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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Some millennials are over 40. Doesn't change the point but let's be factual here

Fuck I'm old :((((((

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm here with you on that. We got to see Biff in back to the future and now we get to see a Biff Larper as president.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All Biff and no hoverboard? Bogus!

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Fake Biff and fake hoverboards!

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

totally not not-heinous

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering Biff was based on Trump in the 80s...

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

He wasn't quite evil and stupid enough.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I envy gen x. Last generation to be home owners.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Not all of us.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm 43. Look at me go.

I was trying to think of some shit going down in the 80s.

All I can think of is Chernobyl melt down in 86.

[–] dominotheory@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Challenger explosion, televised straight into so many classrooms

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. Looking into this for a few minutes I now realise I've been completely naive to this for most of my life. It's an awful but fascinating disaster.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not the 80’s, but the early-mid 90’s were rife with evidence of the U.S.’s decline.

Rodney King beatings, the highway of death in Iraq, the rise to prominence of Fox News, the mass destruction of the ‘93 floods, all those communities destroyed by the shift to zero tolerance policies, and the deevoludtion of national political debate into contentious identity politics by 24-hour news channels.

In the 80’s you had Bhopal and 3-mile island, too. And the savings and loan crisis, I think.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Mutually Assured Destruction was pretty big at the time. The rot really started to set in with Reagan.

Yeah, you can change high-school to college, and 40 to 45 for me, but the point doesn't really change.

[–] bananabread@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com -2 points 1 year ago

This isn't about them.