• @Stovetop
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    Don’t forget about the intentional lack of people of color in this image!

    • @drunkpostdisaster
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      Unless you’re Norman Rockwell whome I think this artist is trying to be.

    • UltraMagnus0001
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      I don’t think people of color existed back then.

    • @[email protected]
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      I mean in 1960 the “non-Hispanic white” population was 85.4%. Not to mention this is probably a single family. Though making one of the people black for diversity would be pretty funny. At least there’s some women in there, but they’ve had to settle for two fifths.

  • @[email protected]
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    Hey now, they don’t want to bring back everything from the 50s… Suggest bringing back the tax rates from those days, especially for the upper end of the income scale, and they’ll look at you like you’re crazy.

        • @StopTouchingYourPhone
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          He’s a dumb nazi with a diaper full of McDs. Of course he’s angry.

          Probably takes 3 people with superiour genes and a tarp just to get him into a fresh nappy.

  • @PugJesusOP
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    581 month ago

    “I can’t get through my day without a shit ton of drugs”

    tbqf me too

    • @Stovetop
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      And modern Americans are doing their damnedest to make the polio one true again as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      During the 50s, getting divorced was frowned upon. And I was reading about how housewife’s frequently were either drugged/intoxicated to deal with their abusive husbands, or plotting to kill them.

  • @Passerby6497
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    I still can’t get through my day without tons of drugs. Have you seen the hellscape that we live in?

    • @mynameisigglepiggle
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      I think we need to start normalising taking lots more drugs just to cope

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        We did that already, late 60s into 70s… The music was better, but the musicians didn’t last as long.

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        We did that already, late 60s into 70s. The music was better, but the musicians didn’t last long.

  • @[email protected]
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    Ballpark numbers (guesstimated by ChatGPT). In the 50s (after the ww2 explosion of the US industrial capacity) you came home after an 8 hour shift in a fridge making factory and had an income that could easily keep up 3 kids (including education), 2 cars, 1 stay at home wife and a house (like in The Simpsons). Since then the work productivity has risen 600% - 700%, yet the average income has risen less than 150% and the median icome less than 80%.

  • @ChronosTriggerWarning
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    231 month ago

    Shit, let’s go back to the 1850’s! Then, i don’t have to pay my “employees” shit!

  • nifty
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    201 month ago

    I think they mean a single income household and being able to own a home

    • @RangerJosie
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      281 month ago

      Yes, but also what OP posted. When the women and minorities “knew their place” and the queer folks just didn’t exist in public.

      • nifty
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        You’re right some people do think that way, and others are convinced to do so because they think their worsening economic situation is because of someone else’s better social situation, when in reality it’s greed and oligarchic socio-political rule which ruins it for everyone across the board.

      • nifty
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        That’s the first part, the second part is to have oversight to prevent corruption and mismanagement

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      If you’re white, so you didn’t get redlined into some worse neighborhood.

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      Probably mostly for middle class white people. A pretty significant chunk of the population I think struggled to enjoy those benefits.

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        I don’t think about that because all of the culturally-produced content I have access to paints a steady picture of property and compliance. This is my mental model and my friends and I aren’t in the mood for a new story right now. ^^^/$

  • @LittleBorat3
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    1730 days ago

    The good old times that never existed, not in the 50s not in 2008, not last year.

    • @TankovayaDiviziya
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      I was going to say the 90s and 00s before the recession was better, but then I remembered it wasn’t great for the LGBT. Homophobia is casual and mainstream up until recently.

      • @LittleBorat3
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        You had 911 and these pointless wars and so on and I am sure in the 90s there was enough going on that I did not perceive because I was a child.

        • @Noodle07
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          Back when Epstein was the cool guy to party with?

  • @militaryintelligence
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    There’s only one thing Republicans want back. Minorities and women knowing their place

      • @InputZero
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        Yeah it’s scary how much of Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction turned out to be speculativly accurate. Makes me really worried we’re heading towards an Oryx and Crake future.

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          430 days ago

          Watching is so far, just the things they talk about and the names the group had before taking over the government are really a retrospect of what has been happening, and something the US is on the path of.

      • @_stranger_
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        329 days ago

        If Republicans could read, they’d be very upset

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    meanwhile they were doing syphilis experiments on black American and everyone else who were not white without a history in American slavery was deported.

    Shit times all around.

  • @Doomsider
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    131 month ago

    It is almost like if you kill off half the male population there is twice as much stuff and two women for every man. We just need another world war to get there am I riiight?

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      At this point, that war will be fought with drones, which don’t tend to discriminate by gender when they kill civilians…

  • @MellowYellow13
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    They want to go back in time? Okay let’s go back to before Europeans even arrived to America and natives were doing their own thing. Much simpler times.