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[pictured: Ronald Reagan wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt. His body is nearly turned sideways, chin lifted and grinning at the camera, resting his weight on his right elbow with his left hand clasped loosely over his resting right wrist. Italicized text upon this propaganda poster reads: “RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”]
>a c-list actor's career flopped so now I have to pay $1000 to set foot in an ambulance
any other examples like this?
Two thousand years ago this hippie guy protested against a brutal empire and now women aren't allowed to have abortions for some fucking reason.
I created a Lemmy account just to answer this...
2,000+ years ago a historian wrote a poem and now your mail carrier has to risk life and limb to deliver mail in blizzards/hurricanes/etc.
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What's always surprising to me is that he's a former union president who went on to be one of the most anti-union figures in US history.
It was 8 months into his presidency. The air traffic controllers across the nation were threatening to strike, an act that might have crippled the struggling economic recovery. Reagan seemed to be willing to work with them if they agreed not to strike, but warned that-as federal employees-he would fire them if they did strike.
They went out and he fired them. It is my opinion that this confrontation soured his view of unions and set and adversarial tone between them and Reagan that lasted for his two terms. Anti-union sentiment rocketed and many businesses copied Reagan's actions to devastating consequence on families and laborers.
This is not a defense of Reagan. It is just the perception of an old man who was alive and voting (for Carter) in those days. I would like to know if the replacement union for the disbanded PATCO ever managed to a) get the newly hired air traffic controllers a raise or b) a reduction in weekly hours.
Some people think ingroup hierarchy is the only force in the universe. Nothing is real unless someone above you says so.
When these people switch teams, they don't answer for the excuses they made up for past conclusions, and they don't understand why anyone should.
The moral of this story is that you should do whatever you can to help the career of a certain esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress (who didn't get nominated this year😢) so this doesn't happen.
"Barbie", now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.
An old lady refused to retire before she died so now cops can stop me if they suspect I'm pregnant.
What does this refer to? Genuinely don't know.
Ask Justice Garland how that would've changed anything.
An old lady with terminal cancer
But she works out!
For bigger-pictures examples of this, I think you're looking for the TV series, Connections, hosted by James Burke. It's old but still VERY good.
Each episode started with James Burke showing you something cool, and tracing how it got here/got that way, often in unusual circumstances.
"I'm standing next to a nuclear reactor. This single building generates power for the city below, 50,000 people. And today every one of them would be sitting in the dark, or at a pitiful small fireplace, if it weren't for an Italian peasant whose mother forbade him to play the lute, in 1032."
The first episode's a little weird, but the rest are fantastic.
The sequel series are never quite as good. Especially when he gets into futurism and opens each episode with "Konichiwa." I forget what year that series was allegedly looking back from, but I'll bet we're past it.
Reminds me of the "WWI started over a sandwich" thing
I had to look up the sandwich thing. Nope, these are all true, meticulously explained as the program progresses, sources quoted, everything.
Yeah, I'll be bonest, I don't think the sandwich thing is that historically reliable. Was just funny. But some people do pinpoint it on the wrong turn which is accurate.
B-list actor refuses to take a car ride with US president.
Now the second best army in the world is on day 814 of a 3 day war. Putin has less tanks, jets and hair than when he started 3 years ago and they've achieve exactly 0 of their stated objectives.
Sorry I just woke up what was the initial even you’re referring to?
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the US offered to extract president Zelenskyy(actor turned president) and form a government in exile because everyone thought Ukraine would fall in mere weeks. Zelenskyy refused, stating he needed ammunition not a ride. Back then Russia was believed to have a near-peer military to the US.
And here we are now.
Oh shit of course of course - wow that seems like an extremely long time ago doesn’t it. Thanks for the explain 4 my sleepy brain x