• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    I’m a X-Millennial cusp, landing on the X side of the fence. It is so wild to think about how insanely great the late 80s to late 90s were. Incidentally, I think 9/11 is when the switch flipped. I remember yelling about how the Patriot Act would end us.

    It seems that it did.

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      14 hours ago

      Incidentally, I think 9/11 is when the switch flipped.

      Also X-Millenial cusper. 9/11 probably eould not have happened if the Brook Brothers’ riot had not been allowed to stop ballot counting and the subsequent SCOTUS ruling handed the presidency to Bush.

      We never got Gore as a president but we’ve had gore to spare since George HW Bush took office.

      I’m even more inclined to say this goes back to the Business Plot and Prescott Bush. Prescott’s son, George Bush, would become head of the CIA before he was Ronald Reagan’s vice president.

      It likely goes even further back than that; the Bush and Walker families have had Nazi ties for generations. Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connections To The Nazis

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      12 hours ago

      Even w/o 9/11 I think the cons would have eventually taken us here. Having a total piece of shit like Donvict in office and doing awful things is the culmination of decades of their extremist activism.

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          54 seconds ago

          Really hard to say, at least in my view. We did have Obama in the interim, although for all the hysterical (and hilarious) nonsense the right wing spews about him, Obama was basically a center-right politician, when properly viewed on the full spectrum. To hear a winger talk, he was a Marxist or something, LOL.