There is no going back to the 90s.

The lavishness of the 90s was fueled by credit expansion under the financial deregulation by Reagan and later further deregulated under Clinton, as well as the vast amount of finance capital that flowed back to the US from stripping the Soviet industrial assets and monetizing them into financial assets.

Turns out, when it is easy to borrow, you can consume lots of stuff, invest a fortune in the stock market and giving the appearance of higher living standards. But it also turns out that debt has to be repaid somehow.

All of this ended first with the dotcom crash and then the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis. The middle class and the working class in America never recovered following the 2008 global financial crisis. The only people who made it are the top 1%.

Abolition of the fairness doctrine in '87 and the subsequent broadcasting of the videodrome signal over the air, sent into overdrive by social media

Everyone now has the Brian O'Blivion disease

Obviously the world was cruel and awful in the 90s but this is what accelerated the collapse of the imperial core in my view.

“Back then, the peasants wouldn’t annoy me when I relentlessly bullied them! Yeah, their impotent retaliation I always laugh off, but for whatever reason in the 90s people knew that I was better than them!”

Can’t these smug little shits just do what they always do? Laugh it off. No need to tweet about it.

Just laugh it off and stop pretending you’re even annoyed. Not like anything I can say will ever wipe that giant smug grin off your face. Just shut the fuck up.

Somehow there's something even sadder (and just as disgusting) about these centrist melts doing the nostalgia 'Return' thing for an era as recent as the 90s. I have zero tolerance for the fascist longing for an imaginary 1950s that didn't exist but at least it feels far enough away and there's a lack of media of ordinary life that you can make it into kind of fantasy themepark of nostalgia. Somehow this shit is even more pathetic.

Wanna try telling someone from Eastern Europe, Africa, or the Middle East that the 90s were a great time?

Back in the 90s' I was in a very famous TV show (no horse emotes)

Oh wow, I actually remember this guy from like 8 years ago. Mf argued for a 3% tax rate and that "the" government hadn't done anything useful since 1776 (aparantly forgetting that other countries exist). Glad yo see he is still just as stupid (and a CEO).

Rodney King, OJ, Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City, Family Matters N-word episode, Fresh Prince episode about racial profiling, Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh show (before radio), CNN Crossfire, Menendez Brothers, Assassination of Virsace, Newt Gringrich vs Clinton, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia

"The world was better in the 90s because I watched Fraiser and Friends"

Everyone here is right, but also life before the internet was different. You did not have the same access to information as we do today. We're just seeing what our shit looks like because it's harder to hide.

I wish I had the confidence of a mediocre white man.

Literally all those things are false

Like I was a googoogaagaa baby in the 90s but I still remember the racism and homophobia

Also media was absolutely filled with agenda, from Captain Planet to the 10000 operation desert storm games

Being an open fascist was less socially acceptable. We had a social democrat PM who told the fascist party that they would "never be housebroken", today the social democrats' policing is that "you should not be able to place a cigarette on paper" between them and the fascists when it comes to being racist.

I still remember how some nazi inherited a house somewhere and tried turning it into nazi HQ. Every night people would protest in front of the house, average people from the town would turn up and stand with torches and sing until they bullied the nazi out of town. Something like that would be unthinkable today.

I'm not saying that everything was fine. The seeds for lots of evil shit we have today were sown back then. But at least there's was a general idea that you could not be racist in polite society.

Funny how the same people who write this are chronically online on X dot com which as far as I know, didn't exist back then.

The only good thing i remember from the 90s was gas was super cheap and i was dating a cute girl

This is some serious white man energy, I feel sympathy for anyone who has had a conversation with him.

you were a literal diaper shitting infant that didn't know anything ron, that's what happened

Half of these things (or perceptions) can be explained by the rise of Fox News.

Watch any show from the 80's 59 90's and tell me racism and homophobia and disgusting wealth disparity didn't exist.

The 90s were peak because 90 is higher than 20.

In addition to just how wrong this loser is about all of that obviously being around in the 90s too, what really gives away his privilege and almost certainly his bourgeois politics is the line "wealth was something to aspire to not scoff at." He doesn't like the fact that wealth disparity is something being discussed and criticized. "In the 90s the poors just looked up to us noble rich folk like they're supposed to. Not like now where they're getting all uppity about the well deserving billionaires and complaining about not being able to pay for food and basic shelter. In the good old days they just would have gotten another job and worked harder, so ungrateful!"

LOL Fuuuuuck this dude. As an adult for most of it, the 90s were fucking terrible. They sucked so bad by 1998 we were all literally 100% nostalgic for 1985. Imagine the ENTIRE Western world now being nostalgic for 2012/2013?

Get the fuck outta here. What a fucking loser. What else is he sad for? The lack of Creed on the radio?

Thats why they redesigned The Matrix to be in 1999, the peak of human civilization.