Why Did 2014 Suck?

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  • The Middle East Has fractured to the point where it's an unrecoverable mess.  We supported revolutions in hope of giving rise to a democracy, only to find out the revolutionaries are even less interested in democracy than the dictators who ruled them.  Many of them want to instill radical Islamic rule giving rise to groups like ISIS who literally overshadow Al Qaeda.  We are literally looking at a generational conflict that will go on for centuries.  We are facing the reality the only stabilizing force that ever existed for many countries in the Middle East were brutal murdering dictatorships and the world would have been better off if we left them the hell alone. 
  • Russia is acting like a gigantic dick.  And a lot of it has been deliberately orchestrated just to keep political opposition confused and off-balance.  And it's working.  It's working so well there is evidence the rest of the world is adopting the policy just so political powers can retain office. 
  • Robin Williams.  I can't even bring myself to say anything about this. 
  • Mythbusters fired the build team.  FUCK. 
  • Gamergate. As much as we tried to make it about gaming journalism it degraded into a head pissing contest between the sexes.  Any hope of reforming a journalistic industry eventually died when it was drowned out by constant bickering about how wrong the other side was. 
  • Zero tolerance policies have stood their ground despite the fact they have proven to not work and if anything the concept is spreading to piss-poor moderating everywhere amateur moderating takes place.  The concept of measured response has not only been abandoned, the concept has a growing number of detractors who are arguing measured response is offensive and unfair and those detractors are often the people running things.  The very idea of measured response is being shot down by people in charge in favour of a hair-trigger responses that require little or no judgement or wisdom. 
  • Political parties still deny that global warming or climate change is a real thing.  In many modern countries like Australia there has even been a steady reversing trend against environment protection despite the fact the damage to the environment has become more extreme with each passing year.
  • Social Justice Warriors.  There is a genuine issue about lack of accountability from authority, but the rallying point is almost always around people who went out of their way to make trouble for the law.  Yet there are countless people who are the victims of death by law enforcement, such as people being shot to death when the police no-knock raid the wrong house, and no one gives a shit about them.  This makes it impossible for me to sympathise with the movement.
  • SWATTING.  I can't even get the police to show up at my house when some drunk picks a fist fight with me in my own front yard, but some asshole living on the other side of the world can SWAT my ass in five minutes and it costs them nothing. 
  • Death threats on the internet have way too much disproportional attention and response.  Some twat who thinks I said something mean to them on twitter can bum rush me with the RCMP.  In real life I have had my life threatened (to my face) on dozens of occasions by drug addicts, drug dealers, belligerent drunks, and all around assholes when I worked in a hospital and not a single one of them ever spent a night in jail for it.  Not one, and they never will.  But people want to rush me off to federal prison because I went out of my way to point out that Anita Sarkeesian is a fraud and a personality cult.
  • And last but not least Netflix announced it's dropping My Little Pony.  Just fuck you, alright?  FUCK YOU.   
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YES!  Especially the bit about the social justice warriors.  In 2014, I saw a lot of people - many of them (former?) friends - jump on the bandwagon and nobody's watching the watchmen.  I know someone who was put in physical danger due to social justice vigilantes.