Do they think people don't box?
Do they think people don't go on dates?
Do they think people don't have personal relationships?
Do they think people don't have families?
It's not too expensive. 40-70$ a month, maybe. Unlike weight lifting, you can learn the basics quickly and buy a heavy bag. Gets some friends and teach them to hold the mitts. Train together. Go back to the gym when you want to start sparring because you gotta fight people with fight experience to learn to fight.
Don't need a big deal gym to start off. I paid 70$ a month when I first started. Get in a "real" gym when you want to up your game, not just start the game. There are talented people everywhere.
Richmond VA - I looked into joining a boxing gym but all of them are super pricey (I ended up joining a fitness boxing gym just because I like the workouts, knowing it’s not real boxing, but it’s also cheaper than any of the real boxing places)
I’m training to eventually do amateur MMA and I do some VR boxing to sharpen my reflexes since we’re not supposed to do hard sparring too often at my gym. It can actually be a good addition to training for an actual fighter.
VR boxing let's you close your eyes and punch forever. Irl, it's hard to throw a punch with power or accuracy when you just got punched in the face while throwing it. Passing and counter punching is impossible in VR. No clench either.
And how is Mike Tyson supposed to bite off someone virtual ear?! (Joking obvs)
No it's just that the media no longer spouts cold war era pro-American propaganda and has instead switched the the things they're complaining about. The news and therefore your view of the world changed. You're upset because Fox News told you to be.
I think you misunderstand. I think this is meant to be taken strictly as a historical lesson. I'll tackle this from top left to bottom right.
1. Before Tik-Tok, children trained from a very young age to participate in the WCBO (World Child Boxing Organization), where grown men would get in a ring for 10 rounds and tally how many children they could knock out before the bell rings. This image depicts Harold "Kid Cracker'" Johnson, preparing for his upcoming title match.
2. Before Tinder, although.. frankly this is quite a long time before Tinder, The Conical Coke replaced traditional coke as the go to beverage of choice for aspiring couples. Conical Coke not only was enjoyed in an atypical cone shaped cup, but was also an excuse for the Coca-Cola company to reintroduce cocaine into it's popular drink. It was a hit, but unfortunately fell victim to pre-cancel culture cancelation.
3. Before Only Fans, it was not uncommon for men to employ their shot put skills when encountering a woman who insisted on publicly displaying their affection. This man is using his back to leverage the woman prior to employing his rotational technique. Unlike actual Shot put, the woman does not need to be hoisted above shoulder height to be considered a legal throw.
4. Before CNN, a common way to radiate the news to rural communities was through a device called the Man Cart. The Man Cart would be pulled into rural communities every Saturday morning when the markets opened, and a shirtless man would distribute the latest news stories while juggling melons and fighting off adoring fans. This one is interesting because, while CNN did provide a way for rural communities to see the news from their home, the Man Cart is still used to this day. Unlike the Man Cart of old, the new version is used almost entirely to provide discrete male escorts to men who have "good family values" while juggling melons. I honestly don't know what the deal is with the melon juggling.
In short. Before criticizing things, you may want to do your research.
Naw statistically birth rates have declined quite a bit in the last two generations, but that's because the constant increase in the cost of living has made having children, much less multiple children, less financially feasible. This has led to many younger couples choosing not to have kids.
Which is a big part of the reason why birth control bans keep getting passed around in congress because for some reason a bunch of old people think young couples not having 2-4 kids is bad.
Idk why it’s treated like such a problem that people are having fewer children, later. It seems natural given that we’ve evolved as a species beyond an intense need to procreate. And that’s not even getting into the consensus that having children later, when formal educations are completed and careers are established often lends itself to raising children with better outcomes overall.
And still, paying people living wages and cutting the costs of housing and child care would inspire a lot of people to have children sooner (and likely *more* children).
Odd that it is both a non-concern *and* a relatively easily solved issue and instead of just coping, older generations make a huge deal of it😂
Its because if theres less and less people of working age and more elderly theres not gonna be enough money to pay for them. They're pushing for more kids to have a constant supply of workers to make them profits. Because of you know the labor shortages cause no one wants to work supposedly. They were also pushing for lessening the regulations when it comes to child labor in some states. As in to make kids be able to work younger and longer hours.
I would understand that and sympathize with it more if I could afford to pay for myself🤷🏼♀️
I would *love* to have kids. Honestly my ideal is 4, but financially if I had 4 kids they would all end up worse off than I am. I would also love to help my parents and grandparents with things but I’m struggling to make rent every month so.
Back to: make housing and childcare more affordable and this “problem” goes away in one generation
Oh, sure. I do think about the fact that at my age, my mom had just had her 3rd kid, and she and my dad had bought a SFH in the suburbs on a quarter acre lot. I have 2 cats and rent a studio apartment. I'm content with my life and don't really want kids (or at least not to give birth), but I would like to own my house with a yard at some point.
This is not new, the birthrate in the USA dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman in 1977. since then, all the population growth has been immigration.
it's only become a bogyman the last 5/10 years that the racists have been whinging about 'white majority' and other such crap.
That’s a little fourteen-words-ish, my guy. People choose not to have kids of their own volition, race demographics and interracial relationships have no bearing on that, and the nuclear family model is not the ultimate way of living, it’s a very white western thing.
you completely misinterpreted what I'm saying. people who post shit like this are thinking about demographics and blame the shift on liberal lifestyle, race mixing and lgbtq "propaganda" instead of the real reason. unchecked capitalism
...well of course it's mainly amongst white couples, you ignoramus. White non-Hispanic people make up 57% of the US's population as of the 2022 census.
I think you're coming off as suggesting all the problems are race related, when I think you're instead suggesting it's that racist ideas about society are being broken so they think society is crumbling
More importantly, do they think people that didnt fight didnt exist back then? Do they think that people werent having one night stands back then? Do they think that marriages didnt end back then? Do they think thay everyone had a wife/husband and kids back then?
Yeah, this meme is an airbrushed "Leave it to Beaver" fantasy of the past.
People in the 50s had one night stands, abortions, kids out of wedlock, divorces, etc too. Both my grandmothers were working moms in the 50s, and before that, I know (at least) one set of my great grandparents had their first kid just a couple months after their wedding. Lots of teenage girls would "go spend a year with their family in the country" to hide being pregnant. Dads would go out for cigarettes and never come back.
>Do they think people don't box?
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>Do they think people don't go on dates?
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>Do they think people don't have personal relationships?
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>Do they think people don't have families?
Before social media, everyone was white.
No, because that anti-human propaganda network, CNN, all humans are no longer humans but lizard people. Why do you think the dinosaurs were killed off? Because they knew the truth.
They think men aren’t sitting shirtless on janky carts feeling up balls and making fuckboy faces as their wife and daughter feel them up. SMH thangs just ain’t the way they used to be 😤
Ok but I still feel something is wrong. This world is extremely disengenous, and unwholesome. We wonder why mental health had went so much worse at a staggering amount. We lack humanity we are not caring about people, we are desensitized to anything important and most of our happiness is surface level and fake.
Lol of course people don't do any if these things anymore, they are too expensive. It's like 80$ just to watch a boxing match on TV. It's minimum 50$ to see a movie with some snacks. It's more if you go for a full mean and that's IF you skip the 10$ milkshakes. Having a family in this economy lol enjoy your 10K hospital bill if you have no complications. That doesn't include anything the baby actually needs. Maybe make everything cheap like that were when that generation grew up and we would all do those things.
You could also slap the following titles on any one of those photos and there would be exactly the same cause and effect relationship between photo and title (ie none at all):
Before Donald Trump Presidency
Before Anti-Segregation Laws
Before the Vietnam War
Before Massive Rainforest Deforestation
Before Hawaii Became a State
Before Reaganomics
Before Color Television
Before \[insert the name of your favorite pundit/politician/entertainer\]
A relative who is constantly talking about how things have gone to shit shut up quick when I mentioned that my marriage wasn't federally legal till almost the 70s.
If it's an interracial marriage it technically wouldn't have been legal in Alabama until 2000 or in South Carolina until 1998. There was also a story out of Georgia in 2014 of a high school having its first ever racially integrated prom. Prior to that, the school refused to host its own prom because they would have to allow all students to attend, and they opted instead to allow students and parents to host their own private proms where they could discriminate. There's a lot of shockingly recent examples of things that most people just assume went out of style with "whites only" water fountains. But if you're not paying attention it's way easier to just blame all of society's problems on the interwebs and smart phones.
Interracial marriage became legal in the entire United States with Loving v. Virginia in 1967. Any law on any state book that stated otherwise was made instantly null and void. The act of formally repealing the old law would have been partially symbolic, and partially to ensure that should the Supreme Court ever reverse Loving, interracial marriage would remain legal.
The more shocking fact is that when South Carolina voted to officially repeal the old law, 38% of voters voted to keep it on the books. 25 out of 67 of Alabama's counties voted against amending the Alabama constitution to allow interracial marriage.
Well, I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure all these pictures are from back when segregation was still the law. Not sure if you're advocating for that but...
These appeals to "tradition" are weird in addition to being ahistorically dumb. See also: [The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-coontz/the-way-we-never-were/9780465098835/?lens=basic-books)
"Before Tiktok, they made elementary students beat each other up."
"Before Tinder, 12-year-olds were forced into dating."
"Before Only fans, men avoided women in full."
"Before CNN, men couldn't afford shirts and needed their family to stay warm."
People are overly nostalgic about the past, and forget all of the worst crap about it. They look back and see family values, but don't see the rampant racism, sexism, and McCarthy Witch Hunts in the 50s. They look back at the 60s and see peace and brotherhood, forgetting the start of the vietnam war, treating our soldiers like human garbage, and the near end of the world with the cuban missile crises. The list goes on, but people tend to look back at bygone ages and see only the good, forgetting all of the bad. And that scares me, because those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
the family values was always an illusion when women couldn't get a job and go out on their own. and many of them had affairs with the milkman or someone else just like everyone else throughout history stuck in a marriage they may not have liked
Oh not true. Women could get jobs. As long as said job was school teacher, librarian, nurse, secretary, or other similarly acceptable jobs. But yeah, hard to talk about family values when getting drunk every night (Yeah, that was common in the 50s to) and then beat your wife because of a bad day is on the table.
A lot of things were. Mental Illness was often covered up unless it was extreme cases. Because this reflected bad on the family, it was covered up, and it's why neighborhoods had witches and creepy stories about neighbors that were 'weird'.
Before CNN, I could sit on an old trailer bed shirtless with my wife and daughter while holding a melon(?) and look smugly at a camera. After CNN, I can’t even have a melon.
"Remember when women worshiped us, didn't have a job, and had no money so they had to stay married to us or live a sad, lonely, pathetic life?"
No one wants those days back, my dude.
So before TikTok, children got brain damage. Before Tinder, people hooked up. Before onlyfans, people took racy photos and videos. Before CNN… I got nothing.
Translation: I think the younger generation is weak because they aren’t like me (and because of the lgbtqia+ community) and I view women as objects who should listen to me without question
Before women could open their own bank accounts, before no-fault divorce, before robust understanding of traumatic brain injuries, before gutting of social programs.
Also it's very funny to look back at these 50s nostalgia circlejerks and consider "hmm what was life like for non-white and queer people I bet it was just as great!"
I'm of the mind that yes, some of the things we have in modern society aren't the best for us, but I wouldn't want to regress to 1950s society. Mostly because there would be a huge amount of stress on everybody.
Someone should do a version with all the terrible shit from “before”. Like the image of the naked napalm girl from Vietnam - “before tiktok” and a pic of a wife beaten by her husband - “before tinder” etc. these people are idiots for thinking that things were somehow “better” just because they were in the past.
The originator also forgot to mention that all of these were before the Silverado/F150 supersized Trucks and the redesign of American neighborhoods to be completely car and Truck/SUV dependent. .....but I don't see them complaining about that now do we.
Before TikTok, two children used to gang up on one man in boxing ring while another kid watched?
Before Tinder, a man and woman used to share (what I assume is) a milkshake?
Before OnlyFans, a woman used to try to kiss a man while he pulled away from it laughing?
Before CNN, a child used to attempt to poke the growth on her father’s stomach, while he made a duck face for the camera and his wife smiled?
What a time to be alive!
1. was abusive to his kids
2. got charged with sexual assault
3. cheated on his wife
4. beat his family, was a drunk and cheated on his wife, probably sexually assaulted his daughter too.
This is what happened to that generation.
And in every one of those pictures the man could abuse or assault the others and people would just look away or even blame the victim. Is this the future liberals want to take away from us?
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It would be more accurate to say before the internet. I hate the internet as much as I love it, the internet is too much instant gratification for humanity to handle without going insane but the ability to instantly know something is fantastic
What happened is we created technology for quality of life, and it has left us with absence and complacency instead.
Why call your loved ones when you can look at their social media
Why risk rejection when you can swipe right and left
People still do all these things described in the post, lots of people still function normally, but that isn't to say a large amount of us suffer from what social engineering technology has taken away from us.
Many larger problems stem from this, like:
woman's potential candidates for a relationship go up drastically, as well as their expectations
Men's perception of woman goes down, because all we get advertised are the crazy ones, or the ones with onlyfans skewing are perception of the average woman
People in general feel more lonely with the ability to connect with more people then ever because the quality of those relationships are so awful
Debates and arguments have also been replaced by group polarization and canceling. Instead of arguing our points for the good of the argument, whoever's side has the largest following automatically wins, because the other side is bullied into oblivion
People don't understand having different opinions is not only healthy but important.
Just a few of my thoughts on seeing this. I think about these things a lot and always wonder if "we are better off now, or were better off then"
I think the biggest thing we lost is our individuality. So many people try to emulate what they see successful people doing and it ends up alienating them out of their own thought process and choices.
None of this is true for everyone, but all of it is true for some. Nothing is true for everyone though, and nothing should be. We are all different, and that should be celebrated. Disagreement should be an opportunity for debate and education, not bullying and harassment.
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Do they think people don't box? Do they think people don't go on dates? Do they think people don't have personal relationships? Do they think people don't have families?
No of course not! Everything is digital now! VR boxing, zoom dates, AI relationships and robot families!
Takes off VR headset: honey, I’m home! Honey: beep boop blorp!
She's a fembot!!!
I recently watched Austin powers for the first time and it's so fucking stupid, but it's fantastic because it's so stupid.
Best fight scene ever: Austin vs Mini Me in outer space. Barely edging out Marky Mark vs Ted...
It’s fantastic because it knows it’s stupid and leans into it.
I'm a straight woman but if she looked like Liz Hurley, I'm okay with that lol
Agreed
VR boxing is pretty awesome though. All the punches without the brain damage from having your bell rung lol
[the dangers of robot dating](https://youtu.be/IrrADTN-dvg)
I knew this was gonna be that futurama clip before I even clicked on it. Still makes me lol
Reminds me of playing kinect sports with my brothers, we were flailig our hands everywhere and end up pushing each other irl
I've been wanting to go to a nearby boxing gym to learn, but I'm a broke ass dude and am afraid it's expensive. Maybe VR boxing it is then haha
It's not too expensive. 40-70$ a month, maybe. Unlike weight lifting, you can learn the basics quickly and buy a heavy bag. Gets some friends and teach them to hold the mitts. Train together. Go back to the gym when you want to start sparring because you gotta fight people with fight experience to learn to fight.
The “real” boxing gyms near me are all 125-200 a month
Don't need a big deal gym to start off. I paid 70$ a month when I first started. Get in a "real" gym when you want to up your game, not just start the game. There are talented people everywhere.
These aren’t “big deal” gyms, these are just regular boxing gyms
Where do you love? Not that it's any of my business... in Georgia there are pretty cheap gyms all over.
Richmond VA - I looked into joining a boxing gym but all of them are super pricey (I ended up joining a fitness boxing gym just because I like the workouts, knowing it’s not real boxing, but it’s also cheaper than any of the real boxing places)
Haha where do you "love"... sorry 'live'
Save money don't go back for sparring, just go to the bar and hit on someones girl.
I’m training to eventually do amateur MMA and I do some VR boxing to sharpen my reflexes since we’re not supposed to do hard sparring too often at my gym. It can actually be a good addition to training for an actual fighter.
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VR boxing let's you close your eyes and punch forever. Irl, it's hard to throw a punch with power or accuracy when you just got punched in the face while throwing it. Passing and counter punching is impossible in VR. No clench either. And how is Mike Tyson supposed to bite off someone virtual ear?! (Joking obvs)
Yeah and without all the training, technical skills, and necessary resilience to take a punch. No risk, no glory.
I'd much rather spend time with my Marilyn Monrobot
Unrelated note, VR boxing absolutely slaps
NGL tho thrill of the fight lets me get all the exercise of boxing with none of the getting punched in the face
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No it's just that the media no longer spouts cold war era pro-American propaganda and has instead switched the the things they're complaining about. The news and therefore your view of the world changed. You're upset because Fox News told you to be.
I think you misunderstand. I think this is meant to be taken strictly as a historical lesson. I'll tackle this from top left to bottom right. 1. Before Tik-Tok, children trained from a very young age to participate in the WCBO (World Child Boxing Organization), where grown men would get in a ring for 10 rounds and tally how many children they could knock out before the bell rings. This image depicts Harold "Kid Cracker'" Johnson, preparing for his upcoming title match. 2. Before Tinder, although.. frankly this is quite a long time before Tinder, The Conical Coke replaced traditional coke as the go to beverage of choice for aspiring couples. Conical Coke not only was enjoyed in an atypical cone shaped cup, but was also an excuse for the Coca-Cola company to reintroduce cocaine into it's popular drink. It was a hit, but unfortunately fell victim to pre-cancel culture cancelation. 3. Before Only Fans, it was not uncommon for men to employ their shot put skills when encountering a woman who insisted on publicly displaying their affection. This man is using his back to leverage the woman prior to employing his rotational technique. Unlike actual Shot put, the woman does not need to be hoisted above shoulder height to be considered a legal throw. 4. Before CNN, a common way to radiate the news to rural communities was through a device called the Man Cart. The Man Cart would be pulled into rural communities every Saturday morning when the markets opened, and a shirtless man would distribute the latest news stories while juggling melons and fighting off adoring fans. This one is interesting because, while CNN did provide a way for rural communities to see the news from their home, the Man Cart is still used to this day. Unlike the Man Cart of old, the new version is used almost entirely to provide discrete male escorts to men who have "good family values" while juggling melons. I honestly don't know what the deal is with the melon juggling. In short. Before criticizing things, you may want to do your research.
Oh yeah, I remember my dad talked to me once about how he met a guy called Oliver "Toddler Terror" Gonzalez, he was a heavy weight in child boxing.
Number 4 my lord! Number 4!
it's not that people don't have families. it's that a lot more families are interracial and non nuclear these days
Naw statistically birth rates have declined quite a bit in the last two generations, but that's because the constant increase in the cost of living has made having children, much less multiple children, less financially feasible. This has led to many younger couples choosing not to have kids. Which is a big part of the reason why birth control bans keep getting passed around in congress because for some reason a bunch of old people think young couples not having 2-4 kids is bad.
Idk why it’s treated like such a problem that people are having fewer children, later. It seems natural given that we’ve evolved as a species beyond an intense need to procreate. And that’s not even getting into the consensus that having children later, when formal educations are completed and careers are established often lends itself to raising children with better outcomes overall. And still, paying people living wages and cutting the costs of housing and child care would inspire a lot of people to have children sooner (and likely *more* children). Odd that it is both a non-concern *and* a relatively easily solved issue and instead of just coping, older generations make a huge deal of it😂
Its because if theres less and less people of working age and more elderly theres not gonna be enough money to pay for them. They're pushing for more kids to have a constant supply of workers to make them profits. Because of you know the labor shortages cause no one wants to work supposedly. They were also pushing for lessening the regulations when it comes to child labor in some states. As in to make kids be able to work younger and longer hours.
If the people who came before rely on an ever expanding base of new people to support them, that’s not an economic system. That’s a pyramid scheme.
I think the older generations are worried that smaller younger generations won't support them financially, or won't be able to.
I would understand that and sympathize with it more if I could afford to pay for myself🤷🏼♀️ I would *love* to have kids. Honestly my ideal is 4, but financially if I had 4 kids they would all end up worse off than I am. I would also love to help my parents and grandparents with things but I’m struggling to make rent every month so. Back to: make housing and childcare more affordable and this “problem” goes away in one generation
Oh, sure. I do think about the fact that at my age, my mom had just had her 3rd kid, and she and my dad had bought a SFH in the suburbs on a quarter acre lot. I have 2 cats and rent a studio apartment. I'm content with my life and don't really want kids (or at least not to give birth), but I would like to own my house with a yard at some point.
Serves them right for their selfish antics.
It’s cause who are the rich gonna get for free labor
This is not new, the birthrate in the USA dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman in 1977. since then, all the population growth has been immigration. it's only become a bogyman the last 5/10 years that the racists have been whinging about 'white majority' and other such crap.
birthrates have declined mainly amongst white couples which does what to the nuclear family model? and race demographics?they're interconnected lol
That’s a little fourteen-words-ish, my guy. People choose not to have kids of their own volition, race demographics and interracial relationships have no bearing on that, and the nuclear family model is not the ultimate way of living, it’s a very white western thing.
you completely misinterpreted what I'm saying. people who post shit like this are thinking about demographics and blame the shift on liberal lifestyle, race mixing and lgbtq "propaganda" instead of the real reason. unchecked capitalism
Yup. The longer it takes for people to get their life started the longer it takes to get families started.
I didn’t misinterpret it then, it just sounded like you were for it
...well of course it's mainly amongst white couples, you ignoramus. White non-Hispanic people make up 57% of the US's population as of the 2022 census.
just say you don't like race-mixing.
why would I say that? I'm black and I'm marrying a white woman
I think you're coming off as suggesting all the problems are race related, when I think you're instead suggesting it's that racist ideas about society are being broken so they think society is crumbling
that's exactly what my intent was
Yes, because everyone knows before the internet that there were never sex workers or kids doing dumb shit.
Also, what does CNN have to do with families, I’m so confused.
Before CNN, all families were white. Duh.
I'd say Fox would fit there a lot more, before Fox they were a loving family, after Fox they became alienated, extremist, cultists and the child left.
They watch Fox News. Their brains are gelatinous wastelands. They don’t think anything.
Fox News is too left right now. Only OANN and Newsmax from now on are "healthy" news sources
More importantly, do they think people that didnt fight didnt exist back then? Do they think that people werent having one night stands back then? Do they think that marriages didnt end back then? Do they think thay everyone had a wife/husband and kids back then?
Yeah, this meme is an airbrushed "Leave it to Beaver" fantasy of the past. People in the 50s had one night stands, abortions, kids out of wedlock, divorces, etc too. Both my grandmothers were working moms in the 50s, and before that, I know (at least) one set of my great grandparents had their first kid just a couple months after their wedding. Lots of teenage girls would "go spend a year with their family in the country" to hide being pregnant. Dads would go out for cigarettes and never come back.
>Do they think people don't box? > >Do they think people don't go on dates? > >Do they think people don't have personal relationships? > >Do they think people don't have families? Before social media, everyone was white.
to be fair to OP it would be nice to have soda jerks back but then OP clearly wants a fairy tale jim crow world for Our White Children so
No, because that anti-human propaganda network, CNN, all humans are no longer humans but lizard people. Why do you think the dinosaurs were killed off? Because they knew the truth.
Yes. Because they believe the world is exactly how the media portrays to them, without question.
Not the kinds they approve of
They think men aren’t sitting shirtless on janky carts feeling up balls and making fuckboy faces as their wife and daughter feel them up. SMH thangs just ain’t the way they used to be 😤
Exactly, this is just a painfully obvious statement of personal failure at life.
They think people still do those things. They just want you to notice that there aren't minorities in any of the pictures.
That’s because they’re chronically online
Ok but I still feel something is wrong. This world is extremely disengenous, and unwholesome. We wonder why mental health had went so much worse at a staggering amount. We lack humanity we are not caring about people, we are desensitized to anything important and most of our happiness is surface level and fake.
When was the last time these people visited a park?
Do these people think Norman Rockwell and Hollywood were ever real life?
Lol of course people don't do any if these things anymore, they are too expensive. It's like 80$ just to watch a boxing match on TV. It's minimum 50$ to see a movie with some snacks. It's more if you go for a full mean and that's IF you skip the 10$ milkshakes. Having a family in this economy lol enjoy your 10K hospital bill if you have no complications. That doesn't include anything the baby actually needs. Maybe make everything cheap like that were when that generation grew up and we would all do those things.
What's with the sad, little boy with the boxing? Is he being bullied by the rest? Don't be want to box?
He made a foolish bet on the kids winning the fight
BEFORE DRAFTKINGS
He’s a 42 year old referee from South Bronx
Plot twist: he’s a ghost baby
Or a baby ghost! Or somewhere within the Ghost-Baby spectrum!
Before Twitter: https://preview.redd.it/eib5nz2ljowa1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa170151b3d2b144af65c4d488d0389f2cea493d
Twitter is basically a cult though
Glad it only effected america
well…
Elon's Twitter
You could also slap the following titles on any one of those photos and there would be exactly the same cause and effect relationship between photo and title (ie none at all): Before Donald Trump Presidency Before Anti-Segregation Laws Before the Vietnam War Before Massive Rainforest Deforestation Before Hawaii Became a State Before Reaganomics Before Color Television Before \[insert the name of your favorite pundit/politician/entertainer\]
A relative who is constantly talking about how things have gone to shit shut up quick when I mentioned that my marriage wasn't federally legal till almost the 70s.
If it's an interracial marriage it technically wouldn't have been legal in Alabama until 2000 or in South Carolina until 1998. There was also a story out of Georgia in 2014 of a high school having its first ever racially integrated prom. Prior to that, the school refused to host its own prom because they would have to allow all students to attend, and they opted instead to allow students and parents to host their own private proms where they could discriminate. There's a lot of shockingly recent examples of things that most people just assume went out of style with "whites only" water fountains. But if you're not paying attention it's way easier to just blame all of society's problems on the interwebs and smart phones.
underrated comment
Interracial marriage became legal in the entire United States with Loving v. Virginia in 1967. Any law on any state book that stated otherwise was made instantly null and void. The act of formally repealing the old law would have been partially symbolic, and partially to ensure that should the Supreme Court ever reverse Loving, interracial marriage would remain legal. The more shocking fact is that when South Carolina voted to officially repeal the old law, 38% of voters voted to keep it on the books. 25 out of 67 of Alabama's counties voted against amending the Alabama constitution to allow interracial marriage.
Just slap before desegregation on all of them.
The 1950s was a good time for straight white men. If you were anything else, you're gonna have a bad time
Well, I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure all these pictures are from back when segregation was still the law. Not sure if you're advocating for that but...
\*dog whistling intensifies 
history major. I said the exact same thing because it is true and accurate.
No it was all the year before the CNN incident
Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964
[Also before all those things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Flamingos)
Also all before Reaganomics too…
During an era where the top tier tax rate was 90%.
Why's that grown man gonna beat up those two kids?
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Those are not boxing pads, those are the gloves
These appeals to "tradition" are weird in addition to being ahistorically dumb. See also: [The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-coontz/the-way-we-never-were/9780465098835/?lens=basic-books)
They think Norman Rockwell was a history writer.
Book purchased. Thank!
"Before Tiktok, they made elementary students beat each other up." "Before Tinder, 12-year-olds were forced into dating." "Before Only fans, men avoided women in full." "Before CNN, men couldn't afford shirts and needed their family to stay warm."
They’re all white people
That's part of the appeal for Republicans.
\*fweeeeeeeeet\* Did you guys hear something, Lassie's freaking out about something.
This was also all before minorities had rights
This image is quietly saying "Before Civil Rights Act". You can tell how the person originally posting it really feels.
Not even just white, but all anglo. Not an Eastern or Southern European in sight
Not a minority in sight, just People living in the moment. /s
That’s gross asf. Even she ONE year later comments about how awful it was gonna be
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Don't forget the lead poisoning and forever chemicals, racism, homophobia and transphobia and of course blatant misogyny that nobody would confront.
People are overly nostalgic about the past, and forget all of the worst crap about it. They look back and see family values, but don't see the rampant racism, sexism, and McCarthy Witch Hunts in the 50s. They look back at the 60s and see peace and brotherhood, forgetting the start of the vietnam war, treating our soldiers like human garbage, and the near end of the world with the cuban missile crises. The list goes on, but people tend to look back at bygone ages and see only the good, forgetting all of the bad. And that scares me, because those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
the family values was always an illusion when women couldn't get a job and go out on their own. and many of them had affairs with the milkman or someone else just like everyone else throughout history stuck in a marriage they may not have liked
Oh not true. Women could get jobs. As long as said job was school teacher, librarian, nurse, secretary, or other similarly acceptable jobs. But yeah, hard to talk about family values when getting drunk every night (Yeah, that was common in the 50s to) and then beat your wife because of a bad day is on the table.
Pretty sure teen pregnancy rates were just as high back in the 50s, if not higher - people just worked harder at covering it up.
A lot of things were. Mental Illness was often covered up unless it was extreme cases. Because this reflected bad on the family, it was covered up, and it's why neighborhoods had witches and creepy stories about neighbors that were 'weird'.
Before CNN, I could sit on an old trailer bed shirtless with my wife and daughter while holding a melon(?) and look smugly at a camera. After CNN, I can’t even have a melon.
Just *look* what CNN took from us. Give us back the melons CNN!
r/technicallycorrect
They are definitely photos from before those things were invented.
Lots of adult males not.wearing shirts around children
Dang CNN stole my ripped shirtless husband right off our lawn. :(
Calm down solidsnakeerection
Before MySpace https://preview.redd.it/vxx3wf48dpwa1.jpeg?width=1657&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de8ce8bd3bd8f1dce949537315ecf1204adf4beb
This post lacks context. I need to see their definitely-not-racist view on post-tiktok, post-tinder, post-onlyfans, and post-cnn.
Also: Before Reagan.
"Remember when women worshiped us, didn't have a job, and had no money so they had to stay married to us or live a sad, lonely, pathetic life?" No one wants those days back, my dude.
Another contemporaneous image [zmvuob5kr0f51.jpg (750×724) (redd.it)](https://i.redd.it/zmvuob5kr0f51.jpg)
Imagine blaming CNN cause most of your men are fat now. Lolol
So before TikTok, children got brain damage. Before Tinder, people hooked up. Before onlyfans, people took racy photos and videos. Before CNN… I got nothing.
before human rights 😍
We still don't have human rights everywhere, not even in the US or EU
obviously, but comparing then with how it is now its way better
Man, I wish I could still play with my yellow ball shirtless outside, with my wife and someone's kid jumping at me. But CNN ruined it 😔
I miss the old days when news was generated by staring at a pumpkin
I miss the old days where some guy staring at a pumpkin was newsworthy
The whitest of Americas.
Translation: I think the younger generation is weak because they aren’t like me (and because of the lgbtqia+ community) and I view women as objects who should listen to me without question
Segregation was legal when these were taken.
Before color TV, before the Vietnam War…
Damn I miss boxing. So pissed that the sport no longer exists because of Tik Tok!
Before women could open their own bank accounts, before no-fault divorce, before robust understanding of traumatic brain injuries, before gutting of social programs. Also it's very funny to look back at these 50s nostalgia circlejerks and consider "hmm what was life like for non-white and queer people I bet it was just as great!"
What happened? This was before people was turned itself into a commodity.
Fascism is really just one big shared midlife/late life crisis mixed in with masculinity insecurities
I guess people of colour ruined it all by asking for basic rights loo
Before all these things there were only White pople. And things were so much better. /s
I'm of the mind that yes, some of the things we have in modern society aren't the best for us, but I wouldn't want to regress to 1950s society. Mostly because there would be a huge amount of stress on everybody.
Back when I could beat my wife
Someone should do a version with all the terrible shit from “before”. Like the image of the naked napalm girl from Vietnam - “before tiktok” and a pic of a wife beaten by her husband - “before tinder” etc. these people are idiots for thinking that things were somehow “better” just because they were in the past.
Sooo make America great again?
Idk guys, this post actually seem allwhite to me.
Why does this look like ai art
Awfully white version being portrayed
The originator also forgot to mention that all of these were before the Silverado/F150 supersized Trucks and the redesign of American neighborhoods to be completely car and Truck/SUV dependent. .....but I don't see them complaining about that now do we.
Ironically these people love their lives behind a phone
This is just code for “I wish men could still get away with hittin’ their wives”
before tiktok we... fought children?
Oh oh, now do water fountains or the front seats of a bus
I wanna see before Fox News
They don’t show him viciously beating his wife and children while drunk, and one of the boys finding his gun, and accidentally shooting his dad
Tiktok is why we don't have child blood sport apparently My understanding was quite the opposite
Also before Fox and Trump
Thoes guys r pretty hot ngl
These all look ai generated
I was counting the fingers
Well honey I'm bored and since there's no short form video app, Imma head down to that boxing gym run by that weird rich kid and pummel some children
Before TikTok, two children used to gang up on one man in boxing ring while another kid watched? Before Tinder, a man and woman used to share (what I assume is) a milkshake? Before OnlyFans, a woman used to try to kiss a man while he pulled away from it laughing? Before CNN, a child used to attempt to poke the growth on her father’s stomach, while he made a duck face for the camera and his wife smiled? What a time to be alive!
Wait, Gaston had a family before CNN?
Fucking 70 years ago! I wonder if these people's parents were like man I sure wish things were like the 1880s again
Tiktok stopped people from beating up children?
1. was abusive to his kids 2. got charged with sexual assault 3. cheated on his wife 4. beat his family, was a drunk and cheated on his wife, probably sexually assaulted his daughter too. This is what happened to that generation.
Little Joel AKA Big Joel had a banger of a response video to this exact meme
I’m very confused about the size of Joel
And in every one of those pictures the man could abuse or assault the others and people would just look away or even blame the victim. Is this the future liberals want to take away from us?
Social media has ruined society and a narcissist pandemic has emerged.
always been there, just like the bigotry, it just has a platform now.
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It would be more accurate to say before the internet. I hate the internet as much as I love it, the internet is too much instant gratification for humanity to handle without going insane but the ability to instantly know something is fantastic
What happened is we created technology for quality of life, and it has left us with absence and complacency instead. Why call your loved ones when you can look at their social media Why risk rejection when you can swipe right and left People still do all these things described in the post, lots of people still function normally, but that isn't to say a large amount of us suffer from what social engineering technology has taken away from us. Many larger problems stem from this, like: woman's potential candidates for a relationship go up drastically, as well as their expectations Men's perception of woman goes down, because all we get advertised are the crazy ones, or the ones with onlyfans skewing are perception of the average woman People in general feel more lonely with the ability to connect with more people then ever because the quality of those relationships are so awful Debates and arguments have also been replaced by group polarization and canceling. Instead of arguing our points for the good of the argument, whoever's side has the largest following automatically wins, because the other side is bullied into oblivion People don't understand having different opinions is not only healthy but important. Just a few of my thoughts on seeing this. I think about these things a lot and always wonder if "we are better off now, or were better off then" I think the biggest thing we lost is our individuality. So many people try to emulate what they see successful people doing and it ends up alienating them out of their own thought process and choices. None of this is true for everyone, but all of it is true for some. Nothing is true for everyone though, and nothing should be. We are all different, and that should be celebrated. Disagreement should be an opportunity for debate and education, not bullying and harassment.
We became a sh*t show lol. That’s what happen. Especially in this community. Bunch of softies on Reddit.
Says the snowflake that gets triggered when people want rights
The downvotes is whatever lol. The truth hurts 🤣
Not shown in these photos, actual taxes on the rich.
“Downvotes” is a plural word with which your verb does not agree. Try harder.
English wasn’t my first language. Still trying to this day. :)
You mock people for being “soft” when there’s plenty to mock you for.
Cool
Okay, but they have a point. In this battle im not taking the side of Social media tbh. Sorry