Pre 9/11

What was life in America like before 9/11 Sup Forums?

The 90s

Better than 56%

Comfy as fuck from what I remember. Simpler times

Considering I was in elementary school, I was probably having fun.

90s were America's golden age, it p much dominated the decade since its only rival collapsed at the very beginning

Best times of my life.

No fear, no one cared (in a good way), neighbors were still neighborly, all the kids hung out all day, just a lot of shit

Dude, it was so much fucking better.

good times. I enjoyed the 80's and 90's immensely

Wonderful.

America's biggest problem was the president getting a beej

Internet was a whole lot slower. I got free porn of Kazaa and Limewire. Almost no SJWs and no Obama.

The US was as close to peace as it had ever been.

> Leafs could cross the border without a passport

> You could bring liquids on planes.

Travelling used to be pleasurable.

slower. much slower. less interesting though

If you worked for a company that owned airplanes, you could just jump right on a flight to wherever you wanted without any type of passport or background check

It was better than today. Thanks to the terrorists it just plain sucks now. Wasting resources in the name of security. FUCK YOU TERRORISTS!!! THX ALOT ASSHOLES!!!!

Nostalgia is a beast to get past.

There were the race riots in the early nineties in California, those were bad enough that a temporary military state was called into action because blacks were getting restless, surprise, surprise.

Also there was the huge drug inflation from the arrival and surge of Jamaican drug dealers and the increase in gang turf wars and the influence that the "gangsta life" had now that it was mainstream and was accepted and looked up to by not only black males but also whites now, cause it was "popular."

Also NAFTA was created and signed by George Bush Sr. and supported by Bill Clinton. All the problems we are having now are the result of the decisions and social change started in the ninties.

All 9/11 did was make it more likely to get frisked in an airport and made international terrorism a HUGE topic of discussion for once. That's pretty much it. All the shittiness you see now is mainly because we don't have nostalgia glasses since we are living in these times right now. I personally preferred the early 2000s but I also remember how shit they were some times.

Fantastic economic growth.
Conflicts (i.e. Rwanda) seemed beyond distant.
Biggest crisis facing the country wasn't whether the president got a blowjob, but whether he lied about it.

Honestly, pretty fucking great... biggest problem I had was flirting on MSN messenger with girls from the next school over...

I was a kid during that time... the 90s specifically, and my teen years were the 2000s

The music certainly was better during that era... rock and rap declined drastically during the mid-late 2000s though...

It's all shit now unless you find obscure artists on Youtube.

pic not related,but eye opening.

Before 9/11 I didn't even know America existed.

It was very wholesome. Staying up late to watch nick at night was very serious business.

Children didn't dress like sluts. Cross dressing wasnt a thing and bright generic neon colors were cool and not associated with the gay.

user, how do you expect me to read this?

Dude cross dressing goes back to fucking Shakespeare.

We have always had cross dresser.

by clicking it?

or by downloading it and opening it up in a photo viewer?

yeah but it was glorified you dunce

Music sucks now.

I think the point he's getting at is that it wasn't celebrated as a sign of "independence" at the time and was just seen as a stupid that some weirdo would do.

You're not the sharpest tool in the shed are ya?

Born in 1988

1. Didn't know anything about Muslims or care
2. Didn't ever think about terrorism
3. Alternative/post-grunge/nu metal was what all the non-wigger/non-preppy white kids listened to

Then the Jews did WTC. I remember it happening when I was in my 8th grade Religion class (catholic middle school.) we were taking a test and the math teacher busted in and goes "turn on the tv, the world trade center towers have been hit." we then watched news for the rest of the day

It was just more innocent. America was at an absolute high, economically and culturally

9/11 has really put us into a tailspin

It's not his fault that kikes have been so subversive a list of their expulsions needs 300+ entries. That list is a good redpill stop bitching.

oh thats depressing.

Getting a glimpse of the Matrix, was pretty cool.

Are you me?

I remember there being a lot less gay safety regulations for things in general. There was a lot more community trust too. Disregarding black communities.

Lets just put it this way, I was able to park my car at the airport in Phoenix, leave it on the curb in front of the Terminal, walk all the way to the gate and meet my parents as they got off the plane without seeing so much as a security guard and one metal detector.

Hmm, I wonder why there was more community trust back when America was whiter... pic related

In NYC it was a lot more lawless, the police presence wasn't 1/10th what it is now. You could pretty much do anything, there just weren't enough cops and they didn't seem to give a shit. The internet was out but it was super limited not much going on. I don't even think youtube or facebook was created yet, just a bunch of shitty geocities sites and crap like that. I used to use newsgroups to chat with people, it was like an older version of reddit I guess. I remember the city being way more dangerous. But generally speaking it was basically the same.

I used to play catch with my dad and I thought warfare was something that only happened in history books.

>music was good when i was young and got bad when i got old
gee what an original feeling that is

16% Interest rates on savings. Jews made money before their bar mitzvah just by having a savings account.

You could buy a Big Mac for 99 cents
Today a Big Mac costs $6.

The 90s were the zenith of the boomer civilization, essentially all the bad things had yet to kick in but all the good stuff was there. The fall of the Soviet Union only made it even better. The mid-late 90s (Around 1997 I'd say) was the peak if it were a graph. We've been in steady decline ever since

90-95 were fantastic years, but the decade began to decline in about 96. The late 90s weren't that good at all tbph.

The greatest city in the world in the greatest state in world in the greatest country in the world during the GREATEST DECADE in human history at the PINNACLE of human civilization. And you know what? I was living there to experience it all.

Everything has gone to shit since 2001 and will continue to get worse, probably culminating with the end of the world via World War 3 or some planetary-wide disaster of our making.

No matter where you live or will be living at in the future, will never experience any thing as glorious as 1990s New York, Sup Forums. How does that make you feel?

Possibly, senpai

This

>In NYC it was a lot more lawless, the police presence wasn't 1/10th what it is now.

Still better than the 80's

terrorists have always existed. they are just used by the elite to take away our freedoms nowadays

I lived in murder capital of us and got hunted by you know who the whole fucking decade

Also remember when Clinton got all those criminals arrested and overloaded federal prisons making them the cesspits they are now

The 90's was the last great decade before globalism truly hit us. Tech was at a perfect level to where you could have instant communication, but still had normal interactions with those around you. Jobs were everywhere, even if you didn't go to college for the right degree. The golden era of video gaming in both gaming systems and arcades.

It was basically the peak of the American empire. We had defeated communism. The Millennial Gen was in its teens. There was massive prosperity.

Also seems like computers and smart phones hadn't started eroding social life yet. There were less rules overall. Less surveillance. Less tracking. Less regulation. Less PC bullshit. Multicultural dystopia hadn't yet destroyed much of Europe and the US. The level of immigrants we had then had actually been absorbed into the economy.

Also, things were cheaper. Cigs, beer, groceries, all seemed so much cheaper than today.

It truly was a good time to be alive.

Today faggots cant see that all changed after 2001, like a rift in our dimension and all we have now is chaos...

2001 is the diverging point when we crossed into the wrong timeline. Everything after felt off and kept getting worse until we got to how things are today.

the 90's were so pure and innocent. then 2001 happened and we grew hateful and afraid of each other. nothing was the same after 2001. it was one country's tragedy that changed the world.

When whe see the towers falling i think our world went together..

The Matrix remains to this day the most redpilled movie ever made.

The same, a vacuous subhuman bourgeois materialist time, just with a little less poz pushed through the pop culture outlets. 9/11 wasn't a big deal, except for absorbed-in-nonsense retards, and Murica! faux-right wing retards.

Care-free. Everybody was healthy in my family. No worries.

I watched cartoons in the morning before going to school at like 8AM.

Watching the second plane hit it was like you could feel this instant dread and panic sweep through everyone around you.

It was like everyone felt our societies innocence get blown away in an instant and all at once.

pic related is the victory parade for the Gulf war.

None of our veterans got a victory parade, there is no more victory. Just endless war and sorrow.

They Live is way up there. Cult classic.

t. nostalgia fag

if this thread were full of 30 year olds instead of 20 year olds everyone would be glorifying the 80's and shitting on the 90's as the beginning of everything going wrong. instead it's EVERYTHING WAS GOOD COINCIDENTALLY WHEN I WAS 3 TO 13 YEARS OLD AND THEN EVERYTHING GOT BAD. the 90's had shite music, slutty girls, drugs, crack, rap, crime, PC culture, shitty wars in the middle-east and economic hard times not much different to now. kids today will be talking about how great 2017 was and how shit 2027 is. it's all so stupid.

children dressed like sluts in the 90s, where the fuck were you

90s were all about globalism destroying the American working class though.

I guess by "us" you meant the middle class, being that you're a jew and your people don't actually work.

it's where the term comes from retard.
That is like saying weed is the dankest drug

>Nostalgia is a beast to get past.
Damn shame that has nothing to do with how life was for most in the 90s. The 90s was way better than the 70s and 80s.

I was in my twenties and poor as hell. I was in LA when the riots happened. That was a result of all the shit that went down in the 80s. That had to happen for change to occur. Everyone was fucking happy as hell that the cold war was over. The internet was a new technology and a new opportunity for everyone. The 90s is when life got better for damn near everyone.

Notice how all the things you listed are way out of the domain of regular people. That is not what this thread is about.

nearly the same time that china entered the WTO! :thinking:

That's right goyfag. We're all out to get you.

>Best toys
>Best music
>Best country

in church like a good goy

Only on halloween

One of my grandfathers is still alive at 92 and he says every has been good compared to the 1930s/40s.

He wasn't even shocked at 9/11, he was already red-pilled back then and said he was only surprised it took that long for something big to happen on American soil after the US has been fucking around with so many countries.

Fashion was atrocious and silly, especially in the early 90s.

Pop music was pretty bland and generic.

Toys, freedom, computers, video games, early internet were awesome. Well maybe not computers. They were expensive and slow as shit. Even if you had the top of the line computer it still would be painfully slow to use, but seeing the pgrogression was tits.

>t. born 1982

before 9-11 i was getting blown on a regular basis. But her pussy dried up when the towers fell

I'm 39 and I remember life before 9/11. Local communities were much tighter, people held more similar values, and people were more genuine.

Now?

People are much more fake, they have a public persona and a private one. Communities, at least in my hometown of Vancouver, practically don't exist outside of identity and social class. Everyone does drugs and most people deny it, people are also much more degenerate.

You can always profit on the decline, though...

I don't get it. I was in high school, and I just viewed (and still view it) as just another typically, historical happening. Maybe I was different from having been interested in war and history from early grade school. Apparently, most people thought we really had arrived at the End of History. Thank God, we were not, and are not, quite there yet.

Пpи Cтaлинe хyй cтoял, хyлe.

>You can always profit on the decline, though...

doing what?

>> You could bring liquids on planes.
I still can, on flights going out of Israel.

lmao

Member no ISIS?
Member feeling safe?

kek That day me and my m8 thought that we were attacked by the Japanese
boy were we wrong

theres kids growing up right now that have never heard a 56k dialup sequence

...

People were way different back then. Less suspicious I guess. 90's was primo

Vice is everywhere and people are so willing to accept new vices into their lives because their lives are so meaningless to them

You guys are heavily oversimplifying things by using nostalgia as the only reason the 90s are so beloved. There's obviously an element of nostalgia in it, but there's so much more.

The Cold War for most Americans at that point was a matter of good vs. evil, and in the 90s, when democracy triumphed over Communism, it seemed like good had won. The whole "end of history" (liberals like Obama evoke this with their right side of history diatribes) theories began during this era for a reason. The whole world, for many people, followed a narrative that was simple and easy to understand -- a narrative in which democracy was the best form of government and had won against evil commies and other dictators. If you looked at history from the vantage point of 2000, it would truly seem like much of human history was a progressive trend towards democracy. Since the Cold War ended and so many countries (think South Africa and much of Eastern Europe) began transitioning to democracy during the 90s, it was easy to not only see the world in a black and white way, but in a way in which the good guys had one. 9/11 and the ensuing terrorism changed this forever. There were so many shades of gray and this whole "the West = the good guys" narrative fell apart. There was a palpable sense of a loss of innocence and faith in our government/leaders from the wars in the Middle East that followed. Nowadays, there are so many narratives, counter-narratives, gray areas, and morally ambiguous situations, and nobody agrees on anything. Syria is a perfect example of this, the situation there is so complicated that not even Western leaders could use a reductive good vs. evil argument as they did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, etc.

Many of these complexities existed before 9/11 and the Cold War of course but since social media didn't exist and the media was so splintered, we were mostly sheltered for it. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

If you are talking about Israel, the reason it was all so great is the economic boom due to a million immigrants arriving from former USSR, whose cheap qualified labor could keep you afloat while you were laughing at them and calling them smelly Russians.

Boring.

It was peaceful for the most part. People had money.

It was weird watching Americans getting their panties in a twist over some planes hitting some buildings. We were experiencing mass terror all through the 90's.

you are just an autist

you literally described capitalism. profit off of stupidity and misery. btw I have MAGA and "not my president" stickers for sale, low prices. $5 a pop

Uhm no sweetie Assad is 100% in the right.

We wuz kangs and shit

Less anxiety. More innocent. More prosperity.

For literally invading/settling occupied land - whether justified or not.

igor, it is pasta. search the archives.

be honest now. israel is shit thanks to soviets, north africans and hasids

by your own doing faggots. Israel is literally Indian giving, not to mention you piles of garbage are the sole reason Islam has been unleashed on the west.

Well yeah. Deliberately importing shitskins helps no one but the people doing it.

He also openly Juda-ized our government, and bombed Serbia for stepping outta line with the NWO, but yeah focus on his sexual misconduct.

Okay let me add this real quick: Does anyone else miss how you could have like action figure toys based off of rated R movies?

I remember growing up when I was 6 years old and I had the Terminator 2 exoskeleton toy and the T-1000 with knife hands. I remember seeing commercials for the Aliens toys with the queen that takes a marine to it's plastic lair and you can dump ooze on it. Does anyone else miss that?

Does that still exist, or is that too offensive?

Way better than it is nowadays.

Back then we had a future. We could eventually get a job, settle down, and have a family.

Now, everything is fucking ass backwards, and shit on top of that.

t. Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Schmuel, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, Dominick Suter, Ehud Barak, Bibi Netanyahu
Watch out Shlomo. Justice will arrive eventually.

still makes me fucked up because because thats when the redpill really went into overdrive they turned that shit on for all to see, children we were fucking children, i thought why are you showing me this, i had no emotion watching people cry around me, that's when i knew something was up

> Falling for old Pali propaganda
No, the big terror started after significant progress in peace process was achieved. Arafat just decided that peace process wasn't profitable enough.

>90s were America's golden age
You are fucking insane or weren't around if you believe this.

The biggest crisis was NAFTA and the WTO, and Clinton literally enabled 'globalization' that benefited no one except the financial sector and people willing to buy goods made from slave labor.

>Fashion was atrocious and silly, especially in the early 90s.
I want to see hyper-color come back.

You hit it right on the head, 'market liberalism' and 'democracy' had slain the dragon, and everyone wanted to get the whole world on board with 'free trade.'

>israel is shit thanks to soviets
Absolutely not, without Soviets Israel would be in shit much earlier. Look up the tricks that Yasha Kedmi used to bring Soviets to Promised Land.

> north africans
Yes.

> hasids
Oh yes.