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ashes2caches · 7 months
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I was excited for my first date with a demon boy but he turned out to just be Ronald Reagan.
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anarcoqueer1994 · 1 year
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Steve's parents were definitely Reagan Republicans mainly due to his fiscal policies that allowed them to exploit people and make more money. But that also means whether superficially(or worse genuinely) were part of that "moral majority" bs. So imagine Steve, late middle school aged being stuck going to some fundraiser event his parents are hosting during Reagan's first election campaign.
He would have to sit and listen while people alluded to "family values" and other euthanisms for being anti-queer. And Steve may not always be book smart but he is not stupid. His parents and all their friends were affirming that him liking anything but women was wrong and gross and un-American. So he hid the fact that he liked guys in his class as much as girls. Focused on only his romantic feelings for girls. Wouldn't shut down Tommy when he made homophobic remarks even though it killed him because not only had Tommy been his best friend since the 5th grade, but he had also been his first crush.
But as he got older, and grew close to The Party and the other older teens, he started to feel like maybe his parents were wrong. Maybe people like he and Robin and Eddie and Nancy and Jonathon and Argyle and the kids deserve to be themselves, deserve to love whoever they want. And eventually he finds his romantic soulmate in Eddie, and they are so happy together.
Meanwhile, his parents left Hawkins permanently after the "earthquake. Ended up selling the house, sent Steve some money for a security deposit and first month's rent, and barely have kept in touch since. It's okay, Steve talked to them in obligatory phone calls a couple times a year. He doesn't really miss them. They haven't particularly been there for him most of his life. He and Robin (and later Eddie and Nancy who move into their respective partner's rooms) share that apartment and are happy.
So imagine their surprise in 1988, when they turn on the TV, they see their son on TV kissing the Munson boy at a protest in Chicago over the government's response to the AIDs epidemic. Standing next to them is all their friends, many in queer relationships of their own. Eddie is holding a sign saying Silence=Death, and Steve’s sign simply says "Fuck Ronald Reagan" And that's how his parents found out he was queer and that he hated Reagan.
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bootleg-nessie · 8 months
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Call me Nancy Reagan the way we both love a white monster
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anonymouscomrade · 2 months
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"guy who's fault all of this is would be ashamed of the situation all his policies led to"
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ihavenoideahowtodream · 9 months
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I tried to convince the lady at the book printing press festival let me print, "Ronald Reagan's grave is a gender neutral bathroom" on the movable type printer. She said no unfortunately due to the festival she couldn't change it.
I complained about it to the sewing circle I found at the library and the librarian in charge said they have a movable type press in the basement I might be able to use.
I will be bringing my cross stitch to the library next meeting day.
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doniisuar · 2 years
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It's been a long time since I've felt genuine joy from the internet
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brightlotusmoon · 4 months
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The Shafer Commission Report (1972) | O'Shaughnessy's
https://beyondthc.com/the-shafer-commission-report-1972/
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
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halfwaybyaccident · 3 months
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Listening to Biden's press secretary repeatedly say that Israel HAS to "defend itself" makes me wonder if I can bring myself to vote for president.
Not voting for president, or voting for a 3rd party candidate in this electoral college system, goes against everything I believe, but if you don't draw the line at actively funding and supporting genocide, where do you draw it?
My view on the "lesser of two evils" question has always been that, of course, you want less evil.
But this is genocide.
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onlytiktoks · 21 days
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ashes2caches · 6 months
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nancy reagan was the og monsterfucker
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nando161mando · 15 days
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silvermoon424 · 10 months
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Ooh, seeing all the atrocities that Ronalfld Reagan has committed has made me even more pissed off at him. Now I know why he is called the devil. He really is a horrible monster. If only this damn country can just overturn the damage that he caused.
I usually don't like to point to one person as being "the cause" of systemic issues but the damage Ronald Reagan did to the US and other countries really is catastrophic. He and his best buddy Margaret Thatcher really did hasten the declines of the US and UK with their bullshit neoliberal policies (at least the UK still has the NHS.... for now).
It also really doesn't help that the Republican Party and conservatives in general still deify him as the second coming of Jesus basically. So good luck criticizing him or saying that Hinckley should have gotten a better shot
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