What caused the downfall? How do we return?
>>76134536
Lyndon B. Johnson was the downfall.
>>76134536
No rap music. therefore, no rap culture.
A booming economy after many countries were crippled after WW2 and strong patriotism
>What caused the downfall
To put it in the simplest terms; Baby Boomers
>How do we return
Vote Trump
Boy kinda looks like a black/white kid
your "perfect" family was cucked
also it is the 60s, 60s was your golden age
>>76134755
>How do we return
Another world war.
Post WW2 it was almost impossible to become a US citizen; you guys sensibly closed immigration applications for decades.
And hey, want do you know, those decades were the most productive and peaceful.
Then the USSR infected both your Universities and blacks with Marxism, so you developed cultural weakness at the very top and bottom of society simultaneously.
>>76134755
>Vote for a baby boomer to fix the problems baby boomers caused
The real solution is WW3.
>>76134740
Underrated.
>>76134536
They weren't. You just believed the like propaganda. It was the he beginning of the consumer credit culture. Nobody talked about the rampant domestic abuse and alcoholism from returning vets and unhappy wives.
Whelp... kid's gonna get drafted
>>76134803
Damn Rare flag!
>>76134536
>Stealth cuck. Stealth negro kid
nice op
FDR and his policies and war economy caused middle class to grow and expand. 50's were never the norm but an exception, pre 30's the wealth was always concentrated on top, middle class was a very small group and majority of the folk were underclass who barely get by. After 80's the neoliberal policies are just reverting to what is normal. If anything world is going back to its normal settings, of pre 40's brutal capitalism(through wage stagnation, decrease in purchase power, increased expenses in college-healthcare etc). Not that I advocate socialism, I'm saying this as a libertarian.
Even if you enforce economical policies that protects and expand middle class, you can't revert a lot of the policies (racism towards niggers, keeping women in household only) moreover you can never ever revert back inventions which destroyed the 50's values. Good luck going to a place when contraception was not invented.
50's will never come back. It is delusional romanticism of an anomaly in the first place.
>>76135807
What the fuck?
>>76135926
Zoom in to the picture.
>>76134803
Everyone in that picture is swarthy.
>>76134536
Immigrants.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/4ml6zk/chasing_asylum_2016_a_confronting_indepth_look/
>>76134536
>Why were the 50s the height of America?
They weren't. It's all an illusion to fuck with your brain.
>>76134536
Civil rights
>>76134536
Changes in tax and economic policy and immigration reform in the 1960s, to put it in the most concise terms as possible since I'm in a hurry
>>76134536
Polio was awesome.
His wife's son and daughter are gorgeous little kids :^)
>>76135776
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>>76136045
they are black anon
not swarthy, thats a black/mulatto family
>>76134803
That's not an actual family photo... Also, no the 60's were a time of social strife.
>>76136539
I've been here since November and it's honestly the first time I see Sri Lanka. Anyway.
I'd also like to take this moment to thanks /pol/ for redpilling me.
Catholics kept Hollywood in check out through the Legion of Decency so movies like Song of Bernadette and how's like Life is Worth Living were popular.
Culture is now too far gone and the Church has lost its credibility. Something good drastic would have to happen
the real reason: everyone became middle class and we blindly bought into the consumerist propaganda spread by the capital jew, all the while thinking the threat came in red.
the loss of our religion, our values, and now our race was just natural progression.
>>76134536
>What caused the downfall?
The new world order.
What was the average life expectancy in the 50's? Didn't people die around 63 years old?
>>76134536
>Why were the 50s the height of America?
because it was a default state post WW2 -- the U.S. filled the industrial gap left in the war's wake
>>76135871
man, what a shitty post. No proof at all, just words.
>>76134536
they werent. as far as economic stability goes it spanned longer than the 50s.
the reason for the rise of the middle class on the scale that it happened was the rise of the unions.
the decline of union membership coincides with the decline in the average wealth of the average family. one of the reasons at least. couple that with shipping jobs out of the country with our trade policies and you have what we see today.
reagan was a real fuck.
every president since then has continued the globalist corporatist agenda.
export labor to third world
lowers the wage demand here due to lack of employment.
destroy the unions and bam.. no organization left to challenge it.
obama and clinton are as much to blame as raegan and bush's.
also... we need to reinstall the tariffs we had in place for 200 years.
trump said he's down to do it. im hopeful hes being honest but i doubt it.
>>76134536
GI bill = tons of college educated people = strong middle class. Plus a lot of the residual deficit spending from WWII had a carryover stimulus effect.
WWII destroyed literally every other industrialized country. We were the only country with a viable civilian industrial sector, the rest of the world had to buy from us and we had no competition. Our factories were insanely profitable, and a strong union presence passed on much of these profits onto the workers.
How do we get back? Start WWIII. Then brain drain all the German/Chinese/Japanese/Russian scientists again.
>>76134536
>Why were the 50s the height of America?
the rest of the world was a smoking ruin.
>What caused the downfall?
the rest of the world rebuilt
>How do we return?
make the rest of the world a smoking ruin again
>>76134536
Women's suffrage.
>>76138877
Those who think that the destruction of war increases total "demand" forget that demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin. They are the same thing looked at from different directions, supply creates demand because at the bottom it is demand.
>>76139233
>>76139247
>WWIII
How do we do this without causing nuclear armageddon? EMP strikes?
>you will never live during America's most prosperous era
>>76139607
that would solve a lot of problems actually
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>>76134536
>What caused the downfall?
Fighting against Germany instead of the international communist Jew!
>>76139873
>you will never order a chocolate malt with you best girl down at the local soda shop
>you will forever be stuck with rotten niggerfied whores who only want to get drunk and high
kill me now famalama
>>76134536
>What caused the downfall?
all the Nazi engineers America stole died and all you were left with is retarded red necks riding on the shoulders of giants who think they are untouchable
>>76140222
Checked
Nope. The 50s were horrible compared to today. The best time to live is the year 2016. Homeless people live better than the kings of antiquity in a lot of ways. Not perfect, but on almost every measurable metric we are better off every single year in aggregate.
>>76134536
LSD hadn't yet come on the scene.
>>76140514
Name one way we're better off now
>>76134536
Are those brown people in the pic? The 50's were white, you motherfucker. I almost shed a tear until I zoomed in and saw brownies.
50's photos?
>>76140702
The token black friend has existed for some time, usually they are the one civilized family in the city that everybody knows.
>>76140737
>>76140906
>>76141015
>>76140594
You asked for one, so I'll give a trivial example. Laundry. How long did it take to do laundry back then?
>>76141051
>>76134536
10/10 SUBTLE PIC
>>76141078
depends on how much there was, about an afternoon for a days laundry because most people washed daily.
>>What caused the downfall?
I can think of a few things.
>>76140737
>>76140831
>>76140906
>>76140377
>>76139873
>tfw knowing you missed the good times.
Is this what hell feels like?
we stopped trying to succeed and just assumed we were number one.
went full corporate shill
>>76134536
The immigration and nationality act of 1965.
Repeal it.
>What caused the downfall?
Loss of racial identity
>How do we return
Gaining racial identity
>>76141169
feminists think women have no agency and can't actually compete with men on a level playing field. they want all thew advantages of equality with none of the responsibility.
>>76134536
Because we'de just turned Europe into a smoking crater and the world needed our factories.
>>76141244
Exactly, we thought we'd won the game only to find out we are still playing.
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>>76141166
Why wash daily when clothes are so cheap these days? And washer/dryers are so cheap? I don't understand. That labor-intensive task was solved, and we all benefit from it. How could that possibly not be an improvement. Life was shit in the 50s. You might have an idealized view of it from watching movies, but life sucked back then
>>76141438
Quality post m8 thanks for the insight
>>76134536
Is that a black family?
>>76141453
Now I was a load of laundry about twice a week because all I have to do is throw it in a machine, no more washboards and cloths lines.
>>76141453
>life sucked back then
Your opinion is wrong
>>76141445
Dont pretend like BBQs still dont happen today leaf.
Just because your family didnt love you enough to have outdoor activities dont give you the right to come in here with your revisionist bullshit you hear me bitch?
>>76140831
its not that there HAS to be only one black friend in the group, its that usually theres only one black guy around. since theres so little black people you end up acting more like the people around you so youll end up getting along with the white kids anyway
t. the tolken black friend
>>76141747
there was a lot less people back then and a lot more to go around so yes, things where "better"
>>76141851
token*
inb4 i get shit on for that
>>76141518
That pic!
>>76141851
blacks who hang around with whites tend to not be niggers where as whites who hang around with blacks tend to be white niggers.
>>76141778
>Just because your family didnt love you enough to have outdoor activities dont give you the right
>it's just a nice photo
>projecting this hard
It seems like I struck a nerve and you are a pathetic retard whose family hates him
Also
>That food quality
>Them white families
>Traditional gender roles
Dont pretend for a second that this isnt an ideal situation faggot
>>76141747
Great argument. I have a load of laundry for you. Please wash it by hand, and dry it on a clothes line for me. Gosh the 50s were SO COOL with primitive, shitty technology. Awesome, let's go back to that.
>>76134536
It's like my grandfather said before he died back in 1999 "shit was absolutely horrible for my whole childhood until the war ended in 1945 suddenly there were plenty of jobs and the economy grew like never before. To be perfectly honest what the world needs is another war. It's a shame they invented the atom bomb which has prevented this"
So how do we fix this? We need to somehow get a total world nuclear disarmament. A boots on ground ww3 would follow soon
The way I see it is war to humanity is like fire to a forest. It clears away the old making room for the new. It seems like after wars throughout history there is increased prosperity after followed by a slow decline until the next war
>>76137428
Try harder newfag, I've been here since September
>>76139398
This is the most cringe picture ever.
Surely, you CANNOT be comparing the two? Different times, wars, oil prices, Federal Reserve policies, emerging economies, legislation, etc...
Jesus, this picture actually makes me rage. It's like comparing an apple to a VHS tape.
>>76142081
Sigh here we go again with the "not all blacks iz niggers somes of us iz normal people" bullshit
>>76142308
>Great argument. I have a load of laundry for you.
Are you really so lazy that this is the deal breaker for you? Having to do laundry by hand? You are pathetic. I would give up every modern convenience for a return to a sane world.
>>76141078
0 minutes because your wife did it for you or else she got a spanking
>>76140058
>this
>>76136445
>awesome
Exactly. Idiots here don't realize how great it is to live in 2016, and how great it will be to live in 2017. Aside from maybe pollution and global warming, we're better off now than we were the previous decade in every measurable metric, yet people always bring up this nostalgia bullshit. They watch Madmen and think they would be fucking don draper. No you would be the same fucking loser you are, just worse off with no vidya games, no technology, higher prices for *everything*, and a shittier life.
>>76134536
Post war economic upswing
Jewing and pushing first women then migrants into the labor force which killed the salaries
>>76142666
>no vidya games, no technology
Yeah you're a faggot alright
Also the polio vaccine has been distributed since the early 50s
>>76134803
RARE
>>76142312
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Yeah great idea. Please stop having thoughts, they aren't good
>>76142666
Old school disease have simply been replaced by wide spread cancer, MS, various potatoism and stds. There's no indication that people in the 50s were less healthy than now on average. Once a certain medical bridge aas been crossed (sterile environments+antibiotics), it mostly just stagnated.
>>76135088
>Cultural weakness
Keep letting the Royal family live the good life off of taxing your bodily functions.
>>76140285
>this as well
Imagine if the 3rd reich had won. With those scientists birthing raising and teaching a next generation of scientists who could have been even better
>mfw nazi Germany had a regularly broadcast television network and even televised the olympics while most of the world was barely figuring out what a radio was
>also had a possible stealth bomber prototype
>operational jet fighters
>rockets capable of space travel
>weapons and military gear that most of the world wouldn't get until after 1965 (assault rifles camo etc) hell when watching late war colour combat footage its easy to mistake them for soldiers in the 70-80s
>>76134803
I think that actually is a black family.
>>76143155
>>76134803
it is a black family you idiot. Although to your credit they are really out of "uniform" in that pic.
>>76134536
The 50s were actually the beginning of the downfall. Degenerate materialism and brainwashing began en mass at this time
>>76134536
no, the 1950's were the start of the degeneracy we face today. the world has gone into decline since the end of the first world war.
>>76143064
Bullshit. We are healthier, live longer, and have more medical solutions than we did in the fifties. Please try to dispute that
>>76134536
>sterilize anyone who goes on welfare for more than six months
>stop playing world police, fuck everyone else
>gov't spending decreases dramatically as a result
>lower taxes, everyone has more money, economic boom / resurgence of the middle class
>>76143558
>they let people live longer so that the pharmaceutical companies can make more money
Fixed :^)
>>76134536
>Height
Beginning of baby-boomer degeneracy, which created the situation today.
>>76143558
>Please try to dispute that
He just did you literal retard
>>76143558
We live longer but we certainly aren't healthier. We're weaker physically and infertility is skyrocketing.
>>76135088
>Then the USSR infected both your Universities and blacks with Marxism
This is actually true.
>>76134952
>>76135180
don't you fascists ever learn
Jews fleeing Europe infecting the US, armed with their unlimited sympathy card.
>>76142821
Welp, pack it up boys. He's right. The 50s were truly greater. People still died of polio back then in large numbers but we had a vaccine, so I guess it would be better to go back in time to the 50s. /thread?
>>76143659
>You
If the tinfoil hat is causing irritation, you can probably get a cream or something. But also who gives a shit? We LIVE LONGER. We LIVE BETTER. Life is better now than it was.
>>76143855
Giving women and black people influence
>>76143944
You don't /thread yourself you cancerous newfaggot
>>76143707
>We live longer but we certainly aren't healthier. We're weaker physically and infertility is skyrocketing.
proof?
>>76144199
>After serving in the Italian army during World War I, Mussolini returned home, looking for a way to unify the Italian people. In 1918, he began to deliver emotional speeches, calling for a dictator to head the country. He argued that only a strong leader could unite the people to overcome Italy’s postwar mass unemployment, chaotic political party conflicts, and strikes by socialists and communists.
>Mussolini chose Giovanni Gentile, a noted Italian philosopher, as his minister of education. Gentile reorganized Italy’s school system. He also wrote many articles and books, clarifying the basic ideas of fascism.
>Gentile argued that the private desires and interests of the individual came second to the “common will” of the people. The fascist state, he said, put this will of the people into action.
>Gentile taught that the “common will” of the people is the law of the state. Therefore, individuals must submit to the fascist state in order to be truly free. Later, Mussolini put it this way: “Far from crushing the individual, the fascist state multiplies his energies, just as in a regiment a soldier is . . . multiplied by the number of his fellow soldiers.”
>Building on the ideas of earlier European philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Gentile claimed that the peoples of the world are engaged in a survival of the fittest. He declared it is the natural right of the stronger to conquer and rule the weaker. Gentile stated that war has another function in the fascist state: It unites the people and proves their superiority as a nation.
>Be Europe
>Fight for centuries over muh clay
>Have a devastating Great War with modern weapons that reinvent strategies
>Fascists see this as an opportunity to show how great that war was for development so they should do it AGAIN
>They do it again, the absolute madmen
>America wins and gets all the benefits of patriotism and industry.
>People wonder why we have globalist policies
>>76142488
Laundry was just a trivial example. Almost everything is better now.
>>76144132
>But also who gives a shit?
>i dont care that my life is being prolonged unnaturally purely for the purpose that some kikes make more money
> Life is better now than it was.
Define 'better'. You mean becoming more dependent on artificial medicine that has dangerous side effects lots of the time? Eating more genetically modified food? Living an essentially sedentary lifestyle? Valuing materialism more than anything else? Becoming morally degenerate?
>>76143078
no need to get buttblasted fellow burger, he's right.
>>76134536
>downfall
poor city planning
suburbs are inherently destructive, both physically in how wasteful they are for transit reasons, and mentally to residents, since nothing ever happens and kids grow up to become coddled autistics. they also have screwed up job markets because they have no economic relevance other than being concentrations of people (i.e. they have no traditional industry for people of the area to rely on)
they also encourage people to stay inside (and grow fat and autistic) through poor urban design, car-centric road layouts, and road network layouts intended more for a comfy and uncongested dozens of miles long commute more than going for walks or having easy access to services or recreational facilities (parks and community centres like churches or popular shopping districts or actual literal LEFTIE SCUM community centres where they have bake sales and book clubs and daycares and shit)
basically, suburbs created the conditions that create modern tumblrinas. they've just gone by different names and groups since the 50s, from hippies to socialists to livejournal dramallamas to the tranny tumblrinas of today. suburbs create fat unemployed coddled whiners who need to htfu but don't know how
>>76145592
You only think it's better because your world consists of video games, smart phones, and other trivial bullshit. It's no surprise that defending decadent conveniences and entertainment is more important to you that simply appreciating the culture and social environment of America in its prime.
>>76141453
>life sucked because we did laundry by hand
You know washing machines existed in the 50s, right?
>>76146183
How much did they cost (in today's dollars)?
>Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Could we please stop having false nostalgia threads?
>>76134536
>What caused the downfall?
Feminism.
>>76146084
I think it's better because by just about every conceivable metric, it is better. Life is better now. We have more wealth. It's basic economics that you don't understand
>>76146044
Did you read this somewhere or came to that conclusion yourself?
It's interesting and I'd like a book name if you have it
>>76145593
>Define 'better'.
Longer lifespans, less disease, more wealth, more leisure, more purchasing power, fucking everything is better now. How can anyone fucking dispute this?
>>76134536
>What caused the downfall?
We are simply in the end times, my friend. Western civilization is doomed.
>How do we return?
We don't. We can't. Look up Oswald Spengler. He's depressing and shocking, but almost entirely right.
>>76134536
CIA drugging and negrifying the domestic population with thrir kikery.
>conveniant
>israeli
>agency
>>76146834
>I think it's better because it's better
Top quality argument
>we have more wealth
You have trillions of dollars in foreign debt
>It's basic economics that you don't understand
I don't see an argument. I think it's time to go do your laundry and earn your NEETbux
>>76146311
$100 is about $993 today.
>>76147067
Did you not read the rest of my post you fucking retard?
>Longer lifespans, less disease, more wealth, more leisure, more purchasing power, fucking everything is better now
that's just a nicer way of saying dependence on pharmaceutical companies, more green paper to distract you with things you dont need, more materialism, more narcissism, more degeneracy. And the sad thing is that you're too wrapped up in the illusion to even see how pathetic you are
>>76147422
>>76147529
>Longer lifespans
Aren't the averages affected by infant mortality rates?
>>76147067
>Implying that living a long life of hedonism and apathy is better than living a shorter life with a sense of meaning, belonging, and identity.
>Implying that less disease is a good thing when the lack of diseases has led to an astronomical increase in low-IQ, r-selected shitskin birthrates
>Implying that more wealth to spend on retarded plastic shit to fill the nihilistic void of modern existence is a good thing
>Implying more leisure time for people to sit around and listen to bix nood and watch degenerate niggers dancing on the TalmudVision is a good thing
>Implying that more purchasing power hasn't transformed us into materialistic dipshits who value nothing more than acquiring shitty chink-tier goods to, again, fill the void created by unregulated capitalism
>>76147395
The agency was still pretty waspy in the 50s. It wasn't until the 60s that you had the khazar take over of every three letter agency. Though, to be fair, most of the infiltration process started under FDR because he was a vile philosemite cripple socialist.
>>76147029
>Did you read this somewhere or came to that conclusion yourself?
I was always interested in spaces and traffic in general, and had read some Hot Opinions about suburbs from others, but after visiting a buddy's house in the burbs in high school, I really saw what they meant when they hated on the burbs. they're unlivable shitholes designed to coddle brittle white fuccbois and their cuckqueen wives, and to shelter children from anything interesting that might cause them to grow as human beings (causing them to become brittle fuccbois themselves who mutate into trannies for SJ persecution points)
>It's interesting and I'd like a book name if you have it
there are many books on the subject because civil planning is a big field for obvious reasons of there are lots of cities to keep from falling to gridlocked shit, but you can listen to James Howard Kunstler's podcasts and TED talks (be warned, he's a bit of an ass)
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia?language=en
in general, i'd advise you to just peruse your local library and form your own opinions. look into architecture and civil planning in objective terms as well, since it will explain why people like cities despite all the filth and moral decay; i won't recommend any specific book because tons of plain ol' textbooks and coffee table books exist
>>76147609
>mobile posters
gtfo
>>76141453
there were washing machines in the 50's.
they were also made to last unlike now.
the clothes were also made better then and made to last.
>>76148063
>COMPUTERS ONLY
You have autism
Fight scandals on an anonymous chinese shufflescreen like Dan "The Man with the Van" Shneider
>>76148379
>>76148379
>>76148379
This thread is getting slid to the archives, help
>>76134536
those kids are boomers today
>>76134536
>Why were the 50s the height of America?
I don't know, I wasn't alive then, and you probably weren't, either, although if you were, chances are you're a smug, fat, lazy, disgusting, old leftist fuckwad by now with a beer gut the size of Texas, with overall poor health, who doesn't give a shit about the future because you know you won't live much longer anyways but you're so smug that you're not mad about it.
>What caused the downfall?
Idiots who were pro-womens' rights and other leftist bullshit in the degenerate 60s, all that shit was allowed to happen because the real men were fighting the Vietnam war and all the pussies who jacked off too much and saw women as gods and were too scared to say "no" to them just let the womens' rights bullshit happen.
>How do we return?
President Trump- hence "Make America Great Again"
>>76134755
>Based leaf
>>76134536
Actually, we can attribute the forties as our downfall. Due to the war the US government's executive branch expanded its social services programs including government ran daycares, schools and therapy centers. In the name of keeping society strong during war. The children brought up on the homeland during the war were not given a thorough understanding in national identity nor morality. They would grow up to fight in Korea. POWs in Korean prison camps were subjected to "sensitivity training," meant to brainwash them.
No torture was needed. They were encouraged to "work as a group" in mental exercises which present America as flawed. Without the thorough understanding of Americanism, one fourth of returned POWs were found to actually support communism.POW guards would hand out rewards to POWs for seemingly meaningless reasons to condition Americans to "go along to get along." In the Korean war, for the first time in American war history, NO POWs managed to escape despite lax security measures.
The fifties were seen as a cultural boom because the generation that fought WWII was running the country. The generation BROUGHT UP during WWII would go to run the country in the sixties, leading to the fall.
From an article by Selwyn Duke
>Yet it’s not as if America went from chastity to a Chastity Bono mentality overnight. The Pew Research Center did report in 2010 that only 22 percent of millennials believe that “more people living together w/o getting married … is a bad thing for society.” But now consider the percentages in each generation who answer yes (based on Pew classification; ages as of 2010): silent generation (aged 65+), 58 percent; boomers (46-64), 44 percent; generation X (30-45), 31 percent; millennials (18-29), 22 percent.
>The pattern is clear. And the greatest disparity is not between millennials and the previous generation, but between the silent generation and DeGraff’s, the boomers. Perhaps self-reflection is in order.
>>76151278
Posted wrong picture to go along with that post
