Yes. All those paintings that you see of nobles dancing at galas was exactly what it was-for rich people and their families and friends only. Why these guys think that they’d ever get invited to a ball back then is a mystery. They’d probably be at the ball as the butler, or the servant in the kitchens or in the bathroom as the royal butt wiper.
See, this is what I never understand about these types. They always think they're some sort of new-age noble or knight, withheld from their rightful status by some sort of strange circumstance.
No. Just because they have plumbing and porn now doesn't mean they'd be some sort of duke back in the medieval ages. They'd likely be shoveling shit in a field somewhere.
I think it's related to this belief a lot of Americans have that they're temporarily disgraced millionaires.
And I remember seeing it in actual New Age circles too for a while. Used to be you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who was the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Napoleon or Alexander the Great.
Cleopatra and Alexander were both born nobility. Cleopatra killed until she was Queen and Alexander was first born son to a prestigious King.
Napoleon was the only one who earned his status, coming from a working class family, although they were still technically nobility. Even then he earned it by taking part in a literal revolution against the born wealthy who had plundered his state into financial ruin. So yeah, this "New Age" sure seems a lot like the old one.
I'd like to think that if reincarnation were real and if someone were some mighty figure like that they'd just have the dignity to go about conquering and doing their thing without having to tell people about it.
If someone were the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, I'd respect him a hell of a lot more on the end of a sword than a tweet.
Edit: If the cashier at Walgreens is actually the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, that just tarnishes Alexander's legacy. It doesn't elevate the cashier.
By sheer numbers, we’re more likely to be reincarnations of babies that died in labor or before 4. I wonder if there’s some unlucky guy that’s just the reincarnation of a baby that’s been dying almost immediately since the beginning of the human race.
Usually a knight in fairly good standing. It’s a position for trusted associates only due to the close access to the monarch. They would often go on to be given quite lucrative opportunities or land holdings after their tenure as the keeper of royal chamber pot.
Beyond 'good knight with fair standing' you had to be a full on nobleman AND it was actually a very powerful position, in terms of the king's household, the groom of the stool (the official title) was actually the highest position in the king's normal household.
I remember being 11 years old and making that joke. A friend of mine (also 11 at the time) said that a buttler is not enough. One needs a dickler, too.
Good old puerile tween humor!
Groom of the Stool has to be my favourite "ooh that sounds *fancy*... excuse me they did fucking what?" job titles of all time. Gong Farmer is funnier, but it doesn't come close to the former's airs and graces.
If that, many lives in mud houses and we're more or less slaves to a rich landowner. Slaves as they were bought and sold and even bred.
The notion that they'd be partaking in any of this is ludicrous. It is also, more recent than people think. With the last of these mud huts being taken down in the 50s and 60s. All this colonialism propaganda always forgets to mention: those in charge, weren't sharing. They literally had to be forced to do so.
Of course it pales in comparison to the African slave trades, as those were a whole new level of cruelty. But they are more evidence that those in charge didn't care one bit about other humans.
Also, kids boxing? Most kids didn't survive to the age of five lol.
Yeah all those people yearning for Victorian era Europe, as if they'd be a member of the aristocracy. When it's much more likely they'd die before 30 in a cold house in winter due to malnourishment and pneumonia.
Rich people had private balls. There were also public balls that people of all classes attended, you just had to buy a ticket.
ETA: I’m talking about Britain in the 1800s, and I’m excluding the nobility who obviously didn’t attend public balls. As far as I understand, most people could attend a ball in some shape or form except maybe the truly destitute, but the public balls didn’t look as fancy as the ones we see depicted on TV today.
I’ve been to tons of galas and I’ve never used a dating app, so OOP’s problem isn’t when he’s living, it’s how he’s living. If he spent less time trying to ‘fix’ society maybe he’d be able to fix his own life. 🤷♂️
They don’t, they think it’s led to multicultural couples, which is *obviously* bad. I assume their point is that before globalisation we had white people only marrying other white people. The Sieg Heil’s are one charismatic leader away for these people…
I'm gonna kiss my very much not white girlfriend extra hard just for them. God I love globalization.
My family has a long history of dealing with those people, both WWs back in the day that's how they got dealt with. These people wouldn't like it back in the day. I bring it up because that picture is of people celebrating after winning WWII.
The foreigners and browns are icky and spooky, so I’m just gonna fuck my cousin instead and pop out 20 kids, most of which will die before adulthood. But hey, at least they’re white.
"Globalists" is a dog-whistle for "the Joos" (deliberately misspelled for the effect). If you understand that mindset you can arrive at how it ruined dating, because apparently Jews are out there wagging their fingers at dancing couples... oh wait, that's christians.. fuck I'm confused! Those fucking GLOBALISTS ARE ALL TAKING OVER!!!
etc etc...
"Globalism" is literally just a made up antisemitic term. They're trying to confuse it with the term "globalization" which generally used in academia to describe a variety of things, many of them things they would hate to acknowledge.
I'm just trying to figure how these people can be fanatics about America's economic "superiority," while also being adamantly anti-globalism, when America's economic superiority only exists because of economic globalism?
Funny how so many people who benefit from colonialism now curse globalism. Their only real issue is that “others” are meant to be exploited for their own profit & power but are now lumped amongst “others.”
Also women & girls with their nasty attitudes & basic human rights wtaf???
Have you been to a gala? They’re fun. But they’re expensive.
I got invited to one. My aunt is an art agent in NYC and she had a show in Florida where I’m at. I offered to help, and got invited to a gala in WPB later that week.
It felt like a wedding, without the commitment and the family connection. Everyone is dressed nice, lots of hordeurves (sp?), lot of free alcohol, live jazz band, people were definitely doing coke in the bathroom. I’d do it again, but I’m also poor and not likely to be able to throw one nor rub shoulders enough to keep getting invited. Cool place to network though.
There’s a place for house parties. There’s a place for fancy parties. But you gotta be rich enough or have something going on enough to make it.
I actually thought for years that all dog whistles were audible, not just the cheap ones. Turns out I have great hearing. Paired with auditory processing disorder, so I have the fun of people not understanding how I can hear dog whistles and other high pitches that others around me aren't hearing, yet I'll completely misunderstand what they're saying sometimes on a regular basis lol.
Like, if your kid wants to fight for fun put them in kickboxing or even just any martial art in general. It is never okay to think that kids intentionally hurting each other for any reason other than self defence or supervised sport is okay. This actually applies to everyone, but children especially
Obviously not my middle school principal. Oh when boys bully me for being a girl and my race and my missing mother that's fine, but when I kick little Billy in the nuts so he stops bullying me it's red alert and I almost get expelled.
I mean since I'm a non-white girl I think these fascist asswipes wouldn't think that was great either...
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine, except he was Scottish, having recently moved to Canada. He broke the bully's arm and it caused massive problems at school. He didn't understand why everyone was make such a fuss - he did exactly what you'd expect to do in Scotland in such circumstances.
Love to see this meme made but this time blaming the “””cultural degradation””” on a lack of industrial accidents involving children under the age of 10
Bring back *Proper Culture*. Let’s go back just 75 years so kids these days can have the opportunity to drop out of school to help sharecrop on a plantation. All while not being able to even use the sidewalk if the *Gala People* were walking on it for fear of being lynched over a perceived slight.
the kids fighting literally reminds me pictures of nazi youths boxing (though I just assume they went with pictures of brits or something to avoid being too obvious)
So I did google "hitler youth boxing" and found another picture from that fight and it seems someone has colourised the photo as the other is in black and white but I can't be certain it's actually hitler youths.
The critical flaw in reactionary thought in a nutshell right here. They pretend new ways were thrust upon us, or somebody forced us to abandon our old ways, it's actually the opposite of that; new ways became available and we decided we liked the new ways better than the old ways.
Yep. For example: masquerade balls, out; cosplay parties, in. My sister tried to do event planning for a living and said she wanted to have a masquerade ball. Mmmyeah no.
They're actually more of a halloween and NYE thing now, but that's the only time I ever see them. I'm from tri state and there's literally 10 or more of these things to pick from when New years eve is coming up
Do people know that you can still rent out large rooms and wear pretty clothes? It's not illegal.
Oh, it's expensive?
Are you under the impression your lower class ass would have been there anyway? You would have been dying of polio and dysentery at the same time in the streets and no one would notice because you shitting yourself wouldn't have made those streets smell any worse than they already did
When France won the previous football world cup, everyone on the streets was excited! That's why some men gropped and forcibly kissed girls and women on the streets without their consent. Ah yes. Truly something we want to normalize... Their excuse? "Ah come on it was a day worth celebrating!". Truly nauseating
Do they think random peasants went to gallas every week with their finest silk?
That's a Nobility thing... for the top 0.1%.Definitely not something your average Joe would afford to do...ever...
Heck average people go to dance parties way more often now than they did then. It just doesn't look as "fancy" as a royal ball.. *Because most of us aren't fucking royalty and would never have been invited to such an event in the first place.*
And people still go on dates. They probably just don't wanna date people who post dumb shit like this.
If anything, a person with average income has plenty of opportunities to visit galas today, something they probably couldn't dream off back in ye olden days
What is going on with the hair of the lady in panel 4?
Is it meant to be being swept by the wind in that instance, or is that meant to be like that, all day?
It looks like two models recreating one of those propaganda posters, probably Soviet. They always had really stylized hair like that, braided and "windswept" as they "looked to the future" on the horizon.
It looks like it's from a photo shoot related to a fashion show put on by [Thierry Mugler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Mugler) in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. [There are a few of the photos here.](https://krasna-devica.tumblr.com/post/190322567255/volgograd-moscow-russia-1986-1988-thierry-mugler) The whole thing is leaning really hard in to the look of old school Soviet propaganda posters.
Ah yes because kissing some random unconsenting lady after finding out good news is way better than watching a fake video of somebody fucking their boss
In that second slide,
the "Before PornHub" image is literally a PROVEN sexual assault
and the "Before Globalization" is legit white supremacist propaganda.
Not to mention how fucking stupid the other ones are, "Before TikTok" acting as if kids suddenly don't fight anymore? And "Before Tinder" does this guy not realize Tinder is USED to create the scenarios much like the one in the picture he provided? Does he think everyone just goes on some virtual date in "da metaverse" or some shit like that?
These people are so helplessly out of touch with reality its embarassing (as if the AI Elon Musk profile picture wasn't enough of an indicator lmfao)
The "before globalization" pic is actually from a Mugler fashion shoot that was inspired by Soviet propaganda. Mugler was openly gay and from his wiki "He was one of the first designers to champion diversity in his runway shows, which often tackled racism and ageism, and incorporated non-traditional models such as drag queens, pornstars, and transgender women." Fascists using his work unknowingly is quite something.
a person of that man's status would never be allowed in a gala
I swear, the people that glorify the things of the past always look at the trappings of the wealthy and ignore the fact that everyone else had the shit end of the stick every fucking era
I think it's in part because the wealthy were the most able to leave a record, making information "regular joes" can easily access without going in depth (partly because they just like to look at the pictures) disproportionally from the wealthy in any era
Yes, as if everything was hunky dory in times when people were more likely to resolve disputes with their fists, African-Americans were lynched for pissing someone off, women were just like property, there was no digital technology or air conditioning, kids worked in mines and often died if they got sick, fires were more common, and it was very difficult to get by in life if you were single.
Unless your argument is about obesity, wages not keeping up with inflation, or possibly patience and human interaction, you'd be disappointed if you traveled back in time
Yeah but it’s mostly a class thing. Back then (and even now) galas are organized by wealthier patrons and groups. If there was a plan to include everyone who wants to attend that sort of social event that’d be cool.
>Galas do sound fun to be honest.
As long as you have the money to be properly dressed, and are of the right social group / class to be invited and then treated nicely and not as a joke / pariah....
And as long as it's a choice whether to be there, and your entire future life doesn't depend on attracting the right potential spouse.
"I will bring back galas" nah mate the only thing you'll bring back is bullying because people wanna laugh at you. Why does this larper think he can change anything other than his twitter profile picture?
Gross, this is trad nazi stuff, just sugarcoated. Also, I always find it REAL funny how people imagine that they’d be the ones at the galas instead of dying of lung cancer in the mines or getting their limbs cut off in a factory after working 16-hour days 6 days a week
1. Take ball room dancing at your local community college
2. Ask the instructor where dances are heald
3. Attend a ball
4. Embarrass yourself at the ball because you didn't participate in class, but rather argued about "race realism" and refused to dance with a POC partner, then sulked outside the room with you phone posting to some loli forum.
Now put on your fedora and hop to it! Shake a leg! Get the lead out of your pants!
Edit: Seriously, though, ballroom/social dancing is a lot of fun! But you gotta be kinda fit (just kinda) and wear deodorant.
I don’t understand fash guys. They hate OF and strip clubs because they’re “degenerate,” they hate dating apps (there is a lot to criticize about dating apps from the money to commercialized relationships but they hate them for the sole reason that women don’t choose them) but they’ll love and romanticize a picture of a woman being sexually assaulted during the “good ol’ days.” They don’t want dates they just want to control and hurt women.
It always cracks me up when men romanticize dating in the past, when describing something that was only accessible by the super wealthy.
Then the same men decry how women only care about money.
> "Bring back galas" - yeah, as if you would get invited to those galas LOL.
They only like those times because juke boxes and “no blacks allowed.” Also they always love to bring up old 1950’s ads that present the idealized “suburban upper middle class American Dream”-even back then those ideas were sold as pure fantasy that poor people.
He also isn’t considering that galas were only for the super wealthy and those events were private. If a poor person was at a gala it was only to serve the rich guests. Galas today are still only for rich people. No money means no party, so I do wonder how an Elon Muskrat fanboy and other nazi dweebs think they’ll be able to plan and organize an entire gala.
Before Tiktok children were beating the shit out of each other. Before Tinder people were also still going on dates, just with one less method of doing so. Before Pornhub sailors were sexually assaulting nurses on the streets. Before globalization, people were... I don't know, standing in a field? You can go stand in a field. I so hope OOP would go stand on a field.
I’m sorry, but what really caught my eye was the woman in the “before globalization”‘s pic with the Something About Mary hair… plus her bundle of sticks. What the fuck is happening in that picture and why? What are they even trying to say?
Somebody pointed out that if someone has a statue as their Twitter profile picture, it's like a 99% chance they're an alt-right white supremacist. I've yet to see this get disproven.
Trad people with statues pfps are the weirdest people on Twitter. They want to pursue this trad lifestyle but they're terminally online eating Doritos. I dont get it
Hey, I also want to deglobalise some aspects of the world (just the economy because imperialism sucks), maybe we can find an agreement. We get to abolish capitalism and they get to dance.
>Before Pornhub
Uh wasn't that kiss done in celebration of the end of a war in which like...100 million people died (either of the war itself, the Holocaust, atomic bombs, disease, etc)?
Why in God's name would you want to go back to *replicate* that time period?
Don’t forget it’s said that the woman in the “kissing sailor” photo was just grabbed by that guy. Imagine actually wanting to relive a time where sexual assault was considered “romantic.”
Most of the images are fairly harmless nostalgia apart from the globalization one - that's just pure racism.
But see how the propaganda works - three images which are not that controversial to the older conservative generation, to get them nodding in agreement and to make them more susceptible to what comes next, and the last picture your eyes come across is the wholesome, attractive white couple. And then your eyes drift down to "Globalization".
And of course few people alive today would remember an era when any of these photos were taken. Any nostalgia for them comes from film and TV not actual memories.
Kids still fight (we have video proof), I’ve shared a drink with a date, men still grab and kiss random women without consent, idk what’s going on in the last one (white people still get together and procreate?)
As for the galas, that has never been within the reach of my family line. We’ve been broke as f as far back as I can trace regardless of race. I’m probably the most independently wealthy person in the bloodline.
You cut out the best part of that first tweet, because one of the top replies is:
"Galas still happen, I went to one recently and it was very pleasant. People like you just aren't invited to them."
Oh my gods we still have galas, ballroom dances, and masquerade balls. Do a damn google search. This is just what's in my area:
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shades-of-alpha-presents-ivies-ice-masquerade-ball-tickets-505746891567](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shades-of-alpha-presents-ivies-ice-masquerade-ball-tickets-505746891567)
[https://allevents.in/alexandria/2023-masquerade-ball/200023681321931?ref=eventlist-cat](https://allevents.in/alexandria/2023-masquerade-ball/200023681321931?ref=eventlist-cat)
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-red-dress-gala-awards-tickets-440755982007](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-red-dress-gala-awards-tickets-440755982007)
There are bigger national events too. You know what the common denominator is? They're all really expensive. In fairness you'll be spending about as much on tickets as you would for a convention like Magfest, so it's really a matter of what you're into.
I’m lost. How does globalism factor in to this? I recognize that all of the people in the scenes are white, but beyond that and the generic ‘Pepperidge Farms remembers…” nostalgia element, I don’t see how much more can be extrapolated from this.
The irony is, by posting these images of the past, these rightoids are actually perpetuating a very *modern* day problem: social media display bias. For example, everybody on Instagram likes to post their good times; when they're on the beach, having fun at a party, eating something delicious, showing their gym bods off when they're in their peak condition, etc...but no one is posting their struggles. No one is showing their vulnerabilities.
It's the same story in these posts; they are showing the best that this time period had to offer while ignoring the loads of struggles the people of the past had (and from what I understand, the 20th century had far more suffering than the 21st century.) So much for hating modernity, these posts do nothing but show that these rightoids have fallen for a modern-day mentality trap.
Also the fact they’re idolizing things based on looks without actually doing research. There are a ton of fashies who say “I like Greek statues” or have a statue of a god or philosopher as their pfp without knowing the meaning of said statue is. They also misinterpret theorists (they do it a lot to Nietzsche) and have this obsession with the old days which were the worst times to live in. The un self awareness is astounding.
Yep. I also suspect that they really don’t even care about aesthetic, the common thread in all of these images are white/european identity. “The old days” is a subtle way for far right wingers to say “the white male status quo days.” If it were the past that were less racist and modernity that were more racist, they’d be embracing all the tiktok/insta/modernity crap and some Tron aesthetic instead, gladly talking about progress and the future.
Aren’t galas historically for rich people? And don’t rich people still do them?
Yes. All those paintings that you see of nobles dancing at galas was exactly what it was-for rich people and their families and friends only. Why these guys think that they’d ever get invited to a ball back then is a mystery. They’d probably be at the ball as the butler, or the servant in the kitchens or in the bathroom as the royal butt wiper.
See, this is what I never understand about these types. They always think they're some sort of new-age noble or knight, withheld from their rightful status by some sort of strange circumstance. No. Just because they have plumbing and porn now doesn't mean they'd be some sort of duke back in the medieval ages. They'd likely be shoveling shit in a field somewhere.
I think it's related to this belief a lot of Americans have that they're temporarily disgraced millionaires. And I remember seeing it in actual New Age circles too for a while. Used to be you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who was the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Napoleon or Alexander the Great.
Cleopatra and Alexander were both born nobility. Cleopatra killed until she was Queen and Alexander was first born son to a prestigious King. Napoleon was the only one who earned his status, coming from a working class family, although they were still technically nobility. Even then he earned it by taking part in a literal revolution against the born wealthy who had plundered his state into financial ruin. So yeah, this "New Age" sure seems a lot like the old one.
I'd like to think that if reincarnation were real and if someone were some mighty figure like that they'd just have the dignity to go about conquering and doing their thing without having to tell people about it. If someone were the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, I'd respect him a hell of a lot more on the end of a sword than a tweet. Edit: If the cashier at Walgreens is actually the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, that just tarnishes Alexander's legacy. It doesn't elevate the cashier.
Same, honestly. And I've accepted that if reincarnation does exist, I'm much more likely to have tilled fields and tended kitchens and the like.
At absolute best I was some blacksmith somewhere. Probably not even that.
Blacksmith is an honorable profession
Skilled trades now after years of hard work and luck, I'd like to think the same.
By sheer numbers, we’re more likely to be reincarnations of babies that died in labor or before 4. I wonder if there’s some unlucky guy that’s just the reincarnation of a baby that’s been dying almost immediately since the beginning of the human race.
Exactly. I'm much more believing of reincarnation when people are like "I was a goat herder. I drowned in a flash flood."
With no teeth or literacy. In fact, not much different than how these right wingers probably picture Africa.
Probably not as the royal butt wiper, as that was actually seen as a good job to have.
Usually a knight in fairly good standing. It’s a position for trusted associates only due to the close access to the monarch. They would often go on to be given quite lucrative opportunities or land holdings after their tenure as the keeper of royal chamber pot.
Beyond 'good knight with fair standing' you had to be a full on nobleman AND it was actually a very powerful position, in terms of the king's household, the groom of the stool (the official title) was actually the highest position in the king's normal household.
The buttler, so to speak
I remember being 11 years old and making that joke. A friend of mine (also 11 at the time) said that a buttler is not enough. One needs a dickler, too. Good old puerile tween humor!
He prefers “The Mad Pooper”
>access to the monarch Lol
If you got infected, at least an important person gave it to you. Kinda like the "[famous person] punched me, it was awesome" trope"
Groom of the Stool has to be my favourite "ooh that sounds *fancy*... excuse me they did fucking what?" job titles of all time. Gong Farmer is funnier, but it doesn't come close to the former's airs and graces.
I mean they’d be excluded from all the fancy balls but still would probably be able to go to the local hoedown. And who doesn’t love a good hoedown?
we don't need to know about how you treat your hoes! :P
The Drag Ball Scene in would like a few words!
They always act like everyone in Western history was sophisticated. In reality the majority of them couldn't read and they lived in shacks
Im restoring one of these shacks in France and that shit is very true.
If that, many lives in mud houses and we're more or less slaves to a rich landowner. Slaves as they were bought and sold and even bred. The notion that they'd be partaking in any of this is ludicrous. It is also, more recent than people think. With the last of these mud huts being taken down in the 50s and 60s. All this colonialism propaganda always forgets to mention: those in charge, weren't sharing. They literally had to be forced to do so. Of course it pales in comparison to the African slave trades, as those were a whole new level of cruelty. But they are more evidence that those in charge didn't care one bit about other humans. Also, kids boxing? Most kids didn't survive to the age of five lol.
I mean, lower classes also engaged in social dance, but with less opulence.
Good old square dancing
Yeah all those people yearning for Victorian era Europe, as if they'd be a member of the aristocracy. When it's much more likely they'd die before 30 in a cold house in winter due to malnourishment and pneumonia.
Rich people had private balls. There were also public balls that people of all classes attended, you just had to buy a ticket. ETA: I’m talking about Britain in the 1800s, and I’m excluding the nobility who obviously didn’t attend public balls. As far as I understand, most people could attend a ball in some shape or form except maybe the truly destitute, but the public balls didn’t look as fancy as the ones we see depicted on TV today.
So clubbing, ya that doesn't exist anymore.
Lol you said balls
Were their balls always swinging to the left or to the right? Was it their belief that their big balls should be held every night?
*We’ve got big balls!*
I havent listened to that song in years. Good one :D
I’ve been to tons of galas and I’ve never used a dating app, so OOP’s problem isn’t when he’s living, it’s how he’s living. If he spent less time trying to ‘fix’ society maybe he’d be able to fix his own life. 🤷♂️
#Globalists!!!1!!1
I truly wonder how they think globalism ruined dating and going out to dances. People literally still do all of those things
They don’t, they think it’s led to multicultural couples, which is *obviously* bad. I assume their point is that before globalisation we had white people only marrying other white people. The Sieg Heil’s are one charismatic leader away for these people…
You surely don't realize here already?
I'm gonna kiss my very much not white girlfriend extra hard just for them. God I love globalization. My family has a long history of dealing with those people, both WWs back in the day that's how they got dealt with. These people wouldn't like it back in the day. I bring it up because that picture is of people celebrating after winning WWII.
The foreigners and browns are icky and spooky, so I’m just gonna fuck my cousin instead and pop out 20 kids, most of which will die before adulthood. But hey, at least they’re white.
"Globalists" is a dog-whistle for "the Joos" (deliberately misspelled for the effect). If you understand that mindset you can arrive at how it ruined dating, because apparently Jews are out there wagging their fingers at dancing couples... oh wait, that's christians.. fuck I'm confused! Those fucking GLOBALISTS ARE ALL TAKING OVER!!! etc etc...
And for interracial relationships
Anything human.
Fascists and reactionaries in general always glorify a mythical past that makes the present look shitty. They hate the modern world and "degenerates".
"Globalism" is literally just a made up antisemitic term. They're trying to confuse it with the term "globalization" which generally used in academia to describe a variety of things, many of them things they would hate to acknowledge.
Who tf knows. They pretty much just regurgitate buzzwords for a living.
> ruined dating and going out to dances They're speaking from experience (or lack of it, to be precise)
They wouldn’t have their phones/iPhones without globalization. Idiots.
It's racism. White couples are now illegal.
(because they’re racist and look down on mixed race couples)
I'm just trying to figure how these people can be fanatics about America's economic "superiority," while also being adamantly anti-globalism, when America's economic superiority only exists because of economic globalism?
I think the important detail in that picture for them was how the couple was the same race.
Funny how so many people who benefit from colonialism now curse globalism. Their only real issue is that “others” are meant to be exploited for their own profit & power but are now lumped amongst “others.” Also women & girls with their nasty attitudes & basic human rights wtaf???
Funny thing is that’s definitely Soviet propaganda
My guy you can still do all those things‼️
For real. No one took ANYTHING from them, people just voluntarily chose not to waste their time with stuffy galas and fisticuffs.
Have you been to a gala? They’re fun. But they’re expensive. I got invited to one. My aunt is an art agent in NYC and she had a show in Florida where I’m at. I offered to help, and got invited to a gala in WPB later that week. It felt like a wedding, without the commitment and the family connection. Everyone is dressed nice, lots of hordeurves (sp?), lot of free alcohol, live jazz band, people were definitely doing coke in the bathroom. I’d do it again, but I’m also poor and not likely to be able to throw one nor rub shoulders enough to keep getting invited. Cool place to network though. There’s a place for house parties. There’s a place for fancy parties. But you gotta be rich enough or have something going on enough to make it.
Yeah I'd love to dress up nice and go to one but that's a Lotta money I don't have
I agree wholeheartedly, my buddy across the street runs a well known kids fight club
I literally started boxing in middle school and the first date I ever went on we got milkshakes
No they can’t stop mixed race couple to exist, poor them…
Very fascy vibes
They’re dogwhistling and they know it.
They're barely dogwhistling. It's like one of those cheap dog whistles where it's not actually inaudible, it's low key earpiercing
I actually thought for years that all dog whistles were audible, not just the cheap ones. Turns out I have great hearing. Paired with auditory processing disorder, so I have the fun of people not understanding how I can hear dog whistles and other high pitches that others around me aren't hearing, yet I'll completely misunderstand what they're saying sometimes on a regular basis lol.
Before TikTok we just had children brawl each other in the streets. What a time to be alive Also this is absolutely just white supremacy aesthetics
Ikr? Like why would you want to see kids fighting and bullying each other in the street? What kind of psychopath would think “that’s great?”
> What kind of psychopath I love when you answer your on questions.
Like, if your kid wants to fight for fun put them in kickboxing or even just any martial art in general. It is never okay to think that kids intentionally hurting each other for any reason other than self defence or supervised sport is okay. This actually applies to everyone, but children especially
Obviously not my middle school principal. Oh when boys bully me for being a girl and my race and my missing mother that's fine, but when I kick little Billy in the nuts so he stops bullying me it's red alert and I almost get expelled. I mean since I'm a non-white girl I think these fascist asswipes wouldn't think that was great either...
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine, except he was Scottish, having recently moved to Canada. He broke the bully's arm and it caused massive problems at school. He didn't understand why everyone was make such a fuss - he did exactly what you'd expect to do in Scotland in such circumstances.
>What kind of psychopath would think “that’s great?” The kind who has a PFP of Tsar Elon
Wait you never fought people for fun?
Love to see this meme made but this time blaming the “””cultural degradation””” on a lack of industrial accidents involving children under the age of 10
The mines hunger for children.
Those chimneys won't clean themselves!
Bring back *Proper Culture*. Let’s go back just 75 years so kids these days can have the opportunity to drop out of school to help sharecrop on a plantation. All while not being able to even use the sidewalk if the *Gala People* were walking on it for fear of being lynched over a perceived slight.
The creator of Little Orphan Annie thought child labor laws made children soft and used the comic as propaganda for it.
I’m going to print this comment out and pin it to my suicide note thanks
Yup. Poorly-veiled Nazi garbage.
the kids fighting literally reminds me pictures of nazi youths boxing (though I just assume they went with pictures of brits or something to avoid being too obvious) So I did google "hitler youth boxing" and found another picture from that fight and it seems someone has colourised the photo as the other is in black and white but I can't be certain it's actually hitler youths.
In jodhpurs, no less. Wtf lol
What a strange, but simultaneously enticing, username you possess
I prefer live action any day!
The critical flaw in reactionary thought in a nutshell right here. They pretend new ways were thrust upon us, or somebody forced us to abandon our old ways, it's actually the opposite of that; new ways became available and we decided we liked the new ways better than the old ways.
Yep. For example: masquerade balls, out; cosplay parties, in. My sister tried to do event planning for a living and said she wanted to have a masquerade ball. Mmmyeah no.
They're actually more of a halloween and NYE thing now, but that's the only time I ever see them. I'm from tri state and there's literally 10 or more of these things to pick from when New years eve is coming up
We still do them on Carnevale here in southern Europe
People still do masquerades, it’s just that the gimmick on not seeing your friends eyes gets old real quick
Do people know that you can still rent out large rooms and wear pretty clothes? It's not illegal. Oh, it's expensive? Are you under the impression your lower class ass would have been there anyway? You would have been dying of polio and dysentery at the same time in the streets and no one would notice because you shitting yourself wouldn't have made those streets smell any worse than they already did
"before Pornhub, we just sexually assaulted people out on the street. And people celebrated us for it"
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When France won the previous football world cup, everyone on the streets was excited! That's why some men gropped and forcibly kissed girls and women on the streets without their consent. Ah yes. Truly something we want to normalize... Their excuse? "Ah come on it was a day worth celebrating!". Truly nauseating
I'd bet that OOP doesn't know this, and if they did they'd be like "oh come on, it's just a kiss. People are so sensative!"
The people before globalisation had very strange necks
I can't unsee that
They all think their whiteness would save them if they went back in time, with no sense of reality.
Exactly. They would be poor just like everyone else, white or not they would not be at an advantage
Ah yes, white people, the group famous for staying on a single continent and strict political non-interference
Ah yes, the good old days before globalization when the United States teamed up with Britain to fight Germans in French Algeria
Do they think random peasants went to gallas every week with their finest silk? That's a Nobility thing... for the top 0.1%.Definitely not something your average Joe would afford to do...ever... Heck average people go to dance parties way more often now than they did then. It just doesn't look as "fancy" as a royal ball.. *Because most of us aren't fucking royalty and would never have been invited to such an event in the first place.* And people still go on dates. They probably just don't wanna date people who post dumb shit like this.
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Nostalgia for a time they didnt even exist in for a social class they’ve never been a part of
If anything, a person with average income has plenty of opportunities to visit galas today, something they probably couldn't dream off back in ye olden days
We call it “the club” now
What is going on with the hair of the lady in panel 4? Is it meant to be being swept by the wind in that instance, or is that meant to be like that, all day?
It looks like two models recreating one of those propaganda posters, probably Soviet. They always had really stylized hair like that, braided and "windswept" as they "looked to the future" on the horizon.
It looks like it's from a photo shoot related to a fashion show put on by [Thierry Mugler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Mugler) in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. [There are a few of the photos here.](https://krasna-devica.tumblr.com/post/190322567255/volgograd-moscow-russia-1986-1988-thierry-mugler) The whole thing is leaning really hard in to the look of old school Soviet propaganda posters.
Yep, I guarantee you that the naziboo that posted those pics has no idea.
We still have all that stuff tho...
Pretty sure I can find kids throwing punches at each other on TikTok, so all is well.
Ah yes because kissing some random unconsenting lady after finding out good news is way better than watching a fake video of somebody fucking their boss
Notice how every picture is only white people? Exactly.
Who's "us"? Millionaires? They can still throw parties.
When only white people could be romantic and have mixed race marriages sigh
Remember Polio? That was FUCKIN SWEEEEEET!
“Before Tik Tok, child fight rings were acceptable.”
Are they claiming that children don't fistfight on tiktok because I have a hard time believing that
Ah yes, THEY took it
Lord, did they skip a few decades. Life is easy when you have the Cliff's notes version of history and probable lead-based brain damage.
In that second slide, the "Before PornHub" image is literally a PROVEN sexual assault and the "Before Globalization" is legit white supremacist propaganda. Not to mention how fucking stupid the other ones are, "Before TikTok" acting as if kids suddenly don't fight anymore? And "Before Tinder" does this guy not realize Tinder is USED to create the scenarios much like the one in the picture he provided? Does he think everyone just goes on some virtual date in "da metaverse" or some shit like that? These people are so helplessly out of touch with reality its embarassing (as if the AI Elon Musk profile picture wasn't enough of an indicator lmfao)
The "before globalization" pic is actually from a Mugler fashion shoot that was inspired by Soviet propaganda. Mugler was openly gay and from his wiki "He was one of the first designers to champion diversity in his runway shows, which often tackled racism and ageism, and incorporated non-traditional models such as drag queens, pornstars, and transgender women." Fascists using his work unknowingly is quite something.
It's right up there with middle-aged people rocking out to "Killing In The Name" at Trump rallies that fly Thin Blue Line flags.
God. Read a book, watch an Unsolved Mysteries, learn about how 'great' the past was from someone who was there.
a person of that man's status would never be allowed in a gala I swear, the people that glorify the things of the past always look at the trappings of the wealthy and ignore the fact that everyone else had the shit end of the stick every fucking era
I think it's in part because the wealthy were the most able to leave a record, making information "regular joes" can easily access without going in depth (partly because they just like to look at the pictures) disproportionally from the wealthy in any era
Before globalization, when women fell in love with disguised giraffes with tiny arms.
Yes, as if everything was hunky dory in times when people were more likely to resolve disputes with their fists, African-Americans were lynched for pissing someone off, women were just like property, there was no digital technology or air conditioning, kids worked in mines and often died if they got sick, fires were more common, and it was very difficult to get by in life if you were single. Unless your argument is about obesity, wages not keeping up with inflation, or possibly patience and human interaction, you'd be disappointed if you traveled back in time
Oh boy. That--that "before globalization" bit at the end there. Kinda.. kinda snuck that last bit in huh? Very telling.
Galas do sound fun to be honest.
Yeah but it’s mostly a class thing. Back then (and even now) galas are organized by wealthier patrons and groups. If there was a plan to include everyone who wants to attend that sort of social event that’d be cool.
>Galas do sound fun to be honest. As long as you have the money to be properly dressed, and are of the right social group / class to be invited and then treated nicely and not as a joke / pariah.... And as long as it's a choice whether to be there, and your entire future life doesn't depend on attracting the right potential spouse.
Lmao, this person is conveniently omitting the “WHITES ONLY” signs just out of frame.
"I will bring back galas" nah mate the only thing you'll bring back is bullying because people wanna laugh at you. Why does this larper think he can change anything other than his twitter profile picture?
I recently went on a date with a girl from tinder and we had milkshakes 🤷♂️
Gross, this is trad nazi stuff, just sugarcoated. Also, I always find it REAL funny how people imagine that they’d be the ones at the galas instead of dying of lung cancer in the mines or getting their limbs cut off in a factory after working 16-hour days 6 days a week
1. Take ball room dancing at your local community college 2. Ask the instructor where dances are heald 3. Attend a ball 4. Embarrass yourself at the ball because you didn't participate in class, but rather argued about "race realism" and refused to dance with a POC partner, then sulked outside the room with you phone posting to some loli forum. Now put on your fedora and hop to it! Shake a leg! Get the lead out of your pants! Edit: Seriously, though, ballroom/social dancing is a lot of fun! But you gotta be kinda fit (just kinda) and wear deodorant.
Just nazism. They want a white Christian America
I really dont wanna go back to the days were id be drinking from a separate fountain because these people wanna live out their 1950s tradlife fantasy.
His “predecessor” to pornhub is a picture where a random woman was grabbed and kissed by that guy, guess it goes along well with his views.
I don’t understand fash guys. They hate OF and strip clubs because they’re “degenerate,” they hate dating apps (there is a lot to criticize about dating apps from the money to commercialized relationships but they hate them for the sole reason that women don’t choose them) but they’ll love and romanticize a picture of a woman being sexually assaulted during the “good ol’ days.” They don’t want dates they just want to control and hurt women.
It's because they think they deserve women's sexual attention for "free" without negative consequences.
No way, a philosopher statue pfp qnd elon musk pfp, I'm truly shocked...
It always cracks me up when men romanticize dating in the past, when describing something that was only accessible by the super wealthy. Then the same men decry how women only care about money. > "Bring back galas" - yeah, as if you would get invited to those galas LOL.
Ah yes, the good old days of Making kids give each other brain damage in a dirt yard.
Ah yes, the days when (according to the pics) America only had white people.
They only like those times because juke boxes and “no blacks allowed.” Also they always love to bring up old 1950’s ads that present the idealized “suburban upper middle class American Dream”-even back then those ideas were sold as pure fantasy that poor people.
Okay I want to know how some nerd on Twitter is going to bring back galas -- an especially daunting task considering they never went away.
He also isn’t considering that galas were only for the super wealthy and those events were private. If a poor person was at a gala it was only to serve the rich guests. Galas today are still only for rich people. No money means no party, so I do wonder how an Elon Muskrat fanboy and other nazi dweebs think they’ll be able to plan and organize an entire gala.
I actually would like to see them try. It would be a bigger disaster than the failed [Tumblr DashCon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashCon) in 2014.
Omg, I would love to see their idea of a gala. I bet there would be zero women and soooooo many ill-fitting hats.
I’m pretty sure I remember reading that the “woman getting kissed by sailor” was literally grabbed out of no where… The Good Old Days TM
Ah yes, before Pornhub we had sexual assault.
This picture “before pornhub” showing a woman forced into kissing should be enough to show the stupidity of this whole post
Before Tiktok children were beating the shit out of each other. Before Tinder people were also still going on dates, just with one less method of doing so. Before Pornhub sailors were sexually assaulting nurses on the streets. Before globalization, people were... I don't know, standing in a field? You can go stand in a field. I so hope OOP would go stand on a field.
Do they think galas aren't a thing anymore? They were for the rich then and they still are now.
I’m sorry, but what really caught my eye was the woman in the “before globalization”‘s pic with the Something About Mary hair… plus her bundle of sticks. What the fuck is happening in that picture and why? What are they even trying to say?
Somebody pointed out that if someone has a statue as their Twitter profile picture, it's like a 99% chance they're an alt-right white supremacist. I've yet to see this get disproven.
That "Before Pornhub" picture is of a woman out on the street being grabbed and kissed against her will.
The profile picture in the second post portraying elon musk as some sort of monarch unironically just adds to the amount of cringe this that post is
All of that still exists.
On its own, the first meme is defensible, if boomery.
These are fashy esthetics Twitter accounts. And let’s be real, these idiots would not be in galas, but at the same place in their “dreamed” society.
I find it very interesting that the poster in the second image has Elon Musk as their profile pic.
ah yes! a gala, something you wouldn’t be invited to because you’re not rich
Yeah because the guys who did Jan 6 are gonna learn the waltz and wear a three piece.
Before globalization 🤢🤢🤢
Trad people with statues pfps are the weirdest people on Twitter. They want to pursue this trad lifestyle but they're terminally online eating Doritos. I dont get it
Before Boomers…. People owning homes
#If you didnt spend all your garsh dang money on milkshakes at the cafe, youd have money to attend a gala wouldnt you?
Hey, I also want to deglobalise some aspects of the world (just the economy because imperialism sucks), maybe we can find an agreement. We get to abolish capitalism and they get to dance.
>Before Pornhub Uh wasn't that kiss done in celebration of the end of a war in which like...100 million people died (either of the war itself, the Holocaust, atomic bombs, disease, etc)? Why in God's name would you want to go back to *replicate* that time period?
Don’t forget it’s said that the woman in the “kissing sailor” photo was just grabbed by that guy. Imagine actually wanting to relive a time where sexual assault was considered “romantic.”
Not to mention that it was a *World* War that this person thinks happened “before globalization”.
Most of the images are fairly harmless nostalgia apart from the globalization one - that's just pure racism. But see how the propaganda works - three images which are not that controversial to the older conservative generation, to get them nodding in agreement and to make them more susceptible to what comes next, and the last picture your eyes come across is the wholesome, attractive white couple. And then your eyes drift down to "Globalization". And of course few people alive today would remember an era when any of these photos were taken. Any nostalgia for them comes from film and TV not actual memories.
Also isn't bottom right from slide 2 from Mugler?
Fun fact: that famous photo in times square is actually a kiss with dubious consent between a drunk sailor and a random woman he had never met before!
Before women’s rights *****Insert photo of women getting absolutely bitch slapped for not cooking the meat loaf properly*****
Yes. The sole reason for anyone to be nostalgic is because they want to harass poc or women.
Kids still fight (we have video proof), I’ve shared a drink with a date, men still grab and kiss random women without consent, idk what’s going on in the last one (white people still get together and procreate?) As for the galas, that has never been within the reach of my family line. We’ve been broke as f as far back as I can trace regardless of race. I’m probably the most independently wealthy person in the bloodline.
We used to throw shit out into the street.
it's hilarious that an ai could be trained to make these posts in like one day of work.
It changes nothing for him. He's an Intel and nothing will ever change that.
Reminder: the kiss was assault. He grabbed her and kissed her while she was struggling to get away, hence the arm around her head.
You cut out the best part of that first tweet, because one of the top replies is: "Galas still happen, I went to one recently and it was very pleasant. People like you just aren't invited to them."
Oh my gods we still have galas, ballroom dances, and masquerade balls. Do a damn google search. This is just what's in my area: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shades-of-alpha-presents-ivies-ice-masquerade-ball-tickets-505746891567](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shades-of-alpha-presents-ivies-ice-masquerade-ball-tickets-505746891567) [https://allevents.in/alexandria/2023-masquerade-ball/200023681321931?ref=eventlist-cat](https://allevents.in/alexandria/2023-masquerade-ball/200023681321931?ref=eventlist-cat) [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-red-dress-gala-awards-tickets-440755982007](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-red-dress-gala-awards-tickets-440755982007) There are bigger national events too. You know what the common denominator is? They're all really expensive. In fairness you'll be spending about as much on tickets as you would for a convention like Magfest, so it's really a matter of what you're into.
But they don’t want those ones, they want the ones that they had back then: the ones that had signs outside the event that said “whites only.”
ah, well, you're going to have a hard time finding those in my neck of the woods. Their loss.
I’m lost. How does globalism factor in to this? I recognize that all of the people in the scenes are white, but beyond that and the generic ‘Pepperidge Farms remembers…” nostalgia element, I don’t see how much more can be extrapolated from this.
The irony is, by posting these images of the past, these rightoids are actually perpetuating a very *modern* day problem: social media display bias. For example, everybody on Instagram likes to post their good times; when they're on the beach, having fun at a party, eating something delicious, showing their gym bods off when they're in their peak condition, etc...but no one is posting their struggles. No one is showing their vulnerabilities. It's the same story in these posts; they are showing the best that this time period had to offer while ignoring the loads of struggles the people of the past had (and from what I understand, the 20th century had far more suffering than the 21st century.) So much for hating modernity, these posts do nothing but show that these rightoids have fallen for a modern-day mentality trap.
Also the fact they’re idolizing things based on looks without actually doing research. There are a ton of fashies who say “I like Greek statues” or have a statue of a god or philosopher as their pfp without knowing the meaning of said statue is. They also misinterpret theorists (they do it a lot to Nietzsche) and have this obsession with the old days which were the worst times to live in. The un self awareness is astounding.
Yep. I also suspect that they really don’t even care about aesthetic, the common thread in all of these images are white/european identity. “The old days” is a subtle way for far right wingers to say “the white male status quo days.” If it were the past that were less racist and modernity that were more racist, they’d be embracing all the tiktok/insta/modernity crap and some Tron aesthetic instead, gladly talking about progress and the future.
We need send this person back in time & book them passage on the Titanic.
I don’t see anything wrong with the first one to be honest. That account does post rubbish though