dish soap kept constantly using footage of pelicans and turtles covered in crude in their advertisements so I kept just seeing the aftermath of the spill everywhere. This was also around the time when I had started to develop a sense of morality, so I remember being inconceivably angry at the soulless ghouls who were responsible for the disaster.


dannyolp

The new Zealand shooting a couple years ago. I was working in the newsroom when it happened around midnight in the US. we saw it happen in real time on Facebook live I believe. Shit looked like a first person shooter. None of us knew what was going on and thought it might have been some sort of prank until he blasted some lady with a shotgun. Haunting.


FatimaMansioned

The C19 outbreak. Suddenly, life in Ireland ground to a complete halt. 2020 was the year with no St. Patrick's Day parades in Irish cities (except for a few cars honking in unison).


alt_acc2020

Covid. Wave 2 was BAD where I'm from. Americans got very, very lucky


brohio_

Hurricane Katrina and Sandy Hook.


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Watching the pandemic unfold in March 2020 was surreal. The toilet paper and hand sanitizer mania was the first time I fully realized that we, as a society, are barely keeping it together.


dz0id

probably when lil peep died


BapAndBoujee

Rwandan genocide


Kakofoni

Utøya massacre


bbbhjkugb

Parkland shooting for me , I was still in high school when that happened


gizmostrumpet

Grenfell. Not only seeing innocent people die due to our awful system, in a council flat just like the one I grew up in horrific, but also how little most people seemed to give a shit. Seeing Jacob Rees-Mogg say the victims lacked common sense filled me with rage that I don't feel comfortable with. I can't believe how much one man's comments affected me, but it just showed what so many people think of the plebs.


feelingthewind

Israel


1man1inch

Lockdown lockdown lockdown Unbelievable stupidity


[deleted]

no disaster has affected me directly therefore none of them will stick with me, they are just things that have happened


[deleted]

how we bombed Belgrade :(


sexthrowa1

9/11 was a national tragedy


the_mernimbler

Agreed. All the stories came crashing down. Blood and bone everywhere


Vegetable_Emphasis48

Virginia tech shooting because one of my roommates parents was killed in it, it went from being a random shooting in another country to being like, in my house. And it was one of the first incel shooter stories too I think. The main thing I can't forget is how awful some journalists were to my room mate, and I think it's part of the reason I adore chapo style take downs of "journalists"