• IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    102·
    20 hours ago

    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
      411·
      19 hours ago

      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
        41·
        19 hours ago

        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.meEnglish
          21·
          19 hours 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
          4·
          19 hours 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.

      • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 hours 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.

    • Owl@mander.xyz
      93·
      19 hours ago

      Straight White Christian Men

      Straight White “Christian” Men*

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      11·
      19 hours ago

      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.

      • Patches@ttrpg.network
        1·
        18 minutes ago

        Honestly, Do we even need the caffeine?

        Since quitting caffeine, I’ve felt a lot better. I used to wake up feeling like shit, drink my caffeine of choice, feel mid until it wears off, drink more, feel more mid, repeat, have trouble falling asleep.

        Now I just wake up feeling mid, and go to sleep just fine. Big difference is that I save a bunch of money, and have less anxiety, and irritability, from all the stimulants.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    303·
    20 hours ago

    • 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

    • Bunbury@feddit.nlEnglish
      62·
      14 hours 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.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      19·
      19 hours 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.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Ever since the “Nobody knows how to fix a car computer except a Boomer Millennial” memes started trending, we’ve surrendered our “Better than that” card to GenZ.

        Millennials are as vulnerable to this crap as anyone else.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      15 hours 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

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    162·
    18 hours ago

    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
      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        11 hours 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.