Was the 80's the best time in history?
>Cool cars
>Just the right kind of technology
>Awesome music
>Had hope for the future
>Dollar was worth something, and you earned a lot of them
>Things were cheap
>Far more ethnically homogeneous population
>Politicians actually somewhat kinda felt responsible for what they did, to the people they represented
>MTV actually played music
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Maybe those of us too young to experience the 80's can only look back with rose tinted glasses, but it certainly seems that way user.
m8 your parents probably conceived you while listening to this just fyi
i think the broad feeling that sums up a lot of the warmth of the pre-2000's is that there was actually a common identity in the US: American
We haven't had that feeling since before the Great Recession.
>Awesome music
it was the beginning of the end
I agree, now we're defined by our race and religious or political beliefs, back then we were all just Americans, made it a lost easier to band together
What do you mean?
Too bad things like this never happen again.
>cheap coke everywhere
Sounds pretty good to me. If I could easily get that Chad drug I wouldn't be such a loser.
I used to think that the day would never come. That I'd be a 26 years old NEET in the shade of the morning sun
BTW the "fucking Millenials" have done a good job of making retro music similar to what was played in the era.
No it was this:
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Not to mention best computers, OP.
Yah had me until you got racist.
Yes
That's why we do all the retrowave shit
Good times for whites
Is facts that you don't like racist?
It certainly was the best time.
There really should be more people doing public access shows with the 80s MTV format, but with local non-nigger/sjw music.
80s Belgium
80s best Belgium
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Early 90s Pantera era was the last cunthair of based.
That isn't a pic from the 80's right
The only thing that is better now is computer related, like software, computer speed, internet and so on.
An 80286 would take 20 minutes to open a JPEG file.
The rest seems worse now.
it wasn't all that great
>real constant threat of nuclear annihilation
>western economy was in the dumps for half the decade
>ankle warmers
>no internet hence no shitposting
>videonasties and overt censorship
>megachurches and mass hysteria about the tame rock music
>hairmetal
it wasn't all sunshine and lollipops but I have to admit it was pretty good
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85-95 will go down as the greatest ten years ever
Take it from an oldfag, MTV was never good.
tfw nobody can relate to your underground metal tape-trading nostalgia
Cars sucked though.
GM G bodies are the exception and those were garbage. Italians had it going on.
Jet fighters were cool
Nah
The 60s in the Greater Reich timeline is the best time in history
>3 minutes even
Efficient.
Gold era of the metal.
>cool cars
I don't think so
Online discussion was better in the 80s because of the high barrier to entry.
Think the games were more comfy back then because they couldn't rely on having lots of computing power so they made up for it with design.
You don't think so?
Born in 74, grew up in the 80s...and it was literally the best time of my life. Politics did not seep into every topic. War was not always on the forefront even with the backburner thought of the Cold War. Blacks had not taken over entertainment. Money seemed as though it dropped from the sky...and most everyone still knew how to chill and have a good time. Cars WERE awful, I remember some people with Pintos, Pacers and Datsuns, terrible cars!
Excellent times
>tfw when nobody can relate to your underground metal-tape trading nostalgia
Still have my original "Number of the Beast" cassette.
no I don't
I really think the rose colored glasses shit with the 80's is because life is so sideways in the worst possible way nowadays that people crave for a time where there was an odd mixture of stability. predictability, and chaos as well as it's much more relatable than the 50's and 60's were.
White flight was a cornerstone of the 80s. Most country clubs still prohibited Jews and other non-whites from joining. Bigotry is what made the 80s great.
Both technology and food are better today compared to the 80s. Everything else is worse. I can hardly remember anymore what it felt like to have hope for the future
Meh. They had the best music that's all I know. Born in 92. My dad and mom smoked crack in the 80s and one time a friend of his died in a swimming pool because he was 2 drunk 2 swim
The 80s marked the foundation of the acts that would transform America into an oligarchy, systematically crippling the further development of a middle class and harvesting it's wealth, rather than growing it.
It was a swan song, a beautiful sound that heralded the dying of the American Dream in 2001.
Don't forget medicine.
well there was one really big downside...
Yeah, that is true. Beer is also better now because of all the microbreweries
>Wore make up
>Wore womens leopard pants
>Wore womens shirts
>Wore womens hair style
>Killed rock and metal
Nah the 80's sucked.
We were really fucking paranoid about getting nuked. That was the one dark shadow over the 80s, but to be fair it was mostly gone by 1985 when Gorbachev came into power in the USSR
aids
horrific clothing
pretty much homo apex
In the 80s most people just used to hang out together, online discussions were only for the very nerdish. Internet or even BBS were not that popular.
Games were OK, but I don't think the best games come from the 80s.
>Blacks had not taken over entertainment.
They had their own niche, which was often pretty good. youtube.com
It wasn't until rap took hold in the late 80s that black media entertainment really turned to shit.
>pretty much homo apex
In Toronto cops were still raiding bathhouses and arresting homos back then. Today is peak homo, not to mention peak tranny (trannies were unheard of in the 80s)
u can see any music video today yaknow
That's all bull. Corporations pay equal tax and Chinese factory workers get paid 11.50 yen an hour. Yes we know they get tax breaks but with the progressive tax it evens out. And its harder then you think to claim zero for them. People just like systematic predictable huge box stores. Lest we forget the failure of Kmart blockbuster and radio shack that corporations aren't too big to fail.
Whites got to sleep through the 80's. The signs were on the wall even back then of how things would be today and we didn't notice.
The world needs more Steves.
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I was there I remember
Yeah, I think it was. Modern nigger culture didn't rule and white kids didn't worship dindus.
The cracks were there though
Still, the Trans Am Reigned and it is still the coolest car mankind has come up with. Music was the best ever too.
I think so.
i live within 50 miles of about 20 decommissioned Nike missile bases and people here are still paranoid about the communists. My mom's idiot husband had to be convinced (by 15 year old me) that there are no communists in Europe and that specifically Germany isn't communist.
I was also begged by an old lady at a party not to go to germany because all the nazis and communists will rope me into their armies and get me killed for being catholic.
Or is Indiana just really fucking autistic because of all the corn?
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Hell yeah my naga! Michael and the Don were Party ALL THE TIME!
My girl wants to party all the time
Party all the time
party all the time.
My girl wants to party all the time
party all the time.
Whatever the closest thing to a social justice warrior was was like 000.1% of the population.
Everyone was literally just partying. Horror movies showing in the theaters were perfect to take a qt out to get em all horny. Music was awesome. Cocaine was in it's prime back then.People were way less neurotic. Everybody just wanted to be a cozy motherfucker.
I remember everyone bitching constantly about immigration, but it's true that we trusted mainstream politicians to fix the problem for us when they had zero intention of doing so. In Canada I used to campaign for the Reform Party and even they weren't nearly right-wing enough
I love the optimism the 80s had for the direction of technology. There was this obsession with "getting to the future", a place where technology would solve our problems and everything would be good. A lot of times I DO think the 80s was the best. Optimism in general kept people happy I think.
i saw a de lorean on the road and almost drove into a ditch because i creamed so hard
i drive this and listen to this often
Nowadays everything is all doom and gloom. No wonder why people are all depressed.
Yes, it was the best of times.
You went to keggers in muscle cars.
If the cops showed up, they made you pour out the beer and go home.
Girls had bush.
Some guys in high school had mustaches.
The minimum wage was $3.35/hr and you could actually buy shit w/that.
Gym teachers taught driver's ed.
You worked at Burger King on school nights and the 21 year old manager bought you booze.
Reagan was president.
"Back to the Future" was our "Matrix."
Geeks weren't cool and bullying them was just sophomoric jocularity.
I had momentum.
A good general mix of synthwave that reminds me of back in the day
>to be convinced (by 15 year old me) that there are no communists in Europe
? There were and are plenty of Communists (whether avowed or crypto-) in Europe. As for Germany, its current chancellor is a former member of a Communist youth group in East Germany, and there's an ex-Stasi broad involved in enforcing laws against "hate speech"
Hairmetal was one of the good things faggot
>Cool cars
Eh, performance-wise 80's cars were garbage.
But the Delorean is pretty cool.
Yet now that technology has actually crippled and destroyed our race
Cant say I was/am a fan of black entertainment, but looking back I can see how there were "gateway niggers' like Eddie Murphy, Michael Jackson and Richard Pryor that helped make the transistion of mainstreaming the acceptance black American culture, which in turn helped create more future coal burning, HUGE negative of the 80s!
Man, I still fantasize about her to this day. That movie was actually pretty damn good.
lol there was a guy in one at the coffee stand and the window was broken and he had to lift his gull wings to get his coffee very awkward. I had a chance to buy a nice one in 2003 for 10K i wish i had not passed it bye
I was working at a gas station in Toronto as a teenager and a Delorean drove up... it was really impressive to see those doors rising and a pretty woman clambering out
>Yes, it was the best of times.
THE BEST OF TIIIIIMES
ARE WHEN IM ALONE WITH YOOOOUUU
because the 80s was the last time the strong men told the weak to fuck off and saved society from itself and the hippies
we are the modern era strong men fending off the sjws to bring in the new 1980s
>Awesome music
Disco sucked!
>children being nostalgic about a decade they never lived in
Near certain nuclear war, recession, inflation, gas shortages, double income families making everything cost twice as much for the single income households, internet was a 300 baud modem to the local BBS so you could download the same dozen 320x200 porn pics each took five minutes to download. It wasn't all bad, but half the shit in the OP is simply not true.
Still, definitely had awesome music.
some rain some shine! well make this a world for two!
man i fucking loved styx as a kid,called my 1st son tommy after tommy shaw,he got me into playing guitar.
That's true, Murphy's "Delirious" was anti-white in parts. Pretty sinister in retrospect
It was. Im in my 30s and 80s kid from the midwest. Palces were safe and no cell phones. People actually talked to each other all the time.
i know but he still thought that east germany was a thing and that they werent sending exchange students "because of all the communists" despite there being ten german exchange students (probably getting high) in my town
Bast cars +1
The fuck? Wrong video, obviously
10K??? they go for at least 25K nowadays!!!
Crazy if true
>>Things were cheap
yeah no
>You went to keggers in muscle cars.
>If the cops showed up, they made you pour out the beer and go home.
Every. Fucking. Weekend. Same. Cops.
I still laugh about it. They weren't there to bust anyone unless they were over the line. They were there to shut it down for the peace. You had your fun, now go home. Drive safe!
Off we go.....
It is almost like they were keeping us contained, and keeping an eye on us.
my dad made sure to raise me right be keeping country music as far away from me as possible and filling me with styx, rush, and metalica
it was in 2003 they wented 10k
kek
Nice blast from the past. That is when SNL was at its finest.
styx did some country stuff such as fooling yourself but i liked that about them,they mixed hard rock,pop and country together
Part of that optimism was a side effect of Ronald Reagan, especially his campaigns, that were generally positive. Yes, there were cautions about needing to take the Soviets seriously but in general it was all about the 'a shining city upon a hill' vision. Of course he enacted no-fault divorce and his administration had its share of globalists so his impact didn't quite match the vision he communicated.
Keep going
Most strive for the 50's or 60's and not the 80's.
Dude. I didn't even click the video and already had that fucking dee dee dee dee dee synth in my head.
>Michael Jackson
The one who only got on MTV because the NAACP and his record label threatened them with litigation. Was the beginning of the end for everyone.
i caught the arse end of the 80s being born in 86
can confirm it was comfy though,no political correctness,people said nigger on tv i used an amstrad cpc 464 and people went to church
things have changed,i went bed in like 2005 and woke up and suddenly everyone started turning into a cuck and a few years later fat blue haired people in cuck goggles came along telling me im an evil racist for being white
I DONT BELONG HERE! I WANT TO GO BACK!
fooling yourself isnt country. not in america at least. not sure what british country music is though
She has no ass. 0. None at all. It's flatter than a cutting board.
>fat blue haired people in cuck goggles came along telling me im an evil racist for being white
Back in the early 90s that kind of shit was confined to a few loud fanatics on university campuses and everyone made fun of them. Fast-forward 25 years and those fanatics are running our countries and the media
it was not till the 2000s they started driving patty wagons around revenue generating by giving ever kid in the party a minor in possession ticket and arresting anyone over 21 hell onetime i was high on acid and the cops pulled me over found my pipe made me break it and let me go with 3 drunk people in the car just because i was smoking and not drinking