• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Homie, we are still knee deep in damage done by Reagan. This is not getting fixed in our children’s lifetimes.

        Edit: Oh damn I should have read the other comments lmao fuck Reagan.

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        9 months ago

        …not to mention the damage done by Reagan, which we’re still paying for.

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            9 months ago

            Here’s a big one:

            The 1987 repeal of the fairness doctrine enabled the rise of talk radio that has been described as “unfiltered” divisive and/or vicious: "In 1988, a savvy former ABC Radio executive named Ed McLaughlin signed Rush Limbaugh — then working at a little-known Sacramento station — to a nationwide syndication contract.

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        Every time the FDA or another federal agency does something really asinine, I always wonder if it’s Trump holdovers. Biden should have forced a comprehensive audit of all federal agencies and review who was appointed by Trump and who those appointees hired to whatever level of management is appropriate. Trump deliberately appointed people who were against the roles and responsibilities of the agencies they were running, and so the people they hired likewise should have been reviewed. I know there’s some limits to what the president can do for judges and some other positions, but Trump has literally stated he’s going to burn it all down and fire everyone in the government that’s not a full blown Trumpist.

        We won’t recover from that.