I kept hearing about how 2016 was the worst year in history...

I kept hearing about how 2016 was the worst year in history. Is this true or could you point me out a year where things went even worse?

1914

1945. Good guys lost WWII

> Start a bloody war to change the status quo
> Fail despite all the sacrifices of allied civilian lives
> Axis are (((good guys)))

Get away from your moralism.

Only dumb liberals think so.
Pretty good year.
They'll forget about it in a few years.

Statistically, 2016 was one of the best years in history. Easily top 10 due to the insane improvements of the past few decades.

Worst would probably be some random unotable year in antiquity or the Middle Ages where lots of people were dying from disease and nothing productive was happening.

Nothing overly bad even happened, wtf

There were many, many years where nearly the entire world was engulfed in plague, famine, and warfare. The 14th Century in particular was brutal, although I'm pressed to think of a specific year from it due to how chaotic it was.

It's just people bitching.

>I kept hearing about how 2016 was the worst year in history.
from who exactly?

But muh presidential candidate lost and some old as fuck celebrities that were famous during 70s died.

1939 or 1941

Fuck off

Allies started the war.

no

2017.

Talking about the marxists. And not the USSR either

you know, there were other nations than britain and germany involved in WWII.

This made reddits front page a few times with the caption "2016" or "How I feel in 2016"

2016 is literally the best time humans have ever faced

at no point in history has there been so little famine, diseases, war, crimes, sadness, fear or death.

people are lot happier, they have all kinds of stimuli to keep them occupied and always increasing knowledge of psychology and med sciences allow people to treat different sicknesses properly.

it is a lot easier to find a partner today (you only need to have friends and enjoy your time with them) and even if you don't manage to do that you are still okay because there are videogames, porn, social media and drugs to keep you company

>goes on reddit
Kys

that can be applied to every year.

>reddit front page
You say this like it's any kind of authority on anything.

>germany attacks poland
>poland calls in it's allies, britain and france
>all of a sudden calling in allies counts as starting the war
go to bed hitler

...

>they guaranteed Polish independence

They did. You can say that they didn't do a very good job of it, but they did do it. That's why they allied with Poland in the first place.

This is basically copypasta from Pinker and his pals. It's missing the point that people are calling it the worst year is because about 80ish famous people died. Heroes in entertainment- musicians, actors. The stuff they point to is just operationalising in a way that misses important factors in the use of the phrase. In short- they're right- but they aren't properly addressing why people are saying 2016 is the worst year. I'd add that they've been selling this research for a few years now.

Tell that to the millions of Middle East refugees and the Europeans overwhelmed by them.

Selling them off to Stalin was just some sick bantz right?

>"""""refugees"""""
The vast majority of them aren't even from Syria

Blame Roosevelt dying. Supposedly he was going to work something out with Stalin postwar about Eastern Europe, and FDR was apparently the only person Stalin implicitly trusted.

That and they only guaranteed Poland against Germany, which is why they didn't immediately declare war in 1939.

2014 was actually less violent than 2015. No real stats on 2016 yet.

Truman was possibly the worst statesman ever

>could you point me out a year where things went even worse?
1453

Net confusion, memes.

But DRUMPH won you guize! They are literally going to round up my trans friends and kill them!
And Harambe and princess liea died!

Worst year ever!

>1914
>1915
>1916
>1917
>1918
>1939
>1940
>1941
>1942
>1943
>1944
>1945

I know it's cliche, but all of those years are fucking magnitudes shittier than 2016.

why is mussolini seen as a champion of gay rights?

Cold War was pretty shitty all the way through.

Many why's, not only in that painting but in many things from many directions...

>I grabbed this hot meme from reddit via 9gag
Just let that sink and and then kys yourself

*digital collage

Harambe was pretty bad desu, they had finally found the only useful black guy in America and they just had to go and gun him down.

the rest I can sort of meme, but mussolini is out entirely

>this made reddits front page
and how exactly would you know this?

At least in extreme cases you can see the meme.
The worst lies in being almost correct or somehow related...

The Collective consiousness off Internet new-fags is in a terrible shape.

1347.

This picture was obviously made by an arab who hates asian women. Also, who is the guy on top of Goebbels' head?

My guess- it's made by an insane Slav who hates fascists and gays