• BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.