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I’m going to hold your hand when I say this: 2014 was ten years ago. Shocking, I know—it feels like it was just yesterday. But in the decade since, so much has changed, both in the world around us and in our own lives.

Recently, Redditor u/Ok-Squash8044 sparked an interesting conversation, asking others to share things that would have been unimaginable back then but are completely normal now. Many users chimed in, and the thread quickly filled with thought-provoking insights.

Read on for some of the best answers—and don’t forget to upvote your favorites!

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#1

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal A felon running for president.

LMP0623 , René DeAnda Report

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#2

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal That in 2024 we would be fighting about the abortion issue.

Curmudgeon_I_am , Duncan Shaffer Report

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#3

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Reading headlines about more women dying bc they were denied lifesaving healthcare when their pregnancies went wrong, because that procedure they needed is also a type of abortion.

BookLuvr7 , Olga Kononenko Report

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#4

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal A politician with free reign to say or do anything they want, with absolute impunity, and still have a legitimate number of votes to make it close or f*****g *win*.

In Clintons presidency, even ONE of these transgressions would endanger everything. The man fought tooth and nail to hide a blowie, and the nation reeled in the controversy.

Today, every day, an indictment worthy statement is shot across the news, and no harm no foul. Just keep rolling towards consignment to oblivion. All conditions normal at two minutes to midnight.

VeracitiSiempre , Zoe Report

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#5

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal People being able to live a long life while being HIV positive.

JamesSmith1200 , Daniel Jøshua Report

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#6

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Subscriptions for damn near everything!

enrod713 , cottonbro studio Report

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#7

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal *gestures vaguely at the state of U.S. politics*.

ranchspidey , Utsav Srestha Report

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#8

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Diseases that have been dormant for decades coming back.

SituationalRambo , Polina Tankilevitch Report

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#9

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Computers making art, and people still doing mindless repetitive tasks. .

16bitgamer , Emiliano Vittoriosi Report

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#10

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal I think almost everything about current US politics was unimaginable 10 years ago. 10 years ago we thought our country and our constitution was strong. Now we know better.

ditchdiggergirl , Wan Chen Report

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#11

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Working remotely.

MbMinx , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

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#12

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal How much spying our electronics do on us and we're totally cool with it.

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#13

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Going to the store to buy marijuana legally.

lagomorphed , Jeff W Report

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#14

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Paying more than $10 for a fast food combo.

Historical-Fudge , Luis Rosero Report

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#15

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal A president who discusses the size of Arnold Palmer’s d**k.

maria17garcia , Aaron Kittredge Report

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Connie Wade
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And we could have had a smart, articulate, accomplished, experienced woman for President. I am embarrassed to call myself an American at times like these.

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2 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so sorry you have to share a country with absolute total (insert a myriad of derogatory descriptions of people who voted for that dictator)

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's a business man though. One whose 1.6-1.8 billion in debt!?!

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2 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many times I have imagined what it must be like for trump's handlers / campaign advisors. "Sir, you should talk about how you will fix the economy and address immigration." "Nah, I'm gonna go with saying my opponent is re=tarded and talk about penises. But I will mention how those other things will be infinitely worse if I'm not elected."

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup. He's gauche, crude, felonious,corrupt and stupid, and he's all ours. This is what we did to ourselves.

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And shows the type of people who voted for him, like you said gauche crude corrupt stupid. Bullies like him.

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who is Arnold Palmer? Am I too old or too young?

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arnold Palmer was a golfer. I only know this, because he has a drink, of 1/2 lemonade and 1/2 tea named after him. Arizona iced tea sells it, and the can has a picture of a golfer. I have never really heard of him (or his sausage) in any other context.

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2 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why doesn't poster "MANNY" have "REPLY" under his comments??❄️🐔🐱

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because after 4? or 5? down votes the reply to option is removed, otherwise the comments would run out of control.

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#16

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Two very uk based ones:
1. Brexit - I was a final year politics student in 2014 and no one thought we would vote for Brexit, let alone a hard Brexit as that would be economic madness. 


2. The normalisation of the far right - UKIP were on the rise but very much a fringe minority. The Conservatives were dogmatic in austerity but socially they had legalised gay marriage, promoted the big society, and were at least performatively tolerant. Worlds away from the culture war nonsense now. .

cheezus-rocks , Johannes Plenio Report

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#17

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Leave a pizza order on someone's front porch without even knocking.

ExpertRegister1353 , Mike Jones Report

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#18

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal The cost of living. 10 years ago it was possible to have disposable income, and save up for nice things. Now the entire pay cheque goes towards bills and other living costs, then the credit line has to cover the rest.

RedSquirrelFtw , Nicola Barts Report

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#19

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Kids having constant access to an AI that will effortlessly do all their homework for them.

Excellent-Bill-5124 , Ivan Samkov Report

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#20

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal There’s been massive student-led protests in Thailand against the military junta throughout 2021 with the leaders being jailed yet barely a peep from western newspapers.

NoOpening1375 , Amine M'siouri Report

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#21

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal People plastering presidential candidate flags and stickers all over their cars and houses like it was their favorite sports team. Even in a sports lens that would be seen as a mental illness.

Schmolive , Drew Anderson Report

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#22

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal A new Cure album.

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#23

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal It being 95 degrees in f****n October.


Edit: not unimaginable as in "didn't know it could happen." But unimaginable as in ***surely those at the levers of power will be reasonable and take decisive action to prevent it***


Despite the decades long screams of "do something" [emissions have only fallen a little](https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions). 


There are success stories like the [banning of CFCs](https://gml.noaa.gov/hats/publictn/elkins/cfcs.html) and the reduction of acid rain by lowering sulfur and NOx emissions. 2014 me thought that green house gas driven climate change would be another success like that that if not abated, would at least stabilize. There have been multiple international agreements since the 90s that haven't been ambitious enough or that were not signed by the US/pulled out of by the US. *Any progress is good* but its not enough. .

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#24

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Maybe not 10 years ago (more like 20), but according to my grandma, everyone having tattoos. She said not a lot of people had them and even less would show them proudly, but now if you go to a waterpark or any place where lots of skin is exposed, you’ll see so many people with tattoos.

My grandma is very against tattoos, it’s so funny to hear her rant about them. I have a small one that I’ve been hiding from her for 2 years now lol.

sirona-ryan , Daniel Lazarov Report

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#25

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Everything, including Walmart, being closed before midnight.

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#26

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal $17 pints.

thorpie88 , cottonbro studio Report

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#27

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Just a reminder that 10 years ago was 2014. A lot of stuff on here was already well underway by then: Political division in the US really jumped into high gear after 9/11, your smart phone has been spying on you since at least 2010, etc.

MAHHockey , Lisa Fotios Report

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#28

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Girls suddenly being not just 'okay with' but 'active facilitators in' distributing their own nudes and amateur p*** for a quick buck.

aevelasquez_ , charlesdeluvio Report

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#29

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Fear Factor guy interviews the game show dude and it's one of the post important political events ever.

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#30

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal The government no longer denying the existence of UFOs.

BigD4163 , Albert Antony Report

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#31

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Seems a minor thing, but the interface on so many apps and streaming services is just hot garbage while searching for watchable shows is unnecessarily difficult. We went from xfinity/comcast being comparatively functional to looking up on your phone which streaming apps have a new show you heard about or older film you want to see and then making sure you have a subscription all before trying to actually USE the app, many of which are just bloody chaotic.

NeiClaw , charlesdeluvio Report

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#32

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal Grocery pickup in our cars.

Eclectic7112 , Mick Haupt Report

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#33

Cheap fastfood places being neither cheap nor fast.

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#34

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal In Irvine CA, It seems every kid has a multi thousand dollar ebike.

ketzcm , Erik Mclean Report

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#35

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal A single Popeyes combo cost me $20 yesterday, no drink.

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#36

Obergefell v. Hodges Was decided in 2015, Gay marriage had only been universally legal in the US for 9 years.

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#37

Same day shipping.

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#38

Detroit Lions being a playoff contender.

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#39

“A Felon Running For President”: 30 Things People Never Expected Would Be The New Normal No new Elder Scrolls since Skyrim.

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#40

Living with smart home devices everywhere is now normal.

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#41

Tipping everywhere.

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