@PugJesus@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish • 20 days agoThe past is such a wonderful place!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1844arrow-down122
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minus-squareQueen HawlSeralinkfedilinkEnglish11•19 days agoReminder: Women couldn’t have bank accounts or credit cards without permission from their husband or father until the late 1970’s
minus-square@Dagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilink5•19 days agootoh, 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]
minus-squareQueen HawlSeralinkfedilinkEnglish5•19 days agoI 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.
minus-square@Dagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•19 days agoA 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.
Reminder: Women couldn’t have bank accounts or credit cards without permission from their husband or father until the late 1970’s
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]
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.
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.