Thread 17953261

>the 1950s were only good because the 1910s (especially the 1910s!), 1920s, 30s and 40s were that f*cking bad
How do you cope with the 1950s being good by sheer chance?

>>17953261 (OP)
>How do you cope with the 1950s being good by sheer chance?

Maybe in North America.

Life in Europe in 1950 wasn't that great.

>>17953261 (OP)
>cyclic history

>>17953261 (OP)
stop looking at propaganda pictures and pretending they are the whole reality of a decade

>>17953908
It's not even propaganda, it's advertisements for product to generate hype for next product.

>>17953931
what's that image selling, a dad? It's both

>>17953931
If you have to say "it's not propaganda" it's propaganda.

>>17953931
>advertisements are not propaganda

This statement is literally only true for the US.

>>17953261 (OP)
>life was good right after killing millions of nazis
Based.

>>17955059
Do you consider the Japs and other east Asian civilizations to be white?

>>17953261 (OP)
Seems like the late 1940’s were better than the 1950’s because there were some clear social issues that were bubbling under the surface in the fifties that boiled over into the sixties. I would prefer the last few years of the decade of the 1940’s if given a choice.

>>17953261 (OP)
The 1950's (after the Korean war) are viewed as a good time because it was the last decade where white people were considered the main demographic to please in the us by the establishment

The 50s can't be generalized as inherently good or bad. Most people only see this decade through the lens of Norman Rockwell paintings and Coka-Cola ads instead of taking a critical look at it
Sure there were good times, but it was hardly a utopia. Race riots still soured the early part of the decade and the Eisenhower Recession soured the later part of the decade. It was the era of cheap mass produced houses with drywall that molded and fell apart by the 1980s and even cheaper made sheet metal rust bucket cars like the Ford Edsel that nobody bought.
Just remember this, every decade you don't like, is a consequence of the previous decades you do.

US benefited greatly from WW2 while coming out of it mostly unscathed. It's competitors suffered far more destruction. As those nations recovered, the US would fall behind them in many metrics.

>>17957088
Yup. Property was cheap and the economy was at its peak. Then 10 years later you have cities trying to tax these people into oblivion to pay for nignog welfare

>>17957095
>Property was cheap
No it wasn't, soldiers coming home from the war benefitted greatly from the GI bill giving them low-interest loans for houses
>and the economy was at its peak.
By no definition of "peak" is this true