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).
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*
Straight White
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Men
What americans are doing is most of the time not Christian but rather the complete opposite
That behavior is not limited to Americans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the whole world smells like cigarettes and leaded gasoline
I can’t get through my day without a shit ton of drugs
This is still relevant.
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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
There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn’t have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren’t that serious.
Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I’ll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial
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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.
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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.
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.
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
My picture from the 50s is mom pregnant with No.5 (me), while dad is not in the photo because he ran off to parts unknown with the neighbor. Good times.
In the past all was better, even the future
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.
