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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 152 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Don't forget about the intentional lack of people of color in this image!

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago

"We had to leave the city to get away"

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

"Well look at that negro. Why is he walking around without supervision?"

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Unless you're Norman Rockwell whome I think this artist is trying to be.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 110 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

Or there's the fact that union membership peaked in the 50s.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What they mean is that they wish they could be the grandfather

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah they’re pissed that the cycle got broken and they never got their turn.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

tbqf me too

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't seen that one before. Is it "to be quite fair"?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Duranie 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Self titled EP

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, I had "Frank" instead of fair. Not enough people use frank D:

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

To be queer, Frank.

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The drugs and child abuse ones are still accurate.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

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@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 month ago

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@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit, let's go back to the 1850's! Then, i don't have to pay my "employees" shit!

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] nifty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Homescool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's only one thing Republicans want back. Minorities and women knowing their place

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am watching the handmaids tale right now. holy shit.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

So wholesome.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] thunderous_applause@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Basically the plot of Mad Men

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well grandpa seems to be enjoying it.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago

Brining that trench energy and undiagnosed PTSD to family life

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

I finally understand MAGA.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's natural to remember the hits.

If you ever go back and review the whole catalogue, you won't be nearly so impressed.

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

back to the '50s*

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bottom right two is exactly what they want.

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