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- Aug 23, 2018
It's not just the 90s. Boomers do it too, treating MSM as a trustworthy authority even though if you ask them, they can explain they're biased and lie all the time, then immediately put the TV on and complain about whatever propaganda slop they serve up.It's been kind of a trip to me that you can see really clearly from some people that they've never been able to adapt to the paradigms. A lot of people I know that I helped cut my teeth politically alongside and aren't nucking futs have this weird mindset where they still act like the political landscape is the exact same as it was in 1999 - the Dems are still the counterculture in their eyes, all the Repubs are still Neocons, and so on.
The political landscape we live in now isn't the same one we had last year, let alone two or so decades ago, but they've remained sort of frozen in time. I don't know how else to explain it.
I've also seen the opposite. there's people who deny the 90s ever happened. I try to explain that racism was a non-issue, and only the most out of touch grifters (we used different words then, but the concept was the same) still played the race card and were mocked or shunned for it. This is especially noticible when the right shits it pants in the last few years, with the usual arguments about the right didn't do anything, and after a lot of receipts switch to "they did call for censorship but were justified". Not to derail the thread, but I recently heard Sargon of Akkad claiming that the 90s-00s ideas of liberalism don't work and could never work, basically citing the paradox of tolerance without using that phrase. The option of "things were fine until the government started mass immigration and insane spending" isn't entertained at all.