Were the American 50's the pinnacle of Western civilization?

>little automation
>a lot of jobs are still menial labour
>no internet
>political repression
>university education is hard to reach
>bad treatment of minorities
>have to support lazy grill and kids as well

eh

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>>79165365
The US has always been the shitty backwater runnoff of western civilization. They are a disgusting mutation, a perversion of European values and what Europe stands for.
>>79165551
>mid mccarthy-ist red scare

The 80s

>>79165365
letting the jews in was a mistake

>>79165551
dont forget the main excuse for american neo-colonialism in south america
>muh commies
somewhere in the 90's the excuse changed from "commies" to "drug trade"

Late 90s early 2000s was pretty rad

>>79165677
Wait, didn't European values lead to Nazism and communism and thus the biggest genocides in history?

>>79165748
>>79161037
Smells like samefag.

>>79165365
Yeah, I'm sure rednecks lynching Africans is what the Renaissance and the Enlightenment were all about

>>79165748
>be large weapon producer
>neighboring countries own some guns your country manufactured.
For the record, Fast and Furius scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
proved that the US gov very much was involved in the sales of guns to Mexico. (ironically in order to bust American weapons dealers instead of Mexican drug dealers) but whether they were or weren't I wouldn't surprised Mexicans get a hold of US weapons. Much of it is legitimate transaction between our countries.

>>79166920
Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers didn't give two shits about niggers and actively despised or felt indifferent towards them.

>>79166988
He's probably referring to the Belgian Congo because he says "Africans", as in "people in Africa". But they didn't lynch them, they lopped hands off.

>>79167042
He was talking about lynchings in the USA during the 1950s.

>>79167067
Why would you say "Africans" unless you were referring to people in Africa?

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>>79165365
No. The only reason why we were influential during that period is because Europe was bombed to shit and rebuilding. Our standard of living (unions, high corporate tax rates, etc.) was predicated on no reputable competition. As soon as globalization occurred, traitorous American upper class citizens began to sell our country off to China and Mexico.

The USA made many contributions to technology and science during the mid 20th century but didn't back any of it up with philosophy or ethics. Rawls was pretty much the only valuable one.

>>79166803
not him, i dont know much about NAFTA and stuff
Spain doesn't teach anything abot neo-imperialism and manipulative tactics by the USA to protect its busine- i mean, government.

>>79167160
>>>/leftypol/
>>>/anywherebuthere/

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>>79165365
AHAHAHAHAHA, no. It was either the Roman Republic or Ancient Greece.

>>79167104
>The USA made many contributions to technology and science during the mid 20th century but didn't back any of it up with philosophy or ethics. Rawls was pretty much the only valuable one.
There was an overriding obsession with scientism and big, top-down planning that removed the human element from a lot of things.

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>>79167160
NAFTA was basically North America's response to the EU. Canada and the USA's economies were already quite intermixed by that point, so the passage of NAFTA was more about how Canada+USA's economy would interact with Mexico's.

The big areas were agriculture and automotives. We obviously didn't attempt a monetary union like the euro, so finance wasn't really affected (which is probably a good thing, because the euro has pretty much fucked every country that doesn't start with a "G"). In terms of agriculture, subsidized American farms basically destroyed Mexican farms and caused a lot of poor rural idiots to become unemployed -- these people flooded into the USA as illegal immigrants in the 1990s and early 2000s. In terms of car manufacturing, a lot of American companies closed down factories in the USA and moved them to Mexico in order to save money. This helped Mexico's middle class out a bit but further screwed areas like Detroit.

Ultimately NAFTA was a tool of the rich to wage class warfare on the middle and lower classes. It solidified a trend that started in the 1970s and now we're knee deep in income inequality. We'll probably never get out until money is forcibly banned from American politics.

>>79167317
that's a lot of why our food is shitty
people thought science was super cool and science produced factory bread, commercial margarine, and tv dinners

>>79167403
In fact a lot of that actually can be traced back to the Depression which caused a rather alarming deterioration of the American diet. A lot of garbage like vomit chocolate and Lil' Debbie snack cakes date to that time period.

>>79165677

How steep can one dip a fedora?