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People born around 1900 had it pretty bad
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:25 pm
World War I
Spanish flu epidemic
Great depression
World War II
Korean war
Vietnam war
Spanish flu epidemic
Great depression
World War II
Korean war
Vietnam war
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Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:26 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Especially if you lived in Europe
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:27 pm to LSUTANGERINE
On the bright side, they had submissive women and jazz and flappers and art deco and the best possible version of America.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:29 pm to LSUTANGERINE
The men were old enough to fight in WWI and young enough to fight in WWII. Damn.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:31 pm to LSUTANGERINE
All that, and they still wore suits to baseball games. 
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:31 pm to LSUTANGERINE
When my great grandmother was a little girl she saw her first automobile at the parish fair. Her father wouldn't let them get close to it because he thought it would blow up. She lived long enough to fly to Hawaii on a 747 with one of her granddaughters.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:40 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I guess we should remind ourselves when bad things happen today. Bad things have always been happening.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:46 pm to LSUTANGERINE
That’s nothing, we lived through Covid!
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:49 pm to LSUTANGERINE
quote:
People born around 1900 had it pretty bad
World War I
Spanish flu epidemic
Great depression
World War II
Korean war
Vietnam war
100%
There were bread lines and unemployment was rife until WW2, the Dust Bowl wiped out many farmers; Plus there were an inordinate number of people who became near slaves -- not to mention so many working in factories as children or slumming streets on their own as orphans in large cities in the early 1900s.
Starting with the Boomers , we all have NO idea how lucky most of us are to have avoided the human calamity for the most part. SO FAR.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:52 pm to SirWinston
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On the bright side, they had submissive women and jazz and flappers and art deco and the best possible version of America.
IF you were affluent and connected. It lasted all of what -- 7-8 years?
What gets my voted as the "best version of America" or "definitive America" is the early 1950s-early 1970s.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:57 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Yup. And people born in 1950’s or so lived through the greatest arc of all time.
Really only Vietnam that they had to worry about. They lived a life mostly in air conditioning but still had such a free and easy society.
America at that time was 90% white Christian compared to just 40% now. Kids could ride their bikes in neighborhoods and you didn’t have to worry about them getting abducted. Criminals were actually prosecuted and held accountable.
They lived through the greatest music and tech boom in human history.
They grew up watching Elvis and the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. People had real conversations daily.
There lifespan stretched from a huge portion of the country still tending to farms all the way through to the Iphone.
And the luckiest part is that many of them have already passed away and were not able to witness Obama and the globalist destroy our once great nation and lay the foundation for Civil War II and WWIII.
Really only Vietnam that they had to worry about. They lived a life mostly in air conditioning but still had such a free and easy society.
America at that time was 90% white Christian compared to just 40% now. Kids could ride their bikes in neighborhoods and you didn’t have to worry about them getting abducted. Criminals were actually prosecuted and held accountable.
They lived through the greatest music and tech boom in human history.
They grew up watching Elvis and the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. People had real conversations daily.
There lifespan stretched from a huge portion of the country still tending to farms all the way through to the Iphone.
And the luckiest part is that many of them have already passed away and were not able to witness Obama and the globalist destroy our once great nation and lay the foundation for Civil War II and WWIII.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 4:59 pm to LSUTANGERINE
NO AC!
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:01 pm to LordSaintly
quote:And had to live through the Great Depression in between.
The men were old enough to fight in WWI and young enough to fight in WWII. Damn.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:02 pm to SirWinston
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they had submissive women
Incel board
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:04 pm to LSUTANGERINE
But damn, they went from hearing their grandparents tell first person civil war stories, through the Great Depression, all the way to watching Wheel of Fortune every night after dinner.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:04 pm to LSUTANGERINE
We didn’t start the fire.
It’s always burning since the world’s been turning.
It’s always burning since the world’s been turning.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:07 pm to Sus-Scrofa
It’s crazy that back in the day you could start your own confederacy and fight a war for your freedom from oppression and nowadays you get arrested for posting memes
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:11 pm to LSUTANGERINE
The best time to live is always the present.
I’m sure people from 1900 were glad they had comforts like electricity and running water that people in prior centuries didn’t have.
Also, getting shot dead by a machine gun is better than getting your guts torn out with more primitive weapons from previous centuries
I’m sure people from 1900 were glad they had comforts like electricity and running water that people in prior centuries didn’t have.
Also, getting shot dead by a machine gun is better than getting your guts torn out with more primitive weapons from previous centuries
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:13 pm to LSUTANGERINE
It’s just a different era with different problems. But a lot of good things happened during that time too that paved the way for us.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:21 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Don’t forget prohibition
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