Saw a post about this at [email protected] and was a bit confused by exactly how badly the people there were going at each others throats in the comments. Nobody seemed able to agree on what precisely happened in 1971. Suggested explanations included:

  • Neoliberalism being declared the state religion by Grand Moff Richard Nixon
  • The gold standard being abolished
  • The oil crisis
  • The Republican and Democrat parties becoming increasingly divided
  • Declining birthrates
  • Institutional Racism

If any of you could give some explanations with, like, sources that aren’t just 10 pages of graphs with arrows pointing at 1971, that would be pretty great.

  • andyburke
    1•5 days ago

    Provide evidence, please.

    I agree these things are under attack, but to claim they have been “dismantled” at this point is giving the opposition way too much credit.

    They can try to scale things back, but the Overton has been shifted significantly and people are mad and resisting them shifting it back.

    Now just imagine if we had more cash in our pockets as individual citizens to deal with this fascist bullshit.

      • andyburke
        3•5 days ago

        If you feel this is “dismantled” then you have a long, difficult road ahead of you.

        These are setbacks, not the end.

        Even after all of these setbacks, one would be foolish to think things are worse for these persecuted groups now than in 1971.

        We absolutely can’t give up and let them win with these things they have done, but the fatalism I so often see and hear from people is so disappointing. You don’t win wars by talking about how your opponent has already won.

        We are in a battle in a long running war. It hasn’t been going well lately, at least not as well as it had been. I just don’t think this is all due to hippies in the 60s. 🤷‍♂️

          • andyburke
            1•5 days ago

            It is. I will be fighting for them until we get it all back. 🤷‍♂️

            Edit: I think the commenter above edited their comment after I replied. What I replied to was a pithy “tell American women and trans people it’s a setback” with no real elaboration.

              • andyburke
                1•5 days ago

                You keep reading things into my comments that make me think either you are having a bad day or you’re not worth discussing this with. In either case: thanks, but I’ll be stepping out of this now.

        • reddwarf
          0•5 days ago

          I just don’t think this is all due to hippies in the 60s. 🤷‍♂️

          I am sad and disappointed you failed to grasp what I meant in my diatribe of a post and keep pointing to hippies. I knew the moment I typed that word, bam, it would be someones focal point. So this one is on me, mea culpa. Now please, pretty please with cherries on top, stop referring to hippies as being the center point of my argument. You could not distill this from my post, again my mistake, but if you continue referring to hippies as my argument then that is from now on on you.

          Have a good one.

          • andyburke
            -1•5 days ago

            Your argument is that hippies shocked the powerful. I think I get it. I just don’t agree.

            • reddwarf
              0•5 days ago

              That is not correct, I tried to explain and guide, you do not listen. Behavior of a troll and will be treated as such. On the blocklist you go…