the good old time, I miss it very much
I can’t get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
In the past all was better, even the future
And the whole world smells like cigarettes and leaded gasoline
Back in my day, we could drink gasoline right out of the pump. If you were feeling ill, you just head over to the nearby asbestos wall and give it a good lick.
Then you go out and yell racist shit and put women in their place.
Half of this shit hasn’t even really changed
On the other hand:
- Many of the pro-worker policies from the New Deal are still in place, and my union is strong
- The owner of that factory over there is in the 90% tax bracket, isn’t it great how he’s paying society back for his good fortune?
- Every other major economic power in the world was just absolutely flattened in a war, and our country wasn’t touched
- Because our country was relatively safe during the war, the best and brightest migrated here, and we’re now benefiting from their ideas and inventions
On the other other hand: segregation was still a thing
Yup, the 1950s was only better for white people, but there’s a reason that white people look back on it with fondness.
But, I’d guess that even for black people it was better than the 1930s. When the economy shinks, they’re the first to lose jobs. When it grows they’re the last to get them. In the 1950s things were booming so my guess is that black unemployment was low. Still, for working class white males the 1950s may have been a peak, for most other people things have just been getting better every year since then.
Imagine how good it could be if everyone got some of the things working class whites got in the 1950s: strong unions, good labour protections, high tax rates on the ultra rich, etc.
Yeah, but we did tax the everloving fuck out of the grotesquely wealthy, which made for a stronger middle class.
That was before they realized they could just pay our traitorous politicians pocket change to lower their tax rate.
I mean, this was before digital currencies. No one was actually registering every hand-written transaction. Everyone who owned a business big or small was definitely not paying the correct share
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I’ve never seen a more spot on meme. Though the “can’t get through the day without a shit ton of drugs” one has probably never changed.
Who knows, maybe polio will have a resurgence. It’ll go nicely with the measles surge.
My MAGA family member sent me an instagram post of a screenshot of a Mayo Clinic article headline that said measles prevents some forms of cancer, so we should just let it run wild.
Ignore the fact that the natural form of measles has the risk of causing too many complications and long term negative health effects to be considered effective, and the cancer prevention research is on genetically modified strain specific to fighting cancer cells. Naturally, the instagram post did not link to the full article.
One of the few things becoming great again in america these days.
and the usa got a deadly plague death (last one was 2007)
That’s the modern adult’s coffee addiction. “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my stimulant” should be getting us to ask why our work hours force so many of us to need get jacked up on caffeine just survive the morning.
Honestly, Do we even need the caffeine?
Since quitting caffeine, I’ve felt a lot better. I used to wake up feeling like shit, drink my caffeine of choice, feel mid until it wears off, drink more, feel more mid, repeat, have trouble falling asleep.
Now I just wake up feeling mid, and go to sleep just fine. Big difference is that I save a bunch of money, and have less anxiety, and irritability, from all the stimulants.
I don’t bother with the stuff either, to be fair. Generally it just stops someone getting more tired, especially if it starts to be more of addiction than anything else.
But I guess it all goes back to the idea I mentioned of people being afraid of the concept of not having 100% energy at all times of day. Instead of trying to find solutions we should instead be asking why executives and fuckers like that demand unsustainable hours from people, especially as study after study shows that a four-day work week with six-hour days is hugely productive compared to what we consider normal.
I have…thoughts.
fr I’m sick of people portraying the 50s as this majestic golden age. people pretended everything was fine
A full family (of white people) could still survive off a single person working, though. That bit was nice. Not the white people bit, obviously.
Because the country was rich post-war and subsidizing a lot of suburban families.
Maybe not the 50s but the 90s, for certain
Make America Great Again!
Except polio this seems pretty modern
Lol, it’s coming
rkj wants to make it great in america again.
we have long covid
I dunno, man… Cocain in soft-drinks and being able to support a family with house and car on a single income?
And it’s not like we’re rid of drug addicts, wife beaters or anything else nowadays…
A tough choice for sure.
Coca-Cola switched from fresh to spent coca leaves in 1903, so the '50s are about a half century too late for cocaine in sodas.
Meh… I’ll just have to put it in myself then. So not that different from now either.
Wine and Valium were a housewife’s best friends back then.
Don’t forget the face massager
“Face” lol
Are you kidding? … it was the great old days for Straight White Christian Men … they were free to be completely racist aholes, treat women like slaves, have as many children as they wanted and not take care of any of them, have the world at their feet, make a ton of money just for being who they were and they were accountable to no one.
The reason why the past was so great for a small segment of society was that it was so shitty for 99% of rest of the world
I’m a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.
I don’t understand how people can want to live in that world.
I’m guessing you either aren’t American or you aren’t and Evangelical Christian.
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Look what MAGA did, they pushed the narrative that the white man is getting pushed out of society. Even though the United States is mostly White Christians. They just believed what these bitches told them, didn’t bother to look at facts.
That’s the real crime.
It’s easy if you don’t know how shitty the other 90% have it. That’s the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn’t really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).
I dunno, I grew up with the “there are kids starving in Africa” spiel and other such lectures. For my family, it was more like the idea that “lesser” parts of the world had problems because they were “lesser,” and if anyone is suffering in America it’s because they brought that “lesser” mindset with them from elsewhere.
Different guy here but I get it. That sounds truly heinous. There have plenty of “socially accepted” things that I just cannot get behind because it’s obviously wrong. Like, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that maybe enslaving human beings, even when your society doesn’t fully count them as such, or hitting your wife is bad.
Straight White Christian Men
Straight White “Christian” Men*
Straight White Christian Men
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What americans are doing is most of the time not Christian but rather the complete opposite
Is Christianity what they keep saying or what they keep doing?
Christianity is Christianity.
What some people do based on a misguided and uninformed interpretation of Christianity is their own decisions masked behind Christianity.
Most Americans aren’t Christian scholars, id wager most haven’t even studied the Bible themselves, but listen to whatever their preacher tells them.
And if it’s anything good, still don’t attempt to follow.
Purpose of a system is what it does. This is real christianity too, regardless of the theory they might or might not have.
That behavior is not limited to Americans.
