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JohnJamesRambo ◴[] No.25975222[source]
I hit 1993 and David Letterman came on and I’m awash in nostalgia for what seems like such a simpler, happier time. People liked each other. They could concentrate longer than three seconds. Dave and Paul are genuinely laughing and everything is all right.

What a fantastic website.

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TedDoesntTalk ◴[] No.25975867[source]
Things were NOT simpler. The problems were different. When you are living them in the moment, they are every bit as large as your problems are now.

And fwiw, people in the 90s looked back on the 50s and thought “oh what a simpler, happier time.”

It’s a filtered lens you’re using and you are deluding yourself if you think that any time before you had it simpler and happier simply because they did not have “X” or “Y” that you do today.

How about date rape epidemics in the 90s? And women’s right and outlook for careers and equal pay?

LGBTQ rights? Hahahahahah

I mean, I can go on if you want?

I’m guessing you were a kid in 90s so things were simpler and happier for YOU because you did not have to worry about adult problems?

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Larrikin ◴[] No.25976032[source]
As someone who is not white, the thought of using a time machine and ending up in 1950s america is a terrifying thought.
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chrisco255 ◴[] No.25977811[source]
What part of the world in 1950s would you travel to that you think would be better?
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b0bb1z3r0[dead post] ◴[] No.25978771[source]
Somewhere that wasn’t majority white then. American whites people were lynching. That’s a very horrible thing to have done. They celebrated that.. with the kids. White people...smh
1. anthk ◴[] No.25983554[source]
Europe was majority white and even in the Fascist Spain if you declared yourself Catholic, pro Spain and such, no one would give a shit except for propaganda ("look, a remote blackie from Africa being happy in the regime, we are a success").

Gay people got screwed not matter the race, tho.