• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    His presidency was probably the single biggest inflection point in this country’s history in the last 50 years, second only to 911.

    Shame that JHJr wasn’t a better shot.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Having been around during 9/11, Reagan was a bigger inflection point. He was directly responsible for ramping up the arming of the groups that would go on to form al Qaeda. But, that’s a small contribution compared to overseeing the decoupling of productivity from pay and his war on labor.

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      1 year ago

      Eh. I tend to view him as a symptom, not the disease itself.

      Better he died more obviously brain-rotted and feeble than martyrd after he did all the damage anyways.