[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.
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.
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.
