• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    I hate that Reagan is supposed to be the benchmark here. That motherfucker set us on this path all those years ago by abandoning the great society view; there’s so much that’s fucked in the US today that can be traced back to him. The only thing I’ll ever give him good credit for is his opposition to nuclear weapons.

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          They are implying a collection of various items, memes or otherwise, that contain facts, comparisons, or perhaps even philosophical quandaries that may stump, refute, or put into question their father’s staunch right wing stance

          Or they’re looking to prove their dad right that they collect good memes, 50/50 chance

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        Reagan actively courted the Religious Right, which as everyone knows, was a bad idea for democracy.

        Those fuckers do not compromise, because they want theocracy.

        Now, the fact that there was a religious right in the first place is a whole other cn of worms.

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        The founding of our country required a compromise that counted slaves as Three-Fifths of a person, just so that the conservative South could get greater representation in the House.

        Those slaves, of course, would enjoy the protections and security that the Constitution offered as a result!

        J/k they were fucked both literally and figuratively.

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        23 hours ago

        If anything, the New Deal and wealth accrued through rapid industrialization by becoming the world’s number one weapons manufacturer while taking little to no infrastructural damage during WW2 seem like anomalies.