Thread 17973152

the stench of bad cigarettes and Jell-O Salads. no wonder boomers all became psychotic.

>>17973152 (OP)
that dude is probably a raging alcohol and beats his wife daily. their kid when he's 18 skips town immediately and becomes a roving serial killer.

I'm so tired of people on le internet pretending that 50s/early 60s socially center right liberal state capitalism, aka the golden years of the united states, were somehow actually secretly bad or something. literally the best time to be born in the u.s

>but muh black and brown bodies!!!!!!!!!!
the best period of a nations history isnt judged on how satisfied a statistical minority of their population was you retards

>>17973183
I'm sick of retards experiencing a decade vicariously through secondhand nostalgia and Golden Age Fallacies instead of taking a critical look at it. No the 50s were not hell on Earth, no the 50s also weren't some golden age either.

>>17973152 (OP)
that almost could have been my mother and grandparents in about 1955 except these people are obviously young and in their 20s while my grandparents were in their 30s and would have looked older.

>>17973190
Name a better period since the 50s/early 60s. We have cheap iPhones today but people are significantly less satisfied. Why do GDPtroons literally only care about moving money around? That's not how most people live their lives.

>>17973197
Today
>but muh brown people
Cope retard. We have cars that no longer spew leaded gasoline fumes and supercomputers that can beam inane bullshit to eachother at the speed of light. Your cynicism isn't mine or anyone else's problem

>>17973200
>mmuh leaded gas
you could have pointed out a practical advantage which is that modern vehicles won't horribly mutilate you in a 15 mph accident. you did not want to be in a car accident in the 50s, you really really didn't.

>>17973210
not only were the cars death traps but trauma care was quite primitive if you were in an accident. this was back when they would just wrap your entire body in a cast.

of course /pol/ glorifies an era when they could beat their wife, marital rape was legal, gay people had to live a lie and be in the closet, blacks had basically nonexistent legal or human rights etc.

>>17973200
Where in my comment did I say that 1950s technology specifically was the good part, you blathering retard? It wasn't, obviously. If you read above a 1st grade level you'd quickly ascertain that what I was praising was the sociopolitical elements of the 1950s, and the willingness of the federal government to manage capitalism.

>>17973231
Actually, we glorify the last decade of American history where mainstream U.S society had significant aspects of social cohesion, community tradition, behavioral standards and a sense of taste, style and politic.

>>17973240
>social cohesion, community tradition, behavioral standards and a sense of taste, style and politic.
That's a lot of loaded language with no real standard that reactionaries just abuse to drive a conservative agenda
>"social cohesion"
lmao, there were literal race riots in the 50s you moron

>>17970017
vgh the based wholesomearino era of randomly attacking and beating women at bus stops with a pipe wrench

>>17973197
>Name a better period since the 50s/early 60s
America in the 19th century is a billion times better but you faggots are all too weak and gay to ever romanticize that period. Deep down you're still normies who need to live off of tv dinners and nanny states.

I'd hardly consider proto-hippies in place like Greenwich Village in New York smoking dope and getting high on Obetrol and dodging McCarthy commie crackdowns to be signs of a particularly cohesive decade to be honest

>>17973152 (OP)
I'd make her be barefoot 24/7

>>17973240
I love out of touch posts like this from zoomers who never even call their grandmother on the phone to say hi, much less talk about the past. The 50s weren't leave it to beaver and not everyone lived in a suburb with white picket fences. And by "not everyone" I mean most white people.

>>17973257
>The 50s weren't leave it to beaver and not everyone lived in a suburb with white picket fences. And by "not everyone" I mean most white people.
my grandparents, fortunately, did and had a fairly nice life for themselves

>>17973266
Where they lived? genuinely curious.

>>17973269
Bethlehem, PA. my grandfather worked at Bethlehem Steel. i will grant you the 50s absolutely had its share of lowlifes like every era--the white trash who were always drunk, always in jail, always beating or molesting their kids, but there was always a containment zone where they were warehoused in and kept away from everyone else. in our case, Easton was the designated containment zone for human scum (actually the town still kind of is).

of course they still had no legal porn or drugs beyond alcohol back then which made for a big difference.

>>17973231
>>17973164
why do leftists always project their own broken upbringing onto others?

>>17973251
you see they still want at least a modicum of modern conveniences like cars, air travel, radios, TV, recorded music, electricity etc and aren't whole hog willing to live in 1850

>>17973251
The late 19th century, sure. Idk though something about the 40s/50s where it wasn't too prudish but still not socially insane was nice. The victorian era seems a little too much at times.

>>17973183
The economy during this period was only prosperous because European manufacturing capabilities were destroyed by the war and dumb thirdies weren't modernized enough to enter the global market yet. America in the 1950s was a bubble ready to burst as soon as competitive nations began to arise less than a decade later and I'm sick of pseuds groyper shitskins on this board acting like it was some geopolitical arrangement set in stone that would've remain unchanged forever if it weren't for those pesky libtards and their black jewish homosexual masters.

>>17973183
Most were living comfortably as long as they worked but that can’t be talked about because it hurts the narrative.

>>17973250
Outlier. Just like mass shooters today.

>>17973450
What narrative you dumbass? Everyone acknowledges that wages and costs of living were better. They just take issue without everything outlined in this post >>17973231

>>17973152 (OP)
op is a faggot so

>>17973250
compared to the 70s? fucking nothing.

>>17973254
Snaps fingers in Beatnik

>>17973254
>Mass import Jews from the holohoax
>They immediately create a homosexual movement in the US
>Ally with the Mafia to traffic underage runaways to your sex dungeons
>Get into occultism and start doing gaynal
>Think they're going to discover magic powers with jungle drugs from the Amazon
>Completely unhinged people that write about their drug fueled sleep deprived hallucinations full of bugs and oozing buttholes
>Get homosexuality declassified as a mental illness
>Start grooming young retarded boys to be your estrogen addled sex slaves

>>17974944
the vast majority of American Jews came here between 1880 and 1920

>>17973183
>tfw 78 year old black neighbor always speaks fondly about growing up in the 1950s despite segregation

>>17974947
>In the early 1890s, The Slide on Bleecker Street was known as New York’s “worst dive” for its “fairies,” young men who solicited other men.
>there were also such spots on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village.

I assume you know Greenwich village was a Jewish village

>>17974944
>>Mass import Jews from the holohoax
Stopped reading

>>17974998
Where did all the eastern European Jews come from that make up the majority of "white" people in NYC?

>>17975007
You mean the same Jews who made up entire ghettos in the city between the late 19th century up to the 1920s? Even so far as to be stereotypically associated with gilded age NYC?

boomer writers always mocked the consumerism and conformity of the 50s for a reason