In the United States, if you knew where to look, the 90s was a cresting wave about to land on our heads.
Outside the United States, the 90s was drowning people en mass. The collapse of the Soviet Era grain trade sent millions over the brink into starvation. Multiple civil wars kicked off, culminating in grisly slaughters rising to the level of genocide in quite a few instances, as Cold War alliances dissolved. Advances in aviation gave birth to the Blackhawk helicopter and the hellfire missile, giving industrial nations an exciting new way to assassination and terrorize less developed populations. Unregulated agriculture unleashed wave after wave of toxic foodstuff and novel disease. The advent of the modern computing pioneered a new level of mass fraud, embezzlement, spying, and sabotage.
Westerners lived inside a ballooning debt bubble as the rest of the world got its shit rocked, looted, and ruined.
You said pick a better decade, not list all the shitty things in every decade everywhere. In the US, it was stable and relatively quiet compared to the next 25.
If I’m LGBTQ? If I’m in the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh or La Guaira, Venezuela or working the Kuwaiti oil fields? If I’m Yugoslavian or Chinese? The modern day is far superior to the 1990s.
In the United States, if you knew where to look, the 90s was a cresting wave about to land on our heads.
Outside the United States, the 90s was drowning people en mass. The collapse of the Soviet Era grain trade sent millions over the brink into starvation. Multiple civil wars kicked off, culminating in grisly slaughters rising to the level of genocide in quite a few instances, as Cold War alliances dissolved. Advances in aviation gave birth to the Blackhawk helicopter and the hellfire missile, giving industrial nations an exciting new way to assassination and terrorize less developed populations. Unregulated agriculture unleashed wave after wave of toxic foodstuff and novel disease. The advent of the modern computing pioneered a new level of mass fraud, embezzlement, spying, and sabotage.
Westerners lived inside a ballooning debt bubble as the rest of the world got its shit rocked, looted, and ruined.
You said pick a better decade, not list all the shitty things in every decade everywhere. In the US, it was stable and relatively quiet compared to the next 25.
If I’m LGBTQ? If I’m in the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh or La Guaira, Venezuela or working the Kuwaiti oil fields? If I’m Yugoslavian or Chinese? The modern day is far superior to the 1990s.
You also did not say pick a decade that was shitty for a specific group, nationality, gender, etc.
Ask a nonspecific generic question and then tell the people that answer they’re wrong by using specifics? Seriously, dude.