What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?

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>>127211768
Cozy and white while I play on my playstation.

>>127211917
fuck man. this.

Peace

>>127211768
Best days of my life. The mentality of everyone changed overnight. It sucks.

not much different

The general mood was far more optimistic in America. The 24 hour news cycle, white self-hatred, and degenerate hedonism all accelerated post-911.

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Beautiful the internet then was a beautiful place.

>>127211768
It was a simpler time, whites accepted diversity culture, listened to rap unironically, and the hipsters we still just the new kids on the block...

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>>127211917
iktfb

Everyone watched CNN. News was boring. The big story before 9/11 was a missing DC intern, chandra levy.

Then 9/11 happened, and 24/hr cable news stations became a big business. and of course we had the piece of shit neo con george w bush plotting war in the middle east.

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>>127212637
It really was until kike corporatism formed a death grip with the help of (((social media))).

Now the marxism has gone into hyper overdrive to sell you crappy sandals and Pepsi.

it was lovely. muslims were actually treated with moral reverence because thy took religion seriously. getting laid was easier. only worries were how to bang a chick and where to score weed and how to become a rockstar. then that 911 shit kind of showed us that we Do have enemies and the world is a divided place

>>127211768
Cosy as fuck

>>127212403

To someone born in 1999 perhaps.

It was pretty good. The US didn't bomb a different country everyday and everyone seemed to think Bill Clinton getting a BJ was a big deal.

It was better because the internet wasn't streamlined and the sjw / kike menace as still incubating.

>>127213255
how did you guess the exact year of my birth? >>127213337
nice digits

>>127211768

better

Pre 9/11: Back then Demons, Orcs and Aliens were enemies in video games, and they were portrayed as vicious monsters that wanted to destroy Civilization and needed to be killed almost at all costs.

Post 9/11: They're portrayed as misunderstood creatures that are perhaps more in tuned with the land/space/hellish plane of existence, better than man and perhaps we should listen to what they have to say.

Basically, society got a whole lot gayer.

Airports were super convenient and you could welcome people at the gates when they got off.

>>127213488
as above so below

below has become above and above has become below

>>127213458

I didn't guess. I knew.

>>127211768
People seemed a lot more civil, more friendly and outgoing.
Playing CoutnerStrike and downloading pron on Kazaa, it was a far simpler time.

>>127211768
My biggest worry was who was gonna steal my star in mario party.

>>127213669
alright, what month and day was i born on then if you know so much?

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>>127211917

Gasoline was often under a dollar a gallon

what is a 9/11?

>>127213665
so the bible is right then?

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>>127213665
Spotted the Gnostic.
Know thyself senpai.

Better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

>>127213665

That isn't what AASB means

AASB is supposed to demonstrate how physical reality operates by the same rules at microscopic levels up to the size of Galaxy clusters

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>>127211917
fuuuuuck this feel

>>127212230
So true

Was early 20s. College was chill, a little SJW shit but it wasn't everywhere

No military culture. Economy was ok, small recession but not like OMG were fux0red.

Was way better desu

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>>127211768

>>127213004
please tell me it still functions

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>>127214875

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>>127214918

>>127211768
>be me
>wake up. The date is Sept 10th 2001.
>never really thought more than 5 seconds about Muslims in my life.
>life still sucks.

I was 17 when 9/11 happened.

I was never political before that point. I didn't give a shit about Muslims or any foreigners. I thought it would be cool to visit Germany one day.

Political Correctness never even crossed my mind.

A lot has changed.

>>127211768
It felt like we were more prosperous and optimistic back then. People unironically believed in the american dream. Honestly it felt like we woke up after 9/11. We became more cynical, more realistic, and more negative overall. I can't make an objective observation however since I was 11 at the time so that might be the time my views on the world changed regardless of 9-11.

I think we can all agree that there is a pre-911 and a post-911 world. In a way it feels like the terrorist won. We pretend we bravely defied them but we just became cowards.

The funny thing is that right after 9-11 things were still good. The further you get from 9-11 the worse things get. They haven't gotten better. Again maybe it's just my age but the last good year I remember was 2007. That was around the time the iphone was introduced. That was the real end of a great era.

>>127215744

The first couple of years after 9/11 was ultra-patriotic. I even tried joining the Marines are 9/11 until my redpilled father talked me out of fighting for kikes.

I remember immediately after 9/11 I was a Freshmen in college and advocated for the patriotic act. My argument was literally "If you are not a criminal you have nothing to worry about".

I was a total fucking dumbass. Thank Christ for my father.

>>127211768
Only thing that really changed was airport security.

Obama becoming president was the biggest fuck you to society. His presidency was what caused the massive left-right divide in America.

>>127216051
>His presidency was what caused the massive left-right divide in America.

Breh. This is way beyond Obama.

>>127216051
Seriously. Airport security pre 9/11 was mall cop tier. Flying into LaGuardia, the taxi drivers were whiter than the security guards. The taxi drivers spoke better English too.

White genocide was in an earlier stage of development and terrorism was just a meme.

>>127216051
>>127216365

The left hated Bush with an extreme passion. They never forgiven him for beating Al Gore and the Iraqi fuck up mixed with Cheney just infuriated them that much more.

I can't believe that the Bush presidency is so unknown to people here. It's crazy how many years have flown by since Bush derangement syndrome.

>>127211768
>What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?
if you're talking bout the 90's, yeah.. they were good, real good. The 80's, not so much..

although even the gritty 80's had advantages we lack today, mainly being freedom.

>>127216643
Redpill: this has been going on since the late 1800s. Two-party system is a degenerate approach.

LETS FIND ANTIFA CRIMINAL HERE >>127215992

>>127213511
.. and light a smoke without being cuffed and jailed.

>>127213770
who gives a shit

gtfo

It was good.

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I think the best contrast hilighter is Independence Day and Speilberg's War of The Worlds, or at least their themes and tones.

The story's the same, but on one hand you've got a bright uplifting movie that really captures the "End of History" feeling the end of the Cold War brought, the deaths of uncountable numbers isn't really delt with in a personal way, you see the US military get its ass kicked, and the effects are clearly not

On the other hand you've got a movie that's helplessness incarnate, and takes a lot from 9/11 (characters asking if it's terrorism, Cruise arriving home covered in ash and dust), the sense of loss is alot more emphasised, and the times you see the military fighting they only imply offscreen that they're losing. There's even an emphasis on people not knowing the enemy they're fighting with people suggesting this was planned for millions of years.

>>127214371
a historic event you guys missed, because you were busy killing each other in the former Yugoslavia.

>>127217384

I don't disagree. I am saying this is the attitude in the forefront. This is what every single normie was observing at this point.

>>127212230
True

>>127214875
>>127214918
>>127214950
bruh, those pics are fantasy depictions of the 50's... lol gtfo

>>127212723
>y, and the hipsters we still just the new kids on the block...

So true

>>127215744
>It felt like we were more prosperous and optimistic back then

was there something in the water?

>>127213488
Wtf

>>127213511
Yes. I used to show up for my flight 15 minutes before it took off.

Not even kidding.

>>127211768
Way less concerned about pay. Things didn't seem as tight and unaffordable. Liked my bank and didn't dred opening my statement each month to find out why they stole my money thru fees and shit. Didn't have to switch Banks constantly. Gas was too expensive at $1.30 a gallon. Healthcare was better and affordable. Didnt have 7-10 year loans for a POS Hyundai. Believed the American Dream was true.

>>127215744
>Again maybe it's just my age but the last good year I remember was 2007. That was around the time the iphone was introduced. That was the real end of a great era.
you should've experienced the time before cell phones as a whole, before the internet even.

that, was freedom.

Gen X was the last generation to experience that, the last generation of the old world.

>>127218215
>inb4 no fluoride
kæk

>>127218215

A sense of optimism. Economy wasn't shit and things were still affordable. No wars we were entangled in as far as normies were concerned.

Political correctness was an extremely minor element. The internet was just budding up as far as its reach was concerned. Not everyone had cell phones and thus were not constantly plugged in and creating anxiety for themselves.

90's and before 9/11 were comfy times for Americans.

>>127211917
>not n64

Fucking degenerate

>>127216518
>Airport security pre 9/11 was mall cop tier.

This is true. I used to go thru security with an 1/8 of weed on me regularly.

Never got searched it patted down. Never.

>>127211768
Muslims didn't exist, they weren't the boogie man they are now.

women with shoulder pads everywhere

>>127214707
Feels like it was that way everywhere. Friendlier people, but not to the point of retardation, as in, bending over for rapefugee mudshit barbarians while completely ignoring their own people.

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George W. Bush was the fucking devil.

That cocksucking fuck put a bullet in the middle class's head, stuck his dick into the Middle East accelerating all our problems and was so shitty that we got a commie nigger who followed him. I can't even go on about everything he fucked up. Young fags who weren't there don't know.

>>127214875
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>>127214950

There is creepy stuff in all those pictures. I think the 50's were secretly fucked up.

>>127214918

their necks are so thin and their heads are fucking huge

>>127214950

Forrest Gump?

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We also were still a 75% white country in 2001. Which shows what is happening and why.

>>127218485
This, it makes me sick seeing parents raise their kids with a goddamned tablet in the kids face 24/7. We didn't get dial up internet until I was in 8th grade. My childhood in a small town was fucking awesome. Rode my bike everywhere until we got mopeds. BB Gun wars, fireworks, putting stuff on the rail tracks. Nobody cared when we'd take shortcuts through backyards. I feel old and out of touch and I'm only 31.

>>127211768
I remember being around urban blight and high crime, it sucked. Now everything is gentrified.

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>>127211768
The thing that strikes me looking back is that you didn't hear the fucking words muslim and islam 24/7. In GB Islam was a potential problem going back to the Rushdie fatwa, this was clear. The Taliban were a standing joke like best korea, Afghanistan a cult joke, the worst place in the world. But it was a minor nuisance, office banter level.
That all changed overnight, but if you weren't around back then you have to understand the crushing inevitability of the Afghan war, nobody was surprised when the first missiles went in, and nobody was particularly outraged. What the fuck else was going to happen? It all really went to shit with Iraq, which is why we won't do anything now when the British army should be planning to join the assault on Raqqa, thanks Bush.

>>127219695

That's just how kids look and plus it's also what people look like when they are not fat fucking shits or aren't pumping themselves up with roids.

>>127220000
waste

>>127216643
Couldn't agree more. The divide in American began during the Bush years.

>>127218047
Most of Rockwells whole portfolio is about portraying everyday america and maybe a little propaganda

>>127214875
Those men would be accused of being pedos now :(

>>127211768
Backpacks weren't allowed into concerts because of drugs and alcohol concerns.

>>127218709

You're not a man if you didn't grow up with Mario Kart

>>127215940
You would have been a jeb turtle

>>127218047
>not allowed to paint nice things

>>127219994
>I feel old and out of touch and I'm only 31
.. and I'm 41, so yeah... I know that feel.

stay strong brother, stay weird and free.

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>>127211768
we had spyro.

>>127220265

With his election. I still hear liberals cry about not being allowed a 5th recount of the Florida votes.

The whole hanging chad thing and the MSM response empowered liberals to actually believe that losers are winners.

It's weird. I understand that everybody is nostalgic for their younger days (I just turned 30), but I seriously feel the world was a completely different place.

It could just be the slow slide of degeneracy, and this is how our grandparents felt when subjected to the satanic horros of Elvis or whatever, but I think there is more too it. It's not even JUST the disgusting push to normalize mental illness, its everything.

The way the news is reported, the way adults behave, the quality of entertainment (i'd posit even pornography was of a much higher quality, just look at vintage Playboy's, its an aesthetic experience as well as sexual).

I'm going to set aside some time and ponder this. Take time to coalesce my thoughts into a structure of some sort. I've been thinking about it for awhile.

But again, it could just be me getting old.

>>127218709
>>127211917
Reminder that CTR/Shareblue/and SONY shills from /v/ are the same actors since 2008

The chinese are assfucking the internet.

>>127215940
After 9-11 people came together. After every terrorist attack now people just fight and bicker.

>>127218215
The economy crashed after 9-11. Before that there was a boom.

>>127218485
In school the day before 9-11 nobody had cell phones. After 9-11 all the kids were trying to learn how to use their new cell phones.

>>127220278
everyday America in the late 50's, seen through the foggy lenses of nostalgia, yeah.
>>127220604
that's not what I wrote anon, I simply pointed out that a romantic depiction of 50's Americana has shit all to do with the topic at hand.
>b-but the 50's are part of the pre-9/11 world!
yes, and so are the 1750's, but we're talking about the time immediately before.

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i miss the cars of the 90s, obama is a fucking retard for that "cash for clunkers" bullshit. and niggers ruined the rest.

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>>127211768
RIP in peace Blockbuster Video

You could drive up to any airport and be flying yourself later that day.

1) Movies were better and actually a social activity. Sure, Netflix and chill can get a man laid, but there was still "Blockbuster and chill", when you actually had to physically go there, sometimes it had free popcorn while you were browsing, and you and roastie banter over which movie to pick out. It was fun. Of course, socially you would all go as a group, didn't have to be cool people, just whoever wants to see a movie. Cinemas now are much different and gayer.

2) Airports. Self-explanatory. I feel as if it was cheaper as well, and you can bring a bunch of shit as carry-on. Pretty much fucking every flight I did was just carry on.

3) People were better. I use social media IN SPITE OF my hatred for it, and I think there are millions of me. Not just autists, but een roasties I've fucked admit as much, we just feel compelled to do this. There was an awful lot more physically meeting up with people. Also birthday parties were actually a thing, because people you hadn't seen for awhile would pop by, even briefly to say hello and catchup, instead of currently sending a FB message.

It was a better time for sure. Economy wasn't GREAT, but it was better from 2008 to present, for sure.

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>>127221202
>SONY shills
wtf

>>127211768
You could sit in the cockpit and stroke the pilot off

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>>127221202
Nice try drumpf shill, but you have to go back.

>>127221743
Cash for clunkers was fucking retarded. Trade your perfectly fine car for this new one and a 400 dollar a month payment. Only 84 payments, goy.

>>127221767
agreed on all points, though I kinda cringe every time someone writes "roastie".

but that's probably just me being old.

>>127211768
White subhumans were constantly asking Hindus to be tolerant of Abdools. Half of them are still at it, enjoy next happening.

>>127211768

When I was 11, I lived in the country. We lived around 5km from a small country town, it had a population of about 2,000.

In the summer, I would wake up early and bike into town by myself to play with my friends every single day, no cell phone or anything like that, and the only rule was that I had to be home by midnight. We got into all kinds of shit and had sleepovers non stop.

I'd wake up and call his apartment, and if there was no answer, I'd call his parents convenience store. If they didn't know where he was, I'd bike into town and look for him.

We were big into video games and if we were lucky, our parents would let us bike to the movie rental store and pick out a game to rent for the weekend or whatever and we'd just play it non stop. Life was simple back then.

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>>127211768
>What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?

this was considered over-the-top satire, not reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhno9sBWI88

>>127221743
old volvos weren't bad either

>>127221767
Soviets collapsed, people felt better about the future, Quebec was still talking about jumping ship, network journalism had this granular effect on their footage so it didn't look like a youtube video shot in 1080p.

Social media is probably the worst part of the millennium, the vanity of people goes unchecked. But I think the biggest change is that there are absolutely no kids around. The world is for adults, and only adults. Any interaction with kids by men has a SEXUAL overtone now. But that was slowly happening before 9/11.

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>>127221743
I know that feel

>>127222217
stay classy, Pajeet.

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>>127211768
Fuuuuck, nothing makes me nostalgia harder than seeing a Blockbuster. For me it really epitomized the innocence and euphoria of childhood in the '90s.

Seeing all those rows and rows of vidya games, trying to figure out which 2 you want to rent (because mom said 2 was the max)...

Playing Pokemon Stadium at their N64 demo stations...

Trying to beat long-ass RPGs over the course of a single weekend...

Telling your friends that you rented one of those couch multiplayer games like Goldeneye/Perfect Dark/Battletanks/etc. and hanging out with them without a care in the world...

It was a simpler time, lads. I miss it. Everything is digitalized and my friends have all gone their separate ways.

>>127223008
lets see paul allens card

>>127223027

>vanity of people goes unchecked

Its like all the dumb girls I hated in highschool won because they live in a world where they can be constantly validated instead of ending up fat and pregnant and alone like they used to.

>>127223803

>tfw you got to go to Blockbuster and all of the copies of the game you wanted were rented out but then the cashier is a total bro and checks the return box for you and there's one in there and you get to rent it after all


>tfw putting all of your siblings music CDs into your PS1 because you rented the first Monster Hunter and wanted to see what you could get

>>127211768
summertime and the living is easy
>wake up at 6am
>make up a bowl of cereal, start a pot of coffee for dad
>cartoons a little
>mario a little
>get a kiss on the head from dad
>thanks for the coffee, kiddo! make sure to be ready for your game by 6, I'm picking you up
>warm fuzzy
>put bowl in the dishwasher, pjs in the hamper
>take shower, brush teefs, get dressed
>get big hug and $10 from mom
>have fun today! tell Billy's mom I said hi!
>warm fuzzy
>pull your bike out of the garage, give it a good clean
>a Hutch (bmx style) but it hauls ass
>clean bike, oil chain, tighten the pegs
>ride over to billy's house
>Make sure to tell Billy's mom your mom says "hi!", she gives you a hug
>warm fuzzy
>Ride with Billy around town fucking shit up, taking any jump we find
>buy hot dogs and cokes at the pier, sit in the sun next to our bikes
>don't speak
>warm fuzzy
>gotta get back to change for my game, Billy, let's bounce
>ride home
>change in to little league uniform
>shirt tucked, belt nice, socks up--like a gentleman
>dad pulls up and honks the horn
>run out to the car, give dad a kiss on the cheek
>Love you Dad!
>Love you too son!, he laughs
>reminds you to get your glove
>sprint back to the house, laughing

>>127224681
>tfw never got to have this

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>>127224681
the golden days...

>>127224681
okay the question was what was life like pre-9/11 ,not what was it like to be a kid

>>127224681

*gives you a cold prickly*

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>>127213143
>T. Born in 2003

>>127218709
The key was to have a friend with the system you didn't have, so you got to experience both.

>>127211768
Pre-9/11 was at the very start of Muslim immigration into Europe.
The rave scene was huge.
Everyone believed in tolerance and acceptance.
Most of the world problems were comparably lesser.
Cold War was over so mostly just local bullshit in the middle east.
Without much man-made stuff, people were starting to get into UFO / spiritual wankery.
Bill Cooper was still alive and talking about the mystery school.
The technology boom and resource expense seemed like the only real issues.

Now we've gone back into the dark ages.
Islam is medieval.
The left wants to halt freedom of speech and our ability to defend against invaders.
We're looking at regress on a massive scale within a couple of decades.
I had a front row seat and I didn't realize it until a year or two ago.

>>127225179
maybe his childhood was pre-9/11.
are you underage?

I was in california.

It was a Marxist shithole

Still is. The only difference is now we are all on federal watch lists and live in a police state.

The constitution has been gutted

And we are on the verge of a communist revolution.

We shifted to predatory capitalism

And our main form of entertainment is basically daytime tv.

Of course their are things that are a lot better too.

>>127224681
This
And you could just drive into Canada and they didn't even check people coming back from the Carib

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>>127225362
Fucking christ that's not the future. That's right now.

>>127214226
Aside from extreme sjw fuckery, this is probably the most significant thing. In the civilised world where we use metric, gas was as low as 70¢ a litre

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>>127214750
Actually I think As Above So Below was about Satan wanting his own version of heaven in hell,
for the Bible terminology at least.
Either way life is so backwards nowadays.

>>127223008
You didn't live in California I see.

If anything it was underexagerated.

>>127211768

>be 7
>pilot shows you the cockpit

>>127211768
>be muslim
>get your country bombed to shit by americans under direct orders from the jew
pretty shit m8

>>127226245
Get that Marlin 336 polished and cleaned.
Might need it if the Commies try any shit.

>>127225362
this already feels like my life, everything feels like it's getting more expensive for a smaller portion. I buy the cheapest shit possible, cheap clothes that are essentially disposable ($5 t-shirts) or that I can try to save for 5-10 years. Housing/rent prices have been constantly increasing for about a decade, and the rate of immigration seems higher than the rate of new construction, meaning that housing choices are slimmer, more expensive, and more competitive. It all adds up to me feeling a constant state of apathy or neutrality, I rarely experience or a high or a low, just a constant humming as each day blends into the next. I'm not even technically "poor" I mean I have money in the bank (~$20k) but that's not enough to change my life for the better, just enough that I'm not in a constant state of stress over fear of losing my job or having my car break down.

The state of things really does suck for the lower-middle class in my opinion.

>>127211917

Very much this.

>>127224681
>wake up way too early, excited
>do a little dance as soon as you sit up
>speed through all chores and hygiene
>coat body in sunblock, apply baseball hat
>get hug from mom
>get hug from dad
>get packpack with snacks, supplies for the day from mom
>get cash from dad
>run out screaming like a girl when Billy's mom honks
>HUG THE SHIT OUT OF BILLY AND DANCE WITH HIM
>YAY LETS GO
>Billy's mom drives like a grandma, many groans
>arrive at amusement park
>fall out of the car before it comes to a complete stop
>race Billy to the ticket booth
>first people in the park
>fuck. yes.
>run as fast as possible to favorite ride
>30 sec coaster (montezuma's revenge!)
>no line, teenagers running ride let you stay on it until people show up
>ride 10 times before needing churro to hold back vomit
>run to next ride
>repeat
>meet a qt in line to Whirlpool
>has qt bff for Billy
>ask us to spend the rest of the day with them
>she holds my hand 3 rides later
>first kiss on bridge to Big Foot Rapids
>heart racing
>full body Humboldt squid broken only by crashing wave of water from the ride
>when it's dark she asks me if I know how to dance
>actually do because Mom made me learn
>grab her by the waist, pull her close
>first boner-girl contact through our jeans
>she gasps, I gasp
>dance close and slow to fast song
>kiss like we've been married for 50 years
>sharing lemonade with girl, watching fireworks
>tells me it was her first kiss
>confess it was mine too
>squeezes my hand
>squeeze back
>warm fuzzy

>>127226391

Indeed.
But it doesn't have to be our future anymore.

I was watching Army of the 12 Monkeys(95) yesterday and it made me sad.

Degenerates of the world turned the US into a Authoritarian Country being yanked far left/right.

>>127226696
Correct its hermetic magic.

Satanic inversion "as above so below"

It means that everything God has Satan has the opposite equivelant.

A simple example would be heterosexual chastity vs homosexual hedonism.

The more Satan can invert the worse the curse on civikization.

Which is why the 90s seem like paradise compared to today. We have been forced to accept inversion in every aspect of society thanks to the synagogue of satan.

>>127226575
We had gas less than 70 cents a gallon. I was teaching my 16 year old how to drive. "Look at that sign and remember it, because you'll never see it again".

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>>127218485
I love threads where tgis topic of disucssion comes up. Im turning 23 but i fucking hate smart phones, and always wish i was in my 20's or teen during the 90's/20's. I want to experience authentic humanity and relationships without cellphones and MAINSTREAM internet access.

I will never be able to live that dream. Feelsbadman. But i grew up without smartphones and such so i got that.

There is just such a difference between pre and post mainstream internet life that i want to document and live out

>>127227116
>Montezuma's Revenge
Holy shit 1987 road tip memories to Lagoon

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>>127226083
This, I had Super Nintendo and N64 and my friend had a Sega and Playstation. It was great.

I was in the 8th grade when 9/11 happened. Before that:

Nobody cared about or talked about terrorism or Muslims.

Security at airports was super relaxed and flying didn't completely suck ass.

Immediately after 9/11 everything America did was sacrosanct and you'd be ostracized or even assaulted for criticizing the military or even the foreign policy decisions of the US government.

>wake up in the morning
>naked
>qt on my arm
>private dorm room I finagled
>decide I should probably hit up class
>stretch/bang a little more
>throw on old ramones tshirt
>favorite jeans with rips cause idgaf
>sun shining
>warm fuzzy
>walk into Ethics 101
>two planes flown into buildings...
>Twin towers
>old philosophy professor looks wizened
>immediate start of discussion on the nature of good and evil and sickness and depravity.

>>127227324

>far right

are you nuts? This country is super far left.
>tfw democrat

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>>127218047
Are you a migrant or a Swede on vacation? You sure don't like nice things

>>127226202
Most of the people posting here do not have pre-9/11 memories.

>>127227090
It's the curse.

God (righteousnes) = spontaneous abundance and eternal increase.

Devil (wickedness) = metaphysical decrease and want,violence, ignorance, and hate.

This happens on a societal level and a personal level.

Be of good cheer for even that which is evil works for good for those who believe in god.

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>>127226083
>friend
you have to go back

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Another thing...malls and retail stores played a much larger role in the US's consumer culture. Shopping was a more social activity as opposed to now where you can just buy everything off Amazon and never leave the house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse

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>>127214918
>singing happy birthday to classmates
This acutally used to happen in the early grades. Some teachers were really good people. I had the same teacher for grade 1 and 3. In 3 she told us the story of sadako and the hiroshima and nagasaki bombings. Started crying in front of us in class, really left an effect on me and left me wanting to learn more about Japan and paper cranes, No regrets.

>>127225179
>wake up
>put on CNN
>make bed, coffee, toast
>notice the news whenever I pass by TV, mostly background noise
>start up the ole PC
>login to everything, get some work up and running
>start the shower
>remember towel is in bedroom
>decide to get naked in bedroom, wrap towel around myself
>pass by TV as the first plane hitting breaks in to regular programming
>stop and sit on the couch
>cry for the first time in years
>forget shower is running for 2 hours

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>>127227976
utter drivel

>>127228332
Heathen.

>>127228175
Getting an Orange Julius orange drink and checking out all the fly honeys in Cavaricci pants, while browsing at Hot Topic for Ghostbusters shirts and alcohol posters

>>127211917
>Playstation

Let me guess. You are the child of divorced parents and are from a relatively poor background.

N64 was the true patrician's choice. Most of the Playstationfags that exist now were raised in poverty back in the late 1990s and never knew any different.

>>127213458
Gtfo of here toddler.

>>127211768
For the four years I was a part of it, wonderful.

I miss the coziness.

before septermber 11th 2001
and for a short time after.

most teenage jobs payed enough money to purchase 1 ounce of gold a week

in 2017..
most teenage jobs pay enough to purchase 1 ounce of gold per month.

quality of life was 300%-400% better.
lol.

>>127211917
Also this, except I lost my childhood to starfox and ocarina of time.

>>127218485
Its too late to get rid of them now. Part of me wonders if the global crazyness is just the interconnectedness or if there's unknown health issues associated with having wifi signals everywhere now.

>>127227824
After 9/11 everything went super far right or far left. Different parts are different. The far left is vocal and controls media. The far right stays quiet now and has very little public outreach.

Before 2001 everyone loved freedom and loved being able to do what they want. Kids avoided drugs until HS and went to college clean.

Now heroin is everywhere due to right wing restrictions making it into a huge market. The left is corrupt as fuck and the low testosterone males keep it alive.

Women where much happier in the 90s. Men where much more accomplished.

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>>127228008
I'm sorry you didn't have any friends while growing up, anon. It's really not that strange to have had friends before puberty hit and everyone's emotions and desires became more complicated.

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>>127211768

>>127228615
i had both as a kid, I think N64 was the better social system, so many good memories with Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Perfect Dark, etc. obviously Mario and Legend of Zelda: OoT were awesome single player games but I think Playstation was in general a lot better for single player with all the great Squaresoft RPGs

>>127213004
Is that a Necronomicon made of Furby and ham?

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>>127228615
pffftt
>not growing up with both.

>>127219278
>Friendlier people, but not to the point of retardation

because we weren't being force fed ((( diversity ))) so people would naturally assimilate with like-minded people

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>>127211768
>let's just say we've gone through a waygate straight into bowels of Hell

>>127213255
In 1999 The Matrix was released. The Matrix is described within the movie as the pinnacle of human of society at the end of the 20th Century.
9/11 was the catalyst for the downfall of society.
Google AI is now taking over.
We are living in the shit timeline version of the matrix.
Don't forget to feed your Tamagochi.

>>127229034
SNES is still the best platform for RPGs ever made. FF3>FF7

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>>127214950
I have a norman rockwell painting in my bathroom

Everything was multicultural without being shit somehow, great music and great movies abounded

I was 7 when 9/11 happened n I thought we were all gonna crusade the fuck outtve theese shitskins, needless to say everyone was unbelievably bluepilled and kebab removal never came about

>>127228890
The US is a country with representative government and universal suffrage for everyone 18 or older where the "right-wing" party is called the Republicans.

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>>127211768
far less obesity, almost every chick was hot

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>>127228610

For me it was all about those shirts with flames and dragons and DBZ characters and shit.

Worn with JNCO jeans, naturally.

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>>127229552
THOSE guys

I somehow miss them

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>>127229627
They're still around, anon.

>>127211768
It wasn't just 911. As the internet developed and gained speed, social media and the media in general began to have severe negative impacts.

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>>127221684
> seen through the foggy lenses of nostalgia

Except rockwell was literally painting in the 50's, retard. Not to say his paintings don't reflect idealistic america, but it isn't nostalgia.

>>127228175
Dunno if your a modest mouse fan but the song "teeth like god's shoeshine" touches on this.

"The malls are the soon to be ghosttowns"

Thread theme?
https://youtu.be/sT0qBdHLspQ

>>127224497
You must mean monster rancher right?

>>127223803
I pretty much rented a gameboy game every weekend for 7 bucks. There was also a time where they rented out Game boy advances and other consoles. Thats how I got to play castlevania cotm prior to emulators.

>>127229533
I'm aware, being a Republican and being a Democrat had different meanings back then. You would vote for whatever politician represented you better. That changed after bushes first term. Politicians no longer tried to represent anyone. They try to appeal to the most people possible now. Trump won be he wanted to represent the working class and the downtrodden.

Hillary didn't want to represent anyone, she was virtue signaling talking points. She never showed alignment to any group of Americans. She just said what was the most socially acceptable thing to say.

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multiplayer FPS games were brutal
gaming journalists were all men and asked about the technical and business sides of the game industry instead of identity politics
jorts were in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXw6BkZ-gdY

>>127229322
yea I agree, FF3, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Mario RPG, I loved them all, best childhood vidya memories were definitely on SNES

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>>127211768

The future was something that 18-24 yo looked forward to, and America seemed on the same page; there was no "enemy" except Saddam, and even he seemed far away and chilled out.
>post-9/11, the future is the globe and globalist/corporate interests in your face; America seems like it's peaked, or we're constantly told to "make room" for progress. No one is sure of what job they'll hold in five years, but more desperately, no one has a choice over their destiny. Kids are crazy expensive, women are competing with men on all levels. Another 9/11 seems more serious the longer it takes to arrive. Our destiny rests on attacks, that prob involve Deep State

Israel was not the core of the news cycle.
>now we hear about Israel, Bibi and the Middle East every day, and hour if you're tuned into politics-Twitter

Conspiracies were in books, in fringe book stores, and lit in Xfile smoke and fog, reserved for weird kids and Unsolved Mysteries about UFOs. The far right seemed far away, but the warnings of Ron Paul and John Birch Society were whispered about, like the Federal Reserve, but it seemed vaguely racist and Nazi related
>conspiracies are now ominpresent, an entire alternative, concealed version of US and world history

The middle class was comfy and omnipresent, it seemed like going to college was the way to advance, and even black families seemed to be on their feet. That said, hip hop was huge, and its influence on white kids ruined a generation, who got into drug dealing and thug mimicry
>now families are splintered across the board. Debt drowns everyone. The liberal world dictates jobs. Social media is the true privilege now. Showing off is the norm. Gossip is treacherous and instant. Insecurities are magnified and conformity is king, nonconformity is liberal conformity

Superhero movies seemed fun and harmless.
>post 9/11, superhero movies dominate American culture, the idea of elite beings saving the world is a Disney ruled religion. Inescapable

>>127227116
i want to cry

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>>127229552
Hahah I remember those flame shirts, and everyone had those snap-away pants too

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>>127230469
The whole Vaporwave music "genre" was focused on a sort of bittersweet nostalgia towards '80s and '90s consumer culture and AESTHETICS.

>>127231058
I still play my SNES and N64. Modern vidya is trash, last decent games were made over ten years ago.

>>127226575
Dude gas was around $.54 a litre or less until 2 months before I turned 16 and got my drivers licence. Prices fucking double almost instantly.

> C64
> SNES
> Gameboy
> Pinballmachines
> the Goonies
> HeMan
> Madonna
> Blade Runner
> Skateboards with strange shapes
> many bands, groups and independent music
> Dr. Snuggles & the Fraggles
> walking where you want
> a knife and a lighter in our pockets
> cool kids on every playground
> Deutsche Mark
> U.S.A = good, Russia = evil
> the fallen Berlin wall
> Loveparade - basically kissing and fucking with whole Europe on the streets
> Techno beats, parties, clubmusic

9/11 - everything is fucked up.

>>127231662
I remember in BC for years and years and years I'd always see the gas prices at $0.49/L, and ya it feels like as soon as I was driving at 16 the prices skyrocketed to around $1/L and have stayed up ever since.

>>127211768
>Be seven
>play with dogo and like football/soccer
>yes also a soccer fag
>watch dragon ballz and pokemon on saturday
>play n64 favorite game zelda.
>play with friends pearl jam was huge
>buffy the vampire slayer was huge didn't why literally no fucking clue still don't know
> sitting on couch because I like cartoons
> tuesday morning weak toons
>mom turns on cnn
>get disappointed
>muh cartoons
>see one tower on fire
>mom listening intensely
>news anchor there appears to be a plane that accidentally hit trade center tower.
>everyone on show can't understand
>literally watch sandniggers fly into second tower innocents stripped fuck pokemon fuck football
> muh country sniff everyone is silent
> Euro bros come out enmass in show of solidarity.
>The hope of a bright future of peace and only worrying about animal life and space travel over
>muzzies are the new enemy and your average american never heard of them
>fear and bleak future outlook takes over
>notice nihilism and depression slowly keep into everyday life over the years
> fast forward 2008 everything gets worse
> go from liberal as a 15 year old who likes war to
>conservative by 17 because muh financials
>libertarian from 19 to 22 muh rights
> 1488 till I die sniff
> I want 90s feels back I want my promised future I want to go to space and check out wild life not this shit fuck the rest they just fuck everything up...
> seriously was a time to be alive such optimism just crushed by single event really shows how fragile truly good things are
>now migrant crisis is the big event seriously if we don't put an end to this we will be extinct.
>The 90s late mentality and thought is nothing like today it was a bright white future.
Anyone 20s and older knows this we must fight for the future it would be truely bleak without us.....

>renting a game with the intention of finishing it before the rental period was us so the guy at the counter would let you swap it for another

>>127233128
> anyone 20s and older knows this we must fight for the future
This. It's a feeling in your stomach you can't supress. We don't want to feel it - but it is there. We were different. The times were different. Hard times need strong men. I wan't the old times back.

The world will change for the better once there is a massive attack like that again.

People can rationalize 100 dead people, 3000 is a whole other story

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>>127233649
lols back when blockbuster had games to rent literally everytime

All this nostalgia for pre 9-11 is warranted but it wasn't as great as everyone is making out. The seed of SJW,s had long been planted and political correctness was a scourge but we had only a clue what it would metastasize into(married with children most popular show documented this).

The 90's saw the finishing of the offshoring of jobs, Walmart destruction of small town America, and more importantly...
Before dubya stole the election the country was a mess. OKC bombing, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Seattle WTO riots, democratic and republican national conventions riots.
Sure flying was better and it wasn't as much of a police state. The GWOT was a response to the chaos of the 90's...we were about to tear ourselves apart, until our dear leaders found us a new enemy

>>127231543
Yeah but vaporware had the gift of hindsight. Forgive me for shilling modest mouse here, but they wrote alot of stuff like that as it happened. Songs like "head south" "space travel is boring" "custom concern" were all extremely prescient.

Never really listened to vaporware cause mu makes it look like a meme. Is it really worth listening too?

>>127212230
This was the point

It was dark magick

>>127211768
It's a radical change we went through with Obama

>>127233953
Great points. To my fav memories were in the mid to late 80s. I just hit my teenage years and me and the boys would be out all day and all night playing sports and chasing tail. Do kids still do this?

>>127233868
No - nobody cares about bodycounts anymore. It depends on a brainwave. If we can combine our brains we can start a wave and change the minds, the reality and the future. The question is - do we team up, how and when? Does it make any sense if we do brotherfights like in the last hundreds of years? Or is it better to act as a wall of the highest and most ethic evolved ethic group in the world? I think we should support each other against the incoming hordes. Physically, mentally and with material and technology. If we can connect our brains and force we win. Otherwise we lose.

>>127213770
>omigosh someone implied they care
>on 4chan
>wanna be friends???

Lord help child....

>>127211768
Pretty fucking awesome

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>>127229034
I had both as well, the playstation got me into gaming. N64 was for when bros came over.

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>>127234008
I listen to it occasionally because I find it relaxing.

Nothing stopping you from listening to a few tracks to see if it clicks with you. Hell, Pandora has a dedicated Vaporwave station nowadays.

>>127213143
Scoring weed was harder

>>127233128
pretty much me too, dude.

>>127234929
the phenotypes were not so evolved aswell

>>127213143
Love you Sven <3

>>127211768
a really good place and normies were normal i miss it

>>127211768

In the US shit was getting fucked up before 9-11. Clinton militarized the Police, Started big data like the Carnivore project and softcore internet porn was actually illegal in the US for a while until the supreme court smacked down Clinton and Reno.

The country went from hating niggers and spics to hating pakis. I mean, we still hate niggers and spics, but the focus has shifted.

>>127233868
as sad as it is to say, I doubt this is true. Another plane could crash into a skyscraper today with a death toll of 5000 and I think the liberals of America would still be talking about peace for Muslims and how not all Muslims are bad and how it's just these select few and it would be the same nauseating rhetoric.

I think it will take more than a 5000 body death toll at this point, it'll take a major catastrophic event (nuclear strike) and/or WW3 or something where hundreds of thousands or millions are at risk of death for there to be any serious political and social change.

>>127211768
>What was society like in a pre 9/11 world?
Better in every way.

>>127211768
As an American citizen, you could go buy airplane tickets and take off on a flight in several minutes, at least for domestic flights.

>>127235461

Actually Muslims have had a bad name in the US since the late 70's-80s. Mostly due to PLO and Palestinian terror groups and after the Iranian revolution and the Ayatollahs took over (and Syria, Lebanon and Libya). The difference was there was a lot less of them back then. The majority of "Arab Americans" back then were Christians.

>>127211768
I was only 3 when 9/11 happened but I remember there being a lot more titties in my life

>>127228615
>He wasn't an idort
>He didn't know the joys of being able to play Mario Kart, OoT, Banjo-Kazooie, and then switching to play some comfy Tomb Raider and Spyro afterwards

Faggot.

>>127211768
Better in all ways imaginable

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>>127211768
9/11 was Western Society's collective "Falling Down".

>>127235887

Looking back it wasn't just Muslims but Muslims from certain countries. Nobody gave a fuck about Muslims from Indonesia back then. And we had a lot of Afghanis who fled the red army. They were a different class though..intellectuals, doctors, authors etc. They weren't fundie hajis and were pro US and assimilated very well. Later generations waves of Afghanis during the civil war brought in a lot of poorer fundies and some Taliban supporters.

The little I remember is that back then there was more hope.

>>127211768
Things were more optimistic. it felt like everything would progressively get better. but this was all just ignorance, probably brought on by youth. i was in high school.

but otherwise things weren't really that different. you had internet, you had cell phones, you have TV and everything was pretty much how it is now. technology hasn't really advanced much in my opinion. software and information speed may have gone quicker, but otherwise things seem pretty much the same.

politics were obnoxious bullshit then, and they are now. jews were a nuisance then, and they are now.

i think what is good now is more people are awake and info is more freely available and easier to absorb due to high speed internet and videos.

I also find that the entertainment industry has changed a lot. i don't understand why anyone watches TV nowadays.

>>127235887
This. A lot of people on here weren't cognizant of feelings toward Muslims at the time, but everyone suspected that Bin-Laden was behind 9/11 before the towers even came down.

Al-Qaeda had been publicly planning an attack on the US for years, the WTC had already been bombed once, and people had been talking about how the WTC would make an excellent target for a plane attack since its construction.

I listen to Howard Stern's 9/11 broadcast at least once a year. It's an historic document of national sentiment during the moments before, during, and after the attacks. From talking about a date with Pamela Anderson to the deaths of thousands, America changed as a whole. At that moment, the party truly was over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64zZaAbhtps&t=178s

>>127235318
>softcore internet porn was actually illegal in the US
With the state it's put 'men' in today,that's a good thing.

>>127211768

All this nostalgia for Blockbuster sort of misses the point. It's the digitization of everything that's caused us to lack the connection we crave.

>Social media superseded conversation.
>Websites superseded newspapers.
>Digital media superseded physical media.

No way do you treat a movie/game/book/music as worthless when you have the physical thing right there in front of you. Today's work requires more effort but you'll be happier putting the effort in - it's like bypassing the whole Soma thing from Brave New World.

Also, it helps to stop making your computer your sole means of entertainment.

>>127236303
Shocked yes - but collective "Falling Down"? No. This event hit your people very hard. We've seen our whole land in ashes before, had firebombings and we built it up again. The strength of an society is visible in the dark years.

>>127236740

>i think what is good now is more people are awake and info is more freely available and easier to absorb due to high speed internet and videos.

You think that's a good thing? I think the opposite. We never think about what we consume.

>>127236636
I disagree. there is more hope now because peopel aren't as happy with the current situation. people just need to rise to the occasion.

>>127213488
Pre-9/11 you'd be killing ragheads in a video game.
Post-9/11 you'd be told by a black female president in Rainbow Six: Siege that the terrorists you're fighting have no religion or ideology (and really they're all white men)

>>127236951
Well lots of people don't. I agree that is a problem.

But if you simply awaken that consciousness in you to do so, then that is no longer a problem.

>>127236796

Inshallah.

>>127236786

I listened to that right after the attacks. Powerful shit. And yes Al-Qaeda was well known in the US. The embassy bombings and USS Cole attack had already brought them infamy (among other operations). One of the ironies of 9-11 is that it brought much more political clout to groups like CAIR and Muslims in general. A lot of this was fueled by the media with "backlash" stories..which just like so many recent "hate crimes" turned out to be pure fucking bullshit. There was one asshole who burned his store down and claimed ISLAMPOHOBES DID IT!!!"

He ended up getting arrested for insurance fraud.

>>127214750

It applies to everything thats the point retard.

And if you want to get super secular about it, it more specifically refers to the fact that the same force that sticks you to the ground is the same force which holds the planets in their orbits. That's a pretty big claim/assumption that you couldn't even prove today.

>>127218485
>Gen X was the last generation to experience that, the last generation of the old world.

Yes. Younger people look at me like I'm insane when I barely bat an eye when I forget my phone at home. Life without their cell phones, even for a few hours, is an alien concept to Gen-Z.

>>127225222
Hahahaha.

>>127212549
Times are getting worse but it's not necessarily 9/11s fault

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>>127236796
Hardcore porn still is federally illegal here, but no politician is willing to enforce the law.

INVESTIGATE BUILDING 7

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>>127218713
>tfw cant even go to a concert with an 1/8th of weed now

>>127218603
It doesn't feel like you can fight for what's right anymore.

I will miss the 90s

>>127237753

We didn't need cellphones just give us a paperclip and a payphone.

Back when you still had payphones boxes with glass doors.

>>127227584
Many things that people knew, as far as vidya anyway, were through magazines, word of mouth, and charting maps on graph paper.

>>127234922
Saved, may check it out sometime

>>127237861

Most politicians don't want to touch it because it could lead to all obscenity laws being smacked down.

There was a case a few years back when a prosecutor charged a women with posting lewd and violent stories on the internet.

The woman pleaded it out. Would have been an excellent test case.

>>127237855
This.

I had a "SKYPE" - one of this stupid pocket text prompter

>>127211768
Watch an episode of Reading Rainbow and thats what it was like.
>>127211917
And this.

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>tfw you remember renting videos at the local mom & pop video stores and stacking VCRs to record your own copy.

Other anons are right though, the left-wing bias in the media existed back then too. I recall my dad saying "fucking liberals" when watching the news. Thinking back I now know what he's talking about.

It was fun. Driving around, drinking beer, calling people on my Motorola brick cellular phone, the only social internet tools were IRC, AIM, YahooMessenger, icq, and fucking e-mail. No one knew what you were doing, nor did they care. It was a good time.

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Skyper pager - before smartphones ...

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>>127219630
>There is creepy stuff in all those pictures. I think the 50's were secretly fucked up.

Not really.

You've just been conditioned by decades of leftist propaganda to see the 1950s as secretly sinister.

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>>127228615
All I had was Playstation 1 and my memory card slots were busted.

Try playing a game to beat it every time because you know there's no saving and your mom won't let you leave the playstation on overnight, because muhh fire hazard.

Try playing the same levels over and over again knowing there's something more but that you'll never get to see it.

That shit was my life until like 2002.

>>127217895
Now I'm curious- how many Jews died from 9/11?

>>127215744
>It felt like we were more prosperous and optimistic back then. People unironically believed in the american dream.

Almost through college on 9/11, honestly felt like I was just going to get a half decent job, get a house, and that would be it. Go to school, graduate, go to college, and you'll get a good job.

>>127216643
To a point, but it wasn't until Obama that the really militant, fuck everything up left came about. Back then, most leftists just traded Bush looking like a monkey, or sperged about stuff, but things still functioned.

Little black Sambo really pushed the entire SJW wholesale. Back then, "Activists" were weirdo hippie or goofy Nazis, and it wasn't as mainstream. People tended to grow out of it.

The race shit wasn't too big of a deal. Even Rodney King wasn't played up as "All cops" or the really hardcore race victim shit like we see today.

>>127211917
Also less gay.

>>127223803
Just reminded me of when i used to go to blockbusters rent a game for ps1 and had a cd writer shit was so easy to pirate back then as long as you knew some1 to get your console chipped

>>127213337
>The US didn't bomb a different country everyday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_intervention_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uphold_Democracy

other stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Murrah_Federal_Building


Just admit it, you were too young to notice anything political.

>>127239181

Under Obama and also years of farther leftward movement in US academia shit that was once fringe like critical race theory and all whites are evil white supremacists became mainstreamed. Shit like BLM would have been shunned during the Clinton years.

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>>127211768

>>127213732
and there were mp3 players and minidisks

It was like we didn't even have a choice of the red or blue pill.

Fucking hate this shit.

>>127239365

Uphold/Restore Democracy had no air action. Only a handful of shithead tonton macoutes got shot by Marines.

Should never have been in Bosnia or Somalia and the hajis deserved Infinite Reach.

>>127213488
>implying

t. Faggot that has never played Ultima 6

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>>127211768

>>127213143
You are right it showed us our real ((((enemies))))

>>127211768
Imagine you're all at a bar getting hammered on the most expansive liquor with sluts literally swinging from your dick for two decades, right? That's the 80s/90s for the west.

So now imagine the bartender calls last call right? That's the roll of left wing politics criticizing moral authority following Oklahoma city bombing attack and media watchdogs start hammering "acceptability".

Then you try to buy a last round of shots for your sluts and you before you take them back home to fuck right? Well your card just bounces and they walk away in disgust, that's the dot com bubble.

So you ask the bartender for one on the house and she calls the bouncer who beats your ass and rapes you before throwing you out, right? That's 9/11.

>>127221820
when i was a kid they literally let me into the cockpit and gave me pilot wings

>>127239942
Infinite Reach was a shit show

Seems like back then there were a lot more interesting radio shows than there are today.

>>127239365

The big one would have been Northern/Southern watch. That would have been near daily airstrikes.

Hell we managed to pop two of our own helos during OPC.

people were actually people back then, capable of nuanced opinions, a greater degree of individuality, and communicating with others without a screen and 9001 levels of irony and detachment

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>>127211768
overconfident, that quickly changed

>>127240437

Infinite Reach was known as Operation "Give a Tomahawk to the chicoms for free"

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>>127211768
Not nearly so angry, violet, or fear filled...
See >>127211917

>>127215940
>Thank Christ for my father
More people said this back then.

>>127240482
wow, I completely forgot
>>127240677
Interesting, anymore info?

>>127216051
Obama IMHO caused the black/white divide to get worse. In 20 yrs, "muh legacy" may be a race war.
#ThanksObama

>>127221587
don't you mean there nokia 3310's

>>127240326

OKC day one. "We want to stress that if this turns out to be Muslims that in no way shape or form does that mean that Muslims are violent or that anyone should be scapegoated."

OKC day 2.

ARREST RUSH LIMBAUGH RAID EVERY CHURCH CHRISTIANS ARE TERRORISTS AMERICAN TERROR LOCK THEM ALL UP"

>>127240812
640K Ought to be Enough for Anyone

>>127224681

>Basball camp in the summer.
>Team trip to mlb game with all the buds
>Catch a foul ball from Chipper Jones
>fuckyes.jpeg

I think this was 95. Best days of my life

>>127218485

I remeber when sms texting was like underground and nobody knew wtf you were talking about

>>127241067

Yeah the chicoms sent their intel guys to Khost to retrieve a dud tomahawk. They already had good intel ties in the area from their operations during the Soviet/Afghani war. I think they had to pay the Muj for it though. So we gave them a tomahawk and the Taliban gets the fucking money. Typical.

When i was about 10-12 i was allowed in the cockpit on a flight and then invited back for the landing.

Was a pretty sweet exp

>>127240677
>>127241613

If that is true, then under Clinton not only did chicoms get the stealth tech from the crashed bomber in Serbia but also tomahawks...

>>127211768

The present is just like it was during 9/11, but just two towers short.

>>127215641
I was a little younger, but this is pretty much my life. Joined the Army because the war in Iraq was only gonna last a few months, right?
At least I learned a lot to tell my kids: don't trust (((them))), and marry white.

>>127239562
I remember in college, a pretty liberal arts type university, having unfavorable opinions about things. People would get irked discussing them, but there was no chanting or shouting, or demanding people be thrown out or segregated based on what people thought.

Even the most hardcore left students there kinda knew about blacks in the city it was in. It wasn't talked about, but they did fawn all over them like they do today.

>>127240532
>people were actually people back then, capable of nuanced opinions, a greater degree of individuality, and communicating with others without a screen and 9001 levels of irony and detachment

This is a pretty good summation.

>>127218709

I was playing tony hawk on 64 when the planes hit

Fuck school lmao

No different apart from some Americans thinking it was muslims who attacked the building despite it beings jews bombing it down

>>127241917

Oh yeah they also got crypto from the fucking loral fiasco. And a lot more.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/24/us/a-secret-us-device-missing-after-96-china-rocket-crash.html

>>127242418
Always remember to archive sources with a reputation for bad journalism and clickbait. Thank you.

https://archive.is/UTHsE <- nytimes.com article

>>127219630
Don't believe the Coca Cola ads, the 50s were just as dirty a time as any.
Boys looking up girls skirts, the mafia, communism in the west, suicides, it wasn't all honey with Cheerios.

>>127211768


The 80's were awesome.

The 90's, not so much.

Comfy. I wish I could have seen a Bush presidency without 9/11. He was actually a fucking fantastic governor, and helped improve Texas a lot.