Knx

2y

Ok you’re trolling

Aristotle

2y

Nah, you didn't ask a serious question. I'm done entertaining stupid questions with serious answers. I just tell you that you didn't give me a serious question and move on.

excitingvibe

2y

People don’t have to rely on each other anymore. This is creating uncivilized pieces of s*** who have no interest in coexisting.

afterimage

2y

lmfao

excitingvibe

2y

Replace “America” with “people” and it’s pretty clear that the answer is no. Things will just get worse and worse because people are getting worse and worse. For all countries, not just the US. And yes, it is because of the internet and social media.

tgdaddy

2y

honestly the majority of people one earth are better off now than they were in the 80/

HURRY UP K DOG

2y

America returning to its peak glory is a peak white-person statement

excitingvibe

2y

Replace “America” with “people” and it’s pretty clear that the answer is no. Things will just get worse and worse because people are getting worse and worse. For all countries, not just the US. And yes, it is because of the internet and social media.

campspazlo

2y

i'm talking 80s-90s. best music, best fashion, best tv shows. no wars.

we used to be on top and be proud to be from, i remember everything being good like going to the mall and just being able to enjoy the entire day there.

now most malls are graveyards

wtf is going on? we used to pride ourselves on being the best and the past few years we've been seeing a rise in anti-intellectualism since Trump

mfs think its cool to be dumb. covid showed how much brainrot had affected alot of the american discourse

we used to go fight in wars against nazis, now gen z is too busy making REACTION TIK TOKS and scared to talk to women

campspazlo

2y

obama was the last president it wasnt embarrasing to call yourself an american

Big Tobacco

2y

“no wars”

Do you have any frame of reference for the 80s and 90s besides Saved By the Bell and Seinfeld?

Skinn Foley

2y

Its peak glory was an absolute disaster for the "third world", socialist countries, the environment, indigenous Americans, non-white Americans, and the global poor. It was a ruse from the jump and America's best decade, the 60s, was brutally undermined by neoliberalism in the 70s onward.

You can be pro-capitalist if you want, I don't care, but the US made a turn toward fascism from the 70s onward and the results have been horrifying. The "peak" of America as you describe it was only good for wealthy white Americans. It was literal hell on earth for everyone else. Look at what they did to Michael Jackson, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, black America, the American working class, Eastern Europe in sum, and Iraq during this time frame. Absolute nightmare.

Elric

2y

Spot on except Michael Jackson wtf

Skinn Foley

2y

I don't think people realized that tabloids absolutely psychologically destroyed Michael Jackson. There is no public figure in American history who suffered from such an intense form of body dysmorphia than Michael Jackson. We watched and made sport out of the psychological and physical destruction of a talented black man because he was more famous than any of his counterparts and better than most of them too, which pissed off white American entertainment execs at the time.

Elric

2y

Didn't his father heap a mountain of issues on him before the tabloids ever got him?

Skinn Foley

2y

Not denying that

But many fathers do the same

MJ made it abundantly clear, as does history, that the media made rigorous and deliberate efforts to absolutely destroy this man. The American public and media made sport of tormenting this man and ruining his life because he was talented, famous, and black.

Elric

2y

Acting like Chappelle and plenty of black people didn't also roast him?

Acting like Michael didn't outright say there was nothing wrong with sharing his bed with children? I honestly do not want to get into this but I just think you're crazy for lumping MJ in with all those other things

Skinn Foley

2y

Mike is a creep

I'm not referring to those allegations

I'm referring to people saying the guy slept in a cryogenic chamber and making fun of him for having vitiligo for 23 years

Criticize him for what he's actually guilty of, not his skin condition and timidity. He was a punching bag.

Dave Chappelle is a bigot too.

Elric

2y

I see. Fame on that level will ruin anybody, especially when it's acquired so young. Tragic but not really on par with the other things about "peak America" you listed.

campspazlo

2y

obama was the last president it wasnt embarrasing to call yourself an american