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
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.
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.
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).
I mean this in the best possible way regardless of my harsh tone, and it’s going to seem very agressive (be warned)
but are you fucking stupid. We aren’t fucking talking about a god damn comparison to what the fuck is happening today or 25 years ago. We are talking about the bullshit that happened 26 or more years ago. Jesus christ, are atrocities just a pissing contest anymore? You want to play the game of what generation had it the worse? My bet is the motherfuckers that had sit and watch 5 million people die because they were just people doing their own shit.
You see in situations like this, your opinion about what generation had it worse is completely GOD DAMN irrelevant. Atrocities occur in every fucking decade, and you have presented me with more proof of that. But your view is “we got it worse”. Fuck that and fuck you.
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.
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.
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
Why does EVERYONE forget about the oklahoma city bombings???
I did not forget about them, but I felt I gave enough examples to where I drove my point home
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.
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.
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).
I mean this in the best possible way regardless of my harsh tone, and it’s going to seem very agressive (be warned)
but are you fucking stupid. We aren’t fucking talking about a god damn comparison to what the fuck is happening today or 25 years ago. We are talking about the bullshit that happened 26 or more years ago. Jesus christ, are atrocities just a pissing contest anymore? You want to play the game of what generation had it the worse? My bet is the motherfuckers that had sit and watch 5 million people die because they were just people doing their own shit.
You see in situations like this, your opinion about what generation had it worse is completely GOD DAMN irrelevant. Atrocities occur in every fucking decade, and you have presented me with more proof of that. But your view is “we got it worse”. Fuck that and fuck you.
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
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.
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
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