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The world of 1930s public health posters
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago> Though the U.S. government eventually got out of the propaganda business Good one!
- relaxing 2y agoUS politics has devolved to the point where the government can no longer promote basic public health measures and we all suffer for it. It’s a fucking tragedy.
- potato3732842 2y agoThe feds don't do a ton of health propoganda anymore. They mostly delegate and shuffle money to the state who do it. It still gets done, probably more so now than then.
- buildsjets 2y agoO RLY? https://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/dig-posters https://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/dig-posters
- tdeck 2y agoSix downloadable posters you can print yourself? They're really pulling out all the stops for this one.
- potato3732842 2y agoAll the stuff I see locally (billboards, local TV ads) is state and locally done with fed grant money (there's a little semi-transparent fine print that tells you).
- cbogie 2y agothis band looks rad https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/diginposter_rockstars.pdf https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f...
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoResponses like this are both why I chuckled at how many “don’t tell me what to do!!!” retorts I could imagine a sizable portion of the US would reply with to so many of these (like the eat fruit one), but also it was a great reminder of how square and absolutely fucked we are as a nation due to those attitudes. Which get amplified. For political points. Actually almost entirely amplified by political points.
- dr_dshiv 2y agoIf you didn’t know that Disney made a cartoon about syphilis, please take 10 minutes to watch this masterpiece/trainwreck https://youtu.be/YHxYW0Fw63Y?si=OcrCEY4l_mJ_lw83 https://youtu.be/YHxYW0Fw63Y?si=OcrCEY4l_mJ_lw83
- wizzwizz4 2y agoPlease remove the ?si= tracking string, if you see this before the 2hr edit window closes.
- tacitusarc 2y agoHere is the link sans tracking: https://youtu.be/YHxYW0Fw63Y https://youtu.be/YHxYW0Fw63Y
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- nielsbot 2y agoWhat's the alternative?
- dredmorbius 2y agoAbstinence, single trusted partner, or, you know, Russian Roulette.
- nielsbot 2y agoI don't think abstinence works in practice and condoms are a better alternative than "Russian roulette". Single trusted partner: Ok, sure...
- dredmorbius 2y agoI was addressing your question as to what the alternatives were, not their efficacy. Abstinence does work, in that it's effective. It comes with its own significant consequences, of course. I don't recommend Russian Roulette.
- nxobject 2y agoSomething that I found even more interesting: just below the section on syphilis, there’s a section on breaking the stigma around cancer, encouraging yourself to get screened, avoiding quack cures. It’s interesting to think how talking about cancer was so stigmatized back then.
- readthenotes1 2y agoI have a relative who falls for every YouTube supplement. I generally ask hen if the latest one cures cancer. Often, it does :(
- Loughla 2y agoThere is a lot of money to be made in selling hope. Sadly, most of it goes to charlatans. The human psyche is a fascinating mess.
- immibis 2y ago> The human psyche is a fascinating mess. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
- UberFly 2y agoThese people are all around me too and it drives me crazy. Modern public posters should promote critical thinking.
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- tkgally 2y agoThe posters reminded me of a pamphlet found among my father’s belongings after his death in 2016. He had served in the U.S. Navy during the occupation of Japan in 1945 and 1946. The pamphlet warns sailors to be careful about venereal diseases. I scanned it and put it on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/HullDown/page/n1/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/HullDown/page/n1/mode/2up
- tomcam 2y agoThat is marvelous. Thank you.
- ashoeafoot 2y agoThat breath taking arrogance of artdirectors born into wealth.There where places in the us, where people were so poor they ate beans from the floor, yet some coastal blue blooded boy wonder dares to lecture them on "dont be dirty" , its the same situational unaware , classist nonsense as with todays aristocracy shoving people out of the wealth envelope and then lecture people on how to bootstrap. Well its two generations of fear of revolutionary turmoil they got for that and that living at gunpoint is what brought forth the wealth redistribution for the golden Generation.
- MemesAndBooze 2y agoSure! Because, of course, the poor shouldn't rise from misery and try to break the chains of ignorance - they must remain poor, ignorant and filthy always garner the sympathy of the third-worldist left, even when the third world is in their own backyard. The poor are beautiful because they are poor!
- ashoeafoot 2y agoAnd that can be accomplished by printing a :"just don't be poor, its disgusting " poster with tax money and putting it up at all airports.
- t0bia_s 2y agoAt same time, doctors recommended tobacco as safe for health with fancy posters as well. Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/more-doctors-smoke-camels/ https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/more...