Were things better in the West before 9/11?

Were things better in the West before 9/11?

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how far back you want to go?

of course

It was a time of innocence.

Everyone was blissfully ignorant and listening to Matchbox 20.

Afternoons were spent watching TRL on MTV, and Stick Stickly on Nickelodeon.

No one talked about race because everyone was too busy buying baggy cargo pants.

We didn't know how good we had it.

>We didn't know how good we had it.

This. For a brief, shining moment, the West was on top, before the Baby Boomers squandered it.

Seems like you've forgotten about Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the resulting militia movement and Oklahoma City Bombing. Things were already going to shit, 9/11 just distracted everybody for a while.

Also the wtc bombing

9/11

Shit got schizophrenic after 911, so yes.

>stick stickly

Try ren and stumpy, x-file and all those

>Things were already going to shit

Nothing gave us cause for concern until Columbine High School got peppered with bullets.

Once that happened, we started focusing more intently on domestic affairs, but the concept of global intervention was still foreign to us.

No one thought twice about anything that happened in distant lands like Europe or Southwest Asia.

We were too busy listening to the Goo Goo Dolls, watching Clerks, or laughing about Woodstock '99.

How amazing it is that around 13 men, mostly from Saudi Arabia, would force American consciousness into the global arena.

Yes, 9/11 was basically Kennedy assassination 2.0.

Cold War, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iran-Contra affair, Gulf War, the Yugoslav Wars, and so on and so forth.

The only reason your consciousness wasn't in the global arena was that you were too young to understand it.

How major was surveillance pre-9/11? Will we ever know? I feel like the internet was so vastly different back then.

Sup Forums will say yes because most of us were kids before it happened, and when you're a kid, you don't know how bad things really are.

>you went to bed the night of September 10, 2001 thinking the future was bright

Nope. Only Sup Forumstards think that because "le trannies and liberals are ruining everything xd".

>matchbox 20

Jesus man hit me right in the teen years. God damn.

come on man. what the fuck. i was 11 years old, watched it happen on TV at school and got scooped up by my dad in his police SUV. i remember being pretty scared and everyone felt different.

80s was way better. 90s was ok but pretty skanky.

The west had its morals gutted way before 911. 911 was entertainment for most people. Just one of many manifestations of the moral decay.

fuck off retard

just look at that faggot b johnson wearing that tie clip all the way down there

you are skanky 90s were the best.

they always do mange to find a way to shit all over everything

baby boomers made the WEST GREAT

read above

>a fucking leaf
>baby boomers made the WEST GREAT
no, the Greatest generation did that. And may I remind you, they were in power until the early 90's

The Boomers just lived off of what their parents had built, and then when they no longer had their parents guidance, they fucked it all up. Not to mention, spawned 2 generations of totally fucked children. Gen X were the latchkey generation, and the divorce generation. Millennials meanwhile, are pretty much just like their boomer parents. They were raised in the exact same environment of economic prosperity, and now have become an echo of their parents hippie years.

they don't call Millennials "Echo Boomers" for nothing.

I really worry for the day when the Millennial Generation is the one in power.

Then why was America great in the 50s and shit in the 90s?

Also millennials were raised in abstract poverty.

No, the 90's were only good for the United States.

That is why you see only American posters in these threads. Everywhere else had political and social instability.

No, Britian, Scotland, and Wales was perfect in that era.

The baby boomers were children in the 50s. Their parents, known as "the Greatest generation", made the west great.

Lyndon B. Johnson was one of the best presidents we've ever had.

He was one of the most competent and well-prepared presidents.

>Then why was America great in the 50s and shit in the 90s?
>shit in the 90's
maybe in canuckistan but in the US we were just fine in the 90's, aside from a recession under Bush 1. And even then, those come and go, and wasnt that bad in hindsight.

>Also millennials were raised in abstract poverty.

but their childhood was in the 80's and 90's and the 00's, despite being shit, didnt really go bad until the economy collapsed in 2008. till about 2005 or 6, things were still ok so far as a kid could tell.

t. Millennial

fuck you,hes the one that started this niggerloving shit.

Grow up kid, Millenials are to blame

I grew up in Scotland you fud.

OK, sure it was more white but you had Labour running it like SHIT. You had the poll tax riots, the liberalification of the youth and the IRA threats.

Wasn't a pleasant time, the 80's and everything before were great in Scotland.

sure

He was one of the most powerful and consequential presidents of American history

He deserves due respect.

But the 60s were even better thans when the boer be educated

suuuree

grow up freak, the millenials are saving this place

suuuuuuuuuuuure

I grew up in Canada you fud and it was perfect in the 90s

sure buddy, sure

Name how he was pwoerful!

>baby boomers are to blame for everything

Teenage faggot detected. Are the boomers responsible for Bernie, transfaggotry, fags getting married, increase in socialist views? Etc.

Millenials are the worst gneration yet, and I am one as well. If you want to say boomers are kosher conservatives, fine. But look at the political views of most millenials, we will be the downfall of the US.

Abject. It's abject poverty.
Banking ruined the USA.

That proves my point, North America had it good in the 90s. But nowhere else did.

muslims ruined everything

>women get the vote
>niggers get desegregated
>better
top kek

I am a firm believer the spread of video games and the internet in homes lowered property and street crime

>Are the boomers responsible for Bernie, transfaggotry, fags getting married, increase in socialist views? Etc.
Actually yes. They were the useful idiots in the 1960s and are the useless leaders of the same movements today. They filled academia with socialists to indoctrinate future generations into an unobtainable fantasy. They nationalized and centralized free thought and free expression to make future generations impotent.

>xFiles

I remember being a kid and going to my uncles farm with my dad.

We would do farm things all day, ride tractors and do fun shit. Then they would work into the late night 10&11 pm but I was a little kid so I would go inside, shower and watch x-files all by my self inside the house

What is this Sup Forums ? Is the gobiment trying to shut us down ?

Governments barely even used the internet back then.

Sup Forums was far better than feds at hacking, for instance.

you said AMEIRRRRRRRRRRRCa

>them pig cops
>that black stripper

toplel

Can someone explain how 1994 had 8 million?

I was just a wee lad.

What was the reaction like?

>pre-9/11
>Sup Forums
SomethingAwful, sure, but not Sup Forums. Government used internet for a significant amount of communications beginning in the 1980s.

It was a result of putting criminals in prison. Crime began to rise when mental institutions were emptied in the 1960s (thanks, civil libertarians) and only went back down when most of them found new homes in prison.

>tfw SA was relevant
feels sad man

truegamer.net/SA_911/911 SATHREAD/

there was a thread on 911 as it happened

It was all niggers going wild post-rodney king. Think BLM riots, but more violent and deadly

I'm sure glad I'm Generation Y and not Gen X or a Millennial.

Thanks, always wanted to read something like that. Curiosity I guess.

Nobody used the web, so nobody really knew or reacted to it.

They were pretty good at it. I had the OSI track me down and question me for awhile for hacking into NASA. They showed up at 9pm questioned me for awhile, then they came back in the morning and took my hard drives from my computer. I just freely gave it to them, because I knew they were not the same ones.

that wallpaper
that computer
reminds me of the one i used to have
:'(

i didn't ask for this nostalgia feels