#reagan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reagan, aggregated by home.social.
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“President Ronald #Reagan often described #America as a ‘shining city upon a hill.’ Today, America increasingly looks like a humiliated thug lying in a ditch.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
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“President Ronald #Reagan often described #America as a ‘shining city upon a hill.’ Today, America increasingly looks like a humiliated thug lying in a ditch.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
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“President Ronald #Reagan often described #America as a ‘shining city upon a hill.’ Today, America increasingly looks like a humiliated thug lying in a ditch.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
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“President Ronald #Reagan often described #America as a ‘shining city upon a hill.’ Today, America increasingly looks like a humiliated thug lying in a ditch.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
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Trump updates ranking of US presidents. Top tier is his alone
President Donald Trump has updated his ranking of U.S. presidents in a Sunday, Sept. 6, post on Truth…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWashington #george-w-bush #Hoover #JohnAdams #JohnF.Kennedy #reagan #RonaldReagan #Trump #Trump'sTruthSocial #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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🌱 😀 👯 #Cannabis und #Rassismus in den #USA
#Anslinger #Jazz und die #Prohibition
#Nixon und der #WaronDrugs
#Reagan und das Problem der ökonomischen Ungleichheit
#Clinton und die Infrastruktur des #Gefängnissystems
Die #Fehler der USamerikanischen #Drogenpolitik sind nicht rückgängig zu machen und werden als ein weiteres #Armutszeugnis der #Unmenschlichkeit in die #Geschichte eingehen.
https://sanaleo.com/cbd-wissen/cannabis-und-rassismus-in-den-usa#Bundesregierung #Hanfgeschichten #Hanfwissen #WeedMob #SPD #CSU #CDU #DIELINKE
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@26pglt
Political differentiation is what’s needed in a political system where all parties (even the #Greens afaik) are content to work with the current #Economic system which is stuck in a 40 year old dogma; that markets know best (aka #NeoClassical or #NeoLiberal economic hogwash clearly debunked twice since the #Thatcher and #Reagan anathema on #WealthEquity , #SocialLicence and #SocialDemocracy).Otherwise the electorate would wake up to the con job the polies perpetrate.
And 100% on #FirstNations and #TorresStraightIslanders, all players in the political arena have #Abandonned them as a result of #TheVoice debacle (thank you #Anthony for doing fuck all to make sure the referendum passed, it clearly showed whose side you’re on #AlboPM )
I’m fucking sick of all polies and their lies, redirections, misdirections and disinformation. I can see no way out of this except 1) a mother of all global financial crash, or 2) people’s revolutions worldwide, or 3) both. We’ve been taken for a ride for far too long IMO.
#AMyRemeikis rocks.
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Yet another video lending more credence to the failures of #Reaganomics and the #TrickleDown economy.
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From #Libya to class reunions to your own back yard in today’s Graphical #History Tour:
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L'efficacité vient de la Silicon Valley
« La Contre-révolution californienne », écoutez Sylvie Laurent : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/questions-du-soir-l-idee/et-si-la-silicon-valley-n-avait-jamais-ete-progressiste-4178507
#valeur #futurisme #réaction #capitalisme #Tech #Californie #ÉtatsUnis #DonaldTrump #MarkZuckerberg #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #Trump #Zuckerberg #Bezos #Musk #conservatisme #racisme #ingénieurs #informatique #guerreCulturelle #néolibéralisme #GAFAM #innovation #technoCritique #Reagan #RonaldReagan #SteveJobs #rêveAméricain #Amérique #apple #histoire #guerreFroide #individualisme #BillClinton #AlGore #Clinton #Gore #plateformisation #contreRévolution #SiliconValley #productivité #SylvieLaurent #livre
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John Irvings „Der letzte Sessellift“ – Queeres Leben, Geister der Vergangenheit und Amerikas verdrängte Wahrheiten https://www.lesering.de/id/4939476/John-Irvings-Der-letzte-Sessellift---Queeres-Leben-Geister-der-Vergangenheit-und-Amerikas-verdraengte-Wahrheiten/ #Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung #DerletzteSessellift #US-Gesellschaft #QueereLiteratur #QueereIdentität #DiogenesVerlag #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #Transgender #Vater-Suche #Gespenster #Reagan-Ära #JohnIrving #LGBTQ+
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John Irvings „Der letzte Sessellift“ – Queeres Leben, Geister der Vergangenheit und Amerikas verdrängte Wahrheiten https://www.lesering.de/id/4939476/John-Irvings-Der-letzte-Sessellift---Queeres-Leben-Geister-der-Vergangenheit-und-Amerikas-verdraengte-Wahrheiten/ #Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung #DerletzteSessellift #US-Gesellschaft #QueereLiteratur #QueereIdentität #DiogenesVerlag #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #Transgender #Vater-Suche #Gespenster #Reagan-Ära #JohnIrving #LGBTQ+
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John Irvings „Der letzte Sessellift“ – Queeres Leben, Geister der Vergangenheit und Amerikas verdrängte Wahrheiten https://www.lesering.de/id/4939476/John-Irvings-Der-letzte-Sessellift---Queeres-Leben-Geister-der-Vergangenheit-und-Amerikas-verdraengte-Wahrheiten/ #Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung #DerletzteSessellift #US-Gesellschaft #QueereLiteratur #QueereIdentität #DiogenesVerlag #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #Transgender #Vater-Suche #Gespenster #Reagan-Ära #JohnIrving #LGBTQ+
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John Irvings „Der letzte Sessellift“ – Queeres Leben, Geister der Vergangenheit und Amerikas verdrängte Wahrheiten https://www.lesering.de/id/4939476/John-Irvings-Der-letzte-Sessellift---Queeres-Leben-Geister-der-Vergangenheit-und-Amerikas-verdraengte-Wahrheiten/ #Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung #DerletzteSessellift #US-Gesellschaft #QueereLiteratur #QueereIdentität #DiogenesVerlag #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #Transgender #Vater-Suche #Gespenster #Reagan-Ära #JohnIrving #LGBTQ+
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CW: From Substack
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No argument here about the fallacy of “objectivism”.
I’m an advocate of the Lakoff “truth sandwich” and @jayrosen_nyu’s “stakes not odds” reporting
However, I think the bigger issue is massive corporate consolidation post-1980, advocated by #Reagan #Republicans but aided and abetted by “ #ChicagoSchool” #economists like #MiltonFriedman.
“Rational actors” - bah.
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CW: Tiktok & Language
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86CPwf8/
#AutoWorkers #UAW #Biden #Ford #GM #Stellantis #Reagan #PPP #LateStageCapitalism #ToxicCapitalism #Labor #Unions #MiddleClass #Bailout #StockBuyBacks #Corporatocracy #Profits #Tax #Pay #Wages #4DayWorkWeek #NationalStrike #Stock #Scam #Value #Inflation #LivingWage #Work
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Gravy Train to Oligarchy:
Historian Nancy MacLean explains that Virginia’s white elite and the pro-corporate president of the University of Virginia, Colgate #Darden, who had married into the #DuPont family, found James #Buchanan’s ideas to be spot on.
In nurturing a new intelligentsia to commit to his values, Buchanan stated that he needed a “#gravy #train,” and with backers like Charles #Koch and conservative foundations like the #Scaife Family Charitable Trusts, others hopped aboard.
#Money, Buchanan knew, can be a persuasive tool in academia. His circle of influence began to widen.
MacLean observes that the #Virginia #school, as Buchanan’s brand of economic and political thinking is known, is a kind of cousin to the better-known, market-oriented #Chicago and #Austrian schools — proponents of all three were members of the #Mont #Pelerin #Society, an international neoliberal organization which included Milton #Friedman and Friedrich #Hayek.
But the Virginia school’s focus and career missions were distinct. In an interview with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), MacLean described Friedman and Buchanan as yin and yang:
“Friedman was this genial, personable character who loved to be in the limelight and made a sunny case for the free market and the freedom to choose and so forth.
"Buchanan was the dark side of this: he thought, ok, fine, they can make a case for the free market, but everybody knows that free markets have externalities and other problems. So he wanted to keep people from believing that government could be the alternative to those problems.”The Virginia school also differs from other economic schools in a marked reliance on #abstract #theory rather than #mathematics or empirical #evidence.
That a Nobel Prize was awarded in 1986 to an economist who so determinedly bucked the academic trends of his day was nothing short of stunning, MacLean observes. But, then, it was the peak of the #Reagan era, an administration several Buchanan students joined.
Buchanan’s school focused on *public choice theory*, later adding constitutional economics and the new field of law and economics to its core research and advocacy.
The economist saw that his vision would never come to fruition by focusing on *who rules. It was much better to focus on the rules themselves, and that required a “#constitutional #revolution.”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533763/democracy-in-chains-by-nancy-maclean/9781101980972/
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Abruzzo has taken a series of muscular, bold moves to protect American workers, turning the tide in the #ClassWar that the #OnePercent has waged on workers since the #Reagan administration. For example, #Abruzzo is working to turn #WorkerMisclassification - the fiction that an employee is a small business contracting with their boss, a staple of the #GigEconomy - into an #UnfairLaborPractice:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/#bidens-legacy
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But even though the incipiency standard remains on the books, its enforcement dwindled away to nothing, starting in the #Reagan era, thanks to the #ChicagoSchool's influence. The neoliberal economists of Chicago, led by the Nixonite criminal #RobertBork, counseled that most monopolies were "efficient" and the inefficient ones would self-correct when new businesses challenged them, and demanded a halt to antitrust enforcement.
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"Penelope Spheeris’ feature debut and its follow-up capture the marginalised youth of Reagan-era America with a punkish nihilism": SUBURBIA (1983) & THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (1985), on Blu-ray and digital download from #101Films' Black Label
#Nihilism #Reagan #Punk #Despair #Marginalisation
https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/03/suburbia-1983-the-boys-next-door-1985/
