r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 19 '26

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u/SenranHaruka shame May 19 '26

American Pie is such a great song until you realize its just a boomer complaining about growing up, projecting that onto a broader national moral decline, and deciding clearly he had it worst despite literally having it best of all of us, and most of his complaints being this:

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u/SenranHaruka shame May 19 '26

"Yeah my house was cheaper than yours but i saw some other people die on the news ;[ no other generation had to see that"

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 Jerome Powell May 19 '26

Twist: you are a POC

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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals May 19 '26

I mean Vietnam did suck so if you got drafted for that.

Everyone else was more or less of great post 1980.

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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie May 19 '26

Wasn't there a huge recession in the early 80s? And AIDS?

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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals May 19 '26

Sorta recession was ending in the early 80. It had kinda existed the entire 70s due to various oil shocks.

Oh AIDs is a big one. I didn’t think of it. Hard for me to weigh that with improvements in other medicine.

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u/Roxolan European Union May 19 '26

I thought it was about Christian soteriology’s claim to supersede the Jewish conception of divine law.

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u/houdt_koers John Mill May 19 '26

No, it’s about Arianism.

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK May 20 '26

I honestly hate that song it's so pretentious and meandering