• @mods_are_assholes
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    9 months ago

    I lived it for a few brief years in the 70s then Reagan fucked us all

    It was absolutely true. The only families not on single income were hard laborers or non-managerial retail/fast food and even then a carpenter could easily feed a family of 5.

    • @John_McMurray
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      9 months ago

      “It was true for me because I was from a moderately wealthy area and family therefore it was the norm”

      • @mods_are_assholes
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        139 months ago

        Lol no, not even close. My dad was a construction worker and my mom was a housewife until 1985, and we lived in the deep south. She took up data entry, and that’s how I got my start on computers.

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            129 months ago

            Did you have an iodine deficiency growing up? His whole fucking point is that he WASN’T POOR. Despite having only one parent working in manual labor.

            • @John_McMurray
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              Do you understand the context here? Don’t seem like it.

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                The context of you being a total dick for no apparent reason? Yeah, that context is loud and fucking clear. Maybe don’t refer to people as “it” in the future and people might take your argumentation a little better.

                • @John_McMurray
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                  08 months ago

                  No reason at all, nope, nothing to do with you being a fuckwit.