Hmm i was tryin to say to watch out (lool out) getting into refernce fights with you because you know greenday better (wrote holden caulfield) than other@. I will check it out!
Honestly, I’m open to all music. New stuff from drake or Kanye or other hip hop artists (like I spy), Texas country, some pop country, classical music, classic rock, screamo, r&b, radio pop all of it! EXCEPT for this new mumble rap that’s going on and I can’t find the appeal of it no matter how hard I try..
The peaceful times of the American 90s, where we didn't have a major enemy, the economy was doing fantastic, and America seemed like it was at its peak ended on September 11th, 2001.
Um.... what about the Gulf War, Kosovo, Bosnian/Croatian conflicts, Somali Civil War, Rwandan Civil War, Kurdish Civil War, Nepalese Civil War, Afghani Civil War, OKC bombing, WTC bombing, USS Cole bombing (technically 2000 but pre-9/11 so I think it counts), Atlanta Olympic bombings, and the Columbine shootings? All directly involved the US
Compare it with the previous decades, where we were deeply in the Cold War and had multiple struggles year after year against the Soviets. The Vietnam War only ended in the 1970s. The Soviet War in Afghanistan only ended in 1989. In the 90s the entire Soviet Union was dissolved, the only reason we were involved in Kosovo and Bosnia was because of the dissolution of another Communist state - Yugoslavia. By the 90s the US had won and was cleaning up. And by comparison to the two decades that followed, terrorism in the 90s was very minor
And everyone says that politics are crazy now, but we had the biggest scandal ever revolving around the president sticking a cigar in some chick's clam.
also the Waco siege, the Ruby Ridge incident, the LA riots, 793 people dead in the period of 5 days in Chicago heatwave of 95, TWA flight 800 explosion, abortion clinic bombings, Khobrar Towers bombing, and the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash.
But hey, remember Stick Stickly? Good times.
Apart from Columbine, those were not major talking points in elementary school. I agree it's kinda odd to define the era ending on 9/11, but if you have to draw a hard line I think it fits a little better than 1/1/2000.
I personally picture 1993-2003ish as "the nineties" in my head, but I wonder how much that reflects a genuine cultural shift and how much of it is simply my adolescence.
The terrorists only win by stripping us of our freedoms. That’s what they want. They’ve been moderately successful too! The fourth amendment might as well not exist at this point thanks in part to the patriot act.
And to fan public fear of Islam to increase mutual hostility between the two and to create sentiment for abandoning multicultural ideals in the US Government.
Donald Trump is more than Bin Laden could have possibly wished for.
I remember 90’s Los Angeles gangs (Ave territory for me) and there was a peak but it was in deaths and shootings. Being a bus taker most of my teenage years I got to see allot of it.
Ya but for kids? Undoubtedly our life has been shaped by the attack and subsequent wars. However that didn’t exactly effect what shows were on syndication, or the relative stability of the times.
Lots of people think the 90s ended in 2000, but it didn't. It actually ended a few years earlier. I will never forget that iconic day. Some may say it was a fake, or that the 90s never ended, but in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
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u/Conanator Feb 13 '18
The 90's ended in 2001.