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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 60 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months 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.

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Legos and cartoons were so much better than geopolitics and working to not starve to death outdoors.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

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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