The USSR collapsed

Certainly a take

Bottom right image is the original version from an ad, but it looks so much worse than the edited one with them all holding knives.

Witness the essential kernel of fascism unfold before you in real time.

I wouldn't even say "capitalism" straight up. A lot of this shit is the result of capitalism at least in so far as these are all WW2 veterans who got the Settler Colonial bump from a plundered American continent and a decimated European rival market.

This was a singular moment in time, during which American Fascism delivered the goods for its popular loyalist base. What changed was that the Fascists at the top of the system did what Fascists always do and began eating their own seed corn rather than share with subsequent generations. The empire turned inward, crushed the popular social democrats of the 50s/60s/70s, and consolidated their gains within the robbery barony strongholds of the modern finance system.

If you want this moment back, you need to... well...

That means either doing a Socialism or a Barbarism. And we know what @creation247 thinks the answer is, but I doubt many folks in his audience are going to be excited about serving as cannon fodder in his next Glorious White Nationalist War. No more than the poor bastards shoved up into the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine war appear to be enjoying themselves, anyway.

Edit: Can I just say that Twitter, in its current incarnation, is slow and jenky af? Nothing fucking works on this website anymore.

Political correctness is why I can't afford food

$10,000 monthly pronoun bill

I see chuds now pushing the line that the government is giving free/cheap housing to migrants and refugees, and THAT’S why you can’t afford a home.

Chuds will go for the most racist, smooth brained reasons before blaming capitalism.

Chuds want the old 1950s capitalism where only Black people and ’undeserving’ whites suffered.

The hard part about capitlaism is eventually you run out of other people's money

The cost of everything went up

Why?

They printed more money

Why?

Government does stuff

Why?

Class warfare, warfare, money laundering, etc.

But entitlements?

Homelessness is a societal choice, private healthcare is the most expensive on earth, food waste, administrative costs of means based testing, policing poverty is expensive, corporations don't pay taxes, contrived tax code, no bid contracts, etc.

Which isn't even mentioning what a farce the premise that shit was good like that without it being more complicated. You know how a hamburger looks in an ad versus when you're actually eating it? It was also people benefitting from war profiteering, exploitation, slavery, and apartheid. Like how do you think the sweet old man baker got the sugar in the first place?

And it's always a Fight Club avatar, do they make these kinds of guy(s) in a lab or something? Literal NPCs.

: "We need to derooguloot! We can trust the heckin' wholesome corporashunz!"

: "Porky fucked us over?! Poor porky, seeing his fellow whites not get the special treatment they deserve must have hypnotized him into being corrupt! Time to derooguloot even mooor"

I keep seeing people in the replies to these citing moving away from the gold standard as the reason. Which further strengthens my belief that Libertarians are the only people who bought twitter blue-checks en masse.

Nostalgic to see some early 2000s crankery though.

I want a version of this but with those Sino-Soviet friendship posters that look like they could be a couple.

Fight Club is kinda a fun movie and you can read some interesting "deconstructing masculinity" vibes in it but fuck me if everyone that has a Tyler Durden avatar isn't waving a giant red chud flag.

What changed? I'm surprised not much talk here about the obvious change in conservative right wing values since then.

In the past these white middle income men would be proud to provide for an entire family, they would happily accept the women stay at home, actually they would demand it and they wouldn't complain about them being gold diggers, in fact they would rejoice together as they bought the newest color TV or microwave.

In contrast the old "hard day at work" is far from being a conservative value and is deeply out of touch at least with millenials and younger chuds imo. They complain about the "softness" of liberals but it is all projection, as you know, they are literaly the most likely group to get scammed by get rich quick schemes. All the masculine alpha males/crypto bros are all looking for the next scam to become millionaires overnight because as the damn alphas they're obviously entitled to it.

The other part is modern right values end up contradicting old conservative values like in this case, the dream of a house and a stay at home mother is in conflict with the toxic masculinity chud cults that demonize women for trying to work, get education or leave the house therefore helping achieve this "American dream".

TL;DR even if somehow economic conditions improved the current all the cryptobro/alpha male generation isn't going back to single income households anytime soon, probably never as the hate for women reached a point where old conservative dreams like this is not actually desirable for many.