I feel like out of all the times one could say "were the best" or "good old days", I feel like the late 90's were the only time. But even then, domestic violence (school shootings started, mass shootings and domestic terror were a thing, high crime rates) was a big issue.
But it's funny, because 90's was when people started complaining about pc culture tho
the more things change the more they stay the same![]()
Agreed, but the gun culture wasn't as pervasive though. Far as I remember Columbine and Flint were the only school shootings and those were in the 99 and '00 respectively.
I don't think people younger than 26-30 really understand how much the zeitgeist shifted after 9/11. Literally, almost overnight, we became culturally another country. Islamaphobia didn't really even exist before then, rampant patriotism grew (which, in turn, became xenophobia), the explosion of the war industrial complex which erased the need for proxies, a new generation of vets and the rise of PTSD and Opioids.
I was 14 when 9/11 happened and I can draw a direct line from that day to the cultural climate that allowed someone like Trump to be elected 14 years later.



I literally had white tees that went past my knees. shyt was long as fukk. 

