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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Forget both of them, I want to hear from the dude who showed up to the presidential event in the bucket hat

[–] Bruja@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

He left a funny custom blown glass pipe at my place in the early aughts and I've been trying to get it back to him. But also been using it in the meantime so not in any rush. Who are we talking about again?

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

And Vivek has a dude in a college football hoodie behind him lol. It's like a photo op for each side.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 420LetPobedy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bez has actually ran as an MP

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, I remember that!

[–] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I think that's the lead singer of the Spin Doctors

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Two insufferable nerdlingers you'd push into a locker.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

These two will be our choices in 2028.

[–] neo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Mr. Patrick Henry, I think I'll take the Death option, now. Thank you.

Step. Away. From. The. Lathe.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's an education system for the ruling class and an education system for the working class.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As someone that got a scholarship to the "ruling class education system" in high school, it really sucks ass. The people there are just evil, the schools (especially the all boys or all girls schools with boarding) are rife with abuse, and most of my peers were spoilt little shits.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I currently share a workplace with people who went to expensive private schools and they're like a different species. One of my coworkers told me she saw nothing wrong with blackface, since their school theater did it all the time when there were black characters because there weren't any black students to play the roles.

Also some of them had like Guatemalan slaves who'd bring them lunch or drive them around. Also they had stuff like a bowling alley and a full sized movie theater.

My high school barely had plumbing that worked.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

It really is a different world for them.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shit happened to me as a kid too. Only got into the elite school because of my athletics. I was the only non-white kid for five years in a country that's 95% brown.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me it was academics. I live in South Africa, so it's actually the inverse, the school was mostly white similar to how it is in your story, but I was the only white kid in the scholarship programme lol.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

most of my peers were spoilt little shits.

yea

I want the memory eraser pill

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Knew someone that got a super expensive AMG Mercedes for their 18th birthday as their first car. Just incredible.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Even if I was a little prick, at least I wasn’t that bad. I knew someone that got an airplane. Not a model, an actual “go VFR into IMC and end up in a smoldering crater in a parking lot, killing yourself and your friends” airplane. Which he eventually did.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I swear to god the early 2000s was the death of fashion, utter wasteland of horrors

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

The concept of a "metrosexual" was introduced, which was apparently a heterosexual man, but he... Showered every once in a while? 00's sucked

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Worst modern decade for everything vibeswise

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A decade of good scifi and not much else

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And on the flipside all the colourful outfits from then just looked super unfitting/ didn't match. See the women with neon yellow tank or crop tops combined with denim shorts or a skirt and fishnet stockings.

I just searched 2000s fashion on Google and already got like 5 matching results to that lol.

But at least that was better than mens fashion back then, men's fashion was absolute trash in the 2000s

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Was my main takeaway as well, absolutely dire

[–] christiansocialist@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sad part is that so many aging millennials, even some on hexbear, are always reminiscing about that shitty era.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

The aughts sucked total ass, show me to these “people”

[–] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

00s culture seemed like a backlash to both the depressing minimalism of the late 90s and also 9/11 (I regard the 90s as two separate culture epochs, early and late 90s)

We go through periods of everyone being sad and then everyone being vibrant and happy

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

George Michael Bluth spotted, circa 2004. dead-dove-3

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Of all the people that deserved to get tased in 2004...

[–] loaExMachina@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is something wrong with me if I first red "White Mouse" instead of "White House" on the pics and for a split second I thought it was gonna be about Stuart Little?

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

no there's something wrong with the world that it wasn't a battle for the white mouse

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Young Pete looks like Rittenhouse.

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

These people are so forgettable it almost doesn't occur to me that they were alive before their political campaigns. So far as I can tell, they crumble into dust the moment they cease being immediately relevant

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just realized that Pete Buttigieg looks exactly like Michel Cera

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Quirky teen comedy about being embarrassed by your Marxist dad

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Pete was about 22 there and Vivek was about 20. Pete's boyish appearance even today kind of creeps me out, given what an absolute ghoul he is.

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[–] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wait, who's Slavoj Vivek again? Wasn't he like, uhm, kinda white?

[–] loaExMachina@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you're confusing with Slavoj Zizek. Idk whi Vivek is tho

[–] StalinSuperFan@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vivek Ramaswamy is a republican presidential candidate

[–] christiansocialist@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I mean with Zizek's pro Ukraine shit and other weird takes, are they really that different?

same-picture

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Chapo Goes To College | Chapo Trap House | Episode 100 FULL

Chapo Trap House does a live show at Harvard University

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