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  • 4am@lemmy.ziptoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldShocking
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    3 days ago

    Most of us were like “holy shit, Nintendo 64. Whoa, PlayStation. Dude, you got a Dell! It’s got a SoundBlaster! Check out this new Internet thing! It’s got the World Wide Web! I’m gonna gel my hair and skateboard listening to Korn on my Discman with antiskip while eating 3d Doritos”

    And if you asked us about world events we would have been like “gulf war was lame”

    We were too young to really have known about how bad shit was getting, and the internet was just taking off and info did not travel like it does today. Video on a computer was an novelty (lots of windows loyalists called Apple’s QuickTime a gimmick and that it’d never last; until they got a video player themselves) and it took hours to download a few MB. There was no YouTube or TikTok, no live streams, barely any “feeds”, nothing was pushed to you, no WiFi even. Going on the computer was a purposeful activity you spent a slice of your day doing, like reading a book or gaming.

    We did not have the window to the world we have now. We all like to pretend that it’s getting worse; and it IS, but also we’re just now waking up to the lie we were told our whole lives and just how deep that lie goes.


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    Tech bros running scared that America is going to collapse so they cling to AI because the only thing that could save this continent would be a fucking miracle tech breakthrough.

    Ugh it all makes sense. I hate it when it makes sense. Occam’s razor has not been kind lately.


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    I mean both are horrible, but the problem with Reagan is that he knew how to hide his atrocities. People don’t really grapple with how bad what he did was because he wasn’t overthrown by the Allies in a Great War, there was no purpose-built death camps, he didn’t make rambling speeches declaring entire races as vermin.

    He just quietly let AIDS happen, pretending it’s not a real thing. He deregulated banks for the sake of “competition”. He fucked with the Middle East.

    We compare Trump to Hitler a lot, but he’s like a more outwardly fascist Reagan.