The US in the 90s was 500% more woke than today.

Not in terms of policy, perhaps, but in terms of outlook and spirit. That progress would happen was never in question- only how long it would take. Backsliding into Nazi shit was not a possibility. American democrats today routinely say things that would have gotten republicans crucified in the 90s.

To everyone ready to tell me how much worse things were in the 90s- yes, I know- I was a foreigner living in the US during more than half of that decade.

The difference is that the promise of America was still alive then and even those of us who weren’t in the “in group” knew a better world was right around the corner- that shit is dead and buried now.

You’re letting people with the mentality of spoiled school children scare you into inaction

Correct. Ignore the weeb downvotes.

Cut that shit out. There is a DIRECT line from Reagan to Bush to Trump- and it’s American citizens’ inaction that allowed it to play out.

BIG lol at anyone who thinks voting is the way to fix this.

100%. American liberals really do think this is just more of the same old Bush-era GOP misbehavior and are responding to it as such.

“Or any country,” you asked. The fuck?

No. Interesting choice of question. Feel free to engage with the topic.

Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared: Season Two

Revolutionary France. Civilians used community policing (backed by the threat of force) to force changes to the army uniform. There were activists in revolutionary cities openly confronting troops, checking their uniforms, and in some cases escalating to violence if soldiers didn’t display rhe blue/white/red cockade. Thy distributed pamphlets persuading people that wearing the revolutionary colors was a shorthand for allyship and after not too long the army basically had to adopt it as official or expect their troops to be harassed at best or attacked in the street at worst (Schama, 1989).

Other examples- civilian pressure successfully forcing the Iranian military to replace monarchist uniform insignia with Islamic iconography after the Shah fell in 1979, Chinese citizens physically attacking soldiers for displaying traditional insignia rather than (later-officially-adopted) Maoist symbols in the 1960s, civilian nationalist groups in Ghana forcing a redesign of military uniforms to remove British colonial styling….

Now move the goal posts. Do it.

Someday I’m going to make a movie called Momento and it won’t matter what a piece of shit it is, it’ll end up selling plenty of copies simply because people don’t know words.

Better just roll over and take it then, eh? Coward.

On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.

“American citizens allow their military to use white supremacist Jerusalem cross on its propaganda”

“Americans allow Marco Rubio to ban Calibri font for being too DEI”

So are their voters.

What are you basing this on

I SHOULD be into it for those reasons- I grew up on Atari, NES, and SNES and am nostalgic to a fault.

And I very clearly remember looking at things like this:

and thinking “why can’t I get the TV to look like the box art?”

I’ll take the image image on the left:

Or on the right:

ANY day.