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Except polio this seems pretty modern
Lol, it's coming
we have long covid
rkj wants to make it great in america again.
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.
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
they always knew, they just stopped for a bit while the state fixed things up for the new deal. then back to the ouroboros dance of capitalism.
A shit ton of drugs sounds amazing tho
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.
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.
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They're terrible people and racist....
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I can't get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
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When you get older, pretty sure you’re going to say the same thing….
“Man, the 2020’s were so nice, such a simpler time…. Back when genocide was in vogue and child molesters controlled the world.”
When was there ever a time in human history since civilization started when this wasn't true?
In the past all was better, even the future
The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:
Is there some sinister reason why the low point was 1905 or so?
christians thought that left-handedness was "sinister" and associated to the devil, so they made it illegal.
Edit: i know it sounds like a joke, but it is not. this is not the onion. that's the actual reason.
Underrated pun
"I sent a postcard to my gram gram from the lynching I went to this weekend"
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.
and the usa got a deadly plague death (last one was 2007)
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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.
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Boomer: I miss being young
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GenX: I miss being young
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Millennial: I miss being young
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GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money
As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren't fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.
I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.
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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.
Expose the pervert rich and powerful and let's clean up the billionaires after that.
Make America Great Again!
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
Wine and Valium were a housewife's best friends back then.
Tfw you were born too late to get blown up in Korea
I mean alot of male conservatives would unironically like these things back. (well maybe except the polio and the drugs I guess?)
I would say the drugs is a class thing…drugs are classy if youre rich, trashy if you’re poor.
I’m not USAian, but still.
Poor people are "crack heads", "junkies", and "drunks".
Rich people "have fun at parties", "Suffer from opioid abuse disorder", or are a "lush"...
Same shit, different tax bracket.
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the good old time, I miss it very much
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