That’s commie talk
Education leads to empowerment and the ability to see through the right’s tricks and false info to get votes. It’s obvious why Reagan and now Dump want less education.
A society which charges its students to acquire knowledge values neither.
A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.
How many more reasons do I need to add to my list of reasons to hate Reagan? List has grown by 2 reasons today.
Oh, look, another day, another thing Reagan fucked up. Sometimes I feel awake in the matrix when people are all “OMG REAGAN <3” in real life. It just doesn’t seem real how people can like him so much when, in hindsight, he irreversibly fucked our country and so many others.
things I dislike Reagan for:
- ignoring HIV because he was okay with it just killing the gays (until straight people started getting it.)
- trickle-down economics (how we got the billionaire oligarchy)
- Iran-Contra.
- firing the striking air traffic controllers.
- doubling down on the War on Drugs.
things Reagan was kinda based for:
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actually wanting to eliminate nuclear weapons. everyone remembers SDI as a ridiculously expensive boondoggle (which it would have been tbf) or as a trap to get USSR to spend itself into bankruptcy (it wasn’t imo, since the Russians realized they could build MIRVs), but I honestly think Reagan sincerely wanted a missile shield to have a missile shield. apparently he was hawkish on nuclear war until he watched The Day After, which terrified him and left him depressed for weeks and completely changed his thinking on nukes. he got so close to bilateral disarmament at the Reikjavik summit, but it fell apart because of his insistence on pursuing SDI.
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not being a raging egotistical jerk like Trump. he was respectful towards Carter and Mondale. he even respected the Soviet Premiers he met with, despite his anti-Communism. he had actual principles and ideals, even if I disagree with some of them.
when the USSR collapsed, Bush ignored Russia’s pleas to help it restructure and rebuild, to secure its nuclear weapons stockpiles, to integrate its economy. so we ended up with a country with starving nuclear weapons designers trying to grow potatoes in their back yards, and a Mafia takeover, and massive distrust and antipathy towards the West. I think Reagan would have actually lent them a helping hand, and Putin wouldn’t have happened.
Nuanced take. Nice to see it. Opinions online are so frequently black-and-white
That’s a really good take. I didn’t know about how close we came to bilateral disarmament, wow! And yeah, I always kinda knew we just let them fall apart on their own, but seeing it put that way is enormously frustrating. It’s wild how the late 80’s/ early 90’s had a chance to put us on track for a really great future for almost no cost, and instead we looked at it, did a line of blow, and said “nah lol, I got mine, idiot”
As someone who survived the Reagan administration, this comment really sums the sensation up well. Like did you MFers have the same Reagan, I did? The one that was open and shameless about trickle down economics? Yeah, the wealthy get everything amd a little bit will trickle down to the vast majority of you (don’t mind the urine smell of that trickle).
Hey, pee is a privilege
Reagan is truly the worst. he fucked up the US so far beyond repair on so many fronts, they never reeled from the consequences. Straight up evil piece of shit.
As a general rule, if you want long-term wealth inequality, make sure your people are about as dumb as they are poor.
Trickle down was originally called the Horse and Sparrow theory, because the idea was that if you feed the horse more oats, they’ll be more grain for the sparrows to pick out of its shit.
Almost as bad as the worst interpretation of “trickle down economics” I can think of.
Though it’s interesting to note that the whole concept does not get better however you try to describe it.
I believe the horse and sparrow theory is what the Roman’s did. Clearly that empire is strong today right?
It makes sense. They were dealing with lots of protests during the 1960’s and 70’s. They definitely don’t want more dissidents.
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I beg to differ mate, if I’m paying by providing you with my E-Mail address which you’re going to use for god only knows what. No thanks.
Just put in a bullshit address that goes nowhere. They don’t verify it.
Whenever the ‘smother Hitler as a baby’ topic comes up, my first instinct is generally, ‘can we do Reagan too’?
Also Putin, right?
And Trump and Gingrich.
The problem wasn’t really Reagan, though, it was all the wormtongues whispering in his ear. If it wasn’t Reagan, they’d have found some other useful idiot.
No, the problem was very much Reagan.
Look at the incredibly shitty job Bush I did, by contrast, with many of the same assholes chirping in his ar. We’d be in a much better position if he’d never been president.
Reagan spent at least half of his administration suffering from alzhiemers. He was most definitely a puppet, though a charismatic one.
This guy again. He really sucked
Reagan Ruin Everything.
How dare our slaves be educated and want a revolt over us.
