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[–] Liljekonvalj@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

A shit ton of drugs sounds amazing tho

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

In the past all was better, even the future

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 115 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.

I don't understand how people can want to live in that world.

[–] Xoriff@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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).

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

They're terrible people and racist....

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Straight White Christian Men

Straight White "Christian" Men*

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there some sinister reason why the low point was 1905 or so?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

"I sent a postcard to my gram gram from the lynching I went to this weekend"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the whole world smells like cigarettes and leaded gasoline

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Who knows, maybe polio will have a resurgence. It'll go nicely with the measles surge.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

and the usa got a deadly plague death (last one was 2007)

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

One of the few things becoming great again in america these days.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't get through my day without a shit ton of drugs

This is still relevant.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)
  • Boomer: I miss being young

  • GenX: I miss being young

  • Millennial: I miss being young

  • GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

Millennial here. I don’t miss being young at all. Sure my body is aging, but it doesn’t make up for how much better I’m doing mentally and emotionally. Also I’m grateful every day that I’m personally sort of financially ok, unlike a lot of our generation and the ones after. Helps being childfree though, because having children would be extremely expensive.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tfw you were born too late to get blown up in Korea

kitty-cri-texas

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wine and Valium were a housewife's best friends back then.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget the face massager

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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
[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On the other other hand: segregation was still a thing

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean alot of male conservatives would unironically like these things back. (well maybe except the polio and the drugs I guess?)

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Except polio this seems pretty modern

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

rkj wants to make it great in america again.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Lol, it's coming

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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

When was there ever a time in human history since civilization started when this wasn't true?

[–] hobata@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

the good old time, I miss it very much

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fr I'm sick of people portraying the 50s as this majestic golden age. people pretended everything was fine

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

Make America Great Again!

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago

Half of this shit hasn't even really changed

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 week ago

Expose the pervert rich and powerful and let's clean up the billionaires after that.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] DelgadoSlims@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

So we're already back?

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