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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 11 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone's focusing on the whole Russia thing. What the fuck, though, the 90s were not good. Reagan had just got done declaring war on the entire American working class and fucking up their lives quite a lot, and Clinton pretty much continued the program, just at about 50% strength.

Listen to any of the media of the time, that's when Rage Against the Machine got their start, it was the backdrop for Fight Club. It's all hopelessness and anger. The money started coming back once the circa-2000 tech boom started, and things were still riding high a little bit off the 20th century before times, but the 90s weren't fucking good. It was latchkey kids because both parents had to work for the first time, Rodney King, Fox News starting to take over people's brains, layoffs, the battle of Seattle, shipping jobs overseas, corporate mergers, the steady death of a lot of the institutions everyone had been depending on up until then.