• HubertManne@piefed.social
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              See I thought deregulation started under reagan but it seems like the inflation and interest rates had to do with the times. Like the energy crisis. Honestly im looking at his deregulation now and what was done with beer brewing and airlines is the rare type of deregulation I can approve of.

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      If this is what they’ve stopped hiding, imagine what they’re still hiding.

      Yes, shit has never been perfect, but using a “whataboutism” defense to compare the current situation to the past is only working to normalize what’s happening now.

      THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL.

        • karashta@piefed.social
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          Eisenhower helped shape the conventionalization of nuclear weapons

          "According to the State Department history, on the same day that Eisenhower met with White House reporters in the Executive Office Building, Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, “informed [White House press secretary James] Hagerty that Dulles had checked with him before making this statement and that ‘he [Strauss] was all for it.’ Strauss reportedly told Hagerty that ‘we wanted to show our enemies [the mainland Chinese] that we now deal with A-bombs as conventional weapons.’”

          https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/16/eisenhower-defends-use-of-nuclear-weapons-march-16-1955-1224003

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            Saying you would do it for political posturing and firing your top General who actually wanted to do it are two different things.