How did it feel, seeing the dictatorships collapse and look at the newspaper and see good news?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco 1975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution 1974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_in_Brazil 1985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea#Sixth_Republic_(1987–present) 1988
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reorganization_Process 1983
Plane hijackings, gas lines/limits, mortgage interest rates over 10%, school bomb threats, …
We had movies and songs about nuclear war, Russians, bombing Iran, etc. because these were daily concerns.
Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…
Shit was wild, and often not in a good way. 70s fashion was groovy, though.
My town when I was growing up used to test the air raid sirens at noon on Saturday. Two 30 second runs, 5 seconds apart (so we’d know it was the test and not a real warning).
I used to call it the “noon whistle” and it was how I knew to come in from playing in the yard for lunch.
You forgot ozone layer depletion. :)
Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…
Okay, but we have all of that now, too. What was different?
You have got to be fucking kidding me. This is a snarky post, right? Not serious?
I already had them tagged as “fascist simp”
No - literally rivers were on fire.
And gay bashing was mainstream, fully tolerated, very common. Lakes were turning clear like swimming pools due to acid rain - kinda pretty, but totally dead.
Major optimism, like everyone was breathing a big sigh of relief.
Bit naive perhaps, but there you are.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
That said, it’s still much better today, just that power brokers never change - they just always look for the new way to sell the same old ideas.
The Hapsburgs didn’t go away, they just changed team jerseys so people wouldn’t realize it was still them.
