Were the 80s/90s truly a happier time or is it just nostalgia goggles?

It's nostalgia

I was born 93 but I don't really remember 90's at all, so I can't comment.

I can say that 00's was pretty awesome before the smartphone cancer, because people actually socialized more, and it was pretty fun to go over to someone's house to play a computer game instead of now where everyone plays alone in dark over some shitty "stream"

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>>130291214
Some of it is nostalgia, some of it was genuinely better, but mostly we just had far less access to media, so we weren't saturated by its negativity.

>>130291214
When ever the height of the monday night wars in wrestling world of wcw vs wwf.
Everyone hated Canadians, I still do till this day.... Good times

it was around the 80s when strong independent women movement really gained momentum, and it was then that marriage rates began their decline. women thought it'd make them happier but it hasn't, and in turn unhappy women make for unhappy men like we have today.

>>130291214
It was certainly better here.
Less muslims, nicer neighbours, didn't have politics shoved in every freaking form of media.

>>130291214
nostalgia

>>130291214
It was the everything good that postmodernism had to offer, "good" being a relative term. Take from that what you will

>>130291214
Way less PC and the gays kinda stayed to themselves until the mid 90's. It was all downhill from there

Except for technology, everything has gotten worse since 1965.

>>130291214

wages were high and the cost of living was lower than it is now. It was definitely better.

>>130291214
Nostalgia, they will say the same thing about today 30yrs later.

The only true benefit was less phones, so you could be free from work now phone never leaves your side and everything wants your attention.

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>>130291214

THE 90s WERE FUCKING TERRIBLE!

Everyone wanted to be a nigger

Now everyone wants to be a wealthy nerdy faggot.

80s were cool

it was happier, but a blissful idiot sort of happiness

now we're miserable but our illusions are gone

>>130291214
It really was.
Post 9/11 everything got fucked.

Cell phones and internet were limited, so we communicated more slowly.

Now jobs expect you to be on call 24/7 and people hire someone else when you don't answer the phone

>>130291452
You weren't a 90s kid you stupid faggot

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>>130291214
Everything was better back then.

>>130291452
So true. I remember I would always go to my friends houses and we would play shitty multiplayer flash games online. Then smartphone cancer came, everybody laughed at me for not having one and suddenly friends didn't hang out anymore they just used video chatting and played games via streams.

>>130291839
This too, every arcade and mall had a contingent of wannabe gangsters all trying to fight you 24/7 and unironically wore backwards pants

>>130292159
Even if you wore backwards pants ironically you were still a fag

>>130292159
yep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk

>>130291839
>>130292159
What kind of backwards ass shit hole did you guys live in everyone I knew in the 90s loved them some grung and where still riding the sonic boom of the punk era too

>>130291992
Why are
>lego
>warheads
>hotwheels
>koolaid
>etc...

In that collage?

All those things still exist.
My 6 year old has all those

>>130292359
Grunge wasn't really a big thing on the east coast.
Punk definitely had a big scene but there was more wiggers and niggers.

>>130291731
This.

>>130291214
some nostalgia but it was actually better. ask any older adults who were already in their 20's/30's in the 80's and 90's and they'll tell you it was way better (at least in USA). economy was doing great, hilarious movies/shows, the future was super bright.

2000 was when things got kind of weird. it wasn't bad but just seemed more negative. 9/11 definitely suddenly left a huge negative stain on how we viewed the world and then everything started revolving around safety and fear. it kept getting worse from there.

>>130291992

that collage is awesome and brings back memories, good ones.

>>130292534

autistic people shouldn't be allowed to breed.

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>>130291214
82 here
90s were fucking kickass.

>>130291214
Nostalgia. We had this thing called grunge. It was actually uncool to be happy. I mean can you imagine.

>>130291214
90s were shit tbqh, too young to remember the 80s.

>>130292359
We had that too but there were way more Tupac wannabes around with gang bandanas hanging out their pockets trying to stab you because you were wearing 'their colors' back in early 90s. Also lowered Chevy s10 with 'ground effects' and purple and gold paintjob with dude running out with a baseball bat trying to fight you outside 711 at 2am. Ahh the 90s.

>>130292565
The nigger phase came in the late 90s for me, baggy pants errrrrrrrywhere.

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the golden years were 85-95

It wasn't good but it was the last era that wasn't pure shit. With 9/11 the jews kicked their plans into phase two.
You have to go back to pre-1960s if you want good.

>>130292857
Still is. Now it's cool to be suicidal and depressed/anxious for whatever reason

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Something about the style back then turns me on.

>>130292810
K

But im right

>>130293108
Oh I think I saw that on r/me_irl

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>>130291214
>Were the 80s/90s truly a happier time
Yes, they were. When the USSR dissolved, it seemed like there is no global threat anymore and there was a sense of worldwide unity like never before. There was a genuine optimism for the future in the air. The magical year 2000 was just around the corner and it seemed like everything beyond it will be a utopic paradise. Of course, this all was just an illusion, because (((their))) plans were different.
Then the 9/11 came.
Then the worldwide "war on terror" and the global fear surrounding it.
Then the first iPhone and the widespread degeneracy surrounding it.
Then the global (((crisis))).
Then the (((Arab spring))) and all the shitshow around it.
And now we are here.

Ppl also forget Al Gore's wife trying to ban 'offensive' music forcing me to buy Gwar CDs in parking lots from bootleggers back in 92.

>>130291975
I never said I was, retard.

>>130292131
Indeed. I even made flash games/stick animations and posted them on Newgrounds. Even made websites in Flash. Then somewhere around 2013 I learned that smartphonefags cannot browse Flash content and all this interesting Flash stuff got discarded entirely to cater to this normie cancer.

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>>130291992
>samurai jack
>first aired: august 2001

>>130293598
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgi5xdftOIA

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Terrible in the UK.

THINGS
CAN
ONLY
GET
BETTER

>>130291214
There were less feminists, less transsexuals, less degenerate whores, less of everything.

So yes of course it was better. Modern life was a mistake.

>>130291214
Things were better in the sense that it was a lot easier to avoid what was going on in the world on a larger scale. The internet was not pervasive at all, and could still be used as a retreat from the real world.

News was only in the form of newspapers or news programs a couple of times a day. The 80s had the constant threat of nuclear annihilation, but life still went on.

Most pop culture stuff being better is just nostalgia though. I watched a bunch of sitcoms from the 90s recently, and they were nowhere near as funny as they were at the time. This could just be me being desensitised to a bunch of shit though.

Social media has killed any semblance of society though. It gives absolute retards a platform where they think anybody gives a shit.

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>>130291992
also MASK was all but forgotten by the 90's, that was an 80's thing. Who made this horrible collage?

>>130295323
This is what I mean though. This stuff has only been possible by spreading it through internet slacktivism, and has warped people's perceptions on what acceptable behaviour/ life goals are.

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also, pokemon didn't air until the late 90's in the US. The mania is an early 2000's thing. I was the epitome of a 90's kid; 6 in 1990 and 16 in 2000. By the time pokemon came around I was more interested in smoking pot and listening to 311

https://youtu.be/JjTjtJDZomw

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>>130293122

WhatchuTalmBout

>>130291214

It's both better and worse now, but mostly worse. Technology is superior. So is TV, but definitely not movies. Food is generally better, but more expensive. People are much less friendly, much more divided by identity politics and cynicism. The economy is much worse.

>>130295889
down, down

>>130291214
They were pretty simple and great

>>130291992
Why is that picture full of kids stuff ?

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>>130296161
20 years later... and I'm still mainly interested in smoking pot and listening to 311. Huh, kinda got stuck there

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>>130293122

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>>130293122
yeah

>>130296831
She had those cut off.

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people definitely did withdraw at the advent of the internet. The access to information and clandestine nature of the thing fostered a cynicism and paranoia that has only gained steam since

>>130296541
local anons are mostly 90s kid. they see it as better times because at that time they didnt know anything about the world and had no life problems or responsibilities

>>130296697
Basically the demo of the older fans. Post-amber fans, I don't know what their deal is. I still smoke but i have a good job, so sometimes I'm all mixed up, dont know what to do.

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>>130291214
No it was.
The u.s just bombed the shit out of everyone who had a problem with the qests decisions and everybody was ok with it while we had all kinds of cool.stuff and electronic music.
On 1.1.2000 the magic in the world died.
You think I'm joking but no..just look at fucking bluray everything looks like a fucking b movie now.

>>130292565
>Grunge wasn't really a big thing on the east cost

Yes it was faggot.

80's were rough, go to the wrong place wearing the wrong clothes and get a beating.
I had a skinhead cut just so I would be left alone, as people thought you were with a crew of skins.

90's were slightly better because I was older by then and you had stuff like ps1/n64 which amazed everyone.

>>130297312
Amber was fine within the context of From Chaos, which is one their darkest albums. The spoon-with-my-gf anthem it became was shit, though

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>>130291214
rad times dudes

>>130297259
that's a cop-out, because not all of us had easy childhoods and things did change with internet, Bush, and 911

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>>130293472
Highly under rated post.

>80's were cautiously optimistic
>90's the future looked bright, the world was going to be a true utopia
>9/11 that illusion was shattered
>00's people started to see globalism taking effect with jobs being exported and 3rd world slave labor being imported
>10's SJWism and degeneracy are at their highest

80's and 90's were the last great American decades. It's unfortunate that kids will never know that innocence, socializing, and fun before the globalist era.

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

They were a happier time

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you guys coming to the Van Halen gig tonight?

>>130297518
I know one thing I don't miss about the 80's and 90's, the clothes they used to wear.

>>130291214
every time was shit, we just look on our pasts as better because it we were more naive at that time. if our current selves were to experience it, that time would lose its luster

>>130291214
The early 2000s were the apex of Western power and the recession robbed of us of purpose. We were United in our goal of destroying Islam. Jobs were still plentiful and we still understood our place in this world.

Since then, things have become more confused and thus, life isn't as good. The culture is broken. The politics are convoluted. The job market is recovering, but fragile.

People are outrageously politicized and the no fun squad is ruining good times... We used to have fun, we could tell off color jokes without fear of repercussions.

>>130297828
once again, mostly 80's phenomena, by 90's Van Hagar was just "the band that does that song from the Crystal Pepsi commercial"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nclj3vtg8M&t=202s

80s were better desu.

>>130291562
You're just upset because we were running wild all over you, fampai.

>>130291214
I think it was good until 2004. Then it went downhill

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>>130291214

well on one hand, the music was fucking great

on the other - civil war

so.....

>>130298012
the title says 80's/90's

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>>130291214
MSM controlled the narrative.

Case study in numbing the masses and doing things under their noses.

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>>130291214
90's where a different time.

>>130298122
I'd pinpoint it at 9/11

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>>130298193
I now see that, I still hate you

>>130291214
Way better. Better music, more cash and no niggers..

>>130295323
>Less feminists

No, there were "Riot Grrrl" and Tankgirl imitating bullshit galore. L7 taking out their tampons and chucking them at the audience. Courtney Love going on and on about muh womens rights in her half lesbian band. It still existed but it was way less Marxist talking points and nobody gave a shit about trannys, they just existed under the radar.

The biggest most noticeable difference between now and the 90s was less media saturation. Not being chained to a device that demands your constant attention and feeds you up to the second media propaganda was the good ol' days, whenever they were. Even Zizek in an interview waxes nostalgic for the 1940s, when the only communication of the day was the mailman delivering letters in the morning "then you were free for another 24hrs".

>>130291214
80's were shit, 90's were comfy

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>>130298296
cool

>>130297956

I think it's more like: all eras are mostly shitty (there was plenty of angst in the 80s), but some are more shitty than others (because in the 80s we didn't have some serious social problems that exist today).

>>130291731
The 60s and early 70s were maybe the most confused, volatile and outright scary times the US has faced.

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I want to go back!

>>130298198
>MSM controlled the narrative.

True, but a lot more ordinary people were redpilled and not afraid of expressing their politically incorrect opinions. In retrospect though I wonder how a lot of people got the truth before the Internet was around.

>>130298030
dafuc

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>>130298602
Hey, that list is missing the best waifu simulator.

>>130293046
sounds just like Moncton, New Brunswick circa 1997

>>130298573
>a fucking leaf

the 80s and 90s had more areas to go to. Now it's dangerous to go almost anywhere for fear of dindu mob violence.

>>130298592
only in certain parts of cities.. most places had nowhere near the level of crime that we have today. You really think there are fewer criminals today than back then?

>>130292359
I hung out with the skids and between the wiggers and the Iranians, we had a fight on our hands every day of the week.

>>130298379
I think we tacked on about 2 bill in global population since like 95

>>130298755

Maybe in the US. Not here in "fucking leafland".

>>130298860
I always wondered where they got that fucked up statistic from. The city I was born in went from nothing to one of the top 5 most dangerous cities in America

I think it's just nostalgia, though it was a better time than now in a few ways, Millenials would have been the nerds/dorks of the 80's 90's (guess they're the dorks of today, but they just think they're the cool kids)

I personally believe social media and selfies were be the beginning of the end for the west.

It's the tipping point of people being completely self obsessed and thinking of themselves as celebs. That much ego is impractical for a society to co-exist successfully.

>>130298860
>You really think there are fewer criminals today than back then?
As a % per capita of the population m8

>>130299100

The difference between 80s dorks and present-day ones is that the 80s ones actually knew useful things, like how to play chess or build a ham radio. Today's dorks read anime and collect superhero figurines.

Well, we didn't have a shitskin invasion and no East Germany dragging us forever down economically in the 1980s.

>>130291214

They were a happier time, but some of it is nostalgia goggles. Look forward, not backward. I am an eternal optimist and despite how much worse the world has gotten recently, I still think that our best days are in front of us - not behind us.

>>130293061
This.

Even with high interest rates (15%) peoples overall quality of life was better.

>>130299145
I seriously doubt that. Municipalities are under the gun to under-report crime. Most felonious crimes get dumped down to misdemeanor.. but arguing the numbers is pointless.. just go to any city in America that isn't NYC and find out for yourself

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>>130299203
>that the 80s ones actually knew useful things, like how to play chess or build a ham radio
>Today's dorks make apps and collect cryptoblockchaincoins
ftfy

I never bought in to the whole "hurrr the world changed after 9/11" but...it really did.

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>>130299345
honestly, once you're out of your 20's you pretty much just want to eat a bullet. Ya feel physically old and you've done everything thousands of times. I'm sick of breakfast, and shitting, and smoking, and driving... no one's truly happy. Not even money helps

societal wise, yeah maybe

>>130295323
There we lots of all of those, they just weren't a vocal minority like they are now thanks to the internet becoming normie.

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>>130299544
for Americans, it changed in an immediate a visceral way. If you want proof, listen to that tape of the guy trapped in the tower (spoiler: he dies). The point is, he had the audacity to think they were going to rescue him. That's how we thought, we always thought we would be okay.

9/11 was the day America grasped it's own mortality

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>>130291214
They were a happier time because there was no internet and minimal outsourcing.

Imagine, not that you have to go outside to hang out with people, but that there are plenty of people hanging around outside that want to meet others. Imagine if all your friends routinely called you to see what you were doing so you could all hang out as a group at the park, the beach, the mall, the movies, one of their houses.

>It was a time of community, and that is gone forever.

>>130299733

You think you've got it bad? I've got 4 or 5 gray hairs on my head and I'm only 29!

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80s and 90s were the best! Just simpler times.

No facebook, no snapchat, no political correctness, no barry obummer.

>>130300243
>29
>4 or 5 gray hairs
Nigga I'm salt and pepper, just embrace it

>>130299533
Well, today you have real nerds/dorks and fake ones. The latter were basically non-existent back then, because nerds were ridiculed (and more or less rightfully - what we see today is a cancer, the society full of "nerds" can never function well).
I still think that the old school nerds were much more knowledgeable overall. Today everything is too high level, especially concerning the IT.

>>130300243
as long as your not bored with life, it doesn't matter. It's like the great American philosopher John Cougar Mellencamp once wrote:

>"oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone"

>>130299533
>>Today's dorks make apps and collect cryptoblockchaincoins

The exceptional ones do, but I was thinking more of the garden-variety nerds you'd see huddled in their corner of the highschool cafeteria.

>>130300369
>I still think that the old school nerds were much more knowledgeable overall.
Oh most definitely

>Today everything is too high level, especially concerning the IT.
Yes, the fact everything is much more complex creates a higher intro barrier to entry

>>130291214
They we're. Even the internet was a great place.. before corporations bought it out and raped it's soul for money.

>>130291214

Not even comparable. So much better.

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>>130299810
Wanted a job? You walked into a business and got one.

Wanted to talk to friends? You knocked on your neighbor's door.

Kids actually went out and played on the streets.

Where I live, the beaches were never packed and traffic was a non-issue.

--

Globalization was a mistake.

>>130300429
>>"oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone"

I'm middle-aged and I can tell you that this is definitely true for a lot of people my age, but it is easy enough to escape it if you remember to live for your own happiness and fulfillment rather than trying to please others (with the exception of trying to live up to your kids' reasonable expectations when they're little). A lot of people get stuck in jobs and relationships they secretly hate because they're afraid of losing face in front of other people. Also, you have to keep learning new things all the time in order not to stagnate. But it can still be hard at times.

>>130300429
I prefer John Cougar Concentration Camp myself

>>130291214
90's bush parties, pagers, grunge... just the right amount of technology. Nowadays people are plugged in like zombies to their smart phones.

>>130299339
I went to East Germany just after the border opened up, I don't even know what else to compare it to. It was very poor, dirty, and stinky.
Lived in Bavaria 88 to 93, had no doubt at the time that Germany was a great country.
Your nite clubs back then were insane.

>>130300243
>>130300337
Motherfuckers I'm bald at 28.

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What's everyone's personally quintessential 90s song? This is mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmD08Na5VKI

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>>130300713
at 30 I realized that I had lost all claims to cool. If you're not cool and you don't plan on attracting women anymore, there's almost no need to do anything. Playing live in some dive is stupid because you're old. Fun as hell at 20. I still want to make music, I just would never put my old ass face on it

I had a full head of hair then.. now I have a thin spot where a yamika would go - time to neck myself

>>130298271
Nah, 9/11 actually felt great. I mean, as a young man that was full of piss and vinegar, I wasn't afraid... I was ready to kick terrorist ass. Friends were signing up left and right and I waited until I was finished high-school a couple of years later... But by then, Afghanistan had simmered down and we weren't in Iraq, so I found my current career.

The aftermath of 9/11 was fucking galvanizing. We lost the unity an righteous fury and replaced it with social justice, treason and identity politics. I blame the recession. It took the wind out of our sails and the kids watched their parents struggle through tough financial times, made them pessimists and lose hope.

>>130301075
Easiest question I'll be asked all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

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>>130300650
> Wanted a job? You walked into a business and got one.

Can actually verify. I was a ward of the state and when I was 18 I had to fend for myself.

> spend 3 days dressed nicely & walking around neighborhood asking businesses if they're hiring
> get a job working 8 hours a day 6 days a week at a cafe with no experience on the 3rd day
> get tips right away and rent a weekly apartment (main tenants were old people on social security)
> do nothing but work and look for a better job on my weekly day off
> find one 3 months later in the want ads (people actually paid for ads in the paper trying to find people who would work for them then)

Fast forward 10 years and we've imported millions of illegals who even took the job of the paperboy. An industry that had been dominated by 10 year olds on their bikes throwing newspapers at the door was now dominated by teams of a dozen mexicans in white vans. Gen Z is probably going to put us into camps and we probably deserve it.

>>130300949

The only good news about premature baldness is that as you get older people will stop making fun of you and it'll just be taken for granted as a natural effect of aging... although it's still galling to get the odd slighting remark from fat, obnoxious women who can control their own appearance.

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>>130298668
>I wonder how a lot of people got the truth before the Internet was around.
We read books and talked to friends and strangers alike.
This was in the time when we didn't need to find the truth, only information. The truth becomes evident.

I was born in 83 but I lived in a part of Philadelphia hit real hard by the Heroin epidemic. The neighborhood went white trash/ spic by mid 90s

>>130301173

People have really lost the ability to age properly. Everyone wants to pretend to be 25 forever, and it looks terrible on the middle-aged (and still worse on the old). Back in the 80s, old people had their own distinctive and old-fashioned clothing; I remember being shocked when that started to change with the Boomers. Old men and even old women can look very dignified and interesting if they dress their age, especially if they make a special effort to be elegant.

>>130301075

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0

God damn I miss ska

>>130301248
I think you mean that we had a free pass to glass the middle-east and we squandered it

>>130291214
>Were the 80s/90s truly a happier time or is it just nostalgia goggles?
both. things were objectively better back then and it's also a bit of nostalgia, as well.

>>130298668

The internet's early days was loaded with crazy libertarian shit. It's taken like 20 years but they've almost nearly killed it.

Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

>>130300025
I disagree in part. Half of West became righteously angry and wanted to kill sand niggers. The other half wanted to let them flood our countries, rape our women and behead us in the street. Guess who is winning?

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It's all over lads - nothing but bad feelings from here on out. Be sure to let us know if you an hero

>>130301173

This is a crock of shit.

>t. Turning 34 next week at a music festival with my 26 year old gf. Life dope for as long as you want it to be. Like I give a flying fuck about what anyone thinks about me.

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>>130301547
yep, the world belongs to the youth. That's why when people give me shit for shitposting here in my 30's, I always think of how sad it would have been to waste my youth here. If you're under 25 on this board, there is about a million better things to do. If you're an old broken chunk of coal like myself, brew some coffee and settle into some yuri because it's downhill from here

>>130300650
Every job I ever applied for, I asked to see the manager, gave him a firm handshake and asked "When do I start?"
That shit actually worked. Only had a couple of guys turn me down, but typically having the audacity and confidence to just declare you were working somewhere did the job.

>>130291214
The 90s was when SJWing started being a thing. Everything on MTV magically turned into ugly people whining about everything, Conservatives were going after everything because "MUH JESUS," and Bill Clinton was saying everything moron kids wanted to hear- and they were too stupid to realize it.
Was the beginning of the end, honestly.

>>130301979
>ewww, someone brought their dad to the concert?

Having lived during those times, Cyberspace was certainly better and more exciting.

Mainstream music was certainly better, movies in general were made better (Shawshank Redemption, Usual Suspects).

Today has it better with independent stuff, news, music etc.

Women were whores then as they are now. Chad's were still homosexual's deep inside.

>>130301173
I knew I was old when my buddy noticed two teenage girls crossing the street and I cut him off from saying anything lewd by saying...

>"Teenage girls are only good for two things, man... Doing their homework and respecting their parents."

>>130302156
9/11 was the final dagger. It totally fucked me up after just leaving college. I became instantly reality-pilled and found out soon that things were going to be increasingly worse as time went on

>>130291214

>all my aunts and uncles grew up during the 60s and 70s
>ANON THESE ARE THE BEST YEARS OF YOURS LIFE
>they were not

i hate my family

>>130301173
Yes the Gavin McInnes guide to dressing your age
https://youtu.be/aFmGwh-eIAo

>>130301979
>>t. Turning 34 next week at a music festival with my 26 year old gf.

I'm glad you're having fun but you aren't fooling any young people into thinking you're one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF2X1o0FGA0

>>130302523
>*after coupon

You cheeky fucking kikes

>>130302480

I don't want to be one of them. I wasn't one of them when I was young. There are like 50 year old dudes here with the best everything. I'd rather be them.

>>130302523
>falling for the 112K RAM meme

>>130302431

9/11 was when a lot of people realized for the first time that we were living in the equivalent of the last days of Rome and that the barbarians were knocking at the gates. (This is true no matter who one believes was responsible for the attacks BTW).

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the 80's were when American began to feel the detrimental effects of globalization.

the 90's were the peak of american culture. once the internet went mainstream american culture became the internet's culture and by the 00's internet culture became global culture.

and as flags on /pol/ proved long ago, non-americans ruin the internet, ergo, non-americans ruined american culture.

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>>130301547
My personal sense of style came to a screeching halt in 2005 and I haven't made any effort to change my appearance. This is why old people used to dress a certain way. At a certain point, fashions start to look stupid and you just stick to your bucket hats and shark tooth necklaces like a sensible person.

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>>130302480
fuck, I don't even have to watch this
>"he slobbered on my pot, man"

>>130301609
I knew it was implied.

>>130291992
>perfect dark
>no goldeneye

You had one job.

>>130301075
The essential 90s euro song for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdc_6YvJfFo

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>>130291547
>less access to media, so we weren't saturated by its negativity
True, but this is basically saying ignorance is bliss. Everyone was distracted, not realizing we were actually being railroaded.

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>>130302825
I can play this on guitar. Nobody knows what it is because I'm American and they only know The Sign (also great)

>>130301979
Grow up and release your music on YouTube like a fucking a adult.

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Proud of myself for starting this certifiably comfy thread. Keep it up.

> Meanwhile in the Balkan

>>130291717
THIS.

No one felt entitled to openly be assholes in public. They're were very strong distinction between "culture" but everyone composed themselves relatively the same in public, for respect of other people. There was no hootin-n-hollering and look at me personalities, even from blacks.

When I say culturally distinctive, I mean; white people, black people, straight people, gay people, looked/dressed differently, but everyone composed themselves. If there was a march for gay pride or KKK, everyone just seen them as nut cases, and didn't really care. And financially, it was better because everything was taking off. No one gave a shit about politics, and caring made you seem a bit like a looser. The only thing that was bad, was there was a much higher crime rate.

>>130301419
Philly is a shithole. I got a knife pulled on me at a Philly's game over a parking spot by some white trash.

T. NOVA fag

>>130295889
are you me?

>>130302843
I don't disagree with you, ignorance definitely is bliss. Doesn't mean it's ultimately better though.

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>>130301302
>>130302138

I did the same with 3x jobs. I worked at a furniture store, blockbuster, and finally at a clinic where I made bank. I dressed up nice, got interviewed the same hour I walked in, and walked out with a job.

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>>130303375
only if you're a fookin' legend, mate

>>130292359
any major cities

jews were fucking shit up back then too

Born in 83. Not really.

>>130303011
Nice.

>>130302156
Everything turned to shit once MTV stopped playing music videos, and decided to air shows like The Real World. Thats when things really changed

>>130291214
It was better coupled with nostalgia, 2004-2008 was pretty good too just after the internet started getting a boost then it all went to shit again.

the only thing I envy about todays kids, and I really don't envy them in a lot of ways, being born into a self obsessed social media world is one, it's shallow, fake, and tedious, but is normal to today's young, and there's pressure to fit in with that or be alienated, and where people can bully people on 2 fronts now, online and irl. Plus the dangers of being young and naive on the internet.

But what I do envy is that games today are incredible, the crap we had (and were very happy with, because that was cutting edge then) is a stark contrast. Though I do think devs go too much for graphics and stories, and in a lot of ways mechanics have stood pretty still for years now on the whole. Hopefully this gen can be a bit more creative.

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>>130303294
>everyone composed themselves relatively the same in public
>No one gave a shit about politics, and caring made you seem a bit like a looser

>>130297726
I love that video; it's so comfy.

They went back 20 years later and this is the result:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE

Oh how times have changed.

>>130291214
Goggles. It's easy to remember the good times and sweep the bad times under the rug.

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>>130304045
From about 1993 to 2008 where some good times.
The early internet seems so so small but at the same time bigger.

1976 reporting in

I can't be bothered answering OPs question

So there you have it

>>130291830
>Nostalgia
No

>they will say the same thing about today 30yrs later.

If the current trends continue they'll be completely justified.

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>>130291431
Bullshit, britshit. There were no major wars that the west was involved heavily in during that time. Hell most military interventions during that time pretty much involved some western country kicking the teeth in of some uppity dictator. Then of course there was NATO overcoming the USSR and Germany being re-united.

Furthermore there was the burgeoning of the internet and it was a time before people got their assholes tied up over terrorism. Social media and and 9/11 did a lot to make this world a more miserable place.

>>130304469
this guy gets it
>fuck you and stop asking me questions
>what's for lunch?

>>130298602
20 years later and Nintendo is still shitting out the same series of games. Sad!

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>>130304469
I find your views fascinating and wish to subscribe to your news letter.

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>tfw 11 years old

OMG! THE GORE, THE REALISM!!! THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER!!

>>130291214
It is NOT just nostalgia. I experienced the entire two decades I was born in the 70s.
Yes it wasn't all coming up roses, no time is perfect.
But the attitudes were better, people went outside in nature more. A lot more.
We rode bikes. We explored. 1995-ish is when culture started the downard spiral to where we are now.
>>130291717
Yep

>>130304031
Changing the music from White people singing about pussy to college SJWs crying about how life sucks, and rap nigger music made MTV suck even when it still played videos.
I remember being 18, and saying "wow, this channel is fucking gay now."

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Speaking to my mate's 12 year old, he loves Destiny and COD.

He's never heard of Sonic The Hedgehog.

That shit ain't right man

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>>130304930
late 90's was a plateau of sorts and it slowly coasted downwards in the early 2000's. the last 5 years where a real nosedive.

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>>130295318
I agree.

>>130304546

Bosnia, The gulf war.

>>130305205
Sonic is by far one of the shittiest franchises, I can't believe it's still on life support from you brainless cucks

>>130305634
Major wars. The west dropped a few bombs on Bosnia and the Gulf war was over in a week before we retreated.

That being said, I remember hearing about Bosnia as a kid and being terrified of urban snipers.

>>130304309
Zork: Grand Inquisitor or Myst?

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>>130291214
90's were the last good decade before the globalists starting making their big push to take over and go fully divide and conquer on the citizens.
This was a time when feminism and blm type people were still regularly mocked by most of our culture and the media.
This was also a period where also of financial bullshit was going down so the economy was rigged and really nice for anyone with half a brain so all that easy money helped ease over any societal issues which may have been already emerging.
Yes the 90's were pretty nice and yes its been shit ever since.

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As a Millennial in my mid-twenties, looking back, I have a much more favorable opinion of the 80s than the 90s.

90s-early 00s seem to be peak Jew/nigger culture. Sex and the City, Will and Grace, hardcore hip-hop, rock and roll was overwhelmingly morbid, depressing nu-metal and grunge shit, the president was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office, (((Seinfeld))) and (((Sarah Michelle Parker))) were the face of America, Colombine, and that's when the PC/SJW culture went into overdrive.

There were positives: anime went mainstream, the economy was strong, no Islam/terrorism bullshit, the men seemed to dress like men as the super slim fit faggotry of the mid-late 00s hadn't caught on yet, video gaming really took off, the internet (for better and for worse).

Overall though, the 80s had New Wave, great rock and roll, Reaganus Prime was president, black music was Prince and Michael Jackson as opposed to gangster hip-hop, and even the hip-hop that existed back then was lighthearted and wasn't dark, violent, and thuggish like 90s hip-hop, watching movies and listening to music from that era, it seemed brighter, sunnier, and a better time to be a kid, and as cheesy as it sounds, America seemed to be America. But that's just my perspective as someone who didn't live at that time looking in.

>>130306078
early internet was best internet
literally only young white men used it
no women, no minorities whatsoever

someone posted a nice chart showing that... fuck I should have saved it

>>130305934
Myst but Zork is a great series too.

>>130291214
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMLCrzy9TEs

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>>130306259
>no women, no minorities
they where there, it was just they where the smart ones because to use the internet back then you hat to have a basic level if intelligence to even get the computers up and running.

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now everything is about en vogue lefty bullshit and Snapchat THOTs. s m h

>>130291214
omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYXcmVSeBU

>>130297700
Digits confirm

Praise Kek!

Let us enter another era of purity like we once knew in our innocence.

early 2000s is the true redpill

the last few comfy years before literally everything became saturated with SJW politics and social media/smartphones

>>130291214
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRpMctqzVOI

>>130306628
>politics and social media/smartphones
I honestly think this is the cause. The proliferation of information to an overarchingly retarded population was a bad idea. It's one thing to a few qualifiers to have access (the intelligence to set it up and use it/not really caring about being called a "nerd" if you use it)... but just giving to everyone with a pulse was a bit of a bad idea.

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>>130306362
Return to zork was the best one

>>130291214
I was there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neCbxGBsSf0

Ironically I am much happier now then I was as a youth. I am 42, born in 75.

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>>130306894
>Playing a Zork game on a console
MFW

>>130306628
>>130306836
peoples judgements are no longer based on their reality, but the reality that the internet shows them, which is selective due to their own choices/tendencies.

If you don't have a rational mind (i.e. 15 y.o.) then you're going to be hyper influenced by whatever you see on the web, as opposed to the reality that is right in front of you.

>>130301260
I used that song in a photo montage video last week for a friend. It just feels right.

>>130306915
34 mins in, legendary set by prodigy

>>130307034
Played it on the PC as well.

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>>130307126
I went PC in 84 and never looked back.

>>130297881
I have a weird soft spot for goofy 80s/90s fashion

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I think the main difference is there seems to have been more optimism then there is now.

>>130305634
>Bosnia
Yugoslavs mostly dealt with that themselves. I don't count just dropping bombs as heavy investment in a war.

>Gulf war
"uppity dictator getting teeth kicked in"

>>130307126
>>130307337
I was playing Gauntlet online with nerds from MIT in 85 on my BBC

>>130299533
his nipples are erect

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I was born in '91, and grew up in a middle class neighborhood, in a part of NY that is traditionally pretty isolated and conservative. what I remember from the 90's was the sort of average "middle class 90's town" feel. we would walk to the video store to rent movies for the weekend, I'd go to church every sunday nearby, and mom would walk me home from school, since dad worked nights, I went to CCD, played videogames, played outside before people went crazy over stranger danger... times were good in the 90's where I lived, and when 9/11 happened, I can vividly remember that the atmosphere changed. Especially in the city itself. in the 90's, NY was the chillest fucking place. After 9/11, it became a paranoid shithole.

>>130306259
>no minorities

I used to chat with John Threat (black) in the early 90s before he went to jail for hacking. The guy who ran my 1992 bbs board msg 'uplink' was an Iranian immigrant we made fun of calling him Ayatollah Sysop because he kept trying to kill our messages that were passing around copyrighted AT&T manuals. There were also countless asians, like legendary 90s troll of comp.lang.lisp Xah Lee.

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>>130293472
I miss the future...

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>>130304749
>be 5

did you see the new movie!!

>>130307443
The metalheads wore makeup and skintight leather, and they still looked more heterosexual and masculine than the Brooklyn/Seattle nu male hipster buttercups.

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>>130298379
No. Maybe where you live. But here Pinochet rule had just ended, and people were quiet.

>>130299810
Again, no. There weren't "lots" of them. If you weren't an upstanding citizen you were more likely a commie or a proto-commie, so you would get a citation to the nearest police department for interrogation.

The 90s were the best. People were too afraid to be retarded.

You wanted riots? In 1992 Iron Maiden was coming to Chile, but because the church said they were a satanic group, the people (mostly parents) agreed with them and started rioting. The government stepped in and cancelled the show. Iron Maiden called us "medievals"
90s ruled.

80s-90s ruled. No degeneracy allowed.

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>>130291992

> everything was so much better

And less welcoming to 3rd world blight

>>130308344
Glad to see you guys got your safe space! :^^^)

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I unironically dress like Al Borland from Home Improvement (on the right in pic). There's something special about the ol' flannel and jeans: timeless, durable, warm, cheap, modest, incredibly comfy. You gotta tuck that shirt, though - it increases comfiness. I always tuck in my shirt.

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>>130291214
20 years ago, Americans lived in harmony.

Then everything changed when the mudslimes attacked.

>>130291452
No. 2000s was completely shit until near the end. The only thing that gets better is music but you have to dig for it a little.

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Some better.

-No access to mobile internet made people more social
-Jobs were easier to come back
-We weren't as obsessed with terrorism because 9/11 hadn't happened yet
-SJW shit wasn't prevalent

Of course life being super simple was just me being in elementary school and that was all nostalgia.

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>>130308763
I approve of your fashion.
>tfw always tuck my shirts in now, even T-shirts

only thing is its hard to find that 90's jean high-waist cut for men. it's all low cut and I have no idea why that shit is popular, it's uncomfortable as fuck. I THINK that high waist is what they call "classic fit", but I don't buy it, it feels different and isnt nearly the same effect.

>>130304930
>1975 here
This fucker gets it

>>130309089

sauce

>>130309328
But anon she's jewish, you'd never fap to a JEW would you?

>>130309095
Yeah, I'm having trouble finding well fitting jeans too. I've given up looking, so I've just resigned to forcing myself to get used to the low-cut fit. It will never be perfect, but it'll have to do. What they call high-waist is a bit different, I agree. They just don't make jeans like they used to.

>>130309095
Most of my pants I pull up to around the belly button, dress and jeans. You just have to stay away from slim fit. Regular fit clothing gives you more room.

Also, always go for pleated. Flat-front is late 90s-00s faggotry and needs to end. No one wants to see the outline of another guy's ass, especially in formal situations.
https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Fredrick-Gabardine-Pleated-Front/dp/B007TLOW0M/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1497722060&sr=8-6&keywords=pleated+fredrick

>>130306608
>thot
Nigger speak is so fucking gay. Do they still say cooling instead of chilling? Lmao

>>130307876
yeah but stats show that most early Internet users were white, young, male and American

Not to say that there didn't exist any minorities or women... they were just like a tiny percentage of the overall

>>130306078
As a millennial you forgot the 80s crack wars. It was real and violent. Like Regan the 80s wasn't as good as it was made out to be or as bad. The 90s were great because of the economy.

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>>130291214
>>130297700
>>130293472
>>130309078

88 here, 9/11 fucked this country hard. I remember my youth in the 90s and the lead up to 9/11. The world seems placid, peaceful. Fukuyama "End of history" seemed in full effect. Star Trek the next generation seemed like a possible future. We all though democracy, diversity, equality would work.

I drank the coolaid big time. I joined the Army as soon as I could because of my patriotism and belief in the "machine" . After that experience, I decided that I wasn't fighting for this country, or anything noble at all. I was fighting for. I started putting family, religion and race before country. Fuck Country, fuck the Constitution and fuck the republic.

People will keep on voting for free shit, and "they" will keep on sucking the state dry at the top. The workers and movers will be bleed dry. The state will keep on replacing fathers, family, race and God. You will be left with cold and dead husks who have no gender, passion or drive. Just pleasure slaves. The only think holding this shit hole together is religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKv1EoLqT8Y

So ya, I hope Trump ends democracy in the US and goes full God emperor.

>>130309640

You have a shit body and worse taste if you think high waist is comfortable or good looking.

>>130310567
>I was fighting for "them"

>>130310586
high waist is not what you think it is. your hips are not your waist. pants are supposed to sit at your natural waist, not your hips like they do today

You were just young, it was worse with shittier fashion and an internet that was several orders of magnitude shittier.

>>130291214
I will go with the answer of both. Yes it was better but not super better. Some of it is nostalgia.

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>>130310586
No, it's how men actually wore their pants pre-late 90s. It's a more classic, elegant look, regardless of body size. Low rise is trashy.

>>130310839
>shittier fashion
objectively false. sillier fashion, yes, but definitely not shittier.

>that was several orders of magnitude shittier.
it was also simpler, and was only populated by people who knew what they were doing, not every single retard with a phone. it was also new, so it had not been consumed by corporations yet. half the corporations that own the internet now, either didnt exist yet, or were small companies themselves. You actually had a choice when it came to what search engine to use. You could use google, Yahoo, Ask jeeves, etc.

you could use internet explorer, netscape, opera, etc

"social media"? what's that? you want to get social, you went to a forum for whatever fandom you wanted to talk about.

sure it was slower, but it also was not the driving force in our lives. you went "online" maybe an hour or two before dinner, after you spent the rest of the day playing outside.

>>130291992
>warcraft 2

So many wasted summer days.

I should Westwood because it's probably their fault I'm not in MLB right now.

>>130304181
Watch this is 20 years and you'll be getting nostalgic once again.

>>130311285
Social media has become corrosive to our society.Good points my friend.

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>>130310586
Also, it's not "high rise" to bring it up to around or just under your navel. That used to be called normal rise, and what you perceive as normal used to be hip-huggers.

>>130310586
>>130311136
in fact the reason high waist was an effective look is because it makes your legs look longer.

mid and low rise jeans make your legs look short and stubby. thats why men before the late 90's seemed more athletic, (although they were, and obesity rates were lower) because their pants were higher up, which led to the optical illusion of long legs.

same for women, arguably. what we now call "mom jeans" achieved the exact same effect.

>>130311136
I wear nothing by dickies in an office environment with a shirt and tie.
I also wear them outside of work for just about everything. High rise is the shit, you can actually sit and do things without your shirt coming un-tucked.

If you have an athletic build, they look even better.

>>130291431
You're a retard.
>>130291214
In the U.S.A. the 90s was a golden era.
Money was high, spending was high, everyone was given everything, new shows that never existed, new toys that never existed, video games became main stream.

It's mostly real and not just for children, parents were given so much credit they could buy anything.

This ultimately became their downfall and caused the housing market crash (Bill Clinton allowed niggers to buy houses).

also>>130291717
this 100%, no PC culture was ever thrown in my face.

I could watch Jurassic Park with one token black man, which in every place i've worked is still how things are. Blacks are a minority, but suddenly 99% of the casting of every movie ever.
PC was not a fucking thing like we know it.

Also
No internet until the late 90s, unless your family knew what the fuck it was doing.
We weren't yet saturated with information.

90s was great

There was only 3 black kids that went to my high school and their dad was an NBA player

>>130298592
>not the DRUMPF IS LITERALLY HITLER BIGOT OPPRESSION BLM HATESPEECH age

This is what social media has devolved into
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dTUk5BpAVcE

>>130292159

lol where was this? don't think I ever saw anyone actually wearing their shit kris kross style

>>130291214
yes, the were fucking better

the music was better
the movies were better
the vidya was better

>>130311534
>momjeans
HNNNNNGGGGG, there's something about them that highwaisted stacies in CURRENT YEAR can't compete with

>>130292857

Seems kinda like today, no?... Everyone wants to be able to be a victim.

>>130291214
the 80's were definitely better

the real cultural decline began in the 90's

>>130311674
>This ultimately became their downfall and caused the housing market crash (Bill Clinton allowed niggers to buy houses).
more than that, bill clinton allowed banks to jew niggers into buying homes they clearly couldn't afford, bought with bad loans they would never be able to repay.

In general, that he allowed banks to get involved with real estate at all, is the real crime here.

20s were better than the 90s

As someone said earlier in this thread, things only really started to go downhill after 1995ish. IMO 1985-1995 was the GOAT "decade".

>>130291214
>Were the 80s/90s truly a happier time?
Yes, but happier doesn't necessarily mean happy.
There wasn't anything inherently great about the 90s, and the good things had to do with the fact that we still had remnants of the old world, and less of what makes contemporary life so terrible. I mean, there was no social media and considerably fewer minorities. Those things alone make for a better world.

Some of us could see the writing on the wall, though. I mean, you don't have to be a mathematical genius to understand that a continuous stream of immigration is going to lead to a massive demographic crisis.

>>130307957
kek I know the girl holding the sign. she went to UNC.

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>>130296941
i know :(

>>130312263
That's why Niggers love him, they consider him honorary black. Which is disgusting. Why anyone would want to be considered some shit skin as a good thing.

>>130311674
>This ultimately became their downfall and caused the housing market crash (Bill Clinton allowed niggers to buy houses).

FYI, Obama Leaf is lurking Chan today... be prepared.

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>>130311897
they accentuated women's hips

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>>130291214

Depends on where you lived (pic very related), but in general yes. It was right before the house of cards the boomers built came tumbling down

>>130298602
Literally my childhood n64 collection, no killer instinct tho is disappoint.

>>130309087
What's your problem? The early 2000's was the best and it will always be in my heart. It started sucking after the crash and obongo

>>130300056
this

>>130300056
This

>>130291452
93 master race reporting in

>>130291214
80s was a happy time.

>>130292359
Niggerization came in 2 flavors: Hip Hop, and Grunge.

>>130304616
Because Activision and Ubisoft don't, right?

>>130291214
We should post a typical day in the 90s or 80s and compare it to present day fags.

M-F(1994)
>Wake up late for school (no parents in the morning, latchkey kid)
>Wait for older friend to pick me up who had a license
>Go to school with like 5 of us squished in a beat up car missing a window covered in spraypaint
>Skip first class and hang out in the designated smoking area with all the other kids skipping (which was at least 1/2 the school)
>Go to lunch with girlfriend, who went to a diff school. Lunch was fries at some shitty restaurant yet we were all skinny as fuck
>After school meet up with friends and gf either at a coffee shop, outside shitty arcade or in friend's basement who had parents who lived overseas.
>Walk gf home, fuck her in a public park as nowhere to go
>Occasionally get harassed by police catching us fucking "Hey, what are you doing in that bush"
>Go home, try and call gf, get her parents or older brother and have to talk to them for like 5 minutes. Have to fight with my own sister to use the phone for 5mins as she's talking to her bf. We organize fucking times for next day at her house because her parents have gone skiing for the weekend.
>Get a call from hacker friends on a partyline, talk to like 60 people all at once. Do pranks like trying to link up two phone sex lines together to see how long they last until one figures it out.
>Go to sleep while listening to local radio sex education call in show and try to identify kids from school calling in asking about their STDs.

Weekend
>Go to work at shitty job, make tons of tips
>Illegally procure beers and booze with older friend's license
>Go to bush party in the woods with half the school, build a huge fire, sit around it getting wasted and partying.
>Get a blowjob from my gf in the woods
>Police always show up and break up the party scattering us all over the city because a fight breaks out
>Spend all night driving around in a convoy of vehicles looking for a place to party

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>>130306836
>nigger technology

Having mankind's entire body of knowledge at your finger tips and instead talking to other stupid niggers

>>130291214
They were happier times for sure. Mid 90s were an amazing time to be alive.

>>130301419
>I mean, as a young man that was full of piss and vinegar, I wasn't afraid... I was ready to kick terrorist ass. Friends were signing up left and right and I waited until I was finished high-school a couple of years later... But by then, Afghanistan had simmered down and we weren't in Iraq, so I found my current career.

Also an 83 but lucked out by growing up in a nice burb in one of the whitest states. It is almost hard to comprehend how much different the world is today.

>in 3 years time, the 90s will have started 30 years ago
I want off Mr Bones' wild ride.

>>130313920
>Mid 90s were an amazing time to be alive.
Not really, no. The culture was still awful. It was simply better because there was less of the shit that makes the present so terrible.
But a person not having cancer doesn't necessarily make things great for that person. It just makes him normal, which admittedly sounds like a fantastic thing to someone who does have cancer.
It's the same with the 90s. It was better because of the absence of the things that make our lives terrible, but aside from that there wasn't much that made the 90s inherently good.

>>130302138

What in the fuck has happened to people's ability to shake a fucking hand. I hardly ever get a firm shake anymore. Faggots.

>>130291214
>>130312041

>>130314441
Fuck, I still have some fragmented memories leading up to 1990, because it was the first time I would experience a new decade and I thought that had some kind of significance.
It really does feel horrible to grow up in the safest place on earth, surrounded by nothing but white people, only to end up where we are now. It only took them 30 years to completely fill my country with people from the third world, and I've known it was going to happen since the late 90s.

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>>130291214
They were better times. Things were better even 5 years ago. Society slips deeper and deeper into corruption, lies, and degeneracy every day. Year after year we all have less and less to live for, less and less to love. It's truly a sad time we live in.

>>130291214
A bit of both. I was a teen in the 80s. Yes we had fun, but I assume teens have fun today. Depending on where you live and your parents, we probably had more freedom than teens today. It is all relative. Some teen today will be posting this same question on future /pol/ 30 years from now.

>>130297312

This is accurate as fuck. I remember watching the video for Down when I was still a kid at home.

Later in life, all the dude weed lmao's that got into 311 later on mostly turned out to be worthless as shit.

>>130302454
I've never watched this guy's shit, but I always assumed that guy was in his early 30s. Never realized he was pushing 50.

>>130315582

not really, every teen today has anxiety/depression and is likely transgender

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Oldfag born in the 70s here. The worse thing for me is remembering a time where the news wasn't always about Islam, beheadings etc..
Now my country is overrun with those fucking muslims, and it's all gone to the dogs with the complicity of our politicians and our population.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in an alternate reality.

And don't get me started with fags adopting kids, marrying, the SJW movement... Can't wait for all of it to come crashing down.

>>130315582
>Some teen today will be posting this same question on future /pol/ 30 years from now.
True. I already see people 10-15 years younger than me talk about being nostalgic for shit that feels like it happened yesterday.

>>130316078
See, you are probably right because people my age are always out of touch. Sad if so!

I will say that the kids / teens I know do seem more stressed than we were. Maybe partially due to having 500 "friends" on social media? That equals constant drama. We had a group of friends, maybe 5, maybe 20, but that equates to much less drama in your life. You get 500 friends that constantly communicate and there will be issues constantly. We barely even talked on our rotary phones to each other, much less perused dozens of trivial "status" updates a day.

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>>130316182
I was born in 72. The day congress legalized gay marrage I went outside and looked at the sky because I believed Jesus would come and smite this gay earth.

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>>130291214
>high school class of 1987.
>Growing up was awesome
>Would ride bike with friends and go to parks and other places
>played tackle football in the mud with friends
>would finish with clothes all torn and muddy
>ride over to the local junior college and take showers there by the pool.
>use their laundry machines to clean our clothes while we went swimming in the pool
>Ride over to baskin robbins for some ice cream.
>When high school came around you would tell your parents you would be back by 1am
>Nobody had cell phones
>There were no "helicopter moms" calling you every 15 minutes.
>girls responded to you. They would put out an effort to look and smell good.
>There were very few fat people.
>You had shopping malls that were a great place to go to meet chicks.
>It was easy to get a job to make some money. I worked at McDonald's from sophomore year till I finished high school. It was great spending money to buy stupid things with.
>The music was good. The clubs were fun to go to. There was little to no violence because at that time the 3rd world were not invading the clubs.
>Nobody cared what halloween costume you wore. Nobody cared about jokes. Nobody cared about insults. There were no SJW types (if there were nobody paid them any attention).
>Computers were the domain of whites and asians. They were looked as "nerdy" and as such you didn't have morons spamming stupid crap everywhere.
>People were happy. It was a good time to be alive.
>The stupid things you did were lost in the sands of time. Today everything is documented.

I am glad I lived then. It was nice to have normal relationships with women without worrying if she was going to say "rape" later. It was easy to get beer and cigarettes. Nobody did "stings" on places to bust them so shop owners didn't give a shit that you would come in and grab a bunch of beer and whiskey.