It’s stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren’t involved in Vietnam. No, I’m not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.
Y’all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.
This is hyperbole
My dad bought about a third of an acre of waterfront property in the 80s with a small cottage on it that we added to. He paid something like $50,000. Guess what a small waterfront property is worth now?
No one gonna bite? Ok, I’ll go first… One million dollars!
You have to be at least middle class and “white”/seen as the dominant demographic for this to work out. Just like every other place and time period.
middle class constraint can be relaxed for hunter-gatherer societies.
Could one feasibly claim that the less hunter-gatherer we are, the less egalitarian we are, societally?
I’ve heard it claimed social stratification didn’t really start happening until agriculture; that’s when you see many small residential structures and a few large ones. On the other hand, it allowed for specialization and the pursuit of arts and sciences (at least for the elite).
What ‘place’ are we actually talking about here?
Life for seniors is ok. About to get a tax break on SS benefits. Would be 78 this year. Possible to get another 12 years of senior benefits. Trump was born that year, so things can work out past 2001.
I’m not sure things have worked out for twumph
That’s… Dying at 54 years of age?
Dying at 54 means you can also live in the bliss of eating red meat, drinking, and ripping cigarettes every day after your 20s.
Yes please
and the problem is where? I’m here for a good time not a long time
Made me think of this Irish toast:
“Here’s to a long life, and a merry one
A quick death, and an easy one
A pretty girl, and an honest one
A cold beer - and another one”Ideally also long.
I’m here for a good AND long time.
You can still be happy in your 50s and beyond.
At least until 72 or so. After that it’s iffy.
Eh, my parents are pretty happy in their 70s. They still go skiing, travel a ton, etc. Stay active and your 70s can be quite pleasant.
Teach me this skill.
Did he fucking stutter
This.
You can push it back to 1944 if you’re in the US, the war wouldn’t have impacted you much. You could even push it back to 1940, but there may be some depression era nutrition issues.
That bumps 2001 up to 57. Honestly go for a few more years and retire before '08 and die in 2019 before covid at age 75
Why die before COVID? COVID was honestly kinda okay, if you’re a home body type. I played so many video games, it was glorious.
Being 75 puts you in the choking to death from covid range, no fun.
Looking at the stats, I’d take my chances.
As God intended.
As long as you’re white
When you are white the sky is the limit. When you are not the limits the sky. -Chris Rock
The limit is the sky?
Chris Rock must have been high as a kite when he said that then.
That or I’m having a stroke while reading it.
This is from his bigger and blacker stand up from early 2000 after saying this line. He also said that there is a one legged white bus boy who would not switch places with me and I’m rich because the bus boy would say nah man I’m gonna ride this white thing out and see where it takes me.
Cool, but the quote is still giving me a stroke.
And a man.
And lived in US
And cishet
And secretly homosexual
And resemble a wasp
And able bodied
The ideal life is dying when you’re only 54? That’s pretty bleak!
All the coke and alcohol catches up.
But probably true!
If you were a vet and saw combat in Vietnam, that was the cancer you got from all the Agent Orange they sprayed on you that killed you…
My birth father died a slow agonizing death after getting exposed to agent orange. My adopted mother calls me a bastard all the time. She is a horrible person. Life is America is horrible it is no wounder so many kill themselves.
Fuck I hope not. I’m 54 now.
June 19th 2026. I’ll see you soon.
Longer than I expect to live
Right? I sure hope it doesn’t take that long.
The bio of old television personalities is always that they took a wrong turn into the BBC reception and got hired on the spot.
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
Also literally any day could be the one the Bomb dropped. It’s easy to forget how close we came, or how fucking terrifying it was that you had no way of knowing.
Countries other than the United States exist and my country was the one people ran away to in order to avoid the draft. Also the same country of the person who posted this.
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with being born after the draft became less used and I’m now old enough to not qualify for the draft anymore. Life is pretty good.
Impress them with a firm handshake.
My dad was born in 1947. He died a year ago. Lived in my basement for 3 years toward the end, we converted it to a “in-law” suite. Probably spent most of his money on medical bills though because he had an accident that paralyzed half his body.
Anyhow he worked the same job his entire life only worked his way up to middle management at a factory. Prided himself in slacking off his entire career and still did better than I do now and I have to work much harder and have my spouse be employed to pull in what he did alone half-assing it.
So it was different for sure, middle-class was easily achieved if you were a white male. I’d almost say if you were poor you just got very unlucky, were a single mom, or a minority. If you were a white male, you’d really have to be dealt a bad hand in life to not be middle-class.
So you wouldn’t even live to be 60?
For some my uncle and my dad did these things but also died prematurely from health complications related to Vietnam
Deserved it
Oh look, it’s a tankie fuckwit! How does it feel to be a scurge on society, your family, and to have dropped out of primary school?
It feels great, thanks for asking! I love holding viewpoints that are “dangerous” but liberals agree with 4 years later (and pretend they held all along)
Keep making shit up out of thin air and trying to pretend like you aren’t literal landfill.
You do understand that US was drafting?
Draft dodge then
Like Trump?
Are you suggesting Trump did the right thing?
My grandfather picked tomatoes to eventually buy his house in cash.
He was a hard worker, but damn, imagine buying a house in cash.
Dude went on to have like 10 kids and a good standard of living.
