And that’s exactly the America MAGA wants back, it’s that simple.
They ultimately want to enslave black people again, if not that Jim Crowe laws and segregation out the ass.
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.”
A friend of mine is a local artist and he made a painting of a MAGA hat but the words are “American was never fucking great”. I bought one from him the moment I saw it
America went to shit in the 1490s when Columbus arrived.
Note the Free Angela shirt. Legend.
Contrast this sentiment with people like Snoop Dogg, dancing and apologizing for the firing squad.
Snoop can rap all day about being tough, but saying shit like this publicly is actual strength.
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Oh thank God. I came here just to upvote the person who posted this, and I has to scroll so long to find it that I was worried it would end up being me.
He grew up during segregation? How old is he?
Samuel L Jackson was born in 1948 so yeah that fits
Damn I would’ve thought he was 50 not 75
He’s been fifty since The Phantom Menace.
Black don’t crack!
So much of good public policy depends on the lessons of the past being something at the forefront of everyone’s minds when crafting, presenting, and voting for bills and electorate voting choices.
This meme is calling attention to another side to the same coin as the anti-vaccine nonsense. Ignorance of the lessons taught by the past opens the door for a new generation of con-men looking to sell the same snake oil to the gullible again.
I get the point he is trying to make. But for the people he is trying to criticize - yes, it was good for them. Not good for a minority
Also, it tends to overlook what the MAGA people are trying to say. They want to go to back to being a respected world leader and not a disrespected one.
Granted we have earned it with our succession of poor leadership in Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump.
Clinton was the last president that actually practiced fiscal responsibility with a budget surplus. Granted, his scandal was appalling for its time, but it was a personal affair afaic, he probably doesn’t need to be lumped in with the others.
He was more than his affair. His trade and business policies set the precedent for decades of bad faith decisions by American leadership.
None of the humility Richard Prior had.
Well, rather obviously the explicit goal is to make America great again for fabulously wealthy white men.
Don’t forget the Apartheid, they sure ain’t taking that off the table
Every plantation needs its slaves…
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…
Until they first cashed a paycheck…
and lost the thread on how the roads, bridges, teachers, libraries and first responders they all rely on get funded. Don’t be mad at that paycheck, be mad at the millionaire and billionaire fucks that steal your labor in exchange for pennies and make the laws that keep you down.
I bet you’d get a similar answer from Millenials
Leftist millennials: “this is what America has always been and we can stop it”
'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.Born: 1985 Start of decline: When they shot that goddamn gorilla
I grew up in conservatopia. IT has ALWAYS sucked, especially as I didn’t have a “traditional” sexuality. I also had more feminine mannerisms because guess what, growing up in a house with 3 women you’ll learn to do that.
Bush was elected when I was 20 so… That tracks.
As a millennial everything went to shit the day I was born.
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?
Nah man, Regan cut the brake lines years before I was born.
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.
Aaah fitzmas eve and the lack of any consequences whatsoever.
Make America Great Again is a racist dog whistle. Pretty simple.
MAGA was a racist dog whistle when Reagan used the slogan. Apparently Clinton also used the phrase, talking specifically about the economy.
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.
