2026-03-19 22:43 UTC
Yeah I mean a ~~casual~~ causal chain can be traced back to the big bang. But looking at the entirety of history, you tend to look for certain inflection points.
So in my mind, traveling from Present backwards in time, the journey looks like this in my mind:
Present :: Idiocracy
1st :: No Child Left Behind
2nd :: Bush elected
3rd :: Clinton Glass Steagle
4th :: Reagan
5th :: Nixon
I can zoom in anywhere along that timeline to talk about how each event impacted this topic.
Lemme know if you want to explore any of that like for example what did Reagan do to impact education today long after his death.
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@teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-19 23:02
As I was saying on another thread, this current fuckery dates back to the Business Roundtable of 1971, big business huddled up and made a game plan to seize control. They got their asses kicked out of power from FDR and kept losing. Project 2025 is just the newer iteration of that game plan. Part of that plan clearly is to keep us disunited and destroy any competing organizations, and or take control of them secretly like with our opposition political party, not much of a secret to many of us I know. The only answer is to organize, and to do that we need new social media, that we control. Like the fediverse, but set up better. But we needed it 20 years ago. Next best time is now.