In this movie I see the USA as I remember it from cartoons and old shows when I was young: COOL AND SLICK AS FUCK.
>those chromed, old school cars shieeeeeet they banging
>THE JOYOUS, POLITICALLY INCORRECT YOUTH
Now, I'm going to CA over the entire summer, in LA with some business. Never been to the USA before.
I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CALIFORNIA?!?!?
>American Graffiti CA = cool >Presnet CA = full of PC shittards, vapid smartphone szuckers
As a sidenote, >I fucking wish I was a baby boomer in the USA. Born in Cali, move over to Miami once the drugs start pouring in, then settle in pre-immigration Europe and shoot myself at 60, pre 2010's having lived a great life.
>Not this PC shit, this Zuckercucc Facuccbookcucc cucc shit.
Nathan Foster
the whole US was cool before globalism
Josiah Hall
bump i need answers
Caleb Peterson
This. Besides moving for college, I've lived in NYC my entire life (was in middle school during 9/11). At the time, the 90's felt like it lacked identity, but now it feels like it was the perfect calm before the storm. Just go listen to some chill vaporwave and watch old videos of the city; things were A-OK.
Aiden Brown
As a native californian it was a few things...the tidal wave of mexicans and the spread of gangster culture, combine this with liberal activism and you have the death knell
Camden Sullivan
What happened?
Jewish Boomers fucks getting into office, voting away freedom because my feels.
Mass immigration turning everything into a failed state with low IQ meztios who are not competeable with freedom and self responabity
Gun Control=Higher crime rates= less public unity=less happy go luckyness=less freedom
Wyatt Gomez
Bad fiscal policies like government borrowing, outsourcing of industry, and printing money has left the country poor and shrunk the middle class. It's hard to have a cool slick car to drive to the fancy diner when you're still working at McDonalds and the dollar isn't worth shit.
Third world immigration and forced intermixing via section 8 and other shitskin resettlement programs advocated for by corporations seeking out a cheap, easy to manipulate labor force has turned these places into crime infested hotbeds as well as resulted in the electing of corrupt public officials that specialize in appealing to low-IQ shitskins which in turn has lead to retarded, corrupt, legislation that puts the cute, sleek mom and pop diner out of business. It's no coincidence that California, the state that is currently leaking people seeking better opportunities in other states due to poor economic prospects also happens to be one of the most multiculturalized states in the entire country.
Evan Russell
>I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CALIFORNIA?!?!?
The Jews moved in, and the Jews brought communism. McCarthy was 100% vindicated in the end.
California was also nearly free of Hispanics until a few decades ago. What changed? 1965 immigration reform, drafted and pushed by Jews.
Lincoln Wilson
This happened.
Robert Green
You sound like you'd be another Hunter S. Thompson
Camden Edwards
American Graffiti was set in post war America. You missed your California visit by 50 years. As for the cause. Feminism Politicians Political correctness The dissolution of the family The list goes on and on as well as some nasty habits it wasn't all chrome and sock hops .....
Zachary Gray
The same thing that happened to Germany during Weimar area
Julian Brown
American Graffiti was set in 1962.
The Immigration and Naturalization Act went live in 1965.
This allowed non-white Europeans to enter the U.S. in large numbers, especially Mexicans and Hispanics.
American Graffiti was set in Modesto (though not filmed there).
Modesto was 98% white in 1960.
Modesto is now 48% white.
Hunter Rodriguez
It's not "globalism". It's Jews.
Literally.
Between 1900 and 1924, millions of Jews entered the United States. A law was passed in 1924 to restrict or halt this access.
In 1965, after decades of concerted campaigning, Jewish organizations lifted these restrictions and allowed the flood gates to open.
While this allowed in many Southern Europeans, Asians and indeed Jews, it really opened the floodgates on Hispanic immigration.
Parts of California that were nearly 100% white are now minority white.
And the shitty looking third world slumminess of Southern California is a testimony to this.
Nathan Garcia
Mass immigration Open Border Welfare "Civil Rights" "Desegregation" Outsourcing in sourcing "Counter Culture" Culture Marxists Gun Control
Lucas Myers
dunno much about the man, but if that's the life he had, I'm so fuckin jealous of him
Jaxson Gray
dear god if you are good why do you let niggers exist
Eli Anderson
no one cares about your opinion slav
Grayson Myers
multicultralism
Christian Perry
Why would you go to Los Angeles it's a third world Mexican shit hole. Good luck op.
Lucas King
This is the type of enrichment you can hope to enjoy in LA.
Grayson Jones
>WTF HAPPENED WITH CALIFORNIA??? mexicans and rich degenerates from back east/midwest
Nolan Rogers
Um, drugs, communists, faggots.
Eli Fisher
Almost any photo of any town - certainly in North America... looks nicer pre-60's than today.
Just neater, tidier, -- attractive signs and shops, stylish cars.. well dressed people.
We took a wrong turn. Society went in the wrong direction.
Some things are better now, but overall we've moved backwards. The culture has become a seedy, tacky carnival.
Dylan Jones
the Hart–Celler Act happened
Dominic Cox
Leaf gets it.
Kevin Edwards
Immigration Act of 1965
Brandon Thomas
>It's hard to have a cool slick car to drive to the fancy diner when you're still working at McDonalds and the dollar isn't worth shit.
The cars you admire as hotrods were built from old leftovers at the time. They happen to have styling you like but the budget wasn't different, what was different was the vehicle donor pool. 1965 was only twenty years after WWII ended. Mechanics can and do still drive what they want. The average young persons car today is a better vehicle mechanically than it was in the 1960s or 1970s.
The US wasn't full of fancy diners which were mostly a coastal fad. If you get your idea of past America from MASS MEDIA then unlearn that bullshit. What happened was population density and cars everywhere.
The hotrod car culture has far more and far better hot rods now than ever before. There's a fantastic aftermarket, swap meets, and online parts availability which shits all over the old days which I do not miss.
Youth looked joyous in movies. Reality for most people wasn't motherfucking American Graffiti.
John Ross
>I fucking wish I was a baby boomer in the USA. Born in Cali, move over to Miami once the drugs start pouring in, then settle in pre-immigration Europe and shoot myself at 60, pre 2010's having lived a great life.
Well you already have the boomer mentality right you fucking degenerate nihilist
Brandon Foster
also going to usa this year, the hype is less since i know what kind of fucked up people live in cali and surroundings. sicne the election. i hope most people behave allright. la worries me the most.
Lincoln Bennett
I can't wait until Trump replaces the bullshit immigrantion act with the RAISE act.
Adrian Sanchez
you dont get it
people went outside, they tried to bang eachother
there wasnt degenerate porn on your fingertips 24/7, hormones made things happen for all young adults
intrinsic human vapidness was channeled into physical things at least, not into fucking facecucc likes
paradoxically, people seemed more open, less risk-averse, less comfort seeking
hotspots mattered because more people tried to get laid more instead of staying inside and playing vidya and watching netflix so you had local cultures brewing around social hotspots
>just seems like the internet, with all its marvels aside, sucks the life away from the millennial generation
>also since there's hardly any social cohesion left in American culture, edginess is translated specifically into self-hating and TRYING HARD NOT TO FIT IN which deters psychosocial growth and makes people even more vapid