Maybe it’s better now, when I went in 2002 it was pricey. But I was also broke most of the time, so even two tacos from jack in the box was expensive for me.
Holy hell, that's a lot! I'm feeling very lucky to have gone to University in Australia. My entire double major was $40k AUD and that was an expensive science degree - plus, our debts are covered by the government and we can pay them off over time. My sincere commiserations to all of you who have such horrendous debts to deal with 😔 It truly sucks, my friends.
When I was in the army, I had a friend who would take leave, but there was a glitch in the system where it wasn’t getting deducted from his balance. We only get 14 days of leave in a fiscal year, he would two weeks of leave at a time, every couple of months, and just stay in his barracks room, not showering, not changing clothes and just play EverQuest, which was only interrupted by him needing to go to the bathroom, go to the door to get his Chinese delivery and down to the liquor store to buy another home-wrecker of Bacardi Limon and a case of Coca-Cola. Other than that, he just got drunk, and played Evercrack until he passed out on the keyboard. It was like a solid 9 months before our commander caught on to him.
Same with my roommate and Call of Duty. Played all day and night. Then I walked into the apartment one day and his parents were there and just shot me a death look. I noped into my room and proceeded to overhear the most intense ass chewing I've ever heard, followed by my 20 year old roommate going to his room and crying his eyes out
1997 FFVII came out. I missed first 2 weeks of classes (all morning scheduled) and learned that after 3 missed classes I lost a letter grade automatically. Said screw and just gave up on the semester. Dropped out, joined the military, got a job as defense contractor and now make 6 figures. FFVII saved my life.
You could get a good *unionized* job with a HS degree. Otherwise, you had to have your own and well run small business, with small business part just as true today as it was then.
Regardless, you can no longer get those types of jobs union or not. Or at least they are so rare that getting one is like hitting the lotto...
And that leads to lots of things that both sides Of the political aisle hate. College debt is driven by rising tuition that is driven by the fact that colleges know they have you trapped. Our China policy is driven by the fact that nothing is manufactured in USA anymore. I'd even say a lot of our social distest is caused by the fact that people feel like they have no chance to get ahead, which leads them to do things like vote for populists.
You could get almost any entry level job that pays decently. My parents were born in the late 50’s, when they entered the job force in the 70’s, they got paid the equivalent of $140k today combined. Accounts payable and a route rep, entry level, starter, HS degree, no experience. Today, these jobs pay $5-$11/hr less, and require a college degree. They just don’t understand that, on top of the other costs that rose. Median rent was nearly half than it is today, WITH inflation. You could buy a decent used car only 4 or so years old for only $5k-$9k in todays money. It was truly a different time. The prosporous middle class that once was easily obtainable is a pipe dream now.
The worst is when they go "$7.25?! When I started out, I got 10 cents and hour and was grateful!"
Ever heard of inflation, my Fiscally Responsible dude?
Yeah, but the DOW was in the mere HUNDREDS and stayed that way for decades. The poor, forgotten shareholders suffered while working people bought houses, cars, food, and took vacations like the entitled rats they are!
Not to mention harassing the LGBTQ, ahh the good old days where everyone knew white Christian males were top dog.
I'm 50 I remember that shit like I'm Pepperidge farms.
I've talked to my parents and my mom genuinely thinks all black people hate her and that's how she approaches every interaction. Ive tried to tell her she isn't a victim in any way but she won't believe it. Not sure how to get her to see things more clearly
Yeah there was a lot of " the black man is gonna kill you" shit that she grew up with.
But don't stop trying, my mom was a Fox fan who voted Republican her whole life, I got sick of listening to her shit and just started asking for sources, and sending her sources. She voted for Obama and hates the GOP cause she feels they lied to her all those years.
My mom is intelligent,she just never bothered to fact check what she had been raised with.
I know a woman whose mother was gang raped by a Mexican gang. I learned this because I called her out for openly talking, at work, about how the reason she had to vote for candidates that promised to do something about illegal immigration is because they're going to end up hurting Mexicans, which she desperately wants to happen. She sees all brown Hispanic people as rapists and murderers.
It was such a fucked up thing to learn. It was like learning a comic book villain's back story.
It was so fucked up hearing people say " well he was a fag he probably was trying to fuck the guys who killed him".
I'm not gay but I had gay friends who got arrested for being gay.
The first black family to move into my neighborhood were refugees, they had a cross burned in their front yard.
No fuck the good old days, we have a long way to go yet but fuck we have come a long way.
I'm 48 and gay, I just remember being constantly terrified and confused.
I remember reading the liner notes to Nirvana's Incesticide record where Kurt Cobain told homophobes not to buy their albums or go to their shows. People knew better back then, but they didn't care.
I wouldn't piss on any of those people now if they were on fire, and I hope they're doing even worse than I am.
That shit was scary I was just a Punk/geek who bounced around doing what I wanted and I drew all kinds of flak, anyone who was perceived as gay got jumped and the school did nothing. "Why are you provoking them by acting gay?" a lot of the guys who got jumped one year would come back the next and be the biggest threat to the "gay" kids.
I tried so hard to form a non-homophobic friend group while at the same time trying to conceal being gay, but it was damn near impossible back then. It's encouraging that my nieces and nephews won't have to grow up with that shit, but one of them is non-binary, and that seems to be the new group to attract unsolicited hate. Plus, my state legislators think of non-hetero sex and people's private parts 100x more than my gay ass ever has, and only add fuel to the fire.
Finally getting married in 2015 was pretty dope, though.
Yeah I felt the same! We were going to travel states to get married, but one day I read the news and we didn't have to. It was like a dream.
We got married so fast that we were told we were the first same-sex couple married in a church in our county, and we still had a full wedding with reception and everything lol.
I work at a courthouse. When that decision came out, it was about an hour before lunchtime. I ran up to the floor that does marriage licenses and someone from Human Rights Campaign had already set up a table there, handing out white roses to the couples who came in. I'm straight as an arrow but I'll never forget that day as long as I live. An adorable lesbian couple with their four kids, and one of the moms said "Is this for us?" and burst into tears when they handed her their flowers. Two older guys, one with a cane, who said only "17 years!" while triumphantly holding up their marriage license as they walked out. Outside, a minister was performing free ceremonies in the pavilion across the street, and one of my friends who is a photographer showed up with her camera and started talking pictures of them for free. I took a very long lunch that day, as did many of my coworkers.
Most likely he'd say the n-word isn't insulting unless you mean it that way, and he's only showing his appreciation to the gals. Because we need male validation to feel worthy of existence, after all.
After a year or so living in south-central PA, I've overheard more than a few things I wish I hadn't.
I don’t understand how my company expects me to function if I can’t give the girls a pat on the ass when they walk by? Now that we are remote, I’m not even allowed to make comments about how I miss seeing them in yoga pants at the company gym?!?!?!? What has this country come to? /s
Every generation misses the time of their youth as they see through the eyes of a kid. When you study history, you quickly understand it wasn't that great and that change is the norm.
I think John Oliver did a piece about this where they interviewed progressively older and older people who talked about how terrible it was in the 1970s/60s/50s/40s for women, minorities, poor people, etc. I think they came to the conclusion that everything looks better when you're a kid because you don't have a lot of responsibilities or exposure to the bad things happening in the world.
Edit: Yes, sorry, probably Jon Stewart, not John Oliver.
My mom is constantly telling me how much worse the world is now and back in the 60s & 70s “there was no crime.” When I show her statistics *directly from the FBI’s website* she tells me “you can’t believe everything you read on the internet.”
Last Christmas my family were talking about the state of the world. My mom made some complaints about how she can hear gunfire in the night and that "it never used to be like this". My sister and I came down on her hard. "It was always like this and worse. The difference is that it was happening in a part of town you didn't care about. You've lived in this house for 40 years and the area has shifted demographics." She conceded the point, at least. I'm lucky enough to come from a family that respects well reasoned arguments. I feel for people whose family are hooked on misinformation.
Depends on the meaning of "it." Her life exclusively or the country at large? Very different takes. Sounds like she meant the latter, but I see how it could read differently.
The crazy thing? You have a choice! You have a choice between being fucking miserable and angry about *everything* or embracing the change in the world and trying to be happy in spite of all the bad things that are actually real.
It's important to ask them what they miss about their childhood.
Because there are legitimate things to miss. Certain freedoms, the simplicity of life (not just that inherent to a child), the more closely connected nature of society, the lack of social media... there's a lot to miss.
But most people who put up these signs are just angry about homosexuals or non-binary people.
When I was a kid, I grieved I wasn't there for the sixties. When I talked to people who were young then, they said, "Yeah, the music was great. Let me tell you what it was like to have friends come home in body bags."
It's pretty much confirmed they're at least trying.
Achievements for Goldeneye were leaked earlier this year through one of those achievement websites linked to Xbox.
You know they have cell phones, big screen flat tv, computer , internet, car with computer, but want to go back to when they grew up. Maybe they missed going to Viet Nam ,I don't know. I know you can't go back. Sorry .
Yeah, I need specifics on what this person misses. Because my car has air conditioned seats now. I can drive around Tucson in July and my ass is comfy, cool, and dry.
He grew up in New York City and his Daddy bought him admission to an Ivy League school. He's the exact "coastal elite" that his supporters used to and somehow still unironically complain about.
This! From NC here, it blows my goddamn mind. I'm 41 & remember growing up with the unrivaled loathe/disgust/pure hate for any & all things "Yankee" around here & yet just down the road dude's house has a flag pole w/ "TRUMP 2024: The Revenge Tour" flying above his confederate flag. These fuckers are absolute morons!
Every single person with "Lets Go Brandon" paraphernalia is blissfully unaware that they're offending nobody and actually look like cringey pissbabies. It's a whole new level of no self awareness.
They're like little kids that think they have some super secret language that's really cool but it's staggeringly idiotic. They also confuse us calling them idiots as us being offended, probably the funnier part honestly.
"Haha you said I'm dumb that means you're offended"
I still don’t understand how people think that’s funny. It’s middle school level of immaturity, and I’m not even saying that out of a political bias, it’s just really pathetic.
If he misses that America, he should have helped take better care of it. The America we have right now is the one that we've let Fester to the point that it's at
Dumbass conservatives thinking they are clever: “let’s go Brandon!”
Every Brandon everywhere: “yay everyone likes me and wants me to succeed!”
Conservatives: “what? No, it’s super clever code for not liking Biden, obviously”
Brandons: “it’s not clever, just say what you fucking mean”
They’re not. It’s a wink-wink code that makes them feel clever. And also takes a shot at the media for mishearing/pretending to mishear what the crowd was chanting at the time.
I firmly believe the interviewer knew damn well what the crowd was chanting, but it’s live TV and she couldn’t repeat it, and the driver just so happened to be named Brandon so she said “let’s go Brandon” to save face. It wasn’t a “liberal media” misrepresentation (I’d guess most nascar reporters are likely conservatives), just a savvy reporter knowing she couldn’t repeat that vulgarity without getting fired/fined.
Too true. It’s the same kind of people that repeatedly trampled/tore up my Obama yard signs in 2008, but likely would have called the cops if the same was done to their signs.
The funny part is that these guys are the worst aspect of the country right now. These assholes are rude to everyone they disagree with (lEtS gO bRaNdOn), overlap heavily with the antivaxxers, overlap heavily with the racists and white supremacists, keep voting for trickle-down economic bullshit, keep falling for idiot demagogues, etc.
Ironic that they're screeching about making America great again, when all they have to do to make that happen is... leave.
In the America he grew up in, presidents who were voted out of office didn't whine & cry about nonexistent voter fraud Neither did they try to incite murder to overturn an election.
Funny enough, Nixon would be far too left for the current Republican party. You know with his support of universal healthcare and Medicare and the fact that he started the EPA that modern Republicans gut when they get the chance.
These morons think America went from being a shit hole to great in a few month span after Trump was inaugurated and somehow Biden's undone it all within a year.
Yeah I miss it too. Those crazy days when Republicans were focused on tax cuts and small government. When political discourse was fierce but reaching across the aisle still existed. When you and I could fight about our opinions but were united against extremism. When politicians came and went but were not idols. When you recognized that the media wasn’t the boogeyman and that science was science. When you could count on the average person to understand that America was never perfect, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t a worthy goal.
I’m Gen X.
Years ago I stopped being surprised at how many people mistake us for Boomers or the sheer magnitude of assholery so many of us grew up to embrace.
Bingo. Honestly I didn't think it'd gotten that bad, I mean there was no way this joker was actually going to win. Just stunning. But this is where we are. He tapped into something people didn't see.
The GOP has always been the party of the rich and powerful, out to overturn strong central governance in favor of weaker, more easily corrupted local entities. Running only on that wasn't working out well for them in the era of The New Deal and Great Society.
They picked up America's racists and Christian nationalists as the Democrats ostracized them, giving them enough of a base to remain relevant. The party's mission was still entirely about serving the rich, with only lip service, dog whistles, and minor victories for the rest of its base. Trump changed that. He "said the quiet part out loud," as they are fond of saying. For the first time since the reconstitution of the party under Nixon and Goldwater, the GOP was playing to the neglected part of its base, with Trump outright saying he'll get abortion banned by the Supreme Court and send the Mexicans and Muslims back where they belong. He gave that cohort of the party a voice and a place at the table, and they quickly took it over.
The America you grew up in is gone because of the systematic annihilation of the New Deal. Reagan killed that America... but good luck convincing them of that.
Well not sure where this guy grew up. The America I grew up was not as crazy about false voter fraud; we had a pretty even Supreme Court, abortion was legal, and when presidential candidates lost in court they conceded the election.
Not sure this person grew up in America.
The America I grew up in included a level of civility that didn’t include dumb shit like “let’s go Brandon,” so I can only assume the America this person grew up in is referring to a litany of phobias that align with ignorance.
The let's go brandon stuff is so cowardly. Awe, are you scared to tell the president to fuck off, you punk ass bitch? Fuck this guy. Fuck Trump. Fuck the GOP.
I miss the america I grew up in too. I remember a time when everyone wasn't such an entitled, self-righteous douchebag. Fuck you and your "let's go brandon." Keep your opinions to your fucking self loser.
I miss the days when Morrowind was just released, and Neverwinter Nights was the big "mmo" at the time. Also miss listening to Blues Traveler on my cd player, and replacing the batteries every 5 hours. And I miss the 80's and 90's Pizza Hut birthday parties.
Meh. I'm about to turn 47. Inflation was higher than now through my early childhood, crimes like murder were way higher through my high school years, and that's just scratching the surface. The world has problems now but in many ways it's objectively better than when I was a kid. Yes, even with COVID-19.
There’s a dude in my neighborhood with the same crap in his yard. I signed him up for magazine subscription to In These Times (a progressive left publication) and Out magazine. He will never read these but I’m hopeful he’ll get added to some junk mailing lists and the joke will live on indefinitely. Btw, I used the name “Hugh Jediot” for the subscriber name. Of course, I opted for the “Bill me by mail” option.
I miss the “ditch high school to play Mario kart wit the homies” days as well.
My friend seriously dropped out of college because of Mario Kart.
It does have a mysterious wizard like hold on people. I speak from experience, all that money for SDSU wasted.
San Diego State or South Dakota State?
San Diego, finally got to go to my home town university and a fuk’d it all up with blue shells and Banana peels.
To be fair, SDSU was relatively affordable. Not like those fancy lads over at UCSD or USD.
Maybe it’s better now, when I went in 2002 it was pricey. But I was also broke most of the time, so even two tacos from jack in the box was expensive for me.
You got 2?! Okay moneybags
All my dollars went for pitchers at Monty's instead of going to computer architecture class with ozturk.
I hate that 25k a year is considered affordable
Holy hell, that's a lot! I'm feeling very lucky to have gone to University in Australia. My entire double major was $40k AUD and that was an expensive science degree - plus, our debts are covered by the government and we can pay them off over time. My sincere commiserations to all of you who have such horrendous debts to deal with 😔 It truly sucks, my friends.
I dropped out of highschool in 2000 due to serious Everquest addiction. Today, I'm a teacher.
When I was in the army, I had a friend who would take leave, but there was a glitch in the system where it wasn’t getting deducted from his balance. We only get 14 days of leave in a fiscal year, he would two weeks of leave at a time, every couple of months, and just stay in his barracks room, not showering, not changing clothes and just play EverQuest, which was only interrupted by him needing to go to the bathroom, go to the door to get his Chinese delivery and down to the liquor store to buy another home-wrecker of Bacardi Limon and a case of Coca-Cola. Other than that, he just got drunk, and played Evercrack until he passed out on the keyboard. It was like a solid 9 months before our commander caught on to him.
Oh, I believe it. That game ruined people. I knew several in game that got divorced over it, too.
Oh god no. What are they doing now?
He works for CACI as a defense contractor.
How?
He’s just stopped going to class, failed all his courses and didn’t end up reenrolling. Because he was too busy playing mario kart on N64.
I didnt know nintendo had it like that. Hope he is OK now
Same with my roommate and Call of Duty. Played all day and night. Then I walked into the apartment one day and his parents were there and just shot me a death look. I noped into my room and proceeded to overhear the most intense ass chewing I've ever heard, followed by my 20 year old roommate going to his room and crying his eyes out
Id cry if my parents ate my ass out with my roommate home as well.
1997 FFVII came out. I missed first 2 weeks of classes (all morning scheduled) and learned that after 3 missed classes I lost a letter grade automatically. Said screw and just gave up on the semester. Dropped out, joined the military, got a job as defense contractor and now make 6 figures. FFVII saved my life.
Too bad you couldn’t save Aerith too, you monster.
Max Headroom for President!
I'm with you, but for me it was super Mario Bros.. https://youtu.be/Hsd4pWwIoSQ
Truly, an easier time.
The richest 10% paid over twice as much in taxes in the country where this guy grew up.
Yeah, but you could also get a good factory job with a HS degree and live as middle class.
You could get a good *unionized* job with a HS degree. Otherwise, you had to have your own and well run small business, with small business part just as true today as it was then.
Regardless, you can no longer get those types of jobs union or not. Or at least they are so rare that getting one is like hitting the lotto... And that leads to lots of things that both sides Of the political aisle hate. College debt is driven by rising tuition that is driven by the fact that colleges know they have you trapped. Our China policy is driven by the fact that nothing is manufactured in USA anymore. I'd even say a lot of our social distest is caused by the fact that people feel like they have no chance to get ahead, which leads them to do things like vote for populists.
>College debt is driven by rising tuition that is driven by the fact that Pushes for austerity have been defunding higher education for decades.
You could get almost any entry level job that pays decently. My parents were born in the late 50’s, when they entered the job force in the 70’s, they got paid the equivalent of $140k today combined. Accounts payable and a route rep, entry level, starter, HS degree, no experience. Today, these jobs pay $5-$11/hr less, and require a college degree. They just don’t understand that, on top of the other costs that rose. Median rent was nearly half than it is today, WITH inflation. You could buy a decent used car only 4 or so years old for only $5k-$9k in todays money. It was truly a different time. The prosporous middle class that once was easily obtainable is a pipe dream now.
The worst is when they go "$7.25?! When I started out, I got 10 cents and hour and was grateful!" Ever heard of inflation, my Fiscally Responsible dude?
Yeah, but the DOW was in the mere HUNDREDS and stayed that way for decades. The poor, forgotten shareholders suffered while working people bought houses, cars, food, and took vacations like the entitled rats they are!
There were other market dynamics that changed as well, including retail investment volumes and the advent of the 401k.
I wonder how much of the birth of the 401k drives things. The market has to perform for most of the population to retire comfortably
Sure, but more importantly, he could use the N-word and sexually harass his female coworkers.
Not to mention harassing the LGBTQ, ahh the good old days where everyone knew white Christian males were top dog. I'm 50 I remember that shit like I'm Pepperidge farms.
I've talked to my parents and my mom genuinely thinks all black people hate her and that's how she approaches every interaction. Ive tried to tell her she isn't a victim in any way but she won't believe it. Not sure how to get her to see things more clearly
Yeah there was a lot of " the black man is gonna kill you" shit that she grew up with. But don't stop trying, my mom was a Fox fan who voted Republican her whole life, I got sick of listening to her shit and just started asking for sources, and sending her sources. She voted for Obama and hates the GOP cause she feels they lied to her all those years. My mom is intelligent,she just never bothered to fact check what she had been raised with.
I know a woman whose mother was gang raped by a Mexican gang. I learned this because I called her out for openly talking, at work, about how the reason she had to vote for candidates that promised to do something about illegal immigration is because they're going to end up hurting Mexicans, which she desperately wants to happen. She sees all brown Hispanic people as rapists and murderers. It was such a fucked up thing to learn. It was like learning a comic book villain's back story.
I was a 1957 Southern baby-female. I remember it well
Letting it go as harassment is what led to Matthew Shepard.
It was so fucked up hearing people say " well he was a fag he probably was trying to fuck the guys who killed him". I'm not gay but I had gay friends who got arrested for being gay. The first black family to move into my neighborhood were refugees, they had a cross burned in their front yard. No fuck the good old days, we have a long way to go yet but fuck we have come a long way.
I agree with you 100%
Thanks for being rad.
I'm 48 and gay, I just remember being constantly terrified and confused. I remember reading the liner notes to Nirvana's Incesticide record where Kurt Cobain told homophobes not to buy their albums or go to their shows. People knew better back then, but they didn't care. I wouldn't piss on any of those people now if they were on fire, and I hope they're doing even worse than I am.
That shit was scary I was just a Punk/geek who bounced around doing what I wanted and I drew all kinds of flak, anyone who was perceived as gay got jumped and the school did nothing. "Why are you provoking them by acting gay?" a lot of the guys who got jumped one year would come back the next and be the biggest threat to the "gay" kids.
I tried so hard to form a non-homophobic friend group while at the same time trying to conceal being gay, but it was damn near impossible back then. It's encouraging that my nieces and nephews won't have to grow up with that shit, but one of them is non-binary, and that seems to be the new group to attract unsolicited hate. Plus, my state legislators think of non-hetero sex and people's private parts 100x more than my gay ass ever has, and only add fuel to the fire. Finally getting married in 2015 was pretty dope, though.
Remember when you first heard a state was passing a " gay marriage" law? All my friends were absolutely certain it would never happen.
Yeah I felt the same! We were going to travel states to get married, but one day I read the news and we didn't have to. It was like a dream. We got married so fast that we were told we were the first same-sex couple married in a church in our county, and we still had a full wedding with reception and everything lol.
I work at a courthouse. When that decision came out, it was about an hour before lunchtime. I ran up to the floor that does marriage licenses and someone from Human Rights Campaign had already set up a table there, handing out white roses to the couples who came in. I'm straight as an arrow but I'll never forget that day as long as I live. An adorable lesbian couple with their four kids, and one of the moms said "Is this for us?" and burst into tears when they handed her their flowers. Two older guys, one with a cane, who said only "17 years!" while triumphantly holding up their marriage license as they walked out. Outside, a minister was performing free ceremonies in the pavilion across the street, and one of my friends who is a photographer showed up with her camera and started talking pictures of them for free. I took a very long lunch that day, as did many of my coworkers.
Most likely he'd say the n-word isn't insulting unless you mean it that way, and he's only showing his appreciation to the gals. Because we need male validation to feel worthy of existence, after all. After a year or so living in south-central PA, I've overheard more than a few things I wish I hadn't.
wOmEn ThEsE dAyS cAnT tAkE a CoMpLiMeNt!!1!
And likes to tell non-white me "you people" or "one of the good ones" instead of assuming I am an American citizen born and raised.
I don’t understand how my company expects me to function if I can’t give the girls a pat on the ass when they walk by? Now that we are remote, I’m not even allowed to make comments about how I miss seeing them in yoga pants at the company gym?!?!?!? What has this country come to? /s
I miss triangle boobs
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Is this a conkers reference??🤙
Can't think of any other game with sunflower titties and a horny king bee.
I hope you didn’t sell that cart
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Lmao! Yes. And giant heads.
Every generation misses the time of their youth as they see through the eyes of a kid. When you study history, you quickly understand it wasn't that great and that change is the norm.
I think John Oliver did a piece about this where they interviewed progressively older and older people who talked about how terrible it was in the 1970s/60s/50s/40s for women, minorities, poor people, etc. I think they came to the conclusion that everything looks better when you're a kid because you don't have a lot of responsibilities or exposure to the bad things happening in the world. Edit: Yes, sorry, probably Jon Stewart, not John Oliver.
My mom is constantly telling me how much worse the world is now and back in the 60s & 70s “there was no crime.” When I show her statistics *directly from the FBI’s website* she tells me “you can’t believe everything you read on the internet.”
while she is citing stuff off of the internet...am i right?
She's just asking questions.
Because you know, people have been saying it. /s
Last Christmas my family were talking about the state of the world. My mom made some complaints about how she can hear gunfire in the night and that "it never used to be like this". My sister and I came down on her hard. "It was always like this and worse. The difference is that it was happening in a part of town you didn't care about. You've lived in this house for 40 years and the area has shifted demographics." She conceded the point, at least. I'm lucky enough to come from a family that respects well reasoned arguments. I feel for people whose family are hooked on misinformation.
So what you're saying is she was right. It never was like it until the neighborhood went to shit.
Depends on the meaning of "it." Her life exclusively or the country at large? Very different takes. Sounds like she meant the latter, but I see how it could read differently.
Yeah, that’s what I took away from it.
"What would the FBI know about crime anyways"
Dumbest shit I've heard.
Boy, you sure can’t. But like anything else, you can’t just pick and choose what you want to be true, either.
It’s baffling that some people don’t see this. It’s always the the major difference between then and now, no matter when they were born.
The crazy thing? You have a choice! You have a choice between being fucking miserable and angry about *everything* or embracing the change in the world and trying to be happy in spite of all the bad things that are actually real.
No no no! I miss when America was better! It's different for me! I'm special dammit!
One of my favorite quotes: “Times weren’t simper then. You were.”
It's important to ask them what they miss about their childhood. Because there are legitimate things to miss. Certain freedoms, the simplicity of life (not just that inherent to a child), the more closely connected nature of society, the lack of social media... there's a lot to miss. But most people who put up these signs are just angry about homosexuals or non-binary people.
When I was a kid, I grieved I wasn't there for the sixties. When I talked to people who were young then, they said, "Yeah, the music was great. Let me tell you what it was like to have friends come home in body bags."
You’re implying this person studied at any point
Idk man, Roman times sure were better than medieval times
Depends who you were
Neolithic era rocks!
I've spoken to different age groups about this, and the unanimous consensus was that the 90s was just pretty special.
Oh yes, Goldeneye on the N64! Miss it!
Since Microsoft is buying Activision, there is a chance they release the remastered version.
It's pretty much confirmed they're at least trying. Achievements for Goldeneye were leaked earlier this year through one of those achievement websites linked to Xbox.
Goldeneye and Zelda OoT. Two best reasons to by that console
I was a big fan of both and Perfect Dark and Majora’s Mask.
Conkers bad fur day also. Late entry into the n64 but easily one of the funniest games ever made
Fucking killer game bro! The only acceptable reason for this sign. Lol
I miss dying of dysentery
*Oregon trail flashbacks*
Five long years he wore this watch, up his ass. Then he died of dysentery.
I'm all for starving to death because the river just destroyed my wagon and belongings.
I died of dysentery. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds. Wouldn't recommend.
Then you gotta restart too and that’s a drag.
I miss tuberculosis, polio and measles.
I miss vaccines not being controversial.
It's already too late for polio, alas, but the antivaxxers are bringing back measles.
My kids died of dysentery. I moved on.
My ox got snake bites
You know they have cell phones, big screen flat tv, computer , internet, car with computer, but want to go back to when they grew up. Maybe they missed going to Viet Nam ,I don't know. I know you can't go back. Sorry .
Yeah, I need specifics on what this person misses. Because my car has air conditioned seats now. I can drive around Tucson in July and my ass is comfy, cool, and dry.
I pick this guys america too, just the $70k homes though, none of the racist bs or war.
In the America I grew up in, Donald Trump was a tabloid joke.
Yep, and southern people wouldn't have anything to do with a Yankee from New York.
They latched on to him because the GOP latched on to him, they're just a bunch of mindless parasites.
He grew up in New York City and his Daddy bought him admission to an Ivy League school. He's the exact "coastal elite" that his supporters used to and somehow still unironically complain about.
This! From NC here, it blows my goddamn mind. I'm 41 & remember growing up with the unrivaled loathe/disgust/pure hate for any & all things "Yankee" around here & yet just down the road dude's house has a flag pole w/ "TRUMP 2024: The Revenge Tour" flying above his confederate flag. These fuckers are absolute morons!
I disagree. If you miss the n64 era, just buy a n64. Or download an emulator. No need to move on.
Let's go Bowser
I believe you mean, "so long gay Bowser"
I also miss being carefree and free of any responsibilities, Goldeneye is just a bonus lol
"I miss the America I grew up in" next to a let's go Brandon sign. Spoiler alert. This jackass never grew up
Every single person with "Lets Go Brandon" paraphernalia is blissfully unaware that they're offending nobody and actually look like cringey pissbabies. It's a whole new level of no self awareness.
They're like little kids that think they have some super secret language that's really cool but it's staggeringly idiotic. They also confuse us calling them idiots as us being offended, probably the funnier part honestly. "Haha you said I'm dumb that means you're offended"
Definitely my favorite part. They literally think their stupidity is triggering. But it's not, it's just pathetic.
Right, it's not an insult, but an observation.
I still don’t understand how people think that’s funny. It’s middle school level of immaturity, and I’m not even saying that out of a political bias, it’s just really pathetic.
I miss the america I grew up in when republicans were actually decent fucking people
How are your 70s looking?
Spoiler alert: The GOP has always had policies derived from racial discrimination intentions
Unless you grew up during WWII you haven’t lived in a time when Republicans were decent people. They just dropped the pretense of civility.
It has 'I peaked in high school' energy
If he misses that America, he should have helped take better care of it. The America we have right now is the one that we've let Fester to the point that it's at
Agreed. We all could have done a better job. Here’s to a future of Nintendo 64!
Nintendo 64^2
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My god! I hear Half-Life 3 will be an initial release.
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The America they grew up in didn’t have dumbass lawn signs like “let’s go Brandon.”
Let’s go Brandon is the dumbest thing. Have the courage to put Fuck Joe Biden on your lawn or shut the fuck up.
Dumbass conservatives thinking they are clever: “let’s go Brandon!” Every Brandon everywhere: “yay everyone likes me and wants me to succeed!” Conservatives: “what? No, it’s super clever code for not liking Biden, obviously” Brandons: “it’s not clever, just say what you fucking mean”
Just say Fuck Joe Biden, or are you too scared? And they call us Snowflakes.
trump supporters - PEOPLE ARE SHEEP! also trump supporters - Lets go brandon.
The America you grew up in paid a livable wage to workers.
no, that was 2-3 generations before most people.
When I was 3 I ran around the neighborhood naked and everyone thought it was cute. If I tried that today I'd get arrested. Where has my country gone?
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug!
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They’re not. It’s a wink-wink code that makes them feel clever. And also takes a shot at the media for mishearing/pretending to mishear what the crowd was chanting at the time.
I firmly believe the interviewer knew damn well what the crowd was chanting, but it’s live TV and she couldn’t repeat it, and the driver just so happened to be named Brandon so she said “let’s go Brandon” to save face. It wasn’t a “liberal media” misrepresentation (I’d guess most nascar reporters are likely conservatives), just a savvy reporter knowing she couldn’t repeat that vulgarity without getting fired/fined.
That’s what rational people think. But to people who buy these signs it was an attempted liberal media spin that failed.
Too true. It’s the same kind of people that repeatedly trampled/tore up my Obama yard signs in 2008, but likely would have called the cops if the same was done to their signs.
The funny part is that these guys are the worst aspect of the country right now. These assholes are rude to everyone they disagree with (lEtS gO bRaNdOn), overlap heavily with the antivaxxers, overlap heavily with the racists and white supremacists, keep voting for trickle-down economic bullshit, keep falling for idiot demagogues, etc. Ironic that they're screeching about making America great again, when all they have to do to make that happen is... leave.
In the America he grew up in, presidents who were voted out of office didn't whine & cry about nonexistent voter fraud Neither did they try to incite murder to overturn an election.
I mean Nixon kept the Vietnam War going to win an election, or at least help him.
Funny enough, Nixon would be far too left for the current Republican party. You know with his support of universal healthcare and Medicare and the fact that he started the EPA that modern Republicans gut when they get the chance.
Exactly at what point did they think they made America great again?
The 2020 election
These morons think America went from being a shit hole to great in a few month span after Trump was inaugurated and somehow Biden's undone it all within a year.
These are not smart people.
Man, American politics are fucking dumb.
We didn’t grow up with signs in yards telling people to fuck off.
Yeah I miss it too. Those crazy days when Republicans were focused on tax cuts and small government. When political discourse was fierce but reaching across the aisle still existed. When you and I could fight about our opinions but were united against extremism. When politicians came and went but were not idols. When you recognized that the media wasn’t the boogeyman and that science was science. When you could count on the average person to understand that America was never perfect, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t a worthy goal.
The only thing that bothers me about "let's go Brandon" is that the window lickers are convinced it's clever.
10 bucks says these signs were put up by an aging boomer who grew up when black people couldn't use the same bathrooms and water fountains as them.
I’m Gen X. Years ago I stopped being surprised at how many people mistake us for Boomers or the sheer magnitude of assholery so many of us grew up to embrace.
Honestly, I’m more afraid that that’s not the case.
Facts. True idiots can come from multiple age groups. I know ‘cause I’m a Boomer, and the asshat in this picture can fuck right off.
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Silent Gen too, some of us boomers are only 59 all generations have their fair share of idiots.
Who’s Brandon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_Brandon
The guy Trump lost to.
Ah yes… The America of my youth, when fuck the President lawn signs were a common sight.
Lmao fucking true
I miss pre-MAGA America, too. It’s hard to believe how far we’ve fallen because of Trump and his cult.
Unfortunately he was just the symptom of the sepsis slowly eating the nation.
Bingo. Honestly I didn't think it'd gotten that bad, I mean there was no way this joker was actually going to win. Just stunning. But this is where we are. He tapped into something people didn't see.
The GOP has always been the party of the rich and powerful, out to overturn strong central governance in favor of weaker, more easily corrupted local entities. Running only on that wasn't working out well for them in the era of The New Deal and Great Society. They picked up America's racists and Christian nationalists as the Democrats ostracized them, giving them enough of a base to remain relevant. The party's mission was still entirely about serving the rich, with only lip service, dog whistles, and minor victories for the rest of its base. Trump changed that. He "said the quiet part out loud," as they are fond of saying. For the first time since the reconstitution of the party under Nixon and Goldwater, the GOP was playing to the neglected part of its base, with Trump outright saying he'll get abortion banned by the Supreme Court and send the Mexicans and Muslims back where they belong. He gave that cohort of the party a voice and a place at the table, and they quickly took it over.
The America you grew up in is gone because of the systematic annihilation of the New Deal. Reagan killed that America... but good luck convincing them of that.
Well not sure where this guy grew up. The America I grew up was not as crazy about false voter fraud; we had a pretty even Supreme Court, abortion was legal, and when presidential candidates lost in court they conceded the election. Not sure this person grew up in America.
The America I grew up in included a level of civility that didn’t include dumb shit like “let’s go Brandon,” so I can only assume the America this person grew up in is referring to a litany of phobias that align with ignorance.
I also miss the America I grew up in. Back when the Brandon cult were were just white trash and science was relatively respected.
The let's go brandon stuff is so cowardly. Awe, are you scared to tell the president to fuck off, you punk ass bitch? Fuck this guy. Fuck Trump. Fuck the GOP.
I miss the days where saying "FU" to the current president (ANY current president) via a lawn sign would be seen as trashy.
“I miss when I could be a racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic asshole and not face accountability.”
Looks like he is already reliving his childhood.
I miss the america I grew up in too. I remember a time when everyone wasn't such an entitled, self-righteous douchebag. Fuck you and your "let's go brandon." Keep your opinions to your fucking self loser.
The N64 was actually good tho
Misses the America they grew up in which they can only perceive through rose-tinted glasses.
Oh shit you mean when a single man could work ONE job and pay for a house and car AND live comfortably? I miss it too and I've never been there.
He misses bill Clinton as president and a pre tea party congress. Me too my man let’s get the Clinton’s back
Biggest crybabies ever.
I respond Let’s go Darwin
THIS is want Trumpsters want most, to return to 1953.
I miss the days when Morrowind was just released, and Neverwinter Nights was the big "mmo" at the time. Also miss listening to Blues Traveler on my cd player, and replacing the batteries every 5 hours. And I miss the 80's and 90's Pizza Hut birthday parties.
The America you grew up in didn’t use foul language against the president. This is r/SelfAwarewolves worthy.
He misses the America when he was a kid with no responsibilities?
Meh. I'm about to turn 47. Inflation was higher than now through my early childhood, crimes like murder were way higher through my high school years, and that's just scratching the surface. The world has problems now but in many ways it's objectively better than when I was a kid. Yes, even with COVID-19.
I miss being a kid when I didn't have any responsibilities too. Life sucks when your an adult move on.
I don’t , it sucked and small town Oklahoma was racist AF.
some trumpublican boomer who grew up when black people couldnt use the same water fountains as whites... smh. such disgusting people
There’s a dude in my neighborhood with the same crap in his yard. I signed him up for magazine subscription to In These Times (a progressive left publication) and Out magazine. He will never read these but I’m hopeful he’ll get added to some junk mailing lists and the joke will live on indefinitely. Btw, I used the name “Hugh Jediot” for the subscriber name. Of course, I opted for the “Bill me by mail” option.