22 Times We Were ‘A Proper Country’ As Twitter Mocks Nostalgic Rightwing Tweet

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December 12, 2021, 9:56 am*

A tweet waxing poetic about time spent in a 7-Eleven has gone on to become a pretty legendary meme in less than two weeks.

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On December 1, @DarnelSugarfoo tweeted a image of customers and workers smiling at one another at a 7-Eleven in 1973, alongside the caption: “We used to be a country. A proper country.”

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Nostalgia for “simpler” times is something many folks go on about, but most people also know that looking backward in the United States leads to more restrictive lives for basically every group of people except straight white men. The seriousness of this tweet, appearing to truly believe that America was a better place in the ‘70s, coupled with the right-wing propaganda that covers @DarnelSugarfoo’s Twitter timeline, quickly led to roasting over the sentiment.

The cashier in that photo made enough money to buy a house, so if you want to get back to that we can start by raising the minimum wage to 30/hr.

— Neil DeGrassi Highson (@funkpwer) December 5, 2021

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And then came the memes. People started substituting their own images for the one of the 7-Eleven, along with the rightwinger’s original words. Some are just silly while others offer up a critique of this sort of rose-colored glasses nostalgia, but in either iteration, this meme has managed to all but take over Twitter.

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I’ll never forget watching Wolf of Wall Street and all the sudden I hear my Grandma say “God I fucking miss Quaaludes”

— Brennan Memering (@bjmm1994) December 5, 2021

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Look at that, not a single one on their phone

— Gustavo Lopez Celestino (@TheLast0fGus) December 5, 2021

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I’m dead serious when I say I want Kickin Jeans more than anything in the world.

— Attack and Dethrone Bob Villa (@FecalCranium) December 4, 2021

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From back in the days when all our favorite rock stars were marrying 14 year olds and writing songs about banging High Schoolers, and everyone was just kind of ok with it.

— Dustin Hall (@pop_aristocrat) December 5, 2021

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*First Published: December 12, 2021, 9:54 am