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The decadence or the mid-2000s was pretty grotesque in hindsight

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read this as HUMBLERS at first
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it was 180 man
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It truly is not called out enough as the Gilded Age it was.
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cheap money flowing everywhere
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Cr. The big short did a pretty good job capturing that zeit...
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  02/23/18
too short to be a gilded "age". maybe a "gild...
rose hideous therapy
  02/23/18
Pretty CR, and thanks to that era my parents now live in a h...
Odious church
  02/23/18
Good to see some critical thought on this topic from you
Mustard excitant home regret
  02/23/18
more like the early 2000s
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Could be. I associate that with the somewhat humbler vibes ...
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Early 2000s had a shaky economy. Was not nearly as bloated a...
Odious church
  02/23/18
OP conflates some things. For instance, Nu metal had run its...
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weird hybrid bands like "avenged sevenfold" and &q...
Opaque space
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Yeah, shit started getting kooky when nu metal declined
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but "bro rock" (the heavily-produced, sludgy-sound...
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lol, anyone remember casey serin, his real estate empire, an...
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They don't have a "feel" for me. Like the 90s had ...
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The sopranos aesthetic. Flip phones, iPods, uggs, crocs, and...
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the departed and breaking bad also show this well. also d...
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jfc Bush signed the $1.35 trillion tax cut -- which inclu...
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I was in grade school at the time and even then I thought th...
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Then they tried to send out $300 checks in early 2008 like t...
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ofs Ludacris is hideously underappreciated in hindsight.
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speaking of baseball, i feel like post-2004 began baseball's...
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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

Cashed up proles barreling through the exurbs in HUMMERS, shoddy stucco “master planned communities,” nu metal and Atlanta krunk rap dominating the airwaves, watered down “preppy” style like Abercrombie. And yet I have nostalgia for this hellscape.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467235)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:11 AM
Author: Marvelous Factory Reset Button Point

You knew it was trouble when schoolteachers and secretaries were buying $1MM houses because their bankers said they could afford it just by taking out a home equity loan to pay off the balloon payment in a few years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469030)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:28 PM
Author: razzmatazz jade piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472769)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:39 PM
Author: Provocative Idea He Suggested Multi-billionaire

read this as HUMBLERS at first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473725)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:26 PM
Author: coral misunderstood lodge

it was 180 man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474855)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:43 AM
Author: Opaque space

It truly is not called out enough as the Gilded Age it was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467238)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: Adventurous Infuriating Area Mental Disorder

cheap money flowing everywhere

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467244)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:09 AM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

Cr. The big short did a pretty good job capturing that zeitgeist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467352)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:09 PM
Author: rose hideous therapy

too short to be a gilded "age". maybe a "gilded gasp" before downwards spiral

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471625)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:45 AM
Author: Odious church

Pretty CR, and thanks to that era my parents now live in a hideous McMansion that I despise and regard as somewhat immoral.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467246)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:57 AM
Author: Mustard excitant home regret

Good to see some critical thought on this topic from you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467290)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 12:58 AM
Author: glittery underhanded nursing home

more like the early 2000s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467299)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

Could be. I associate that with the somewhat humbler vibes of digging out from the tech crash and people genuinely coming together after 9/11 prior to neocon insanity taking over in 03ish. What is some EVOCATIVE IMAGERY you recall from that era brother?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467345)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:09 AM
Author: Odious church

Early 2000s had a shaky economy. Was not nearly as bloated and nuts imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467356)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:01 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant cruise ship international law enforcement agency

OP conflates some things. For instance, Nu metal had run its course by the mid 2000s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471558)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:04 PM
Author: Opaque space

weird hybrid bands like "avenged sevenfold" and "my chemical romance" were big in mid-2000s though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471593)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: Maroon arrogant cruise ship international law enforcement agency

Yeah, shit started getting kooky when nu metal declined

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471611)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:10 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

but "bro rock" (the heavily-produced, sludgy-sounding hyper-commercialized heir to "alternative") continued.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471633)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: olive range trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467351)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 1:29 AM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

lol, anyone remember casey serin, his real estate empire, and his wife galina?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35467496)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle puce cuckold tattoo

come to my seminahhh!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474865)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: Big cowardly indian lodge

They don't have a "feel" for me. Like the 90s had a certain look and feel -- as did the 80s (70s, 60s, etc.). What is the look of the 2000s? The 90s had grunge, what did the 2000s have? Seems weird that we will get nostalgia for the 2000s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468889)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:51 PM
Author: Mustard excitant home regret

The sopranos aesthetic. Flip phones, iPods, uggs, crocs, and big SUVs. Ends when the iPhone hits the scene.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471488)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: Opaque space

the departed and breaking bad also show this well.

also don't forget TRUCKER HATS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471495)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:59 PM
Author: White Disrespectful State Wagecucks

prole cool kids from your local public high school SHOWING OUT in Von Dutch trucker hats

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481217)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:27 PM
Author: Passionate Kitty Hall

Hoobastank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474298)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: laughsome hospital associate



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac chocolate ticket booth organic girlfriend

i agree. it's sort of what i imagine people in Florida are into right now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474864)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: Fragrant Boltzmann

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468902)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:58 AM
Author: Diverse godawful brethren keepsake machete

GWB telling people to spend money in response to terrorist attacks stands out as an example of this kind of ridiculousness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468922)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: Galvanic Plaza Coffee Pot

Can't forget him Booming away the entire surplus by giving everyone a free one time donatio like the most debased and corrupt Roman emperors did.

Could have paid off the deficit IIRC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468942)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Fragrant Boltzmann

jfc

Bush signed the $1.35 trillion tax cut -- which includes soon-to-be-mailed rebate checks of up to $600 -- amid the kind of presidential pomp he usually disdains: a formal ceremony in the East Room, with a Marine band playing "Hail to the Chief."

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bush-signs-1-3-trillion-tax-cut-bill-300-600-2913184.php

3 months before 9/11

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468973)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Galvanic Plaza Coffee Pot

I was in grade school at the time and even then I thought that was stupid as shit.

16 years of shit leadership due to Neocon and Neoliberal infiltration

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468981)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Diverse godawful brethren keepsake machete

Then they tried to send out $300 checks in early 2008 like that was gonna prevent the crash lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469000)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Galvanic Plaza Coffee Pot

There was a famous case in the 1900-1910's I think where there was a Great Depression style situation at risk of occuring - but the dude in charge of the finances in the country (Treasury secretary at that time?) decided to simply balance the budget, pay off the deficit and let everything sort itself out.

Deficit spending is really a recent fad if you think about it.

If we got our deficit paid off, taxes would be MUCH MUCH lower and create a virtuous cycle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469024)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:09 PM
Author: cerise hateful laser beams

Just that under Calvin Coolidge? I remember Libertarians talking about that being evidence of the success of letting Market forces just do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481262)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:58 PM
Author: amber nibblets

First tax cuts during a time of war. Then we turned around and militarized our airports. Has the TSA saved any lives?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471547)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:07 PM
Author: Cyan Stag Film

airplane terrorism would be down to zero with just one easy trick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471614)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:09 PM
Author: amber nibblets

Instead let's set up a massive federal agency that makes you walk around the airport barefoot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471627)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: motley house-broken theater stage

You can't pay off the deficit. We were a LONG way away from paying off the debt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474155)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

george w. bush's first budget projected over $5 trillion in budgetary surpluses over the next 8 years, which were to be divided between tax relief, establishing a social security fund (al gore's "lockbox" idea, basically), and paying down around $2 trillion of what was then a $5.8 trillion national debt as bonds matured.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35478902)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: Fragrant Boltzmann

loathsome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468959)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 2:17 AM
Author: vibrant fishy goyim rehab

GWB was truly the worst President ever. ljl at this cuck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35475615)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Exhilarant electric furnace

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35468995)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: Stimulating Idiot Shitlib

Those were my formative years. My main memories are:

(1) Liberals being completely unhinged about George W. Bush, calling him Hitler, being convinced that voting machines in Ohio were rigged, etc.

(2) A series of surprising teams winning the World Series - Diamondbacks, Angels, Marlins, Red Sox, White Sox

(3) Dirty South rap just DOMINATING the airwaves

(4) Hummers and big SUVs everywhere

(5) A million articles about how the "exurbs" were the future of America

I'm sure if I had been "working" in "underwriting" at the time, instead of being in high school and college, I'd have even crazier stories to tell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469047)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:15 AM
Author: Diverse godawful brethren keepsake machete

Number 3 was great though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469072)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:17 AM
Author: Stimulating Idiot Shitlib

ofs

Ludacris is hideously underappreciated in hindsight.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469086)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: Mustard excitant home regret

He lateraled to big Hollywood breakfast from his rap career just like common and mos def

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471501)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:22 AM
Author: Fragrant Boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35469138)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:54 PM
Author: Opaque space

speaking of baseball, i feel like post-2004 began baseball's descent from national relevance. in 2004, a-rod, ortiz, pedro, jeter, nomar, griffey, bonds were all MEGA-STARS on par with kobe, etc. Trout and Bryce Harper? meh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471515)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:46 PM
Author: razzmatazz jade piazza

nah u just got gookier

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472948)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Opaque space

nah, i still love baseball. but it just has no real star power anymore and nobody cares about clayton kershaw the way they do lebron or steph curry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35478821)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 4:28 PM
Author: Salmon Boyish Church Building Hissy Fit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35478885)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:28 PM
Author: coral misunderstood lodge

100% cr

when the yankee dynasty died (as much as i hate them) my interest in baseball diminished

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474869)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:59 PM
Author: amber nibblets

Fledgling hipsters popping up too. The whole new urbanism and first reaction as gentrification.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471550)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: Stimulating Idiot Shitlib

I remember this huge optimism that America's cities were back: there were new condos EVERYWHERE, apartments converted to condos, warehouses converted to hipster lofts, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471607)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:13 PM
Author: Opaque space

nyc hipster neighborhoods actually existed then. now williamsburg etc are just GC yuppie stuff with a mild twist (kinda like how today's "country music" is just GC rock with a southern twang).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471656)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 5:02 PM
Author: Fragrant Boltzmann

they were called METROSEXUALS at the time and they were all the rage from 2003-2005

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472060)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: Provocative Idea He Suggested Multi-billionaire

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473739)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:24 PM
Author: razzmatazz jade piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474273)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: Learning disabled self-centered station marketing idea

hipsters date to the late 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474317)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: Exciting Filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471759)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:10 PM
Author: vigorous selfie dog poop

Holy shit, 5 turned out to be totally wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472625)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: razzmatazz jade piazza

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472798)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

this was an ad that aired during the second bush administration for skinit.com. it has been mostly purged from the internet, but i managed to save a low-quality copy a while ago. i think this captures the mid-00's, pre-ITE "spirit" pretty well:

https://files.catbox.moe/alnxy5.flv

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35471530)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 5:04 PM
Author: mildly autistic geriatric menage

lmfao, ty this is the greatest thing of all time. mindblowing.

i need to personally upload this to youtube for safekeeping

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472079)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:08 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

youtube will delete it. the original uploader yanked it and shut down his channel years ago and doesn't want that stuff re-uploaded. i don't think he's a white rapper anymore. it was also on myspace for a while, but also got pulled.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472606)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:16 PM
Author: mildly autistic geriatric menage

wtf, that guy should be proud of this. he is a true wigger icon of the Roaring Bush Aughts.

i need to look into this further.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472679)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: Crusty at-the-ready whorehouse travel guidebook

4got about spinning rims

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472324)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:01 PM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

Lol holy shit. Also the heyday of the lifted “bro truck” phenomenon. I think 90% of those things got repossessed by the end of ‘09.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472533)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:17 PM
Author: rebellious becky twinkling uncleanness

Cr. Fake tans everywhere. Double popped collar polo shirts with cargo shorts and flip flops. Bush giving everyone like $500 one year. Was crazy time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472684)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:21 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

lots of stimulus package jokes. board monikers like "Bush stimulated my package." poasters asking each other if they were stimulated by bush's package.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472715)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:27 PM
Author: mildly autistic geriatric menage

my vivid memory of this era is from, like, 2006, visiting my friend in his shitty low-tier 'gated community', and witnessing this fat shitboomer's yellow Hummer break down on the road next to one of the many under-construction mini-mcmansions. i think he was a developer or something, inspecting the site, and he ran out of gas.

but as he got out of his Hummer, he sprawled the door wide open and left his stereo on full-blast, and i could make out that it was some kind of Christian "How to be a Millionaire" positive-affirmation CD, just blaring, for the whole neighborhood to hear. i listened to it for 5 minutes, observing this fat shitboomer in Crocs, as he arranged for a tow-truck.

it synthesized so much of that era: Bush's 'Mega Church' capitalism, housing bubble, Chickenhawk militarism (yellow Hummer), easy money, shitbooming, blackberry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472752)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:41 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNiWO5gsms8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472884)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: mildly autistic geriatric menage

lol, so sick. there are a lot of these 'documents' of the era.

it's eerie to look back on it. the 'mania' of that era seemed way more unhinged/disconnected from reality, relative to past economic boomtimes (80s,90s). people seemed like they were on meth. just not connected to reality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35472931)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

it was a very GAKKED-OUT era. there is not a lot of good critical commentary yet about the monumental WEIRDNESS of that whole cultural era. it really was a bizarre collision of a bunch of ridiculous, inane, unsustainable trends. it feels like society was attempting to glue itself together as it frayed, but the outcome was grotesque. faux-patriotism. patriotism via consumption. faux religion. religion AS consumption. etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473029)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: mildly autistic geriatric menage

yes. that was the final schizophrenic disintegration of whatever remained of the stable/white/suburban America that had been propped up artificially for so long, running on fumes.

Trump is just a kind of ironic coda to the collapse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473128)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 7:15 PM
Author: dashing mint resort

Thankfully we know better with our obsession about cryptocurrency.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473223)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:36 PM
Author: cerise hateful laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473961)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

Brother if you could link to some of that critical commentary I would be so fucking grateful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473926)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

i don't really know of any. it remains to be written. the whole collision of paperboard houses, paperboard religion, big SUVs purchased with easy credit, getting mad at the dixie chicks for talking shit about bush's wars, etc. - it's all so utterly alien even just a dozen years later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474191)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 8:43 PM
Author: Provocative Idea He Suggested Multi-billionaire

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473748)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:25 PM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

180 evocative imagery brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35473921)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: coral misunderstood lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474879)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: trip gay field genital piercing

This was my "era" as a teenager but I have so few memories of it. The late 90s were a much more vivid and halcyon time for me. I have spent my entire adult life trying to undo mistakes and get back to a lifestyle like I had as a kid in like 1996-1999

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474000)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: razzmatazz jade piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474189)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: cerise hateful laser beams

Destroyed my life

... Well at least played a huge role

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474129)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: self-absorbed place of business business firm

It really didn't feel decadent. The Iraq War was the biggest cultural force during that time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474153)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

lol, "flipping" mansions with insane leverage and giving mexican illegals 500K mortgages wasn't decadent?

https://www.cnet.com/news/casey-serin-the-worlds-most-hated-blogger/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474184)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:14 PM
Author: self-absorbed place of business business firm

That was like a Sunbelt thing. Things weren't that crazy elsewhere, my man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481282)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: motley house-broken theater stage

I'm glad I was in college then. That was the last time there was free expression on campus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474190)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: cerise hateful laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481272)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 10:36 PM
Author: snowy incel site

The implosion of Hummer as a brand is pretty crazy. It's kinda too bad GM killed it in retrospect, but the high gas prices at the end of the 00's really felt like they would be persistent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474375)



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Date: February 23rd, 2018 11:25 PM
Author: Irate cracking foreskin

I think the gas price spike in ‘07 marked the end of the era I had in mind in the OP. That was like GC’s warning shot before it brought the guillotine down on all of our necks in Fall ‘08

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35474841)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 12:03 AM
Author: snowy incel site

FJ Cruisers from the late 00's-early 10's are commanding absolutely sick prices rn

Kinda wish I had got one of those instead of a Subaru Outback

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35475068)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: titillating fear-inspiring spot

Fuck yea. I miss it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35475236)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:46 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

so many books like this:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41GHWqQ2lCL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

written by boomers who looked like this:

https://cdn6-thechristianpost.netdna-ssl.com/full/98700/img.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481132)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: Opaque space

my fav:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519NS7GTXPL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481143)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Opaque space

lol

In the days leading up to the 2008 United States election, Barnes was the only political pundit out of 27 catalogued by the Huffington Post (including Karl Rove, Alex Castellanos, Matthew Dowd, Ed Rollins, and George Will) to predict a John McCain victory for U.S. President (286 to 252 electoral votes).[6]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481151)



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Date: February 24th, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: bateful glassy school rigpig

https://ssli.ebayimg.com/images/g/GXQAAOxydlFS3bxi/s-l640.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3901300&forum_id=2#35481156)