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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not for everyone. Even in the best of times people fell through the cracks. Homophobia, racism. Just human things

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

pretty sure the US is doubling down on all that right now

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

It was the mid ’70s. ’79 was the Volker shock; ’82 was Allentown; and by the late ’90s the US was already bipartisanly neoliberalized, WTO’d, and de-industrialized.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

As a nonbinary person, I'd much rather live now than the 1990s

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

I seem to be the only person that hated the 90s. Ugh. Now at least I got fast internet and hentai is not just sailor moon x dbz.