flamieraWhat was good while it lasted?
What was good while it lasted?
Skullgridend of soviet union to 9/11
Doubt the million or so Iraqis that died during that time period would agree
Re read the content I replied to, they were praising the period between 1989 and 2001
So you don’t want to engage with a literal what-about-ism?! Pff what has the internet come to, when dishonest arguments get shot down…
This word you are using, it doesn’t mean what you think it means. It’s not whataboutism to say “no you are wrong, that period you say was great, really wasn’t, here’s one example”.
Its me, I am them. I was praising that period. Lots of iraquis die constantly outside of the timeframe I chose and had stuff happens all the time. Doesn’t change the key factors of being after the threat of global nuclear destruction and before the stamping down of human rights in the west
Motherfucker, the black people were segregated until the 70s and early 80s. Get that propaganda “stamping down of human rights in the west” bullshit outta here.
Grab a book and see how the west has been at the forefront of “stamping down of human rights” throughout most of recent history.
the liberal international order
the liberal international order
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There’s always bad shit happening somewhere. I specified this timeframe as it signified an end to the looming threat of nuclear annihilation and before the start of the “war on terror” which signified a start of a ramping up of civil rights abuses in the west.
My view is biased towards the west, but everyone has their own frame of reference. I am entitled to my frame of reference, as are you, and you are free to post your own timeframe you believe is “good while it lasted”.
I was agreeing with you… but okay. The time period you specified is dominated by the largely uncontested ascendancy of the liberal international order, aka the West.
an end to the looming threat of nuclear annihilation and before the start of the “war on terror”
There’s an underappreciated film that came out during this period called Canadian Bacon, one of John Candy’s last films. Basically the president of the United States is trying to improve his approval rating as the military industrial complex is imploding and sending the nation into a recession, so he drums up a cold war with Canada instead. Its honestly a brilliant time capsule of geopolitical sentiments at the time, as well as funny as hell
We have ways of making you pronounce the letter O
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「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Omg, they were gonna actually give undocumented immigrants legal status, then fucking 9/11 happened and suddenly xenophobia popular again.
Imagine how much better that 9/11 never happened timeline would be.
2000 United States presidential election in Florida
After an intense recount process and the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, Bush won Florida’s electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost six million cast (0.009%) and, as a result, became the president-elect.
I lived through this, and to this day when people say that voting doesn’t matter, it makes my hair stand on end.
