Talk about a sad state of affairs
Fuck him, all of the idiots that think he’s one of the “greatest presidents ever” are fucking delusional.
All I know is, I’m still waiting for my wealth to trickle down!
EDIT: Now that this has reached r/all I suppose I should address all the conservative dipshits in here. First of all, I’m recently college educated and newly employed with a salary. All the room temperature IQs in here like “quit waiting for welfare”, “get a job”, “make your own wealth” are sorely mistaken and I feel sorry that you are so uneducated and misinformed. It really doesn’t take much to realize something is inherently wrong with capitalism, and if you think otherwise, it’s quite obvious you’ve been brought up in an environment that doesn’t require you to endure what a substantial percentage of the US population has to endure every single day just to survive and put food on the table. I don’t think between housing in an urban area and student loan payments that I should instantly have to squander away 50% of my income with no equity whatsoever, whereas people before Reagan were able to buy a car, property/land, and save money at substantially higher interest rates. To the rest of the idiots who are like “wow, no argument points whatsoever!”, read through the comments and pick any one of the literal hundreds of atrocious and factual things that Ronald Reagan did.
I hope to spread awareness of this across Reddit. This will be a long post. It is just within the character limit. So please take a seat.
TL;DR: America today is not Germany in the 1920s, nor beginning to turn into Nazi Germany. There is a much more recent conflict that the United States is copying. America is hurtling toward a civil war in the same way Yugoslavia did. The combination of economic disparity, civil injustice, gutted or absent social systems, outdated infrastructure, and indifference from the government leads to open conflict. Regardless of your party, politicians are not going to stop it and they’re not going to save you.
I have put archive links to every source included at the very bottom.
America is not Germany
The United States of America today has too many parallels with the Weimar Republic of Germany in the early twentieth century. In the late 1910s there were a lot of people that held fears about Marxism in western Europe. Fascists in particular were terribly paranoid about it. These people who were proto-Nazis had an unreasonable paranoia about everything from the left. A term began to circulate called “Judeo-Bolshevism”. The was a word for the conspiracy theory that communism was being spread around the world by Jewish people. It named the Jew a virus that introduced communism into the healthy blood of society. It was part of a covert plan to destroy Christianity and Western civilization through communism. That may sound familiar to some of the things QAnon says today.
Anyway, as the Nazi movement picked up steam, Nazi writers and media critics took on German culture. The Weimar Republic was quite the progressive state at the time. It had rights for LGBT people, some of the first recognition of non-binary people, and an abundance of art. A sizable portion of this art was queer in orientation and/or pornographic. The Nazi critics declared this was degenerate and an avenue of communism. To them, it was part of a plot to weaken German culture and allow a left-wing takeover. By the 1920s the term “cultural bolshevism” overtook “Judeo-Bolshevism”. The left were apparently trying to “bolshevize” the nation by taking over kids’ minds with their books and art. Sound familiar to today? The term on the internet now is “cultural marxism”. Fighting it is the basis of those Prager U videos that are so popular around Facebook.
The Nazis convinced enough people that cultural bolshevism was a threat, and then inched out a win
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Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely Coinci Dental.
It would be great to know.
It was O.K.
I recently finished Piero Gleijeses’ Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa - the second of his two part series on the Cold War in Africa. The book covers a pretty sordid chapter in the history of American foreign policy, and I think it’s especially worth reading if you’re American, to avoid falling into an overly simplistic view of the 20th century in general and Cuban-American relations in particular.
The book focuses primarily on the events of the Angolan civil war, one of the bloodiest of Cold War proxy conflicts which is little remembered in the United States. The war broke out in 1975, following a leftist coup in Lisbon that resulted in Portugal finally granting independence to its remaining African colonies. The main sides in the war were the MPLA, a Marxist group led by the sincere if flawed Agostinho Nero, and UNITA, its main rival led Jonas Savimbi, who mainly drew his support from the Ovimbundu ethnic group. Savimbi then and for decades afterward would position himself as the anti-communist force in the conflict, although it’s probably more accurate to say he owed his fame to his position as Angola’s only possible alternative to the MPLA, and to his extensive cult of personality. Needless to say, both UNITA and the MPLA committed atrocities during the war, although where it governed, the MPLA at least carried out some social and economic reforms. After the early stages of the conflict, the MPLA controlled the capital of Luanda and most of the country’s population, while UNITA was relegated to Ovimbundu areas in the southern countryside. This dynamic never really changed throughout the next 13 years of heavy foreign involvement.
Americans who do remember something of the war in Angola probably remember the extensive Cuban involvement on behalf of the MPLA government above all, although the Cubans were not the first foreigners to intervene. That distinction belongs to the United States in 1975, which in the aftermath of the collapse of South Vietnam, was eager for a diplomatic victory to shore up its international prestige. Henry Kissinger in particular sought an easy victory over a leftist insurgent group, and picked Angola as the spot to exert American power by backing UNITA’s forces.
The CIA launched Operation IA Feature with the approval of President Ford in July of 1975, and quickly found its interests heavily aligned with those of apartheid South Africa, which had also taken a keen interest
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For the record I wish I was in this system.
Grades K-4 are the same everyone is in the same institutions. After which time your performance is tested and your overall grades or test scores put you into one of 3 school systems.
Hauptschule or Basic school- which continues till 9th or 10th grade and then graduates them. Its for people who performed under satisfactory in Reading/German (English) and or Math.
Realschule or Satisfactory secondary education This goes beyond what they teach in tier 1 and people are finished at 11th grade and graduated. This is for people who performed satisfactory in both Reading and Math.
Gymnasium or Advanced These are for students who performed Proficient in both Reading and Math and they go through the full 12 years and have a chance to get into University and beyond.
The reason I would have prefered this is I would have been in Tier 1 due to being almost illiterate (couldn't read or spell for shit) until 8th grade, would have been finished at 9th or 10th and been able to start working without attempting college and failing and not wasting years I didn't need to.
Why I think this is the best system is because it puts children schools teaching at their level. The top students get the education they can handle without being board as the teacher slows down for the rest. Those in the middle get taught at their pace those as the bottom are taught their pace.
The percentages of who make which are about 55% tier 1 34% tier 2 and 11% tier 3.
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