Abd we would get a scene where Doc Brown disbelievers that Trump is president
Marshall? It’s your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Mathers.
You know that sound about Aunt Debbie’s spaghetti you’ve been looking for? Well, listen to this!
Doc: Who’s president in 2025?
Marty: Donald Trump.
Doc: Donald Trump?! The dumbfuck?
Flipping on the TV
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is on
Donald Trump is talking about how he hopes his daughter is as fuckable as his second wife
“Mr. President!”
He finally won the Dem nom?
Though that was more on the second half of the 90s that it became popular.
The song 1985 was released in 2004 which is 19 years after 1985 and 22 years before now.
This made me feel old
I need to go take my medicine.
If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago… I knew they were brain-dead, just not that much…
If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
That was half the joke of the original movie. Biff got super rich off cheating at sports gambling and was rewarded for his sudden financial success with political authority, because the writers of the movie knew that’s how Americans respond to anyone who appears to be financially successful practically overnight.
Biff was a critique of the people who elected Ronald Reagan. People who were saying exactly the same fascist shit as MAGA Trumpies today.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago…
You must have slept through the whole Catholic Sex Abuse moment. The sex-crimes apologists were crawling out of the woodwork. Guys like Ross Douthat made their first nut trying to defend the indefensible. Half of the Peggy Noonan columns were just her whining about anti-Catholic bias every time another child-rape story broke. JD Vance made his Catholic Turn right in the middle of the scandal, seemingly to suck up to the rich Catholic fuckwits gullible enough to believe he was going to protect them.
Before that, you had the string of scandals at the Texas Youth Corrections office. And the Abramoff Scandal, which had an often-undercovered element of child sex trafficking in the Marianas Islands. And, of course, Epstein himself got off with multiple slaps on the wrist across multiple administrations, thanks to his DC (and Mossad) connections. All these people and institutions retained conservative support in the face of a deluge of accusations and a torrent of new victims coming forward.
Biff has a certain amount of sympathy from me. At least in the first one.
Biff engages in some morally unpleasant punching-down bullying. In return Marty breaks the laws of continuity and fucks up his whole bloodline.
Its a pretty disproportionate response.
He’s literally based on Trump
Marty doesn’t know that
some morally unpleasant punching-down bullying
Weird way to describe his attempted sexual assault on Lorraine.
Weird way to describe his attempted sexual assault on Lorraine
Rape. The word you’re looking for is rape.
Marty: “This is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try to keep up, OK?”
Proceeds to play Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas.
I guess you guys aren’t ready for that . . . but to your kids, it’s gonna be a hot one
“Hey Carlos! Carlos, it’s your cousin! It’s your cousin - Enrique Santana. Hey, you know that new comeback sound you’re looking for? Well listen to this!”
Holds cordless landline phone at the band
The song is Cbat, watch for the key changes and try to keep up
Funny the massive cultural change between the 1950s and the 1980s whereas it really feels like far, far less has changed between the 1990s and today.
Idk, the internet, smoking rates, queer issues, maga, americans identifying as socialists, mass surveillance, etc.
Marty would be showing up in the 90s with a mustache and crop top, confused as to why everything is smoky as hell and why so many people are calling him homophobic slurs, as he has to figure out how to get onto and use the internet. Also a lot of his slang will be incomprehensible to the people of the 90s
Edit: I forgot the biggest thing! Cell phones weren’t common yet. Getting ahold of someone while they weren’t home or at their desk was unlikely to succeed.
I feel like it’d be better to say that the broad cultural attitude and even aesthetics havent changed too much since the 90s. You could throw me in my normal clothes (Read weeb shirt and surplus camo jacket) and there’s a pretty good chance folks would just assume I’m punk or grunge. While culture has shifted the broad attitudes have really only gotten bleaker if more socially progressive, but here’s the thing the culture that existed when my grandmother was 20 and what existed when my mother was 20 is for more different than my mother and I at 20. Throw me back to 1999 and I would only look different in that I’m a paranoid asshole trying to murder his own father.
Note I’m 26, just using 20 as a baseline since it’s pre 9-11 for my mom and 1976 for my grandmother.
yeah but in 1995 there was no broadband internet so going online to check or search for something right away was out of the question, no widespread cellular phone usage so no contacting anyone at any moment, no social media, I think the cultural change in regards of how we perceive the world as interconnected has changed
Yes. But we did have computers, basic social media, cell phones, and yes, we did have what constituted fast internet wirh DSL or T1 lines. No, it wasn’t “broadband” by today’s standards, but it was fast enough. Cable internet came out for consumers in ‘96.
Point being anyone going back to ‘95 would have little trouble understanding the world, and vice-versa. The big difference would be carrying the internet, CD collection, and movies in your pocket on a phone. I daresay there would be no small number of people who would prefer the ’90s to all the bullshit happening over the last couple decades.
Going from home PCs, early gaming consoles, cable TV, laser-discs, and a whole other shitload of changes technologically and societally between 1985 and 1955 IMO would be a lot more stark.
The lack of smartphones and social media would be a huge change for a 17 year old today going to 1996. That alone would probably give them difficulty in navigating society.
yeah I’m talking about widespread use of all of that
While you’re secifically right, that’s splitting hairs when compared to the wild differences betwen ‘55 and ‘85 - which is NO PCs, NO cellphones, NO internet, etc. and the point of the comparison was the differences between going back to ‘95 or ‘55 from the specified decades. NOT focusing on a single aspect of today vs ‘95 which, by comparison, is minor despite some 17 year olds having mental breakdowns over a cellphone addiction.
Well, if you count Lemmy as social media, I guess usenet is… tho it’s for nerds in universities.
I think a big part of that is how the 80s/90s had inherited a lot from the 1950s that never really made it over the 2000s divide.
So what you had in the 1980s was 50s revanchism that dominated mainstream culture while a strain of alt-media was growing in the cracks. And now that old 50s/80s culture has been fully strangled by an outgrowth of 90s/00s culture which has become the cornerstone of modern media and culture.
FFS, there’s a Hillary Duff revival going on. Won’t be long until Britney Spears is rediscovered and we have another Bush running for the White House.
Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.
“Oh he means an image macro”
Well, there was the entire newsgroup alt.memetics…
He’d introduce the music industry to the hip new sound of dubstep
Marty would say “no cap” often causing Doc to ask what the future had to do with headwear.
“Does everyone wear hats in the future? Did the ozone hole get bigger?”
I hope the advice he’d give is, “mind those Tide pods.”
Yeah, that’s how time and math works
Marty, please take me with you.
