Any old robots here? Am I delusional in thinking the 80s were

>>34587537

80's were the best because America was still majority white and black culture didn't become the norms. Hell, America was fully against socialism.

Now America is 50% white at best and is fully embracing socialism and black culture is the norm.

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>>34587537
>tfw you will never be 80s Kurt Russell
Why even live?

You realize Reagan fucked that all up and by the late 80's America's economy was in a serious recession and all the jobs were starting to be shipped overseas. Reagan also waged a relentless war against American workers (actually started by the Carter Administration), telling bosses that the government would not enforce the laws vis a vis hard won labor rights.

>>34587537
>>it was way easier for a non-chad to get laid
Wrong

>>34587601

Poindexter got laid regularly. Today he's an incel for life. The internet and tinder made sure of that.

>>34587579
This. Reagan was the worst thing to ever happen to America.

>>34587537
>>music was actually good
kill yourself

>>34587614
Nixon started the official state repealing of the fragile social contract that was won in the late 30's, he started to break down legislation instituted by the extremely intelligent economists at Breton Woods that regulated capital flows it continued through the Carter Administration. Reagan just went all out and took a hammer to all the things that the created the Golden Age of American capitalism and turned the Rust belt into the state it exists in now. Where millions of able bodied men can't find work despite the fact that if you drive through Michigan or Pennsylvania there is plenty of work that could be done.

>>34587702
to be fair Nixon had no choice due to the inflation brought on by LBJ's policies and the Vietnam War.

>>34587701
>punk was actually good
>pop was actually fun to listen to
>rock wasn't dead
>country was even still going strong even if it consciously knew it was a dying genre

almost everything made today is either shitty electronic garbage, unlistenable pop earrape talking about butts and degenerating adolescent females into overweight nigger loving sluts, or some pretentious overserious hipster garbage.

They dont make music like this anymore- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuuV8p9N0rk

>>34587781
He could have ended the Vietnam war when he took office. He instead decided to intensify it.

There were other ways they could have kept inflation at a healthy level, but instead they used it as an excuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

>>34587537
>mullets were accepted
No, mullets were never acceptable Cleetus.

>>34587601
You at least had a chance back then. Now if your not in the top 20% of males in terms of looks, conversational ability, and social standing, you're shit out of luck.

>>34587864
had me up till
>>punk was actually good
opinion discarded

>>34587781
I find it amusing that Nixon campaigned as the law and order candidate but was the man who invaded a country without congressional approval and attempted to keep it secret from the public, sanctioned state murder of political opponents (COINTELLPRO), sanctioned break and enter to steal information from political opponents and then maneuvered to avoid prosecution for crimes he committed and didn't face any jail time. Nixon and Reagan should be remembered as the worst Presidents and both should have been hanged.

>>34587864
yea obv there's good music from the 80s, the point is youre an old fart who doesnt know what kind of sick music is being produced today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCn_8eJ8x6M

>>34587882
Nixon's tactic's were working. We had the commies on the run as we took out the supply routes, if it weren't for the dem's forcing us to pulling out and cuttingour supply shipments to south vietnam we wouldn't have had to deal with national humiliation.

As for the economy, we were dealing with stagflation we'd never dealt with anything like it before. Bretton woods lasted a while but it was doomed to fail eventually. Its nonsensical to blame everything on its eventual closure. FDR's policies thmeselves had ensured it was doomed has their wasteful spending and growth of government power had made what would be our economic situation at the beginning of the 1970s, gurranteed.

>>34588004
>shitty electronic garbage
>pretentious overserious hipster crap

ur taste is shit

>>34588105
Why were we even in Vietnam? Only the puppets we put in charge wanted us there and people who benefitted from the American occupation. If we decided to hold carefully monitored elections in 1958 like we were suppose to, the NLF would have blown out the candidates we supported who were mostly French/Japanese collaborators who were despised by the Vietnamese people. American planners recognized this, so they decided to pummel the country and turn it into a wasteland where people are still mangled by American bombs and suffer the effects of chemical warfare we inflicted on them.

>>34587977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLlLtSG7xe4
>dislikes the ramones
trash

>>34588175
what is communist containment? We had no choice but to do whatever we could to stop Communism where ever it sprouted, otherwise it might've shown up at our own doorsteps. I have no apologies for any US action taken to check communist expansion.

>>34587990
>says the neet faggot with a dragon dildo up his ass

There are actions Reagan took that are regrettable such as amnesty given too mexican illegals, which essentially flipped his home state blue, and no-fault divorce laws which even further eroded the family, but I will say none of the actions they took against commies or niggers were regrettable.

>>34588238
There was no communist conspiracy. More often than not communists were at each others throats, Tito vs the USSR, China vs the Soviet Union, Vietnam vs China, in Angola Communist factions were killing each other, Cuba after the missile crisis often took a totally independent course against Soviet wishes like when they decided to send troops to Angola to fight against the South African invasion, Stalin point blank telling the Greek Communists to lay down their arms and be slaughtered by the British/American forces and former fascist collaborationist monarchy. The legit worry was always independent development, countries who attempted to go there own way had to be smashed and smashed hard so they could never be a good example. This is clear from the internal planning documents. Very rarely do you hear about the threat of a communist conspiracy, its always about a country attempting to remove itself from its service role to the American economy.

>>34587566
>fully embracing socialism
I thought this changed when Trump was elected.

I'm not convinced reagan's economic neoliberalism hurt the country, just look at the protectionism he instituted against Japanese economic incursion as well as the prosperity of the subsequent Clinton and bush 1 years.

I think Clinton and. bush 2 was where things really started to go off the rails with globalization. And Obama didn't help fix things.

As for Nixon, he closed the gold window which was, in my opinion, a precarious move.

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>music was actually good
I agree...but I'm not the "the music these days is shite" sterotype yet.
>the movies were good
Yeah...though the scare factor of being a child has dulled with age thus ruining my horror movie experiences.
>you were in the minority for supporting gay marriage
I take no interest in other peoples lives...like 0%
>aids was seen as gods curse on fags
lol...nutty Bible thumpers. Coincidentally nearly wiped out an entire generation of Africans.
>/REAGAN/
Reaganomics indeed.
>America was still like 80% white
True...
>national pride
Faux pax Patriotism due to prolonged national crisis just isn't the same.
> I'd even dress fashionably if i got to wear 80s fashion
Jordache...yikes.
>mullets were accepted
I had one as a kid...80's metal head...only kid to show up to 4th grade with whiplash...
>just the right balance between technology and not having life consumed by it
True but current tech>80's tech IMO has made life way more entertaining.
>good economy
Cool shit to buy.
>way easier to get a job with a liveable wage
Maybe...technological advancement has opened up new and interesting opportunities.
>it was way easier for a non-chad to get laid
Same...desperation is timeless.
>way less pc bullshit
Must be a Mac guy.