There is no going back to the 90s.
The lavishness of the 90s was fueled by credit expansion under the financial deregulation by Reagan and later further deregulated under Clinton, as well as the vast amount of finance capital that flowed back to the US from stripping the Soviet industrial assets and monetizing them into financial assets.
Turns out, when it is easy to borrow, you can consume lots of stuff, invest a fortune in the stock market and giving the appearance of higher living standards. But it also turns out that debt has to be repaid somehow.
All of this ended first with the dotcom crash and then the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis. The middle class and the working class in America never recovered following the 2008 global financial crisis. The only people who made it are the top 1%.
“Back then, the peasants wouldn’t annoy me when I relentlessly bullied them! Yeah, their impotent retaliation I always laugh off, but for whatever reason in the 90s people knew that I was better than them!”
Can’t these smug little shits just do what they always do? Laugh it off. No need to tweet about it.
Just laugh it off and stop pretending you’re even annoyed. Not like anything I can say will ever wipe that giant smug grin off your face. Just shut the fuck up.
Somehow there’s something even sadder (and just as disgusting) about these centrist melts doing the nostalgia ‘Return’ thing for an era as recent as the 90s. I have zero tolerance for the fascist longing for an imaginary 1950s that didn’t exist but at least it feels far enough away and there’s a lack of media of ordinary life that you can make it into kind of fantasy themepark of nostalgia. Somehow this shit is even more pathetic.
Wanna try telling someone from Eastern Europe, Africa, or the Middle East that the 90s were a great time?
Rodney King, OJ, Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City, Family Matters N-word episode, Fresh Prince episode about racial profiling, Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh show (before radio), CNN Crossfire, Menendez Brothers, Assassination of Virsace, Newt Gringrich vs Clinton, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia
“The world was better in the 90s because I watched Fraiser and Friends”
You mentioned most of what I was going to, so I’ll also add Somalian Civil War, Sierra Leone Civil War, Rwandan Genocide, First Congo War, the start of the Second Congo War, the Dot Com Bubble, repeal of Glass Stegal that led to the 2008 Recession, the Blood-Crips feud, Columbine, University of Iowa Shooting, Westside Middle School Shooting, Thurston High School Shooting (AKA the Kimp Kinkel Shooting), Lindhurst High Shooting, Pearl High Shooting, Heath High Shooting, Frontier Middle School Shooting, and the BTK Killer was still active until at least 1991 (possibly longer as he wasn’t caught until 2005). Also a few dictators acting as US puppets. And all the awful shit going on in the wake of the USSR’s collapse, including Russia and Ukraine.
There was HW’s new war on drugs. He got on TV and told everyone that crack was being sold across the street from the White House. He pulled out a prop bag of crack, as if it were the actual bag police confiscated. Who else does shit like that? That was 89, but it carried into the 90s obviously. You were also still dealing with the AIDS crisis because Reagan did shit to help anyone and instead they made it about morality. The 90s inherited the 80s problems because that’s how history works.
I started watching ER and the constant bombardment of AIDS messaging and storylines was tiresome. Really drove home how shit Reagan and Bush were dealing with the crisis.
I knew I was forgetting more lmao
The '90s were only good for people too young to pay attention to what was happening in the world or too rich to care.
George Bush, Drug War, I know I'm forgetting more
We didn’t start the fire…
Wild to think what hexbear would have been like had it existed back then, the news mega I mean.
Collapse of the USSR would probably crash the site, permanently.
Nah, only if it happened overnight in 1965 or something. The USSR was already making questionable decisions for years.
The optimism developed since 2022-Ukraine(news mega) here was before people had to confront China and Israel’s relationship too. If China “collapsed” ala USSR in 2022 I’d be malding.
The same in 2026 I’d be just speechless and shrugging, in a “we knew it was coming” sort of way. Of course it would be the biggest disaster for humanity etc etc but at the same time who exactly should be surprised by the party embracing e.g Kissinger, Elon Musk, Biden, Yellen, Blinken etc in just these same 5 years? Some people I guess but not everyone. So I don’t think its the same.
yeltsin coup would have made us meltdown tho im pretty sure, could you imagine the fucking cope we would all be huffing holy
Why Yanayev is the new Stalin and will restore the USSR (effortpost)
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posted 20 aug 1991 (3 days ago)
Fraiser
just don’t pay attention to what Kelsey Grammer says off-screen
What did the assassination of Versace cause? More homophobia and southeastasia-phobia for a bit?
I wish I had the confidence of a mediocre white man.
Abolition of the fairness doctrine in '87 and the subsequent broadcasting of the videodrome signal over the air, sent into overdrive by social media
Everyone now has the Brian O’Blivion disease
Obviously the world was cruel and awful in the 90s but this is what accelerated the collapse of the imperial core in my view.
Literally all those things are false
Like I was a googoogaagaa baby in the 90s but I still remember the racism and homophobia
Also media was absolutely filled with agenda, from Captain Planet to the 10000 operation desert storm games
Wait we have a new owl?
Same owl, I ate too much dort and underwent metamorphowlsis
Oh, is that how biblically accurate angels are created?
Neat.
I was rewatching some sitcoms from the 90s. I was absolutely shocked with the amount of jokes about race and gender. And everything was so damn snarky. People who think that the 90s were chill just forgot the details.
I literally learned what being gay was because there was a controversy in the 90s with Falwell and Co demanding a boycott of Disneyworld over a gay pride event.
I saw it on the news and asked my parents what “being gay” meant leading to the most uncomfortable explanation ever from my (formerly) conservative parents.
Even if you’re the “woke is when black people” type, there were a shitton of black shows in the 90s
They were still complaining about woke back then, they just called it “political correctness”
See, even the chud terminolgy deteriorated
Back in the 90s’ I was in a very famous TV show
(no horse emotes)Everyone here is right, but also life before the internet was different. You did not have the same access to information as we do today. We’re just seeing what our shit looks like because it’s harder to hide.
Oh wow, I actually remember this guy from like 8 years ago. Mf argued for a 3% tax rate and that “the” government hadn’t done anything useful since 1776 (aparantly forgetting that other countries exist). Glad yo see he is still just as stupid (and a CEO).
Being an open fascist was less socially acceptable. We had a social democrat PM who told the fascist party that they would “never be housebroken”, today the social democrats’ policing is that “you should not be able to place a cigarette on paper” between them and the fascists when it comes to being racist.
I still remember how some nazi inherited a house somewhere and tried turning it into nazi HQ. Every night people would protest in front of the house, average people from the town would turn up and stand with torches and sing until they bullied the nazi out of town. Something like that would be unthinkable today.
I’m not saying that everything was fine. The seeds for lots of evil shit we have today were sown back then. But at least there’s was a general idea that you could not be racist in polite society.
7·23 hours agothey would “never be housebroken”, today the social democrats’ policing is that “you should not be able to place a cigarette on paper” between them and the fascists when it comes to being racist
Wtf do these two mean?
“Never be housebroken” is just like “you’ll never be clean/acceptable/part of polite society” and I think the cigarette one means something like “you shouldn’t be able to slide a piece of paper between the two parties on the topic of immigration” but I’m not sure.
You’re right about both
The only good thing i remember from the 90s was gas was super cheap and i was dating a cute girl
Nah, this dude is definitely just longing for the days when his racism was less challenged but there were good elements.
Smaller cars. Kids were allowed to play outside. Sports gambling was a thing you did with Jeff at work instead of a hyper addictive app on your phone. My understanding, though I was just a kid myself so this could be wrong, but my understanding is that neo-nazis were around but not nearly as many people felt comfortable openly supporting them.
Depending on how old he actually is, he might just be pining for a time when he could shit his pants and people wouldn’t judge him for it.
though more people now are actively aware of and working to lessen the threat they represent
Star Trek, also
you were a literal diaper shitting infant that didn’t know anything ron, that’s what happened
This is some serious white man energy, I feel sympathy for anyone who has had a conversation with him.
