• zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    Can the pendulum swing back to the middle again?

    Uh, it is dickfuck. Living in a walled garden that’s powered by the slave labor of a billion foreigners was never the norm. You were born as far out as a pendulum can swing without tipping the whole clock over.

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    I mean I guess the 90’s were chill in the sense of me being too young to notice the wider problems going on in geopolitics, so I was too busy wondering why some kids were given milk at break time and others weren’t even though we were all told it was good for our health to worry about, say, Israel, but 2001 had fucking 9/11, how can anyone think that decade was chill?

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      The passage of time is a hell of a drug

      I still meet people who think that after 9/11, everyone was holding hands and singing kumbaya by the campfire

      I wonder if it feels nice to not remember anything properly?

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        The Unity of the German people after the Reichstag fire was truly wholesome 🥰🥰🥰

        The Jews and the communists and the disabled and the neurodivergent and the queers? Well, the Nazi Party had good intentions, you can’t really blame them for valiantly safeguarding their homeland 🥰🥰🥰

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      90s = my cool childhood where I got lightly ostracized/bullied for broken english but otherwise passed as white barely middle class and did culvasack shit with other randos. I have no formal understanding or frame of reference in relation to anything bad before 911 except that one+ time(s) (alot) somebody was mean to me on the playground.

      I actually still don’t know anything bad that happened between 1990 and 911, but my contemporaries are apparently immune to learning about all the bad things that happened between 1776-1990 and 911-2023. Apparently learning is just too much.

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        I actually still don’t know anything bad that happened between 1990 and 911

        The illegal dissolutions of the USSR and Yugoslavia are two big ones.

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        Growing up in the 90s I’d hear random splotches of bad stuff happening here and there. People starving in Somalia, the Waco massacre, the Bosnian genocide, Oklahoma City bombing. I just vaguely remember news reports of people dying in these incidents, but not really understanding why.

        In 1997-98, when I was 13 I particularly remember hearing about this dude named Saddam Hussein wanting to make germ weapons to drop on us. My dad reassured me that it was all fake, that the media just wants to scare us. I took his word for it. Then 9/11 happened a few years later and he was suddenly convinced that Saddam was stockpiling WMDs to use against us. I was older and knew better, but no amount of reassuring from me was ever able to convince him otherwise.

        I feel like 9/11 just broke a lot of peoples’ brains.

  • shit was fucked in the 90s and 2000s. deindustrialization of the US was in full swing, so every blue collar worker was getting RIF’d or threatened with it. of course, the white collar tech libs didn’t care. they also didn’t care that clinton murdered the last bit of the social safety net and full throttled the prison pipeline. because lol he smoked weed but didn’t inhale. saxophone blowjob from the intern what a cool sex pest.

    until the dotcom bubble burst in the late 90s. then white collar workers had questions about the economy. but once that turned around for white collar workers by the mid 2000s and everybody bozo with spare income was settled into 4 ARMS across 3 houses, the GFC hit, jobs lost, homes were foreclosed on, and everybody’s retirement account vanished like a fart in the wind.

    people nostalgic for the 90s and 2000s were probably in middle school and just miss being a kid. or they’re ancient and the lead poisoning is taking its toll.

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      people nostalgic for the 90s and 2000s were probably in middle school and just miss being a kid.

      I’ll confess I have a good deal of nostalgia for the time, but yeah, it mostly comes down to this. I think it’s something people experience across the political spectrum, but it’s how they understand and engage with those feelings that separates leftists from chuds.

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        Same here, nostalgic for the times when I’d stay up all night playing N64 and eating pizza in my friend’s basement. But I also recognize I was a child so I had no responsibilities and not really any way to engage with the wider problems in the world, so of course it was all just a bowl of cherries.

        I also later came to find out during that time my dad came into a bunch of money. I love my dad but I also know he doesn’t really have a lot of marketable skills. He lost his job just before coming into that money and I don’t think he’d be able to make much more than minimum wage but also support a family (the job he lost was a favor someone did him so he was making more than he would otherwise). Had that not happened I’m sure my childhood would be drastically different.

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      people nostalgic for the 90s and 2000s were probably in middle school and just miss being a kid.

      fr I’m surprised they aren’t just outright saying “I wish I had no responsibilities or awareness again” because I was a kid in the 90s and the only thing I remember about the 90s was toys and tv shows.

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      I don’t miss the late 90s a single bit. Homophobic death threats don’t really constitute my idea of “wholesome childhood”.

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    That guy is missing being a child and not feeling alienated by everything around them while being egocentric and seemingly not being able to imagine any other perspective than his own

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      No he’s also missing a genuinely better standard of living that he no longer has access to even if he has absolutely no clue why that is or how to state what’s different

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        That is likely part of it, but it seems his surface-level thinking is that things are too unpleasant to read about and/or woke these days.

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    the 90s and 2000s were such great times. Everybody was just chilling and enjoying the greatest era of innovation and entertainment

    Thats just called going to school middle class in the calm before american capitalism, obungler and co. bungled up 2008. Now its just mourning a lost future by haunting the past.

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      TIL that Oscar-bait Hollywood equivalents of corporate music and garbage romcoms = greatest era of entertainment