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What? The Rodeny King beating and subsequent riots, OJ Simpson murdering 2 people, Columbine, the first time the WTC was bombed, 1500 people died near Mecca, and like 3 civil wars in Africa
Not to mention all the shit that wasn't being captured on any kind of recording at the time.
The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?
There's only a single decent quality video of the first plane on 9/11. Because in a city of millions of people, only 1 person in the area was recording at the time.
I can't even imagine how many videos there would be if it happened today.
More videos. And yet somehow
less agreement on what happened.
"obviously fake ai sludge"
yeah and for a lot of people who'd be using lemmy, the reason they weren't aware of all this shit is our parents kept us safe from it
I mean - I probably got to live the very best of the 90s Americana as a suburban kid with an old computer and a modem in it.
I still saw a lot of shit going on in the world. I mean ... AIDS pandemic, anyone? Remember fear around shaking someone's hand?
Sometimes I think the problem is that at any GIVEN time, like 2/3 of people aren't paying attention to what is happening outside their own immediate experience.
It is intensely difficult to join those ⅔. It takes more than adding fascists’ names to your Lemmy filter tell ya that much.
"Oooommmmmm .... Ooooommmmm"
<2 minutes guttural screaming>
"eh, I'll try again next time"
I’m supposed to be walking even more now. I have no ability left to forget difference between what should be and what this garbage today is. Play some old favorite shows in my earbuds? Idfk.
All I know is that most people just want to live their lives without hurting anyone else.
I wish it were "all people."
Rawanda, South African Apartheid. Those two alone...
Why does EVERYONE forget about the oklahoma city bombings???
I was in 3rd or 4th grade at the time and happened to be sick that day. Freaked me out that people were going to think I did it.
Oh god, I can't tell if that would be an epic prank, or a traumatizing nightmare.
Your teacher gets a cop, and all your classmates to go in it. Everyone acts like you did it.
Then a cop comes in, and arrests you. Throws you into the back of his car....then DRIVES YOU TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!
Which, might be kind of a long drive now that I think about it. I have no idea where you lived in 1995.
I did not forget about them, but I felt I gave enough examples to where I drove my point home
I mean as bad as those things were, none of those things come close to recent events. Look at your examples and compare them to "worldwide virus kills millions and the entire planet goes into quarantine for a couple years" or "president of the United States fails to get reelected so he foments a literal coup on the US government and his rioting mob breaks into the capitol building trying to stop the transfer of power. And then 4 years later that criminal gets elected to be president again".
AIDS has killed many more than COVID-19, albeit slower. Gingrich and Justice Thomas are responsible for a lot of the degradation of our institutions that allowed for trump and his ilk. Gay and Trans rights were essentially non-existent compared to today.
We are worse off in many many ways, but for me personally that last one means I am much better off at this moment (this may not last).
And most of history is worse than any of that. Other than climate change, we are not living in unprecedented times.
I'm gonna be kind to you even though you're acting like an asshole. Comparison of bad things between eras is LITERALLY what this whole page topic is about, and it's also LITERALLY what you did in your original comment that i replied to.
Don't care. The original post was about the 90s. Bye
hmmmmmmm
Somebody get this guy a snickers
NGL. I'd fucking love a Snickers rn
God damn dude....
Am I wrong?
On so many fucking levels that it's going to be best for my mental health to just block your dumb ass and move on with my day.
Sounds good 👍
Eastern Europe collapsing in the power vacuum left by the fall of the USSR, multiple civil wars, horrendous war crimes including genocide. NATO having to go in.
Another good example
🎵We didn't start the fire 🎵
Funny you mention that. When I saw the comment, I was listening to the Fallout Boy version
Wow the comment made me think someone should make an updated version and here you are. Not the biggest fall out fan but that was pretty dope, esp with the fan made video on yt.
Does that have updated verses?
It does
Maybe OP should have used the word ridiculous instead of outrageous. Removing ribs for such a thing is ridiculous IMO.
I think "bizarre" would be more fitting
Yes, better synonym. Bizarre and ridiculous, and also untrue lol.
What's the mecca thing? I don't remember that one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Mecca_tunnel_tragedy
However, this apparently isn't a stand-alone incident
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_during_the_Hajj
Damn I'd be turning 3 in 17 days after that, no wonder I never heard of it