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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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]

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week 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.