Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)

(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)

  • zout@fedia.io
    7·
    3 days ago

    I don’t know what part of the world you live in, but the late 1980’s and early 90’s were wild, the whole eastern bloc fell in 1989, there were revolutions in the Philipines, South Korea, South Africa, and dictatorships in Argentina, Paraguay and Suriname elected democratic governments.

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street?

      My fault for not being more clear, I blame my countries national main character syndrome for that. Especially since it just hit me OP is technically from a Canadian instance, though I’m not sure the lived experience up there was THAT different.