Okay you libs and feds it's almost the new year. Get your predictions in for what's gonna happen next year. Political/electoral, public health, pop culture, Kissinger's heart, whatever the fuck you want. And no smearing each other, we'll all probably look like fools anyway.

Gimme your hot takes, your cold takes, and your future mis-takes. In a year we can all have a good laugh about how wrong we were. To prove I'm not a revisionist :LIB: I'll go over my 2021 predictions from December 2020 in the spoiler. ( https://hexbear.net/post/66982/ )

spoiler

"Kissinger lives another year" - Got it, unfortuantely. :inshallah: still a day to be wrong

"There will be exactly one more stimulus check" - yup

"Some intelligence state thing will happen but it’ll be forgotten in a week, not a month." - if this happened i forgot it

"There will still be COVID restrictions in the fall, but very few of them. Most - but not all - of the US will not need them." - nope, we definitely still need them

"Olympics actually happen, with heavy COVID restrictions in place. It results in super-spreading in the Global South." - right about the olympics, not sure about the super spreading but doesn't seem like it?

"Kyle Rittenhouse will be convicted of murder. George Floyd’s killers will get manslaughter." - missed 'em both. Rittenhouse walked, Chauvin bit it. Accomplices' trial was pushed to early 2022.

But this thread is about y'all posting your own takes, :bloomer: , :doomer: , or anything in between. I'll post mine in the comments later.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    1. Two significant new COVID variants. One will eat 10% off vaccine effectiveness, the other will just blow through the unvaxxed. There won't be any significant changes in deadliness of the virus itself, but treatments will get better.

    2. A novel climate disaster. It won't cause as much death and destruction as the tornadoes, droughts and wildfires we're all familiar with, but it'll really make you go "what the shit." Wildfires will hold steady from last year, while droughts and wind storms get worse.

    3. Everything of substance that the US federal government does will be a way to not do anything, or cut commitments to do something. Extending the student loan freeze is a gimme. They'll also spend a lot of money on bogus contracts that don't do anything, mostly military, many of them at odds with common sense or basic physics.

    4. There will be significantly more strike and union action than this year, like 3x the rate by year's end. The success rate of major strikes will be incredibly high, but people won't yet realize that this means they should be demanding more.

    5. A crazed right-wing mob will lynch a minor elected official, like a county sheriff or a member of a school board. We're all going to be shocked and scared for a while, but it's not going to matter a lot in the long run.

    6. Something will happen in April that makes all our predictions look really dumb for not taking it into account.