The Decade You Were Born: The 1980's (2011) Poster

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4/10
Disappointed!
Marynewcomb20136 March 2023
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As someone who not only loves this decade, but also grew up during this time, I am disappointed! I could not make it past the first 25 minutes of this!! It talks about different things in the decade before settling in on Ronald! It lets his lie speech play & does not mention how government grew under his two terms!! It also doesn't mention during this time on how Ronnie boy almost started nuclear war because he would not listen! He really pissed off the USSR during talks his first term!! It also doesn't mention his failed Star Wars project!! Also didn't ment how at the end of his presidency, the deficit was higher than when he took over for Carter!!

After it does Ronnie, it goes straight into IBM computers! It failed to mention the cost of one & how only a few had computers back then!! The narrator also lied about the average cost of gas in 1980!! Watch the show Chips season 3, later half of season & season 4! These seasons had been filmed between 1979 & 1981!! In these episodes, you will see gas prices on signs as they ride through LA saying $.79-$.89!! It wasn't until 84/85 that my parents were talking about gas hitting a dollar a gallon!! I remember very well because I thought a dollar was bad for gas!!

I wish they would just get the accurate information instead of inflated nonsense!!
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1/10
Myopically White Centric
rigglord-1940428 July 2023
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Completely over looks Black, Hispanic and Latino history, political and cultural movements born in the 70s and 80s. BBoys and BGirls are developing a worldwide movement that continues to this very day.

The narrator breathlessly turns to the Olympics and the US hockey team as a point to help turn around US and the economic depression is laughable. Reagan's trickle down theory has paved the way to one of the greatest spectacles of avarice by the 1% and corporations on the backs of the American people. The series represents the worse of cherry picking of history and glossing over the deep problems that lead today's contemporary problems.
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