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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:17 am Right now my side aren't the ones trying to give Russia a hand-job under the table.
No, but they were when Reagan was president
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I do see a lot of similarities between the power structures of the Russian Federation, and the GOP. And I'm sure you could find many articles to that effect.
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during his administration, we had a problem with abuse of patients in mental healthcare facilities (asylums, but don’t call them that), and his response to it was just to shut down the entire system. he closed all public mental healthcare facilities because a few of them were mistreating patients, and all those mentally ill people suddenly found themselves homeless without the skills necessary to survive in the general populous. he’s the reason why our healthcare system is so terrible, and he’s to blame for the homelessness epidemic (i’ll get into the next reason why he’s responsible for our high homeless population in a sec). millions of people lost everything because of reagan. thousands died.

he also completely restructured our economy. from 1776 until he became president, we had an economic system like no other (look up the American School), but he removed most of the rules and regulations we had to keep the system in place because our system at the time limited accumulation of wealth. we had a built-in buffer that kept most people middle class. when he restructured our economy so he and his friends could get richer, reagan removed the safeguards that kept us out of poverty (most of the time), so now the lower echelons of society were in freefall towards homelessness. people lost their homes and businesses because the rich could do basically whatever they wanted now. superstores like wal-mart rose to prominence and pushed out small businesses because of this. our government also greatly reduced its expenditure on infrastructure. ronald reagan’s greed is why we don’t have enough trains and all our roads are falling apart.

he also expanded our already bloated military while in power. one of his slogans was “peace in strength.” his goal for our country was to get an iron grip around the rest of the world and impose our own agendas on other countries at gunpoint.

One of the first things reagan did when he came to power was to ignore the supreme court’s earlier ruling, ignore the constitution, and try to enforce a mandatory daily christian prayer time in all schools. when government workers went on strike against him and his policies, he fired 11,345 people. he put 11,345 people out of a job because they didn’t like him.

he lowered taxes for the rich, but increased taxes on the poor, contributing to the aforementioned lack of infrastructure and homelessness crisis. he also began privatising the government, which put thousands of jobs at risk and made wealthy capitalists the men who run our country. reagan is responsible for trickle down economics.

after the great depression, our government put in social programs to help people stay afloat, like universal healthcare for the elderly and disabled, basic income (the government paid people to dig ditches if they couldn’t find any other jobs. the ditches didn’t serve any purpose, but those people needed money and the government was willing to give money to anyone who worked), and food stamps. ronald reagan slashed all these programs and more, like the EPA, which made sure we were a “green” country.

as a result of these slashes, people who had been secure on government assistance programs were now having to take out loans and get into debt, which jeopardised our economy. we had a stock market crash because people were becoming too poor to buy stocks, and our national debt increased by 3 times. we went from $997 billion in debt to $2.85 trillion in 1987.

he also pushed us further into the cold war. previously, our relations with russia were cooling down a bit, but during reagan’s second term, he began actively threatening russia again. ronald reagan brought us to the brink of a nuclear war that would have killed all humans on earth.

Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher, the most hated prime minister in UK history, were close friends. he was also personal friends with Donald Trump.

Under reagan, we resumed a history of violent military imperialism in foreign countries, most notably lebanon, afghanistan, and pakistan. In lebanon, we tried to stop a revolution against an oppressive regime, and in afghanistan and pakistan, reagan ordered the CIA to train civilians and create a military force to fight russia for us. Reagan created the taliban, a militant group that even today publicly dismembers people for playing games in public. they cut off children’s hands. He also began dealing weapons with China, betraying our longstanding ally, Taiwan, destabilising politics in the pacific. Under his orders, we secretly aided african and south american military dictatorships in crushing their opposition. He assisted Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran who started the 1979 revolution, in purging political opposition from the government. in 1988 our military shot down an iranian commercial flight, killing 290 civilians.

Reagan was a Nazi sympathiser and referred to slain SS officers as “victims” of the war. just to make sure you read that right: Ronald Reagan supported the Nazis.

He declared the war on drugs, a movement that has greatly increased the disproportionate incarceration rates of african american and latino men in this country.

During Reagan’s second term, 115,000 people were diagnosed with AIDS and 70,000 died of it. Reagan did nothing to curb the spread, despite knowing that the AIDS epidemic almost exclusively affected black people and the LGBT community. when he learned how many people were dying and who they were, he laughed. he laughed at our suffering while we were dropping dead.
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I keep wanting to start a thread called "Ronald Reagan Death Ray." :lol:
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Seeing it all wrong? Come on, a Ronald Reagan Death Ray fits so well with GI Joe. It's as all American as you can get! :P
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Kind of fits with the Strategic Defense Initiative, too. ;)
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STAR WARS DEFENSE PLAN. :mrgreen:
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:17 am Right now my side aren't the ones trying to give Russia a hand-job under the table.
The US rigged their elections and MSM bragged about it. A handjob is the least they should get.
Yukaphile wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:26 am I mean, Reagan did help to end the Cold War, let's not diminish that. And now it's the GOP trying to move closer to Russia because they more closely identify with their "family values," in other words, those outdated beliefs like patriarchy and religious intolerance and homophobia and transphobia we wish were still common here, but are not, so let's stick together as proper moral crusaders in the good fight against the "evils" of indulgence and liberalism and intellectualism and sin and throw in with their lot.
Care to share some matriarchy success stories?
It's not liberalism, anymore.
pilight wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:08 pm
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:17 am Right now my side aren't the ones trying to give Russia a hand-job under the table.
No, but they were when Reagan was president
Solid hanjob, got them more loose and fun. It opened up new dimensions for them...

The United States greatly benefited.
Yukaphile wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:08 am Seeing it all wrong? Come on, a Ronald Reagan Death Ray fits so well with GI Joe. It's as all American as you can get! :P
Death Ray's. The master of it are Russia and the Han Chinese. Also repsect for the Japanese.
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Not promoting matriarchy, but the kind of patriarchy they have is bad and their own history proves that. Plain as day.
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Yukaphile wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:06 pm Not promoting matriarchy, but the kind of patriarchy they have is bad and their own history proves that. Plain as day.
For most of history food was scarce, there was no electricty...

I doubt more women in power would have made a big difference.
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