Imagine If People Today Had To Endure What People Went Through During WWII...

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For all the bitching and complaining about C19 related restrictions (some legit, some BS), imagine if…

  1. You suddenly couldn’t get certain things like tired for your car because they were needed for the war effort.

  2. Basic things like sugar, gasoline, coffee and even clothing were rationed.

  3. The government STRONGLY encouraged everyone to buy war bonds regardless of how you felt about the war and the government.

  4. Coins were suddenly made out of almost useless metals (ok you got me here but you know what I mean) because important metals were needed for the war effort.

  5. And here is a big one, you could find yourself drafted into service or even worse if you happened to be of Japanese ancestory.

And now imagine it lasted FOUR years.

Sure this all happened under a Democratic president, but people used to be able to suck it up and deal with it. Hasn’t even been one year yet and people all over the country act like Red Dawn actually happened.

I can’t imagine the colossal social meltdown that would occur if we went to war and demanded the support of society across the board like we did during WWII.

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The difference is in having a common enemy. This is nothing but fear mongerong, illegal exercise of power and divisiveness.

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If the Greatest Generation had been like today’s generation, there would BE no today’s generation. :frowning:

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This is absolutely correct. Unfortunately, instead of coming together to lead, our politicians have used the pandemic to divide us.

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Sadly there are legions of dumber people who have fallen for it vs. the “do the right thing” mentality that generally prevailed (with exceptions) during WWII.

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Given todays population, we would have likely lost WWll.

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They had the depression and then WWII in the US.

People were simply accustomed to getting by with less. They were not the throw-away society we have become, they knew how to repair and maintain what they had. A huge part of the US population was rural and were able to grow at least some of the food they needed, which definitely helped stretch food supplies.

We have become so spoiled that sacrifice is owning a 55" TV or 3 year old phone.

Andy

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We aint THAT people/country anymore & havent been for decades.
Our youth today would VASTLY support just about any enemy on Earth, as long as they were against America.
So would one entire political party.
The ENTIRE media.
ALL academia.
And most other countries.

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I recently watched a couple of you tube video’s about raising the sunken battleships in Pearl Harbor in the first 6 months of 1942,
amazing video of huge hull plugs lowered and affixed around armor belt on battleship and used to float it up from the mud.
We could not do this today, for a multitude of reasons.

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Maybe, maybe not. The 1930s were filled with a lot of turmoil; people were starving due to the Depression, the government was becoming bloated grabbing every bit of power it could; the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. On top of that, the nation really was racist towards not only black people, but also the Irish, Italians, Jews, Hispanics, Chinese, and Japanese. Those extreme ideas coming over from Germany, Italy, and Russia were sounding pretty good to our desperate population; maybe it was time to just burn it all to the ground and start over. Sound familiar.

Also, I don’t know if we would have lost WWII. Remember, this gender-confused, hedonistic generation is not just an American phenomenon; if anything, it’s pretty mild compared to Europe.

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This kinda reminds me of the peak GWOT days when you would say something about how hot it is outside and some Boomer in a chinese made hat with an American flag on it would scream things at you like:

"OH YEAH WELL AT LEAST YOU’RE NOT IN IRAQ WHERE IT’S 178 DEGREES AND YOU’RE WEARING 400 LBS OF GEAR AND WALKING 82 MILES A DAY SO HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE TROOPS YOU PINKO!!!

Imagine If People Today Had To Endure What People Went Through During WWII…

Imagine If People Today Had To Endure What People Went Through During the Revolutionary War…

Imagine If People Today Had To Endure What People Went Through During The Civil War…

Imagine If People Today Had To Endure What People Went Through During times when if you got sick the Doctor gave you cocaine and told you that you have ghosts in your blood and he’d cut your arm open so they could drain out…

Imagine If People Today Had To Endure What People Went Through During insert anytime or event in history when times were hard…

Just because things have been worse at a time when most, if not all of us weren’t even alive doesn’t take away from the fact that people are jobless, losing their businesses, losing their homes, their cars, all because they’re unfortunate enough to live a state where the economy has been shut down for almost 9 months due a virus that most people are gonna survive if they get it.

We’re gonna shutdown the economy for two weeks to flatten the curve. Wear your mask, social distance and we’ll see you guys in May.

Next thing you know you can’t go to church, you can’t sing, you can’t have Thanksgiving, go tell on your neighbors if they have company over. You can’t go to the gym either, so **** yo fitness both physical and mental. Meanwhile the Governors are having private dinners with large gatherings, no masks, no social distancing. Mandatory distance learning is resulting in lower grades almost everywhere.

Reading this you may think I’m bitter because the above is happening to me. It’s not. My family has been virtually unscathed by the shutdowns from a financial perspective. We both have careers that are unaffected, and we’re thankful for it. But there are businesses shutting down all over, many owned by people we know. I have a friend who’s driving Uber 18 hours a day just to try to keep the bills paid and they’re barely making it. We feel very fortunate to be able to be in a position to be helping people during this time.

None of this came about because of our country’s necessity to fight and win a World War. It came about because of failed policy and the abuse of power. Yeah, COVID 19 is real, and it can be deadly, but all the people I know in real life who’ve had it are in one or more high risk category and all have survived.

I was all on board for telling people to harden the **** up when they were complaining about it two weeks in, but it’s damn near 2021 and there are places that still have no plan in place to open back up and get people working again. Smarter people than I tell me that we haven’t even begun to see the effects of keeping the economy shut down for this long.

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During the past 75 years Rosie the Riveter has morphed into a BLM stooge.

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Lots of people wouldn’t endure. Many would be dead in days/weeks without 21st century modern medicine.

On a hot summer day here in Chattanooga I’m surprised that many of the people I see survive the walk to their car in the Walmart parking lot. Heck, just riding their go-gart down the soda isle can be life-threatening.

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Amen. We have a bunch of morons who respond to minor challenges by purchasing a lot of toilet paper for fukk’s sake.

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I think that(mostly via antibiotics) WWII was the first US war where disease wasn’t the leading killer. If it wasn’t WWII then Korea tipped the death by disease/death by violence scales.

On the thread topic, had people been more informed about actions leading up to the great depression and WWII things may have went down differently.

I have mentioned Francis Bellamy(Pledge of Allegiance author and socialist masquerading as a Baptist minister) and how fast his congregation kicked him out once they figured out what he was really about so crap like that didn’t necessarily get tolerated like is often the norm now.

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Not quite in the same line, but the realist military perspective I’ve ever read is the Forgotten Soldier. Pretty mind blowing.

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That was not my purpose.

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Based on things I have read, most things were kept somewhat consistent. Had things like this(and this isn’t unusual such as riots not being an issue) been happening, I doubt support would have been what it was.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/thats-california-strip-clubs-can-be-open-while-churches-cannot-hold-indoor-services/

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My grand father is fond of saying he thinks we’d lose WWII if it happened today. His reasoning being everyone is so selfish today. There is no patriotism and no body would become united to defend this place.

2020 has actually been a good year for me and mine. We worked the garden and ate as a family every evening this summer (usually outside with fresh picked produce), marriage is the best it has ever been, my kids are healthy and happy and we have gotten a lot of projects completed.

Also, I blame you boomers for the throw away society that we have become. I’m trying to correct that with my self and my kids.

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My father likes to bitch about my generation and my adult children’s generation. My grandfather bitched about my dad’s generation. I’m willing to bet that my great-grandfather bitched about my grandfather’s generation. It’s a story as old as time.

I’m surrounded by quality twenty-somethings. They are equal to anyone that I graduated highschool with in the 80’s. I seriously run into just as many idiot 60 somethings as I do twenty-somethings.

Pick up a book written about any time in our U.S. history that details about how Americans were riled up at the media and each other, the crazy fads and stupid things they did for entertainment, and the stupid products they consumed to make themselves “healthy”… there is seriously, no shit, nothing new under the sun.

Certainly, one thing that hasn’t changed is we have a bunch of whiney bitches… and now we have the internet to help share their voice.