My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Its actually that between 1991 and 2001 that we merely had a full decade of relative stability in world events. Crazy shit stopped happening for a while and we have collectively imparted that things used to be “normal” on people born after 2001 but they’ve interpreted their own childhoods as the normal years.

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      2 hours ago

      I see this said about the 90s all the time but really this is not true. In the 90s there was (not an exhaustive list)

      • First Gulf War
      • Yugoslavia war
      • Rwandan Genocide
      • Oklahoma City Bombing
      • Columbine Massacre
      • Los Angeles Riots
      • The Fall Of USSR (while on one hand a good thing it also cause so much economic decline, hunger, and excess mortality in the millions to many former bloc countries)
      • Somalian War
      • US 1990 recession
      • 1997 Asian Financial crisis
      • Dot com bubble
      • Hurricane Andrew
      • 1999 İzmit earthquake

      It’s very common when asking any person what was the best period of time for the world for their response to be a period of time their formative years were.

      The reality is history is full of horrid horrid things and nostalgia is a follie that’ll trick your mind.