Sometimes a picture really does say it f*cking all.

[arcane1]

A beggar runs alongside King George V’s coach (1920).





Taken from this cool page:

http://deadstate.org/here-are-30-fascinating-photos-from-history-that-you-probably-had-no-idea-existed/

[babylonsister]

1. Thanks! Very cool! nt

[Rex]

2. It is funny how the Ownership class always fools those in the middle to do their bidding.

Nah, it is sad and pathetic as hell. Leave the poor man to suffer all his life. That fella could be any of us, down on our luck and someone that exists way beyond our reality comes by in a nice buggy.

The rich man ALWAYS has his own method for dealing with the poor - look away and pretend there is nobody there.

Trouble is when the numbers get so great, there is nowhere to turn to look away anymore.

Hmm...maybe a space station, like in that movie.

Probably easier to keep mendicants at bay.

[kimbutgar]

3. I laugh at the idiocy of poor people defending the rich who laugh at the peasants.

[Rex]

4. It really is quite amazing to watch poor people laugh at the peasants.

That mass consumerism and ultra nationalism could create a caste that doesn't even feel the pot as the water starts to boil.

Foxnews tells them they have TVEEs and refrigerators...so they are NOT part of the peasant class...merely 'hard working Americans'.

BIG DIFF donchaknow!

[kimbutgar]

6. And these same people don't realize they "are" the peasants!

[Rex]

7. And they never will as long as billion dollar industries like Foxnews exist.

Racism pays off very well for the Ownership class.

[arcane1]

8. Don't even get me started on that whole "They 'have' their own refrigerator" crap.

I beat my head against the wall arguing with someone about that the other day. Astoundingly clueless person who thought these poor people actually owned these things

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. amazing pic

[malaise]

9. They don't even look up

[jtuck004]

10. That would be to acknowledge his humanity. I don't think they do. n/t

[Camelback]

26. Ya know, if some homeless person were to charge up to the President and 1st Lady's

ride on the street today they would be cut down by the Secret Service so fast it would make your head spin.

[niyad]

11. k and r so I can find this tomorrow. it does, indeed, say it all.

[BlueJazz]

12. #16 is not true. Wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing !

[arcane1]

13. I figured there had to be at least one that's misidentified.

Do you know what was going on there?

[countryjake]

23. It is true...

http://hoaxoffame.tumblr.com/post/97295702147/fake-no-when-november-4-1973-where

The Dutch rode horses on their highways during the 1970s oil crisis
http://factually.gizmodo.com/the-dutch-rode-horses-on-their-highways-during-the-1970-1670022509

~snip~

The oil crisis of the 1970s meant that Americans had to wait in long lines to fill up their cars. But in the Netherlands, the government decided that the best way to conserve fuel was to ban cars for one day a week. How did people cope? They took their horses on the highway.

~snip~

People even decided to have picnics on the highway. The picture below is sometimes passed around by idiotic "history pictures" accounts on Twitter as being from the United States. But as you can see, the photos are very clearly from the Netherlands.

[BlueJazz]

25. I stand corrected.

[arcane1]

27. For no good reason, I assumed that photo was from California

Oh well

[countryjake]

29. Well, as the article states, the pic has been misattributed over the years...

which may have been the falseness you'd remembered. I had to do some digging to even find that pertinent Netherlands history with an image search.

[tblue37]

15. And the oil crisis was in 1979, not 1973 (re: #16's caption). nt

[IDemo]

17. There was an oil crisis in 1973-74 and an 'energy crisis' in 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis

[Unknown Beatle]

20. There's been more than one oil crisis.

One in 1973 and the another one in 1979 plus a few more through the years leading up to now.

[tblue37]

14. I don't mean to hijack your thread, but #10 is mind blowing:

A [font size = "+1"]5[/font] MB hard drive being loaded onto a plane.

[arcane1]

19. And it took some pretty damn smart people to do it. I'm impressed!

They didn't even have software to tell them how to calculate and program and design. So many different fields had to come together to even imagine the concept, much less invent it.

Doing the math on paper, they changed the world.

[Unknown Beatle]

22. That was 1956, fifty nine years ago.

Fifty nine years from now will be 2074. Our technology now will seem ancient in comparison.

[IDemo]

16. #6 is a mind-blower

Confederate veteran Billy Lundy stands in front of an F-100 Super Sabre (1955).

[arcane1]

21. He can not possibly be happy with the way things have gone.

Imagine going from having nothing that flies, to having fighter jets and bombers. It would be a nightmare!

[IDemo]

24. It depends. Nothing could be much more nightmarish than the Civil War

That the cannons and rockets found an aerial platform I'm not sure would make it more horrifying to someone who witnessed the gruesomeness of those battlefields. But agreed, that America and Mankind had not let go of war as a glorious and worthwhile concept could put a damper on one's final years.

[Cooley Hurd]

32. Yep. The poignancy of this photo cannot be understated...

[peecoolyour]

18. Maybe he's giving the king $1000 for the opportunity to tell him something

that will go in one ear and out the other.

[DawgHouse]

28. I've seen that picture of Lennon's glasses before.

It makes me feel so sad.

[Gloria]

30. This needs to be in some campaign ads!

eom

[Gloria]

31. There may be another pic of Billy the Kid

It was all over the NM papers awhile back... it seems to be very possible!