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    1092 months ago

    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.

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      602 months ago

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

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      52 months 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.

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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%.

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    272 months ago

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

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

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      282 months 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.

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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.

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        102 months ago

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

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      112 months ago

      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. ^^^/$

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      112 months ago

      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.

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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.

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        82 months ago

        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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          42 months 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.

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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.

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    132 months 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…

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    122 months 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.