I felt like things were improving in the ‘90s heading into the 2000s. Let’s face it, things are never perfect, so this constant reminder that even though things were improving there was all this other shit that was still wrong gets kinda old. Overall, things did seem to be calming down after the Gulf War 1, 80’s interest rates, S&L scandals, etc. and you could still reasonably follow the “school to college to get a good job” path. Then 9/11 happened and it went downhill quickly.
I think it’s more like there were places in the US where it was fine for some people, and those bubbles are getting cracked by the constant Trump bullshit.
Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.
Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.
The 50s and 60s was a peak time for middle class white men in the US.
Yeah it’s the bubbles we all live in. When I was a kid in the 80s everything felt great. Skateboarding was big, bmx. Years later I realized a field 2 miles from my house was s dumping ground for a serial killer at that time. The US was a fucking shit hole then… and all decades before that. It’s still a shithole but I feel like its peak was 2015. Gay marriage had just been legalized. Crime at a relative low. Previous shittyness getting exposed at a high rate. Trump was nearly a forgotten figure.
Totally. It was the greatest country I could think of in the 90s but now it feels much like a low quality, low opportunity, no future hellhole 😢
I felt like things were improving in the ‘90s heading into the 2000s. Let’s face it, things are never perfect, so this constant reminder that even though things were improving there was all this other shit that was still wrong gets kinda old. Overall, things did seem to be calming down after the Gulf War 1, 80’s interest rates, S&L scandals, etc. and you could still reasonably follow the “school to college to get a good job” path. Then 9/11 happened and it went downhill quickly.
I mean there were major race riots in the 90s.
I think it’s more like there were places in the US where it was fine for some people, and those bubbles are getting cracked by the constant Trump bullshit.
Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.
The 50s and 60s was a peak time for middle class white men in the US.
Yeah it’s the bubbles we all live in. When I was a kid in the 80s everything felt great. Skateboarding was big, bmx. Years later I realized a field 2 miles from my house was s dumping ground for a serial killer at that time. The US was a fucking shit hole then… and all decades before that. It’s still a shithole but I feel like its peak was 2015. Gay marriage had just been legalized. Crime at a relative low. Previous shittyness getting exposed at a high rate. Trump was nearly a forgotten figure.
And massively profit from WW2 loans and rebuilding while their competition Japan and Europe got destroyed and reduced to vasals.
Ah, yes, wars in Bosnia, Irak, Somalia, Kosovo, etc. A great country produces more wars!
Lmao thats a good joke