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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Note the Free Angela shirt. Legend.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 6 points 10 hours ago

The only remotely honest thing "Make America Great Again" could mean is "roll back everything to the Obama era, i.e. before Trump, and then we can get started doing something about Reagan." And really that's more "Make America Kinda Okayish Domestically Again."

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago
[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

America went to shit in the 1490s when Columbus arrived.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Make America Great Again is a racist dog whistle. Pretty simple.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

MAGA was a racist dog whistle when Reagan used the slogan. Apparently Clinton also used the phrase, talking specifically about the economy.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 40 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Micheal Moore did a video about this. He asked MAGoos of different ages when exactly did America's decline start. People born in the 1930's claimed America lost its way in the 1950's. People born in the 1940's thought it was in the 1960's. People born in the 1960's thought it was the 1980's.

Everyone of them thought that everything was fine until they reached adulthood...

[–] inari@piefed.zip 3 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I bet you'd get a similar answer from Millenials

[–] michaelalf@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

'92 here and everything was pretty good until my late 20's/early 30's.
Everything should have been great; my career was taking off, I'd just started a family, we were looking at buying our first house... And then everything went to shit. Inflation, wage stagnation, house prices tripling in my area. Fuck boomers, fuck billionaires, fuck landlords and fuck my government for letting this happen.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As a millennial everything went to shit the day I was born.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 points 14 hours ago

My personal take is that there were three times the US took a giant wrong turn.

LBJ taking Vietnam from a small war to a massive one. He couldn't win, and it opened the door for Nixon to come in.

Reagan elected.

War on Terror.

Trump is the result of those three...

So when do you see that the hammer dropped?

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago

Nah man, Regan cut the brake lines years before I was born.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’m finding a sick sort of comfort in reading about the bush administration and how horrible I didn’t realize it was. A guy named scooter revealed a CIA asset out of spite because her husband disagreed with the Iraq War. What a shitshow.

[–] Beero@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Aaah fitzmas eve and the lack of any consequences whatsoever.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He grew up during segregation? How old is he?

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Samuel L Jackson was born in 1948 so yeah that fits

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Damn I would've thought he was 50 not 75

[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 1 points 8 hours ago

Black don't crack!

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 58 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well, rather obviously the explicit goal is to make America great again for fabulously wealthy white men.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the Apartheid, they sure ain't taking that off the table

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 17 points 18 hours ago

Every plantation needs its slaves...

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

MAGA means the America that inspired the Nazis...

It always has and it's always been super obvious as long as you know more history than taught in highschool.

What Jackson is talking about, isn't as bad as MAGA wants it to be.

They want the genocide of natives, enslavement of Africans, and the killing of any white person with the balls to stand up against them. They want 1930s/40s and eralier America, not 1960s during the civil rights fights.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Make American Great Again means they don't see what makes America great right now.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Pretty much everything MAGA wanted to get rid of were the things I actually liked about the country.

[–] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Didn't tump say that he was referring to the early 1900s when asked what he was referring to? Ya know the time period known as the gilded age that was rife with robber barons and no labor laws. The period which took wealth inequality to the max resulting in the great depression..

Maga has no clue what actually made America great..

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I saw entrepreneur, alpha male bro pages (probably AI-made) on Instagram stating that childhood is a modern concept and deriding the fact that kids don't work anymore and all this "discovering yourself first" is utter bull. This is literally what the right has been advocating by slowly eroding workers and children's rights! They seriously believe that "the children yearn for mines".

Fucking psychopaths!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

The crazy thing is that back then was also the time of peak immigration at Ellis Island etc. Even if you try to give MAGAs the benefit of the doubt that they aren't trying to be evil, their ideology is just flat-out incoherent!

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

Used to be???

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The people who want to "Make America Great Again" want to oppress minorities. If they could turn black people into slaves, they'd do it.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

They still do. Slavery isn't illegal, guess who is disproportionately incarcerated.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

I'd go as far as say that slavery just exists in other forms. The current version is wage slavery and debt slavery.

Whether using the truck system or the sharecropping system or exploiting child workers or exploiting migrant workers, we've never really stopped driving the US economy with bonded servitude. We just don't call it slavery.

In the meantime, SCOTUS has just reaffirmed that corporations have rights, but human beings do not. At this point I wonder if there's going to be a country left even if the Democrats get back into power and actually attempt to save society.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Rich white pedophiles?

[–] Bread@thelemmy.club -1 points 10 hours ago

None of the humility Richard Prior had.