Like all good (and most mediocre to bad) content creators, it’s time for a year-end wrap up.
In 2025, we saw the beginning of what has been described as the “American century of humiliation.” First of all, that captures the vibe pretty well. I remember in the early 2000s when people would say they were embarrassed to be American (and the group that would become known as The Chicks basically got cancelled for saying they were embarrassed to be from the same state as the President), but I really do feel like we’re at a point where, if you aren’t American, and you meet someone who is, your first reaction would be “That’s rough, buddy” or maybe just “Oof”. (Yeah, everyone in this interaction communicates primarily in memes. What of it?)
So yeah, we had tariffs, then we didn’t, then we did, but nobody knew how much, and then we had roving kidnapping squads around the country and people who don’t believe in medicine in charge of funding medicine… the United States is no longer “a shining city on a hill” but instead a glowing dumpster fire in a dark alley.
And elsewhere in the world, we have wars, multiple countries undertaking what could be called genocides, climate change, more billionaires doing even less for anyone else… things aren’t great.
But you know what, people are still fighting. People are marching about those genocides, some places are doing at least something to try to alleviate (or live with) climate change, and the courts are frequently putting the big wet dipshit president in his place. (I know back at the beginning I said I wasn’t going to do political posts, and I think I’ll still stick to that, but come on, there was really one big thing sort of hovering over us all this year.)
And we’re all getting through it. If you’re reading this, you’re still here. Your friends are here, and you’re helping each other get through it. You might be thinking “actually, I’m not really helping” but you probably are. If you hang out with your friends and talk about things that aren’t the overall collapse of our society, then you’re helping to cope with it. If you’re still finding joy out there, then you’re helping others to do that, too.
For me, I decided to start going to concerts in 2025, and went to… [checks calendar] six? I think that’s right. And I went to Gen Con! And curling in Canada! I got my friends to start watching wrestling with me, and I played in an actual RPG campaign. I made the largest cash I’ve ever had so far in a poker tournament. More recently, my sister got engaged, and asked me to walk her down the aisle at her wedding, so that’s cool.
So there you have it – there was a lot of garbage in 2025, but there was good stuff, too. My 2025 was fine. I hope yours was fine, too.
EDIT: Looking back at my social media, I forgot there was an Anglican schism! That reminds me of all the tangential history we got to see. A new Pope. (From America!) A woman Archbishop of Canterbury (that a bunch of churches don’t recognize). A lot of trivia books are going to have a lot of notes about 2025!
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