• Queen HawlSera
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    1119 days ago

    Reminder: Women couldn’t have bank accounts or credit cards without permission from their husband or father until the late 1970’s

    • @[email protected]
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      519 days ago

      otoh, that’s when the economy started crashing…

      [jk, I can do two hours on how Nixon’s Vietnam War spending and Reaganomics destroyed the middle class. I just can’t resist a good set-up line]

      • Queen HawlSera
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        519 days ago

        I will never understand how they sold starving people on the idea of giving all their food to the biggest glutton in the village in order to feed off the crumbs he won’t leave behind.

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          419 days ago

          A lot of Americans went crazy after the US lost the war in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan offered them a return to a happier time, when everything made sense.