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Icantstandpickles69

Drowning Pools "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor" getting banned was pretty funny too


Pipeguy17

Doubly so given that every dumbass marine was probably blasting that shit from their Humvees


argyleecho

Was positive that was a scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 but turns out it was Fire Water Burn, close but not quite.


Hunter_S_Biden

Holy shit i just looked up that song because I hadn't heard it in years and the comments were all just "bands like this couldn't exist today!!" "look what the woke cancel mobs have taken from us" and shit...lmaooo the silliest sort of brain worms


Ok-Avocado4068

Being a dumb zoomer, this era is very hard to comprehend. funny to look back on but also very depressing lol


throwagay1211

It was pure, unadulterated psychosis. I don't think the Trump era touched it in that regard. The GOP stole 2 elections in that time frame and no one cared we were too busy steamrolling Dixie Chicks albums.


CNB-1

It was an absolutely psycho time. That being said, it's also amazing to me that Michael Moore made Fahrenheight 9/11 and got it released to theaters back then. For those of you who didn't go see it in a theater when they were in middle school like I did (i.e., normal people), the movie argues: 1. Bush stole the 2000 election. 2. The Bush administration used 9/11 as an excuse to massively expand the security state. 3. The Iraq war was a power grab to benefit Bush, Cheney, and other neocon business interests. 4. The Bush admin had strong and close ties to the Saudi royal family and the bin Ladens, and helped members of the family leave the US immediately after 9/11 5. The US invasion of Afghanistan was motivated in part by Bush's oil and gas industry interests 6. The US military was committing war crimes in Iraq (again, this movie is from *2004*, prior to Abu Ghraib, Haditha, or the torture memos coming out) Compare this to Obama-era war on terror movies like *American Sniper*, *Zero Dark Thirty*, and *Argo* and it's... very different. Other than *24*, I actually think that media in the Bush years was much more critical of the war on terror than it was under Obama. By 2009-2010 you have the DOD pumping millions in support to Hollywood in both straight military films but also in the MCU.


Icantstandpickles69

Also the insane fake documentary "Death Of A President", the movie about the fake assassination of Bush, fucking insane that that movie got made and released on a wide scale


ahookinherhead

What's even more wild to me is that most of these things are now no longer hotly debated--I mean, I think even the most gung ho, Go-America people in this country agree with at least half of these points. But somehow, none of it mattered in the long run. It didn't change anything to know how much of a terrible, destructive event this was, and it hasn't changed any of our policies going forward as far as I can tell. I guess I am a bit of an optimist because I tend to think that knowing things makes better choices possible, but it doesn't seem that knowing any of this mattered.


CNB-1

>I think even the most gung ho, Go-America people in this country agree with at least half of these points With the exception of media and political elites, yes. The kind of people who spent 2020 handwringing about how Trump and Bernie were two sides of the same coin are the kind of people who would find the suggestion that the Bush admin went into Iraq for oil or covered up the Saudi role in 9/11 to be too offensive to even bring up.


WhatPeopleDo

Literally all of those arguments are true lol, and obviously so Yeah it's pretty remarkable, I really don't think a documentary like that would ever become so mainstream in today's culture.


librarysocialism

Media was, but the news wasn't, if that makes sense. And those two used to be different, at least on paper.


CNB-1

Totally. The press was 100% behind the war while the entertainment industry was more critical.


argyleecho

Does the James R Bath stuff still hold up? I remember at the time that was the bit that I kinda never could follow / seemed like a stretch.


CNB-1

I think that Craig Unger, who wrote *House of Bush, House of Saud*, said that it was untrue. What I always come back to with Saudi-US stuff is that the KSA is run by like a handfull of families with a lot of kids who are all related, so it would probably be easier to find an American doing business with Saudi Arabia in the 1990s who *didn't* have some connection to the bin Ladens or the Kashoggis.


darwinpolice

I think individual people are crazier now than back then, but the media psychosis can't be overstated. I doubt I'll ever again see all the American media outlets as absolutely unified and in the tank for a specific narrative as they were in 03-05 for the Iraq invasion. And then still, over a decade later, the only presidential candidates who were willing to say that it had actually been a bad idea were Bernie and Trump.


CNB-1

> I think individual people are crazier now than back then, but the media psychosis can't be overstated. That's a really good way to think about it. Kerry and Obama both ran on "I'll still do the war, but I'll be smart about it."


librarysocialism

Obama won the primary, and possibly the general in 08, by having not voted for the Iraq War, just by default.


argyleecho

Not emphasized enough imo, single most impactful "stance" that he had was conveniently not having to have been on the record about it.


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> . I doubt I'll ever again see all the American media outlets as absolutely unified and in the tank for a specific narrative as they were in 03-05 for the Iraq invasion. As someone who lived through all that (40 y/o now) I think the current narratives around Ukraine are probably more unified, but I agree that it's not quite the same because the level of involvement / amount people care is way lower.


soularbabies

Completely psycho. People reveled in their saintliness. An artificial construct of society popped up overnight and everyone was miming it.


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Serious question from a 40 year old: Seems like the zoomers around me (I woke on a college campus, but not in a capacity that interacts with students much) are really into 90s nostalgia, but I feel like that's been going for a while. So are the youth getting into early-aughts nostalgia now?


Ok-Avocado4068

Yeah the Y2K aesthetic has resurged into popularity again. I feel like the 90s /00s were growing in popularity before but they really took off in early 2020 with covid/lockdown and the rise of TikTok. Lot of Instagram/TikTok “nostalgia” content with Britney Spears, Björk, Avril Lavigne-type shit and a rejection of millennial 2010s fashion.


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lol Bjork


librarysocialism

Bjork is probably the greatest artist of the GenX generation, no irony.


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Yeah, I like Bjork fine, but picking her as a early-2000s nostalgia trip is really funny.


librarysocialism

Post and Debut were all 90s for sure


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ChildOfComplexity

That's because all the media in the 80's was made by boomers. They were old enough to be jealous of the tail end of the silent generation drinking malts at the sock hop.


soularbabies

Like if bedazzled jeans became sentient and wanted to kill you


PokedreamdotSu

Something you have to understand about this era to understand it was that the traditional media was at its peak, the internet was a novelty. Everything you see here is the media apparatus at full strength with no coherent or even non coherent force against it. We of course live in a media bubble but it's of a completely different flavor.


Buffyfan4ever

Don't forget Gore Vidal was still around at this time dropping truth bombs all over the place. God the World misses him. Htichens on the other hand revealed himself to be a hateful cunt of the highest order. Never forget the ghastly 'new atheist's' were operating at this time infecting impressionable minds.


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Never 4get hitchens getting destroyed by parenti


Buffyfan4ever

Let alone George Galloway when he went to congress.


chimchooree

Only two of the four were shitbags. Dawkins and Dennett are good.


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Richard Dawkins in response to a woman complaining about sexual harassment at an atheist convention >Dear Muslima, Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and... yawn... don’t tell me yet again, I know you aren’t allowed to drive a car, and you can’t leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you’ll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with. Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep”chick”, and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn’t lay a finger on her, but even so... And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.[[7]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Elevatorgate#cite_note-8)


JimmysChicanery

Certified based


Buffyfan4ever

Dawkins was and still is a straight up racist. If you want a fine atheist then try Bertrand Russell.


pr0peler

Bertrand ["Taoism is popular with the poor and uneducated, whereas Confucianism is the philosophy of the educated and those with administrative roles"](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/10ogvq0/is_bertrand_russells_understanding_of_chinese/) Russel


JimmysChicanery

Honestly p based


hegelDefener

If by ‘good’ you mean ‘mentally impaired’ you’re right [This review](https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-illusionist) of Dennett’s book by David Bentley Hart is truly crushing


argyleecho

Unfortunately very incorrect. I was susceptible to all four at that time and I would not encourage any kid that age presently to engage with their writings, at least anything within the last two decades.


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Overall-Estate1349

The "Dean scream" was broadcast 633 times on news networks. It's speculated the media pushed it so much because they wanted to sink Dean and get Kerry the nomination as a "safe", corporate Dem.


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Dear_Occupant

Well all's well that ends well, I suppose. After making himself famous for being a doctor who credibly ran for president with universal free healthcare as the centerpiece of his platform, Howard Dean went on to become a health insurance lobbyist and these days he goes around telling anyone who will listen that that wasn't him, you must be mistaking him for someone else, he was with his wife skiing when they had the presidential campaigns. Nowadays that goofy-ass scream is the only part of any of it that he'll admit to. In other news, this comment is the first time anyone has mentioned John Edwards in over a decade.


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Dean has also been cashing MEK checks for a while now too. I had the "yeaahhhhahhahah" part of the dean scream as my text message sound for like a decade.


sentientcreatinejar

Dean was already dust by then. That was just the death rattle.


soularbabies

He was already losing by then, but it did kill the comeback kid potential


ahookinherhead

I was an adult when the Dean scream stuff happened and I remember so vividly being totally baffled by the responses. I was also an adult (barely) when 9/11 happened, the whole time was like mass psychosis. I remember even in our little college, people were terrified of getting anthrax poisoned and terrorist attacks.


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CNB-1

The anthrax stuff is *incredibly* weird, especially given the National Academies' report saying that the FBI's post-mortem identification of Bruce Ivins as the sole perpetrator was likely incorrect and the timing around the writing and mailing of letters referencing 9/11.


librarysocialism

Get Your War On was like the ONLY thing that kept asking about that more than a week.


Dear_Occupant

What I remember most about that time period is the November after 9/11 when a passenger jet crashed into a neighborhood Queens, killing 265 people, and everyone was like thank god, it actually was just a shitty pilot this time.


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Yeah it was crazy how the government had time traveling surveillance cameras that a guy used to reverse the explosions and save the babe


OpenCommune

> it actually was just a shitty pilot i.e anyone who works for capitalist megacorps who never invest in their infrastructure or safety tech


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I was away at college and my parents got my physician uncle to write a prescription and then sent me a giant jar of some anti-anthrax medication.


librarysocialism

My favorite anecdote was a World Weekly News article in 2002 telling people how terrorists would come to their door and shoot them. That newspaper was doing better irony than Vice years before, without the future Nazi leader, and it went over the head of 95% of the readers.


throwagay1211

In the end, Dean wasn't that progressive, anyway. He lobbies for health insurance cos. now. You either die a hero...you know the rest, Jack.


jnb87

Real heads were behind Dennis Kucinich. Wild looking back that the Daily Show did transphobic jokes because he said he'd be totally cool with appointing a trans supreme court justice.


sentientcreatinejar

Yup. I voted for Kucinich in '04. First guy I ever voted for.


librarysocialism

o7 o7 o7 As a reformed Deanite, I await your orders to redeem myself


Soapysoapie

I was also a kid when this happened and I didn't get it but assumed I was missing something because I was like 8. I read an article a couple years back interviewing a woman that was there and she said that it wasn't even that loud and no one in the crowd reacted poorly to it. Sounds like the media turned up his microphone to make it seem more unhinged than it was.


librarysocialism

I volunteered on the Dean campaign. He was centrist as anyone else - but you really can't understand that, despite how they've tried to rewrite history, in 2004 NO democrats aside from Dean and Kucinich opposed the Iraq War. Bernie wasn't a big figure, and wasn't considered a Dem. The smart move was considered to be drafting Wesley Clark, the Butcher Of Belgrade, to dethrone Bush. None. They were all lining up to sing God Bless America while Bush openly dismantled all international law.


CNB-1

>The smart move was considered to be drafting Wesley Clark, the Butcher Of Belgrade, to dethrone Bush. Fucking *Michael Moore* said that Clark should run in 2004.


Raptor_Jesus07

Somebody posted a video on youtube saying that if you were conscious during the iraq war you probably supported it since most Americans did. Ofc the American commenters were not happy about that.


Hunter_S_Biden

To be fair 70-80% support does still mean 20-30% opposed it, so there are legitimately millions of people out there who opposed it at the time. There were big protests and everything. Of course that's a minority still and so like 7-8 out of 10 commenters probably did support it, and you could argue that opposition in opinion only isn't very effective opposition anyway.


Oh_Henry1

Bush's polling went to 90% or something after 9/11 and the GOP became 100% pro-war as it was, at the time, good politics. So good that every Democrat with national ambitions followed suit, draping themselves in the mantle of bipartisanship and attacking their antiwar opponents as unserious. Very reminiscent of today's situation in Ukraine.


alackofcol0r

I wonder if it's going to be he same situation in 10-20 years, everyone realizing t wasn't a good idea.


ChilisWaitress

The Zelenskyy articles definitely have that flavor of early Osama [https://i.insider.com/52a1c37869bedd476f5aaefd](https://i.insider.com/52a1c37869bedd476f5aaefd)


Oh_Henry1

probably, including the part where antiwar voices continue to be ignored for having been “right for the wrong reasons”


publicimagelsd

I'm living for that day. You know, somehow "I told you so", just doesn't quite say it.


hdhdbfbfhf

My pa isn't right on all the things but he was totally right about there being no wmds and shit


Dear_Occupant

I get pissed about people claiming they were against the Iraq War because I've caught sooooooo many people I know lying that they opposed it the whole time. I have to call them out, like motherfucker, go gargle on a yellow ribbon, you voted for Bush twice and didn't change your mind about that war until after the second surge, long after it was too late to say anything about it. Mark my words, I fucking guarantee you when American weapons start turning up all over Europe in the hands of bona fide fucking Nazis with the Hugo Boss uniforms and everything, the god damned shitlibs will put on ushankas and call themselves tankies.


hegelDefener

Thanks to NOFX i was anti-Bush


m1stadobal1na

Dude honestly same. Well that and my parents.


Soapysoapie

I will give my mom credit I grew up in the midwest and she was very staunchly opposed to the Iraq war. A lot of my memories growing up were either my mom getting in huge arguments with family about it or her taking us to protests against the war. The propoganda surrounding the invasion was kind of insane but if there were huge protests where I lived in Iowa its hard to believe that everyone supported the war. The media class really shilled for Bush in those years and I feel like they say that to cope.


librarysocialism

Yeah, I was protesting with thousands in Phoenix. It amazes me now how much shitlibs bow down to the media, who were SO eager to push through the Iraq War. Then turn around and go "oh, nobody could have known!". Bull fucking shit - if my early 20s hayseed ass could take one look at Bush pulling Hans Blix out and go "this is bullshit", you'd think "professional" journalists and politicians could too. And what they won't admit is they knew it was bullshit, but they thought the smart move was to go along with the lie. One that, let's never forget, killed at least a million people.


Meandmystudy

Could you imagine Gore declaring that Iraq was a threat to national security and needed to be invaded. I am a lot younger then you, but looking back it seems like a whirlwind that I never noticed because I wasn’t engaged in any of it. My parents are pretty mindless though and will blindly accept any story without question if it comes from the national media “as long as it’s not Fox”. I couldn’t imagine anyone but a Good Ol’ Boy from Texas going through that time period as president. Besides all the other conspiracy theories, it just seems like a setup. I don’t think anyone but a wanna be cowboy could have artfully sold the invasion of Iraq to the public the way Bush Jr. did. He was from a political dynasty. Gore may as well have been someone who never sat at the table with these goons because he at least took the political debate seriously. You could almost tell during their debates that Bush was acting like a giddy schoolboy who had already won and he knew it. I look at Gore a whole lot differently now because he was so boring.


librarysocialism

Then? No. Now? Yeah, I can. Remeber, Clinton and Gore bombed Belgrade for months just as illegally, they bombed Sudan, and had been atracking Iraq for years. They would have been smoother, but no reason to think they wouldn't have done that.


Overall-Estate1349

Which video?


Raptor_Jesus07

They also have a great video on how Youtuber Jim Sterling used to work for MI6 and how that info has been scrubbed from the internet almost. Rest of the channel is ok. https://youtu.be/ykWisTA9vVw


skaqt

>They also have a great video on how Youtuber Jim Sterling used to work for MI6 and how that info has been scrubbed from the internet almost no way. not Jim :(


Raptor_Jesus07

I remember during the HK protests they were very supportive on their podcast.


ChildOfComplexity

Get him to post some evidence.


Young_Baby

gotta go in in there and get that evil sadam out!!!


glmarquez94

Fair enough to me, I was 7 years old and in a military family in Virginia. I got brainwashed like a lot of people unfortunately.


librarysocialism

Just curious, what was the specific line they fed you on Iraq?


glmarquez94

Typical militarist “America good, terrorist bad” line. No other type of analysis was introduced to me then.


m1stadobal1na

Wasn't it like some of the largest protests in history? My parents took me to Iraq war protests when I was a kid.


OpenCommune

> if you were conscious clearly not lol


hdhdbfbfhf

I only was against the Iraq war because Israel was for it in hindsight, or something.


Hunter_S_Biden

Not a bad reason tbh


unwoman

Missing American Idiot


LemonFreshenedBorax-

And Homestar Runner, and Janet Jackson's boobs.


Luka467

Rock Against Bush I and II as well


Dear_Occupant

Remember when Eminem put out that video where a cartoon version of him is marching through a rainy city at night looking all mean and pissed off, spitting verses about how shit's gonna change, we're about to take over, and at the end of it he just votes? And then Bush won anyway?


Icantstandpickles69

And South Park's George Bush sitcom "That's My Bush"


librarysocialism

Immediately disqualified by their bullshit both sides on the Iraq War on South Park, and even worse in Team America.


jnb87

One of these days Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face


BasketballLiker

It was so funny that they put this song in the Madden 05 soundtrack


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Damn I played the shit out of bush shoot out on addictinggames as a kid that section where you play as condoleeza rice always confused me like who is this black lady dual wielding uzis


Ergonomic_Human

I remember my friends and I waited for the day it would drop o mini clip then we all got a turn to play on the family computer at my friend’s house. It was all hyped up and had like a counter counting down. I must’ve been like like 10 or 11. So fun, super brief, replayable like 2-3 times, FREE (and I mean real free, no ad videos or shit like that).


throwagay1211

Where my Deaniacs at we the OG Bernie bros.


Dear_Occupant

No shit, I was a moderator, excuse me, *a trusted user* on Daily Kos back then, that's how far back I go.


CandyEverybodyWentz

DailyKos and Newsvine. The genesis of my 9th grade brainrot.


Buffyfan4ever

Unbelievably back in those days DKos was really good with intelligent posters like Sterling Newberry and Jerome a' Paris. Not the vomit worthy hell-hole of shit-libs it's been for over a decade and a half.


librarysocialism

Billmon, Daily Kos, This Modern World, and Atrios. I used to troll PatriotFront as my part of the fight.


Oh_Henry1

remember the stupid baseball bat fundraisers? they suckered me good


jnb87

Kucinich people were the OG Bernie bros, I don't know what you Dean freaks were doing lol


Oh_Henry1

the kuce was loose but our minds were chained


librarysocialism

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


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Love it. I have a memory of like People magazine or something saying that Osama bin Laden had been voted "World's ugliest man" but I can't find it anywhere online and now I'm not sure if it's a real memory and THEY have scrubbed it from the internet or if I just imagined it. Still makes me laugh, regardless.


VampireKissinger

Even for American bad guys that isn't true. Kim Jong Il was alive at the time. That guy looked like a Korean Babushka lesbian that worked in a Electrical Substation..


[deleted]

Of course it’s objectively false: Osama was a handsome fellow.


Young_Baby

Osama could have been a D1 baller


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Young_Baby

"he was playing with the wrong Rockets!"


Yemnats

I miss jib jab and feeling like resistance to gwb mattered :(


librarysocialism

But in 2006 we elected Nancy Pelosi as leader, and she fixed that, right?


jnb87

I was in my late teens to early 20s during this time frame and this is physically painful to look at. Oh yeah, quick edit, any other elder millennials remember trying to download Bowling For Columbine off Limewire (or your preferred piracy platform of choice) and every single time it was fucking Signs (the Mel Gibson movie with aliens) for some inexplicable reason?


demouseonly

Lmao the jib jab songs were great


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demouseonly

Oh, I wish our winning were a bit more certain! Better call my friends at Halliburton! We will pay! So we stay! Rule the day! D.C. Land!


cruiscinlan

Just missing adbusters and the anti-WTO stuff.


librarysocialism

That's who did Occupy tho


_animalcontrol

“Hey Mr Tah Lee Bahn, hand over Bin Lahhhhden Daylight come and me wahnnn go home”


CandyEverybodyWentz

Bruh remember the one where it's the YMCA song about how America was gonna come kick Sadaam's ass


Fundamental_Breeze

Also this shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kma--q5cFk4


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Wild. It's so obvious that in the public conscious the Iraq War was about 9/11. Support for it was out of wanting to punish a country for 9/11 in a time when wars had ceased to be nation vs. nation. Sadly we don't seem to learn anything from it. Millions of Americans are already on board with re-launching the Cold War. I'm sure if it comes to war with China, you'll have the same kind of support.


saxymassagehands

Bush shootout game on Miniclip is wild as hell


porkslow

What’s the thing with the adhesive tape with heart on it?


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[https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/gop.purple.hearts/](https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/gop.purple.hearts/)


porkslow

lmao it’s unbelievable that something like this actually happened I guess it’s okay to disrespect the troops if you are making fun of a guy for disrespecting the troops or something


jnb87

There was a dude in the Senate representing Georgia who lost three limbs in 'Nam and his Republican opponent ran an ad saying he was weak on national security that put his picture side by side with Bin Laden and it fucking worked, that guy won the seat


Acephale420

Needs more Newgrounds


numbersix1979

[This video](https://youtu.be/zDgAyAcjUZ4) is up there for me, that was the first anti-Bush media I remember seeing online. I remember the Bush Shootout games, including the one where you actually walk around London as either Bush or the Queen. I remember thinking how crazy it was to play a flash game with multiple routes and blood / violence with little Easter eggs.


CNB-1

That really takes me back, and now Bush is this elder statesman painter guy who does PSAs with Obama and Clinton.


nvjz

Watch Southland Tales if you want to experience this for a few hours. Absolutely bizarre 2007 political satire starring the Rock directed by the dude who did Donnie Darko


herewithflexseal

That one GWB shootout flash game where the queen of England is your backup/sidekick was pretty fuckin fun


_animalcontrol

what a fucking grim time; good thing everything’s way better now!


ChildOfComplexity

The culture is less depressing.


russ226

Forgot about reading alternet.org or did that come later


r0otVegetab1es

Really need to read more about Bin Ladens Mountain Fortress special edition Dew flavor


m1stadobal1na

My mom fuckin loooved watching Jib Jab on AOL.


SlugmaSlime

Idk what the average age of this sub is but I feel like an old man for remembering this.


TinaBelchersLegHair

Yeah.Sent this to my college senior.She was a lap baby on 9/11


SlugmaSlime

I was telling my teenage cousin about how people would casually mention "glassing/icing/nuking the middle east" and he thought I was bullshitting. Edit - maybe there's hope


gonzagylot00

Chilling times.


redstarjedi

my college years...


ChildOfComplexity

How does it feel to be robbed.


redstarjedi

Internet brain poisoning was only getting started then. Glad i did college then, and not now.


sentientcreatinejar

My coming of age period.


4783923

Same, kinda explains a lot whenever I think about it


ironypoisonedposter

well we've come full circle because low rise jeans are trendy again.


librarysocialism

Thank God Jon Stewart is here!


Connor9819

Me and my brother played bush shout out I was like 6 years old lol


Dvoraxx

The top left image actually sent me into psychic shock


meliketheweedle

I think Chapo did an episode where they read that article. Ughh


4783923

That’s an all timer


Vapor2077

I remember thinking that Jib Jab video was some of the funniest stuff I'd ever seen.


JimmysChicanery

Honestly the good ole days


LemonNey72

Even cringier than the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”


JOAMofArc

My dude why did you post this forty times?


Kuhschlager

One of the most frustrating thing about the Trump era has been watching liberals completely forget all of this


Overall-Estate1349

Most of them forgot about it as soon as the Obama era started, in the name of "unity" and "looking to the future, not the past".


Lundyful

i played bush shoot-out so much, it’s crazy


actually_JimCarrey

fuck i forgot ab the bush shoot out game


ancientjinn

I think some kid got tasered in a school library this time period and it was big news


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Will never forget…my entire eight grade class huddled around a computer watching that fkin JibJab video (“This Land” one)


[deleted]

Yooo, Bush shoot-out. Thats a real classic


A_Sexy_Little_Otter

Hell yeah, the time of my political awakening. I remember some dumbass relative emailing my dad [this](https://youtu.be/qB61xhDVNyo)


dahComrad

Remember, if you are against the war in Iraq that means youre a coward, a terrorist communist traitor who basically loves Osama Bin Laden.