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.
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.
They’re terrible people and racist…
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.
I’m guessing you either aren’t American or you aren’t and Evangelical Christian.
Straight White Christian Men
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?
Purpose of a system is what it does. This is real christianity too, regardless of the theory they might or might not have.
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”
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.
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.
and the usa got a deadly plague death (last one was 2007)
One of the few things becoming great again in america these days.
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.
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.
I can’t get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
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.
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.
Tfw you were born too late to get blown up in Korea
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.
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.
This true. Drugs are another tool to oppress people. The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
It’s been well over a decade since I had to take a drug test for a job.
The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
The more money someone makes, it’s also the less likely they’re working a job where people can be seriously harmed or killed by the direct, immediate effects of their behavior on the job. Jim from Sales being on smack is less likely to cause injury or death in the short term than forklift driver Klaus being on smack.
Drug tests penalize people for what they do on their own time. They’re a stick used to beat the proles.
Someone blasted at work is a problem. Klaus getting blasted off shift isn’t.
Secondary affects are probably worse, and more diabolical. Why kill one person when you could kill millions! Klaus running over Andy while blasted is less evil than the guy who put lead in gasoline.⛽️ Sure it’s easier to imagine, but one tear doesn’t make an ocean.
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.
Are you sure about them not wanting polio to return? Anti-vaxxers are calling for it to happen.
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No, you can include polio too. They don’t want the autism shots.
Wine and Valium were a housewife’s best friends back then.
Don’t forget the face massager
“Face” lol
Except polio this seems pretty modern
Lol, it’s coming
we have long covid
rkj wants to make it great in america again.
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?
the good old time, I miss it very much
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.
