#AddressSigns

[dullwall]

[3dprintshed]

A big thank you to my customer, Ian, for sending these photos of the bronze plaque with blue/green patina that I made for him last year. Thank you, Ian! It looks great in situ, and I love the wooden backboard :)

If you're interested, there is more info here: > www.3Dprintshed.com > www.3Dprintshed.etsy.com

Thanks for looking!

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[cabiba]

America has become its own worst enemy. Like the Soviet Union, the US is dying from despair

Today it is the United States where people talk of secession, escaping a crumbling superpower ruled by geriatrics. This seems very unlikely to happen, more clickbait than reality, because why would you leave what has been for more than two centuries the richest, most impressive state on earth? But then a generation ago few would have foreseen the Soviet Union crumbling in a haze of alcoholic despair

Thirty years ago this month, the Cold War ended with a failed coup in Moscow. As was remarked by many at the time, Marx’s dictum that history repeats itself as farce proved true for the Soviet Union, the state that had defined itself by his ideology.In August 1991, while the USSR’s reforming General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev holidayed in his Ukrainian dacha, a group of hard-liners seized power. Gorbachev, under house arrest, turned to the BBC to find out what was going on, since in the Soviet Union nothing the media said was true unless the party said so. He learned that, in the centre of Moscow, Russian Federation president Boris Yeltsin courageously stood in front of the city’s White House in defiance of the plotters, surrounded by supporters brandishing the old Russian flag.Like what you’re reading?Get the free UnHerd daily emailYour email addressSign up, for freeAlready registered? Sign inPerhaps what wasn’t clear to everyone was that Yeltsin was drunk for much of it. The true extent of his alcoholism became more apparent in the years after he dissolved the communist state a few months later and became president of an independent Russia, although he already had a colourful reputation for drink-related antics.

The plotters, it turned out, were also mostly legless. Having began a cack-handed coup that they weren’t prepared to kill for, the ringleaders appeared on television looking ashen-faced, some shaking nervously, their insides rotting from vodka. Most of all, though, they just appeared old, old and old beyond their years, the face of a fading empire based on a faith no one really believed in anymore.By this stage, the Soviet Union was itself dying of alcohol, and attempts to treat it proved fruitless. One of the biggest mistakes made by Gorbachev — a very moderate drinker, which is why he’s alive and his rival Yeltsin is long dead — was to raise the tax on vodka, as part of a drive to tackle the country’s catastrophic problem with drink. Russian humour is famously bleak and sharp, and this led to a joke in which a boy asks, “Papa, and this means that you shall drink less?” “No, son, this means that you shall eat less”.Alcohol played a central part in the demographic collapse that pre-empted the political fall of the USSR. It was back in the Seventies that people first noticed that in the Soviet Union people were starting to die younger. The decline in life expectancy affected not only the old, but the middle-aged. There was no famine, no foreign invasion, no natural disaster; instead people were drinking themselves to death out of despair. A country in which life is getting shorter — and worse — for its citizens has no future.Russia’s birth rate had long collapsed, too. Two things drive higher fertility in wealthy countries — religion and affordability. All the major religions promote childbearing, give prestige and status to women who have children, and men who stick around; on top of that, attending a church, mosque or synagogue is associated with a number of measures of wellbeing that breed optimism.

The second factor is money. If both partners in a couple must work in order to survive, fertility is going to be severely depressed. The Soviet Union had extensive day care provision for mothers, but it was nowhere near enough to make up for the shortfall caused by mediocre wages. Back in the 1970s, Russian women marvelled at how their American equivalents could afford to leave work while they had children. As the New York Times reported, they “express astonishment when they learn that an American father can support a family of two, three or four children without his wife’s working. Many are also surprised that American women would willingly have more than one child.” For them, it was a huge struggle to raise just one.

The Soviet Union’s main adversary in the Cold War was also defined by ideology, to some extent. Many western nations had embraced liberalism, but no other was created with the words of John Locke enshrined in its foundation. Yet liberalism, too, faced its challenges in the late 20th century, not from the obviously failing Soviet Communism, but from rival ideas within the democratic tradition. Starting in the 1960s, a new way of thinking began to predominate in the US that was not really liberal, although its opponents confusingly still referred to it as such.

This new way of thinking was more hostile to freedom of speech, and its adherents began the process of chasing deviant thinkers out of academia that began in the late 1960s and would massively reduce political diversity by the 21st century; it supported not just personal sexual freedom, as did liberalism, but radical ideas about sex, including hostility to the family; it was anti-religion and would become more so when religion clashed with sexual rights. As for freedom of association, the “master freedom” in Christopher Caldwell’s words, this was also incompatible with a worldview that prioritised equality over liberty.This new way of thinking — progressivism is probably the fairest term — is far less tolerant than liberalism. Indeed, in its hostility to freedom of speech, its Manichean worldview, its suspicion that its opponents are fascists, and the belief that politics should be inserted into everything — from science to children’s books — it is closer to the totalitarian tradition. American progressivism is not communism, obviously, anymore than its opponents are Nazis; the market is perfectly capable of achieving most progressive goals, and America has become more culturally Left-wing as Right-wing economic policies have dominated, globalisation being the common theme that links the two.

But globalisation came with a price, with millions of jobs lost after the 2001 trade deal with China, made two months after George W. Bush had followed the Soviet example by invading Afghanistan. It was in those former industrial heartlands where people first began to notice an epidemic of drug-related deaths that now constitutes one of the greatest social disasters in history.

Four decades on from its superpower rival, the United States had now become a country in which people were dying younger, driven by overdoses and suicides. That this epidemic took so long to register may have been the solitary and often legal nature of the drug problem; unlike Aids, it did not affect too many celebrities, Prince being the exception. But it could also be who the victims were — predominantly rural white Americans, neither powerful themselves nor championed by powerful supporters.Like the Soviet Union, the United States has developed a system in which some social classes and races are officially favoured, and some are disfavoured, reflected in post-war legal innovations like affirmative action.

Affirmative action was originally introduced as a counter-measure to segregation, either of the official or unofficial variety, but as with many things its purpose evolved as bureaucracies grew. Today, government interference in private institutions is aimed at the goal of equality — not the liberal concept of equality of opportunity, but the more ambitious equality of outcomes, or “equity”.

Under this theory, each racial group should have equal representation in elite institutions, which means that, depending on their race, Americans must achieve different scores to attend certain colleges. Equality is achieved through inequality. If this sounds illiberal, indeed un-American, that is because it is not unlike the “nationalities policies” created by communist revolutionaries, and under which the Russian majority were officially discriminated against in certain positions.

The Soviet nationalities policies allowed minority groups a certain degree of self-rule and recognition, while also ensuring that their elites remained utterly under the control of the party. Sometimes other nationalities would be disfavoured because they were seen as too anti-communist or otherwise disloyal, as happened to Ukrainians, Tartars and Jews at different times, but only Russian identity was actively discouraged. Stalin condemned the “Great Russian chauvinist spirit” and the Soviet Union saw majority nationalism as by far the greater evil.

This did not lead to a brotherhood of man, amazingly. The ethnic spoils system benefited the party, and minority members within it especially, but it is also a zero-sum game. The benefits of diversity, like the benefits of liberalism and capitalism, are supposed to be non-zero-sum, and often are: migrants benefit from moving to a richer or safer country, but the host population gains from their skills or cultural niches. When your migrant neighbour gets rich — and even richer than you — not only will it not harm you but you may well benefit.

Equity is similarly a zero-sum game: someone has to lose, and if one group is feted, in some cases even sacrilised, then others have to suffer, whether with tangible matters like college places or simply status and prestige.

[jamieisherwood99-blog]

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[americanqualitygifts]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 star review: Personalized Crab Shaped House Address This is a gift that will be presented on 5/21. I have no reason to believe the item will be anything but perfect and greatly appreciated. The ordering process was seamless, even during this difficult time. Shipping was as promised and expected.

[laserengravings]

Wooden Wall / Address signs. Ideal for house names or addresses and bedroom / door or wall signs. Any design or working can be laser engraved. Made from reclaimed pallet wood only £2.99 each For more details click in the link below https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1173684247/wooden-door-or-address-signsmade-from #instagram #giftideas #perfectpresent #notonthehighstreet #doorsign #addresssign #wallart #wallsign #woodensigns (at UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmfV4SB9aM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sewlydecor]

Modern House Number Plaques at your service! Requests for these have been coming in all summer! I am so overwhelmingly delighted that you all love our products so much! This beautiful photo was shared by one of our amazing customers, Tracy @nofotownandcountry! We are so happy you are pleased with our products! Her house is gorgeous and makes that plaque look even more stunning! Anyone else needing to add some curb appeal, this small change makes a huge impact on your home’s exterior. Everyone will ask you how they can get one! To order, simply click photo above to be taken directly to our website! . . #modernhousenumbers #housenumber #housenumberplaque #address #addresssign #modernaddresssign #addressplaque #woodenplaque #woodplaque #exteriordecor #curbappeal #homeupgrades #hgtv #magnolia #magnoliamarket #homegoods #anthropologie #americanfarmhouse #americanfarmhousestyle #targetstyle #cottagesandbungalows #betterhomesandgardens #housebeautiful #myfixerupper #mybhg #mybhgstyle (at Sewly Decor)

[smalltownmetalarts]

Triple Layered Address Sign to hang from your mailbox or stand. #address #addresssign #mailboxhanger #mailboxaddress #triplelayered #hanger #mailingaddress #smalltownmetalarts #smalltownmetalartsandpowdercoating #powdercoating #powdercoated #smalltownmetalartswillcreateyours #smalltownmetalartsappreciatesyourbusiness #shopsmalltownmetalarts #smalltownusa #smalltownmetalartslovesmakingawesomestuff (at Small Town Metal Arts & Powder Coating) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN7m1eqBA0h/?igshid=p4d89ahrvwgk

[curioobscurio]

Another finished order . #curioobscurio #signs #addresssign #signpost (at Duluth, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCnsGB2Aymz/?igshid=181jv9g0psm8j

[3dprintshed]

Hi all, I hope you're having a nice weekend. 😊 This is my first weekend off in quite some time, so I thought I'd share some patinated bronze house signs / address plaques that I've recently made. What do you think of them? Get in touch if you'd like me to make one for you! Thanks for looking. _________________________ ▪️www.3Dprintshed.com ▪️www.3Dprintshed.etsy.com #customsignage #customsigns #customplaques #handmade #madetoorder #personalizedgifts #personalized #uniquegiftideas #bronzeplaques #giftideas #patina #addresssign #addressplaque #exteriordecor #exteriordesign #stylish #beautiful #beautifulhomes #decor (at Bristol, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLO-n9VLk1L/?igshid=i6cjoxa148mt

[farmhousemetal]

Custom metal address sign. 14” and powder coated in black. #addresssign #signs #sign #customsign #metalsign #custommetalsign #signagedesign #metalsignage #metaldecor #metalart #customgifts #doorhangers #doorhanger #custom #walldecor #housesign #giftideasforher #addresssigns https://www.instagram.com/p/B6lE1BqlTma/?igshid=1t24w6f1tlt0f

[jamieisherwood99-blog]

For just $79.00 40% OFF Special On All Address Signs Want to see what your address plaque will look like before you buy? Contact Us Through This page with your address Just let us know what background colour and text you would like to see Shop our selection of Horizontal house numbers, unique house numbers, house numbers stone Customized Address Sign, Address Numbers, Address Plaques For House or Yard Allow 3 to 10 days to process your order and ship it to you. Make Your Home Stand Out With This Professionally Designed Personalized Address Plaques. Choose This Exact Style Color and Font Address Plaque. Enter Your Address & house numbers into the Mandatory Field Box Section Message Us Through This Page if You have any additional Questions About our Address Signs. Allow 3 to 10 days to process your order and ship it to you. Description of Our Address Plaques, Address Sign, Concrete Address Sign ★ Full-Color Exquisite Detailed Custom Address Plaques ★ 16"X11" White Oval Concrete Signs / Concrete Plaques ★ Handcrafted using our proprietary Real Concrete Mix Design ★ Plaque Handmade in Canada by Tattooed Concrete ★UV High-Quality Print ★ Durable ★ Indoor out-door use ★ 4 season Weather Resistant, Water Proof, UV Protected ★Choose 2 screw hole or self-levelling hanger attachment ★ 1 Year Guaranteed Factory Warranty Tattooed Concrete 453 Eastchester Ave E, St. Catharines, ON Canada L2M 6S2 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ownthecup/

[lost-coast-signs]

For just $13.99 Custom Text 8" x 8" Aluminum Sign Premium Quality High gloss aluminum with UV protective coating. Suitable for outside or inside use. Will not rust. 8" W x 8" T Four predrilled holes one on each corner for mounting. High quality detailed sublimated printing that becomes part of the aluminum. Made in the U.S.A. How to Order Select the color and quantity you want from the menu above and select Add to Cart. Leave us a message in the notes to seller section telling us the message you want on the sign. We will print on the sign exactly what you type into the notes to seller section. Fast Free Shipping Free first Class Shipping Tracking Included All orders ship within 2 business days

[danjarouswhipz]

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[stylishlynumbered-blog]

Our bestselling plaque this week is our beautiful green tile design. #doornumber #addressnumbers #addresssign #housenumber #housesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jr9m4H589/?igshid=445sfhj9tvq7

[distressedmenot]

Well if this pretty plaque finished off with yellow leaves and sunflowers doesn’t shout October 😍 Explore 📲DistressedMeNot.com for #rusticmodern wall mounted wine racks & custom shelving, or DistressedMeNotMarket.com for curated handpicked #homedecor ☕️ . . . . . #customorder #barcart #addressplaque #rustic #DistressedMeNot #addresssign #addressplanter #addressnumber #addressnumbers #curbappeal #instantcurbappeal #housewarminggift #woodworking #interiordesign #realtorgift #housewarming #smallbusiness #ilovebeer #handcrafted #winewall #barwall #bardecor #winecellar #champagne #bar #coffeebar #beachy #boho (at Raleigh, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3HpxM5hQEc/?igshid=1hl00bjjsfi6c